Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-01-07
THE NEWS.
louisville had % murders in 1885.

Louisville had 22 murders in 1885.
New York City police have begun to
break up the stale beer dives.
Tifin also rejoices, having struck gas.
Five buildings were burned at Leba>
non, Tenn.
A prosperous year in the iron market
is predicted.
Dun & Co report 1O.6S7 business failt
ures for the old year.
The estate of the late Reuben R.
iSpringer. of Cincinnati, figures up over
S3,OOO,OO0.
A scheme is on foot for daily news
paper organ for President Cleveland in
Washington.
The almost everlasting Court of Ala
bama Claims has finally wound up its
work and quit.
Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee, Governer-elect of
] Virginia, took the oath of otfleo Friday.
1t is probable that between February
l and June 30 there will be be four bond
calls of ten millions each.
A company of soldiers and hundred
Apache scouts from Gen. Crooks com
mand are missing.
Ephraim Beasley, Hear-sighted farm
er of Wilson county, Tenn, choplng
wood, split his little sons head open
with an axe.
Adiutant General Drum says General
Crook has a strong force of soldiers, and
can subjugate the Indians without as
sistance from frentiersmen.
Hon. John NJ. Langston received a
banquet from his colOred frlends at
Nashville. 1t approached the import.
ance, politically, of a state dinner.
James Kincaid. quarryman, living
near Youngstown, OhiU. was shot and
probably fatally wounded by burglar
found prowling in Kincaid's house.
An understanding is said to have
been reached by Ohio Democratic stal
warts to expose and destroy the Kid
coal-oil combination in State politics.
James Elder, recently appointed post
master at Richmond, Ind, expired sud
denly in his Office from apoplexy. He
had for some time been the Democratic
leader in Wayne county.
An Ohio State Association of School
Examiners has been formed to elevate
the standard of professional teaching, to
unity the methods of examination and
to recommend needed legislation.
At Streator, ILL.,, the family of August
Feldt, German, were in the habit of go>
| ing to a barrel of newly salted pork and
eating their fill.-Three children and
the mother have died of trichinosis, and
the father is fatally affected.
Commissioner Eateo has made re
port on the dropping of applicants from
the civil service records. Ohio, entitled
to "a appointments, appears in the field
with 232 applicants; Indiana, entitled to
40 appointments, has 132 applicants.
Joseph Bundschuh, of Unity, Ill, some
time ago helped his little dog, caught in
steel trap, out of its difficulty. For
his pains be was rewarded with bite
on the leg, He now has bad case of
lhydrophobia, with small chances of life.
A Washington dispatch says: People
are tired and disgusted with Ohio pOli>
tics. Politically, that State is the nasti-
est place in the Union, aud the only re-
| freshing news that could come from its
principal city would be report that
vigilance committee was at work to clear
the atmosphere.
A church congregation at Palmyra,
Wis, is on the point of starvation, hav-
ing undertaken long fast at the instiI
CATION of the pastor in order to become
sanctifed. Gradually the members are
sliding out and taking sustenance,
thinking the matter is being carried too
far" The champion of the society has
taken no food for sixteen days.