Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-03-04
THE NEWS.

A number of Pacific ocean disasters are re-
ported from San Francisco.
The interest in Sam Smalis revival sermons
at Chicago is rapidly increasing.
General Fred Van Derveer has been nomin-
ated for postmaster at Hamilton, o.
A wonderful religious revival in the MethO-
dist and Presbyterian churches is reported
from Liberty, Ind.
The liquor saloon of T. R. Bryant, at Nor
wich, Ohio, was blown up with gunpoWder by
some persons unknown.
Governor Foraker has appointed election
boards, under the Pugley, law, for Cincinnati,
Cleveland and Columbus.
Mrs. jeremiah Fox, milliner, of Wooster, O.,
died from the effects of wound in the hand
from prick with needle.
The wedding slippers of Fanny Mills, OF
Ohio, who was married last week, are No. 30s,
and measure twenty-five inches across the
instep.
Mr.. A. Burt, superintendent of the Fifth
division of the railway mail service, has resign
ed, and Joseph B. Gwin, of Attiea, Ind, has
been appointed in his place.
Bob Smith, negro boy, who killed Jas. Sea,
his stepfather, with an ak, last November,
near Wilmore Station, KY, has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
The secretary of the treasury writes that the
net reduction of revenue by the Morrison tariff
bill, computed on the basis OF last years i'm
portations would be about Sl2,OO0,000.
John King, famous as newsbOy and collec-
tor of books, was found dead, Monday, in his
lonely room on Twelfth street, Cincinnati. For
long time he headed the newsboys' union.
| Louis Ball, colored man, was murdered al
Washington G. g., Ohio, and his body placed
on railroad track. Persons who had attended
him home from a dance have been arrested OIL
suspicion.
The many friends of Rev. W. T. Wilson,
prominent minister in the Methodist Protes
tant church, were shocked 10 learn of the sud
den death of that gentleman at East Liverpool
Ohio, on Wednesday evening of last week,
John D. Caldwell and Andrew NJ. Streng
appointed by Mayor Smith to fill the vacancie
in the Cincinnati infrmary board, occasione
by the impeachment of Hermann and Brock
mann, have qualified. John P. Decker wa
elected superintendent of the institution.
The U. S. house committee on naval affair
recommend the construction of five layer wa
vessels, one at government yard hereafter t
be determined upon and four to be given out b
private contract.
The defense made by Director Neufarth, G
the Cincinnati in6rmary, will be that on enter
ling the board he discovered that the other direC
tors we're engaged in wrong doing, but he ha
not the capacity to resist them.
1t is rumored that the negotiation betwee
General Cook and the rebel Apache Chief Ger
onimo, were fruitless, and that the latter re
e fused to surrender Internationally.
The leaders of the mob which drove th
y Chinese out of Oregon City, Ore, few day
: ago, have been arrested upon complaint of
3 wealthy Chinaman, under the famous Ku Klu
, act.
I P. D. Armour, of Chicago, the spokesman ft
= the dressed beef interest, affirms that he an
his fellow-packers will fight the railriads
{ their discrimination against them, both in IL
courts and in congress.
Ex-Minister E. B. Washburne is writing
/, history of the commune in Palis in 1871.
will be remembered that Washburne was OF
S minister to France during the Franco Prussia
f war, and was in Paris during the siege.