Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-08-20
THE NEWS.

IHE NEWS.
Ex-senator Thurman says he would not ac-
cept gubernatorial nomination, and wants no
Office whatever.
E1-Adiutant General of Ohio, Luther N.
Nelly, of Lima, has been appointed assistant
of the general land office.
Governor Hoadly has appointed Col. Lyman
]. jackson a member of the Ohio state board
of charities in place of ]. P. Carbery, resigned.
Hon. Thomas Settle, of North Carolina, is
confident that several southern states will give
their electoral votes for Republican president
in 1888.
General Burdett, commander-in-chiefof of the
G. A. R., is in favor of the dime subscription,
among veterans, for Grant monument in
Washington, D. c.
Fire in Cleveland on Thursday destroyed the
Sturtevant planning mill, stables and kiln. Loss
$4,000: insurance $5S,000. Lightning is the
supposed cause.
A party of Montana cattlemen, coming up
with party of twenty Piegan Indians, with
seventy-fve stolen horses, killed the entire
number of redskins.
The soldiers reunion at Caldwell, O., closed
on Saturday, after most successful meeting.
Judge Foraker and other eminent speakers ad
dressed the veterans.
The Republicans of the fifteenth and six
teenth senatorial districts, in joint convention
at Newark, Ohio, nominated Hon. L. B. Wing,
and Hon. H. G. GreiRer.
Columbus broom manufacturers claim that
the penitentiary managers sell brOoms for less
than the cost of raw material, and thereby
have ruined their business.
John Cossidy, veteran, died at Alliance, O.,
Saturday, from hemorrage of the lungs, caused
by the participation in the sham battle at the
soldiers reunion at East Liverpool.
Chief Clerk, John Tweedale, of the war de-
ment, will act as secretary of war during the
absence of Secretary Endicott. The secretary
will be absent until about October l.
Typhoid fever has made its appearance in the
New Jersey asylum for the insane, at Morris
Plains; a dozen persons are prostrated with the
disease, which is supposed to have originated
in bad drainage.
P. Cunningham, chief of division in sixth
Auditor McConville's office, Washington, has
directed suit to be brought against the Com
mercial Gazette for "libelious" assault, claim
ing 900 damages.
The PrOhibitionists of Licking county met at
Newark and nominated county ticket. Leon
ard, the candidate for governor, edited the
brethren by abusing Captain Bushnell and
prominent Republican newspaper.
A mysterious dynamite explosion on a vessel
lying at anchor at Philadelphia injured sixteen
persons. The vessel was partially wrecked,
but the passengers, some two hundred women
and children, providentially escaped.
Maggie Walker, daughter of James Walker,
treasurer of the South Cleveland Banking Co.,
of Cleveland, died in jackson, Mich, in giving
birth to child. She had always borne good
and her seducer is unknown.
Plans have been adopted for completion of
General Grants temporary tomb in Riverside
Park. Large numbers of visitors continue to
do honor to the dead by strewing flowers about
the tomb, when permitted 10y the police.
Colonel c. W. Woolley denies that he signed
the petition for pardon of Lieut.. Mullen, but
AYERS that he would have done so had he been
given an opportunity. Colonel Woolley's name
appears on the application for the pardon.
Adranna Brinckle, daughter of the late DR..
Brinckle, of Philadelphia, has just been released
from the state lunatic asylum, where she has
been held for twenty-seven years. She is now
sixty years old, and is not nor never was insane
Colonel Oliver Il. Payne, formerly treasurer
of the Standard Oil company, at Cleveland, and
brother-in-law of Secretary Whitney, is report
ed to have given up his citizenship in Ohio, with
the intention of taking up his residence in New
York City.
The attorney general has decided that PEN
pension attorneys their dues. The law passed
last winter fixing the compensation of pension
agents repeals the law previously in force,
which allows them a fee of 30c. in each case.
A schedule of liabilities and assets in the
John Roach assignment case was filed in New
York on Saturday They show that the assets
are sufficiently large to justify Mr.. ROach's
original statement that the assignees would be
able to pay two dollars for every one of indebt-
edness.
The Cuyahoga county Democracy adopted a
protesting against the appointment
of Marcus A. Hanna as director of the Union
Pacific railroad, and requested Senator Payne
and Congressman Foran to inform the Presi-
dent of their displeasure. They also demand
the speedy removal of Republicans from office,
and the appointment of Democrats to the
positions.
G. W. Calderwood, of Prohibition nOtOriety,
Chicago, is coming to Ohio with facts to prove
that the Prohibition campaign committee sold
out to the Democratic campaign committe. He
will make twelve speeches in Ohio, and in each
speech name all the men connected with the
affair, and challenge their denial in face of the
documents he will bring. He will speak in Gin
cinnati, Springfield, Columbus, Delaware, Mt.
Vernon, Akron, Cleveland, Oberlin, Norwalk,
Toledo DaytOn and Greenyille