Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-10-07
THE NEWS.

Heavy frost in the vicinity of Lyncht
burg, Va, seriously damaged a large
portion of the tobacco crop.
Eight missionaries left New York for
work in Africa. They will be stationed
near Leopoldsville. Stanley Station.
Admiral Porter is lying very ill at New
port, the result of carriage accident at
Milford Springs, Mass, ten days ago.
There is story current that Emory A
Storrs. the late Chicago attorney, was
murdered by some of Joe Mackin's gang.
Mrs Oliver Cleveland Clarke, a rela-
tive of President Cleveland, celebrated
her 10lSt birthday, in Mass, Sunday of
| last week.
Daniel Jennings, seven years old, was
killed at Cincinnati by the overturuing
of an advertising wagon on which he
was riding.
Last Friday nights frost damaged the
tobacco crop in Tennessee from 80 to SO
per cent. Only about half the crop has
been housed.
The cornerstone of the new Custom
house at Louisville, KY, was laid on Sat
urdAy. Senator John Sherman, of Ohio,
made an address.
Montana cattle to the value of $780,
600 smuggled over the border will be
seized by Officials of the Canadian cusr
toms department.
The sentiment is growing among the
| knights of Labor that iu order TO make
their movement successful, they must
bOycot the bOycot.
The leading Republican candidates on
the local ticket in Hamilton County, O.,
are Leo Scho,t, for Sheriff, and Freder-
lex Raine, for Auditor.
A remarkable case of resuscitation
from supposed death Of woman by a
hypUdermic injection of a solution Lf nj
trO-glycerine, Is reported from Chicago.
At Birdeye, Ind, Thomas Cummings,
a constable, attempting TO arrest Alfred
kayl0r, of the Iowa Detective AsSocia.
ton, was shot and killed. The murder
er escaped to the woods.
With nearly seven thousand miners
employed, river coal operators about
PittSUurg declare that they will not
grant any demand for increase in wages,
lS lliC LII Ia hCG " Ia AOO JUSTLY
James McCambr;ck, of Chicago, beat
his wife, poured coal oil over her, intend
Ing TO burn her alive, but changing his
mind, threw her out of the window,
breaking her back. She will die.
A rehearirg has been refused in the
celebrated case of T. J. Cluverius, cons
victed of the murder of Lillian Madison,
at the old reservoir, Richmond. Va. |
The culprit's recourse now is to hang.
The object of the meeting of Catholic |
Prelates in Baltimore next month will |
be to consider the question of labor asso- |
particularly the Knights of |
Lab0r-and their relation to the church. |
The comet recently discovered by
Findlay, of the Cape of Good Hope OBJ
servatory, is said to be identical With |
the comet discovered by De Vies in 1874,
and is not expected to approach the
earth nearer than 10O,OO0,0O0 miles at |
this appearance.
In the U. S. Court, at Cleveland, Judge
Welker refused an injunction to a saloon
keeper of Alliance to restrain the vil>
lage from the enforcement of the pro-
hibitiOn ordinance passed under the Dow
law. The chief point is that no Federr
al question is involved.
Otto Baumann, Receiving Teller of
he Union Dime Savings Bank of New
York city is a defaulter to the extent of
nearly $4,000. He had been in the en-
ploy of the institution nearly twenty
years. He left September on vaca-
nd hac
The British ship Dunnatur Castle was
ost on Ocean Island, 1.200 miles from
Honolulu, July Is. The crew reached
score in safety. but as the island Is bar.
ZEN, seven of them left for the Sandwich
Islands, which they reached after a per-
lous voyage of fifty-two days in an open
boat.
In consequence of the outbreak of
in the stock-yards at
chicago, the Kentucky Board of Health
las issued a proclamation prohibiting the
JringIng Of cattle into that State from
he State of Illinois, except in accord
ince with prescribed rules and regula>
ions.
Geronimo, in an interview, correlated
.ll6 report 0I Ueu. MILES regarding LQ6
conditions under which the Indians sur
endured to Capt. Lawton-shat they
we're to be regarded as prisoners of war
md their lives be spared. The belief
obtains that the Indians will finally be
'ent to Florida for safe keeping.
A party of excursionists who went to
the reduction of Stone Mountain,
eighteen miles from Atlanta, Ga, by
means of giant powder were disap+
pointed. Two tons CT the explosive ma
erial placed in IA thirty-foot shaft was
gni;ed but the explosion failed to pro-
luce any material change In the rocky
,minence.
The Illinois Liquor Dealers Conven.
ion, at Springfield, adopted a platform
,mbodying the principles that the liquor
business is legitimate and recognized as
uch by the state constitution, and that
he association should support only such
nen for office, irrespective of party, as
lave shown themselves to be in favor of
PERSONAL liberty.