Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-05
THE NEWS.

LdSlcED hdDSdS.
japan has population of 100000
but has less than 10000 paupers.
A large increase in American purcha'
ses of Australian wool is reported.
Chas. F. Couant, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury under Bristow, is dead
Mrs. Folsom, the Presidents mother
in-law, has arrived at the White House
4 Gen. John B. Gordon has been nomi'
mated for Governor by the Democrats Of
Georgia.
A part of the Buckeye Salt C0mpa>
ny's works at Pomeroy, o., burned; loss
$4,000.
Another crank Is making arrange
ments to leap from the Brooklyn Bridge
on wager.
A saw mill boiler exploded at Tchula
Miss, killing six persons and injuring
several others.
The murderer of the Knoch family of
six persons at Detroit has been arrested
at Cleveland.
In the trotting races at Cleveland
Manzanita lowered the four-year old
record in 2:164.
Charles Schneider, charged with Gin
cinnati Infirmary crookedness, has been
acquitted in court.
1t is said that Gen. B. F. Butler would
like to be elected to Congress this fall in
the Lowell district.
A new postal telegraph company has
been organized In New York, with a
capital of s5.0OO,O00.
AT Erie, Kas., Willie Sells was found
guilty of the murder of his father, ,mOth>
er, brothor and sister.
Gen. A. G. Hovey has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the
First Indiana district.
The drouth in Seneca and adjoining
Ohio counties has been the severest
known in twenty years.
A Thousand Arctic bears, driven South
by starvation, are devasting the region
of White and Cape Mugford.
A Toledo dispatch does not give a
good character to Cutting, the American
editor, imprisoned in Mexico.
The New York hop crop is ruined, and
prices have jumped up three and four
hundred per cent. in six weeks.
The body of S. S. Couant, Harpers
Weekly editor, who disappeared year
ago, is supposed to have been found.
Snow with an intense cold is reported
from tho 10 hrodnr rfu .fir
hundred people have died of starvation.
Employees of the Ohio Penitentiary
are said to have worked up quite a
profitable business in securing paroles
for prisoners.
Judge W. II. Stafford, of Ross county,
was nominated for Judge by the Demo-
cratic Fourth Circuit Convention, held
at Chillicothe.
The Democrats of the Tenth Virginia
district have nominated James Baum
gartner. jr, to succeed Randolph Tuck
er in Congress.
Three of the largest manufacturing
tobacco concerns will remove to Cincin
natl, in order to secure better protection
during strikes, sc.
The parade at Lafayette, Ind, of 40
companies of State Militia, in connection
with Barnum's show, drew over 10000
strangers to that city.
In trotting race at Cleveland Thurs
day, Harrie Wilkes defeated Clemmie G.
and Phyllis in three straight heats, the
time being 2:16, 2:144 and 2:15%.
After vetoing bills for public build
ings at Dayton and GAINESVILLE, the Pres
ident has signed one appropriating $780,.
600 for building at Goldsboro, N. G.
In the Anarchist trial, at Chicago, a
witness testified that be heard Spies,
Schwab and Schnaubelt agree before the
Haymarket meeting to throw the dyna
mite bomb.
In his letter to Senator Hawley, re
garding coast protection, Samuel j. Til
ken says: Among the people the desire
for liberal appropriations toward the
means of public defense is well nigh
unanimous.
A Washington dispatch, reviewing the
years work of Congress, shows that the
Dem mOcratic House has not carried out
the pledges of the platform on which
Mr.. Cleveland was elected, and has ig-
nered or rejected every recommendation
by the Executive.
The program for the concerts to be
given under the auspices of the College
of Music of Cincinnati is published. The
season will comprise series of six Sym
phony Concerts, to be given in the
Odeon, under the direction of Henry
Schradieck. For the Symphony Concert
the orchestra will be composed of fifty
musicians.
John Tosney, election officer in Fourth
ward, A, Cincinnati, has been found
guilty in the Criminal court of putting
fraudulent votes into the ballot box
John Minor and Patrick Kelly, judges
of election in Nineteenth ward, A,
were found guilty of adjourning the
count before 1t was completed.
Charges of extravaganza have been
made against the present Ohio Legisla-
ture. 1t is found upon investigation,
however, that the Coal-oil Legislature
for 1885 made appropriations aggrega-
ting $5,7l0.S04, while the present Legis-
lature's appropriations sum up $5.5O5,+
329 81, making difference of $205, 5,475 81
in the matter of economy.
Over 200 West Virginia Republicans,
representing thirty counties, held an i'm
portant conference at Parkersburg last
week. A resolution was adopted that
the question of the prohibition of the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors should be submitted to vote of
the people. In the coming campaign a
Legislature and four Congressman are
to be elected.
At the evening session of the German
American Teachers Association Con
vention in Cincinnati, Mr. P. Herzog, of
st. Louis, delivered a lecture on "The
Temperance Movement and the Sbhool."
He held that the school could not under
take the duties of home, society and re.
ligion. Ithad its own province, and
e0uld not nut itloIf IN the Darrnu haois