Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-05-20
THE NEWS.


Secretary of the treasury Manning continues
10 improve slowly He is able to enjoy drive.
Ex-President :.Author is still seriously i'll.
Excessive weakness of the stomach is his chief
trouble.
Two more deaths are reported from the
wreck caused by the elements at Kansas City,
making thirty in all.
The renegade Ohio senators can get no words
of consolation and advice from the Ohio DEM
ocratic delegation in congress.
Knoxville, Tenn, will send a delegation to
Cincinnati to. confer Oh closer railway commu-
nications between the two cities.
The McGullom bill ''to regulate Interstate
commerce" has passed the U. 5. senate, and
goes to the house for concurrence.
General Alex. Shaler, upon the request of
the governor, has rendered his resignation as
national guard commander in New York.
Frank Lyles was lynched at Prescott, Kas.,
for the brutal murder, by shooting, of Miss
Minnie Grimes, because she rejected his suit.
The actions of the Republicans in taking
control of the Ohio senate is sustained by pub
lie opinion in Ohio and throughout the country.
The steamship Acadia, of Baltimore, which
left Jamaica April 10, loaded with bananas, is
given up as lost. She had a crew of sixteen
men.
Last week John Bay, seventeen -year-old
lad, accidently shot and killed Walter C. Cos
grave, aged fourteen, while hunting near Cum
berland, Ohio.
severe storm struck Claysville, Kentucky,
and demolished a number of tobacco barns, un-
able property.
| Another tornado is reported from illinois
and Indiana, with the loss of a number OF
lives at Attica, and general destruction OF
property and crops.
General Anson q McCook, secretary of the
U. S. senate, is to be married in June to the
daughter of his cousin, the late George W. Nc
Cook, of Steubenville, Ohio.
Andrew E. Creighton, a prominent young
lawyer of Columbus, accidently shot himself
last week, while visiting his parents, neal
Coshocton. His recovery is doubtful.
DR.. Frederick N. Palmer, aged seventy y-threC
years, wellknown physical of Boston, with
his little grandson in his arms. jumped from a
steamer bound for Portland Both were lost
The governors of South Carolina, Virginia
Kentuckey, Georgia, Tennessee and Ohio are
expected to be present at the opening of the
Cincinnati May Musical Festival. President
Cleveland will not be there.
The strikers in Cincinnati are gradually re-
turning to work on satisfactory arrangements
with employers. A few new strikes are repor-
ted. Such attempts as were made to intimi-
date men on street work were promptly defeat
ed by interference by the police.
At the NJ. E. conference in Richmond, Va.
a resolution was offered, and referred to g
special committee, providing for the appoint,
ment of committee of seven to meet like
committee from the northern Methodist church
looking to a union of the two churches
Governor Foraker has removed Messrs Fee
and Goldman, Democratic. penitentiary man.
ayers, and appointed the following entirely
new board: Isaac D. Smead, of Lucas, and W
R. Phipps, of Hamilton, Republicans, and A
Y. Rice of Putnam, and VIM. n. Reed, of Ross
Democrats.
Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, speaking
recently of the excellence of the government
said there exists in this country a small but
turbulent element composed of men who bold.
ly preached the gospel of anarchy, socialism
and nihilism. These men are land. pirates
Ipreying upon the industry, commerce and trade
of the country. Their favorite weapon is dyn.
amite. Their mission is to destroy rather thar
to build up. The Archbishop proceeded il
words of the severest denunciation.