Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-03
THE NEWS.

Changes have been made in officers in the
Ohio blind asylum.
The American congress of churches closed at
Cleveland Thursday.
Pittsburgh iron manufacturers report an i'm
provement in business.
The oil market is fat, owing to increased
flow in some of the wells.
The Ohio state board of agriculture elected
j. O. Levering president.
The mayor of Cleveland has forbidden street
meetings by the anarchists.
The Des Moines Leader Office was burned
out last week; loss nearly $4,000.
General Arthur is worse again, and there are
slight hopes of his surviving many months.
1t is reported that the grand jury of Chicago
Indicted the Anarchistr on charges of murder.
Several inches of snow fell in northern Yer
mont Thursday and crops are menaced with
frost.
The Chocago grand jury has indicted six of
the persons implicated in the Haymarket mas
sacre.
American wine-growers will follow the but
ter makers in asking for hight tax on bogus
wines.
Eight thousand men and women are idle in
New York City in consequence of the tailors'
strike.
The American congress of churches, at Cleve-
land, O., was opened by an address by Governor
Foraker.
A Chicago firm has executed a contract to
supply 100000 pounds of canned beef for the
French army
Ex-Aldernan Michael Duff, of New York,
has been twice arrested for bribery, and is un
der bail of $4,000.
The commissioner of agriculture claims that
American wines and brandies are purer and
better than the imported.
1t is believed that Isaac NJ. Jordan, of Gin
cinnati will decline the tender of the assistant
secretaryship of the interior.
The driver of a mail coach was killed last
week by road agent in Montana. A passenger
safely reached Glendale with the mails.
Minister Pendleton's son and daughter sailed
from New York for Europe on Saturday. 1t is
not known when the father will return home.
The Cincinnati board of aldermen passed an
ordinance permitting the sale of wine and beer
on Sunday, in conformity with the Low law.
In picnic fight last week among Italian
railroad laberers near Murraysville, ". Va,
one man was killed and three fatally wounded.
Two little sons of Henry Blair, of Carding-
ton, Ohio, were nearly fatally poisoned by eat
ing sour dock roots which they mistOok for
radshes.
Mrs. Jennie Mongle was drowned in a cloud
burt near Abingdon, Va. Two horses and three
mules were drowned, buildings wrecked and
man injured.
An association of textile manufacturers, rep
resenting $l5O.OOO,OO9 capital, has been form
ed in Philadelphia. The object is combina-
ton of interests regarding labor.
Three hundred kegs of mining powder explod-
ed on train near Chattanooga, Tenn. The To-
comotive and two fiat cars were torn to frag
ments, and three men were killed.
The Cincinnati board of public works has
obtained temporary injunction restraining the
beard of public affairs from forcibly taking
possession of the records of the former named
| board.
Swain Anderson, wealthy farmer of Noun
tain Grove, Mo-, was murdered in the road at
night on his way home from Masonic lodge.
His two sons and another accomplice confess
the crime.
The state convention of coal operators, at
Columbus, o., instructed delegates in the in.er-
state board of arbitration and conciliction to
vote for a continuate Of the present system,
ten hours constituting a days work.
Captain John A. Ross, of Seymour, Ind, has
just received his commission brevetting him
maj jor for meritorous conduct darine the war
The commission has been waiting for him for
nineteen years in the adjutant generals office
at Columbus, o.
The deficit of the Cincinnati May Festival of
1884 was over $4,000, and the deficit this year
including, on a comparative basis, the chorus
expenses for two years, which are betrayed by
fixed contributions from the stock holders, will
not be less than $4,000.
The twelfth annual reunion of the Ohio state
association of Mexican war veterans was held at
Fremont, Tuesday of last week, there being
tifty-nine present. Addresses were made by
President A. j. Robinson, Gen. r. B. Hayes
and Gen. R. P. Buckland. The next reunion
will be at Toledo.
The Indiana prohibitionists, in convention
at Indianapolis, adopted platform declaring
for prohisbition ,greenbacks and female suffrage,
and nominated ticket for state officers. Rev.
A. B. Leonard, of Ohio, made speeck in which
he denounced the Ohio Republicans for turning
out the Hamilton county senate frauds.
In the senate last week Mr.. Ingalls,, speak
ing of Pension Commission Black being on
the pension roll by special act of congress on
the ground of his being totally disabled, de-
elared that he signalized his advent into Office