Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-01-21
THE NEWS.
,irol Porter ia Seriously I'M.

Admiral Porter is seriously Ill.
Lancaster, Ohio, elected Republican
]. P's.
The late Mrs. General Meade left an
estate of $4,000.
The Government Building at Pitts
burg will be Of granite.
The leading barbed wire manufactu>
rers will form National association.
A large number of fishing vessels we're
wrecked off the Atlantic coast.
The exodus of negroes from North and
South Carolina is settling in Southern
Arkansas.
Fire In the Continental Warehouse,
Chicago. caused a loss estimated at
$250,000.
Miunie Dishner, Nebraska's sleeping
bes uty, has awakened at last, after 20
day snoeze.
Emigrant rates from New York TO
Chicago have been reduced from eight
to seven dollars.
The Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooL-
er Mabel Dillaway, with sixteen men, Is
given up for lost.
Samuel Troup, father of poor but
proud family at Lima, O., died of star
walton last week.
In railroad wreck at Kentucky Union
Junction, John A. Griffith, a Aorssman
of Thurman, O., was killed.
Captain Amos Neptune. conductor
on the Baltimore & Ohie road for thirty
years, died at Parkersburg.
McDowelps trotting mare, Iolanthe,
valued at $4,000, was killed by falling
into a well at Lexington, KY.
The BIackfeet, Blood and Piegan In
dians, in the Northwest, are reported
ready to start on the war path.
1t is proposed to add cookery to the
other departments of household work OF
the Cincinnati Kitchen Garden.
Mobile Bay was frozen over for miles
with ice a quarter of an inch thick. Fish
were washed ashore frozen stiff.
Reports from the cattle growing re-
gious of Texas report heavy losses OF
stock by the severity of the winter storm
The Cincinnati Board of Exposition
Commissioners have decided by vote
of Z to to hold an Exposition this year
Cincinnati apparently has no show for
the establishment of Government plant
for the construction of heavy ordnance
The daughter of ex-Minister to Spain
Foster and the Rev. Allen Macy Dulles,
of Detroit, were married in Washington
DC.
Governor Sherman, of Iowa, speaks
well Of the liquor law. and says there is
now less drinking in the State and less
crime.
President Cleveland is receiving casti-
cations from Democrats in both the U
S. House and Senate because of his sill
yer policy.
A Hendricks monument fund has been
started in New York, Boston, Philadel+
phia, Chicago, st. Louis, Cincinnati, and
other cities.
1t is believed that the U. s. House
Committee on Appropriations will be
conservative in regard to expenses for
coast defense.
Henry Waterman. of Milton, Wis, has
secured S22, 600 damages from the Chics-
go & Alton railroad, for injuries suffered
in a collision.
Jacob Real, farmer near BellbrOok,
o., committed suicide last week, by hang
ing. He was driven insane by the mis-
conduct of bis sons.
A boarding house at German. Ont.
burned early Tuesday morning and the
inmates, seventeen men, were nearly all
more or less seriously injured.
Stephen Mcpherson was sentenced to
six and oBe-half years for murdsrous
assault on Robert J. Cook. business man.
ager of the Philadelphia Press.
John Sweigart. of Newcastle, Ind
who imbibed too freely and allowed the
whisky to freeze in him, has lost one
arm and beth ears by amputation.
George McCahe. who had poisoned four
wives. went to Dakota and tried the
game on the ifth, but she changed cups
on him. He will poissn no more.
Pastors of churches at Pullman, Ills,
are complaining of excessive taxes and
charges for gas and heating. They call
the Pullman Company a grinding mo-
nopoly.
A. P. German will be re elected U. S.
Senator from Maryland, and Henry
Lloyd will ill the unexpired term of
Governor McLane. sent as Minister to
France.
Eastern iron men held a meeting in
Philadelphia last week, and the opinion
was that 1886 would be good business
year, with 6rn prices for products and