Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-25
THE NEWS.

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The subscription fund for Mrs. Hancock in
New York amounts to Ss6,S
J. Freeman Rsisin, Baltimore boodler, has
been appointed to responsible position
The postmasters will hold their next nation
al convention at Chicago, ILL.,, in June 1857.
John Liveridge, the Oldest lawyer in the
country, died in New York, aged ninety-three.
Great frauds are announced to have been
committed in import under-valuations in New
York.
Commander Roderick S. HcCook's death is
said TO have been caused by fall from a
wagon.
Judge Thomas N. Cooley has left Michigan
Z University to enter the railroad law business
in New York.
The Q. S. man-of-war, Tallapoosa, will sail
for MontevideO, to take her place in the south
Atlantic station.
Previously reported losses in human life and
in cattle by cold in Kansas are said to have
been exaggerated.
Rev. John W. Klise, of Hillsboro, O., has
fallen heir to over SIOo. 900 by the death of an
uncle in Germany.
The Cincinnati art museum, now about fin
ished, is one of the most beautiful institutions
of the kind in the world.
Governor Seymours funeral took place from
the residence of Senator ConkliRg at Utica, n.
Y, Tuesday of last week.
Possibly the suit of the government against
the Bell Telephone company will be tried be-
fore Judge Baxter in Ohio.
August Hube, GAINESVILLE jeweler, drank
solution of cyanide OF potassium, supposing 1t
to be pure water and soon expired.
Red Eagle, young Indian on his way from
the Indian training school, at Philadelphia, to
his home, in Dakota, died at Chicago.
Hon. George C. Bates, enc of the organizers
of the Wing party, and very prominent in poll
ticts in the early days, died at Denver.
The continued upward tendency in the Eu-
ropean grain markets has not as yet shown any
marked influence on our home markets.
A Cincinnati inventor has perfected an elec-
trical apparatus for taking the place of the old
and Objectionable bell-cord in railway trains.
Mexican authorities have captured a number
of rifles smuggled from Taxes and designed to
be used in revolution in an interior state.
C. Stausmyer, druggist of Fremont, O., is
charged with series of over-charging for drugs
and things furnished to the county institutions.
Proceedings have been instituted in court to
disbar John B. ManniI, assignee of Archbishop
Purcell. EnIbezzlement and perjury are
charged.
Charles F. Bragg has filed in court petit
| ton for dissolution of partnership with o. o.
Hall in the publication Of the Cincinnati
Graphic.
The Mccormick reaper works at Chicago has
closed down, throwing fourteen hundred men
out of employment. A threatened strike was
the cause.
| A New York gentleman owns the great seal
of the Confederate States, having purchased ii
from soldier for SIS soon after the fall Of
Richmond.
In the McEwen murder trial at Salem, ILL.,
the jury returned verdict of guilty, and as
ssessed the punishment at five years in the
penitentiary.
Peter Higgins mutulated body was found
under a pile of manure in Antrim county, Mich
His brother is suspected of the murder, anC
also his wife.
The subject of purchasing mansion or resi-
dence for the governor of Ohio, at Columbus
is meeting with difficulty, on account of fnan
cial pressure.
The president has rendered the comptroller
ship of the treasury to Hon. Charles Ridgely,
leading banker and iron manufacturer o
Springfield, Ill.
George @. Cannon, Mormon chief, escapes
from train conveying him back to Salt LAX
City, but was soon reeaptured. He was slightl
injured by his jump.
The Colorado state silver convention, largel
. attended, resolved to accept no compromise Oh
the free and unlimited coinage of silver upol
sn equality with gold.
Yseult Dudley, who shot O'Donovan Rosa
year ago, and who was committed to the Mid
dletown insane asylum, is graduly improving
and will soon be released.
: Harry W. Smith, of Aurora, Ind, has bee
J awarded $500 damages frem the Ohio an
Mississippi railroad for injuries received in a
accident at Delhi year ago.
The strikers in the Pennsylvania coke region
have received proposition from the syndicat
offering to pay the advance asked, beginnin
March Is, if work is at once resumed.
Miss Flora Simonsen, daughter of one of tn
richest men in Knox county, Ind, ran ava
with and married David Bruner, presperou
saloon-keeper, of Petersburg, Pike county.
The body of Rev. Jesse B. Brady, of Norton
vile, KY, was found in the river at Carondele
He is thought to have drowned himself in fea
of an INVESTIGATION into some misconduct.
Washington City people are moving for
permanent exposition in the capital, nucleu
for worlds fair in 1892, in honor of the four
hundreth anniversary of the didovery of Amer
ica.
Mrs. Frederick Hollenbeck was found dea
in well near Seymour, Ind. She is though
to have committed suicide through grief at tn
loss of her daughter, who dropped dead tw
weeks ago.
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