Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-09-03

Judge Foraker addressed an immense throng
at Steubenville, Thursday. His reception was
extremely cordial.
The Democracy of the Fourteenth Senatorial
District nominated John NJ. Amos, of Caldwell,
O., on the fifth ballot.
Postmater Pearson, of Brooklyn, denies the
report that he is TO become Postmaster General
in place of Mr.. Villas.
John Russell Young, e1-Minister to China,
denies that the government there is in favor OF
emigration to this county.
Mr.. Kelley, in en- interview, states that he
has been ruined in business by his appointment
to foreign missions and then rejected.
FIX. Stacy, senior member of the firm OF
Stacy, Leinhart 4 Co., of Findlay, O., has mys-
teriously disappeared, and foul play is feared.
Albert D. Swan, prominent citizen of Law
renee, Mass was shot dead by Henry Goodwin
connected with him in telephone interests.
The Springfield colored Foraker club has moi
been disbanded, as published, but is in flour
ishing condition and increasing in membership
Henry Burnett, colored, aged eighteen years
was hanged at Lonoke, Ark, for the murder Of
Nelson Anderson, also colored, last February
There is general sentiment at Washington
that the action OF Comptroller Durham, with
reference to the Alabama claims commission,
is unwarranted.
The Democrats of the seventeenth and twenty
eighth districts, in convention at Millersburg,
Ohio, nominated Hon. ]. J. Sullivan, of Holmes
county, by acclamatiOn.
Joseph Wilcox en- route from FOridaa to his
home at Pennington, Ills, was found dead in a
railroad car at Indianapolis. 1t is supposed he
died from congestive chill.
R A. Purdie, of the Fourth regiment. Illinois
National Guards, died at La Salle from injuries
received in a sham battle. 1t is charged that
there was malice, and arrests are probable.
The Ohio Live Stock Commission, after q
thorough examination of c. NJ MitcheIl's herd
of Jersey cattle, near Dayton, are prepared to
report that there is no pleuro- pneumonia in
Ohio.
Columbus saloon-keepers are exercised over
the law prohibiting the sale of liquor within
two miles of any fair. If the law is enforced
it will close about one-third of the saloons in
the city.
The Iowa Republicans have nominated Sena-
tor Larabee for governor, and -- Hall for
lieutenant governor. Judge Beck was re-nom-
mated for supreme judge. The resolutions
adopted are notably strong.
General Spinner is thought to be the hap
piest man of fame in America. He is camping
waves whiten as they run up and down over the
Florida pebbles.
Julius Stahl has been re-appointed Consul
General to Shanghai, China.
The limit of letter-carriers' leaves of absence
has been fixed at fifteen DAYS.
Cattle raisers of Hancock county, Ohio, re-
port serious losses by murrain.
The electric lighting apparatus in the Wash
ington monument has been completed.
The mails from Canada have been ordered to
be fumigated as a protection from smallpox
germs.
The treasury department has succeeded in
diminishing its fund of minor silver coin by
$672,OOO.
Dispatches indicate that the late cold snap
has not produced any general frosts over the
Northwestern country.
George Ross, ex-treasurer at Anderson, Ind,
has been charged with deficit of $71,7O3 &c in
his accounts.
Texas fever has appeared near Kankakee,
Illinois, amongst herd of two hundred cattle
owned by Hiram Goodwin.
The excitement at Pierre, Oak, about sup
posed outbreak among the Cheyennes, proved
to be without foundation.
Mr.. A NJ. Kelley was at the state depart
ment settling up his accounts. He has not yet
resigned as u S. Minister to Austria
Great excitement prevailed in Sturgis, Oak,
the seen of the lynching of Ross HALLS, the
colored soldier assassin of DR.. Lynch.
Senator Edmunds believes Cleveland's civil
service intentions were honest enough, but he
was surrounded by the wrong class of men.
Officers McNatt and Grant, of the police
force of Geneva, Kane county, Ills, were shot
dead at midnight in that town in some mystic
rious manner.
W. G. Dickey drew revolver and shot Tom
O'Byrne, killing him almost instantly, at Yank-
ton, Oak. Dickey was formerly citizen of
Massillon, Ohio.
A. R. Henderson U. S. collector of pensions
d1 Ldhe TONiueHCei Hiss, WAS dTreSJeu Oh tne
charge of having forged the name of deceased
colored widow to pension vouchers.
A claim has been filed in the court of claims
by John NJ. Langston, ex-minister to Hayti,
for balance alleged to be due him from the
United States on account of salary. His claim
is 81 ,666.
The Botanical Society in session at Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, adopted resolutions recognizing the
valuable work done by the U. S. coast survey,
and deprecating the Judgment of such work by
other than scientific men.
The commissioner of Indian affairs has re-
ceived a dispatch from Captain Lee, of the
Cheyenne reservation, reporting that the cattle
men are moving their stock out of the Indian
territory with all possible dispatch.