Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-05-13
THE NEWS.

work Monday.
But little hope is entertained of ex President
Arthur's ultimate recovery.
There are hundred 'moonshine" prisoners
in the Covington, KY, Jail.
A large number of strikers returned to work
in Chicago Monday morning.
DR.. Cyrus Edison, of New York, says there
is no such thing as hog cholera.
The Cincinnati knights of labor denounce
the red flag and every form of anarchy.
Three children were burned to death in a
farm house II miles west of Jackson, MINI.
Sunday was very quiet in Cincinnati. The
expected disorderly demonstrations failed to
materialize.
The Sunday sermons in Chicago were united
in advocating the summary suppression OF
Anarchists.
The National Republican newspaper at
Washington is said to have been sold out to
the Democracy.
The Canton, O., lodge of socialists has, with
few exceptions, disbanded and Joined the
knights of labor.
R. W. Swift, of Keyser,W. Va.,was drowned
while attempting to ford, on horseback, a
swollen stream.
The buildings of farm at Masonville, W Va,
were carried away by a cloud-burst Large
trees were washed out by the roots.
Lieutenant Governor Kennedy has presented
the Lincoln club with the gavel he used through
out the Hamilton county contest in the senate.
Near Oswego, n. Y, Norman Lounsbery,
aged seventy eight, shot and killed his girl
wife and relative, Horace Payson, and killed
himself.
The Anarchists of St. Louis met Sunday and
adopted resolutions indorsing the action Of
their brothers in Chicago, and denouncing the
police of that city.
The Union printers of Cincinnati denounce
the red flag and the lawless element generally,
and declare that the stars and stripes is the
only flag they recognize.
Harry Lloyd was murdered at Des Moines,
Iowa, Monday, in a collision with a constable,
who was attempting to enforce the new pro-
hibitory law in that state
The common opinion in Washington on the
action of the Democratic senators who ran
away from their post of duty is that they tried
a silly game and must stand the consequences.
The Little Kanawha, Big Kanawha, Elk and
Guyan rivers were on a high, Sunday. Booms
have broken in all these streams, washing off
over $50, 900 worth of timber and slaves, be-
sides doing other damage.
President Cleveland has vetoed pension
bill because an error occurs in the name of the
BENEFICIARY, and gives good reasons why a GER
tain class of private pension bills should not
be allowed to become laws.
In q circular OraIu MASTER w OrkIlldn row
derly writes that for some time the knights of
labor have been losing ground in public opin-
ion, and charges the knights "to keep jealous
eye upon the doings of labor men who never
labor"
Rev. William Findly, probably the oldest
Unitod Presbyterian minister in America, died
of old age at New Castle, Sunday Afternoon.
He was IS years old, and fifty -four of that num-
Der were spent as a minister of the gospel He
was noted for his able sermons.
The wisest heads in Washington declare that
there is no parliamentary way by which the
work of the Ohio senate on Saturday can be
overthrow. If the journal fails to show the
absence of quorum, that is the end of the
matter. Even the courts will not go behind
the face of the legislative journal. The trans
action of business in both houses OF congress
without quorum is a matter of frequency