Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08
THE NEWS.

Tennessee crops are the best reported for
years.
Judge John L. Green died at Columbus, O.
Saturday, aged 80 years.
Lloyd P. Smith, librarian of the Philadel-
phia library since ls49, is dead.
West and northwest Texas is suffering from
drouth. and cattle are dying fast
The knights of labor of Chicago will expel
anarchists belonging to the order.
Crops have been badly damaged by rain in
parts of Virginia and North Carolina.
A Fourth of July gunner lost a hand at Bos-
well, Ind, and another an arm at Warren, o.
Broadstreet's review reports hopeful feel
ing among merchants as to the autumn out
look.
Eighty-fve thousand dollars has been sent
from America within week for the Parnell
fund.
Navigation is suspended at Pittsburgh, where
there were only 81 inches of water Monday
night.
The glorious Fourth was celebrated in many
places Saturday, with the usual number of ac-
cidents.
Fourteen blOobed trotters of ". T. Withers
stables, have been sold at prices aggregating
$l6,2OO.
For Saturday the fireworks accident exceed
ed the harvest field and cherry tree casualties
by long odds.
Two attaches of Chicago dime museum
were burned to death and four fremen injured
by restaurant fire in that city.
The Republican state executive committee
of West Virginia petition the q. S. senate to
investigate the Payne bribery case.
John Riley, of New Albany, Ind, aged 81
years, prominent stockman, died from injuries
by being run over by one of his cows.
George Chapman was killed at Cairo, ILL.,, by
being struck by rock thrown by John Cotton,
an elderly man, whom he had assaulted.
House and senate friends of the long suffer
ing but now restored Fitz John Porter are
thinking of giving the martyr banquet.
Isaac Andrews, a farmer near Lima, O., was
horribly mangled by being caught in moving
machine, and lived but short tine thereafter
a little child at Youngstown, O., was fatally
injured by eating bakers biscuit, which it
was ascertained contained small particles of
glass.
Prof. Leon fell from tight rope upon which
he was walking, at the Springfield (O.) fair
grounds, sustaining severe and possibly fatal
injuries.
There are whispers of an early strike among
Western Union telegraph OperatOrs-not for
higher wages, but to prevent a reduction in
filling vacancies.
An Italian steamship, with 167 passengers
and bad case Of small -pox, reached New York
Friday. The steerage passengers had been ex-
posed to the disease.
Able lawyers of Columbus, o., seeking fees,
are encouraging saloon-keepers who have paid
the Dow law tax to enjoin the treasurer from
paying the money out.
A New Yorker, by means of water Jets and
sn nd ala li,ylf h.,
derful show in rainbow colors, graphically de-
scribed as water fireworks.
The third army corps held a reunion at Get
tysburg Friday. There were present General
Sickles, who made an address, and Generals
Hunt, Badeau, Tremaine and Carr.
One thousand, five hundred dollars worth of
fireworks went off by premature explosion at
the Union base ball park, st. Louis, burning the
building in which they were stored.
The old troubles in Brown county, KY, have
broken cut again. Sheriff Rainey has been
killed, two men seriously wounded, and Cover
nor Knott has been called upon for troops.
The Pennsylvania railroad company has turn
ed out some locomotives of new design which,
it is said, can maintain speed Of sixty miles
al hours drawing six or eight passenger cars.
The nomination of Mr.. Riley for the Cincin-
natl post-ofice will not be reported by the sem
ale committee this session, but the president
may appoint him to the office during the recess
Postal clerks think they were hasty in their
controversy and want to recall their resigna-
tions-103 in number-in the keeping of the
executive committee on their recent organiza-
tiOn.
Tammany celebrated independence day at its
wigwam in great style. Among the speakers
after the declaration had been read were Sena-
tor Vance, Congressman Randall, Tucker and
McAdoo.
President Cleveland, fat and sleek, drawing
a salary OF $4,000 year, has done his hardest
work this summer preparing vetoes of bills for
the pensioning of battered and poverty-stricken
war veterans.
farmer named Wldman, near Monticello
ILL.,, murdered his wife and attempted suicide by
cutting his throat. Want of possession of money
willed his wife by a relative led to the commits
sion of the deed.
At Clarksvill; Tenn, Alfred Proctor mur-
dered Susan Hayes by splitting her head open
with an ak, and then shot himself in the head,
but at last reports he was still alive. Both
partie. were colored.
Senators Evarts and Teller will not sign the |
Democratic report in the Payne case. They ex-
pect Senator Logan to unite with them in their
separate report. They will, however, argue
against an investigation.
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