Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-01
THE NEWS.

Ex-Justice Ward Hunt died in Washington
City.
Henry Watetrson is slowly regaining his
usual health.
Nearly two thousand New York dress and
cloak makers are on a strike.
The steamship Rapidan is mysteriOusly
missing, and is believed to be lost.
A farmer named Houts was fatally gored by
a Holstein bull, near Canton, Ohio.
A. N. Kellogg, of New York. president of
the Kellogg Newspaper Company, is dead.
The anthracite coal companies have agreed
on the output for the year at $4,000, 900 tons.
The Cincinnati May musical festival this
year will exceed all predecessors in attractive
ness.
The people of Greenfield, o., are not pleased
with the new postmaster that has been sppent-
ed for them.
Colonel A. T. Cook, proprietor of the St.
Charles Hotel, Columbus, o., died suddenly of
heart disease.
Two houses were blown up in Pittsburgh by
an explosion of natural gas. A man was dan
gerously burned.
The war department doubts the story that
Geronimo, Apache chief, has surrendered to
Lieutenant Maus.
Secretary Manning is laid up with sprain-
ed ankle. There are reports that he suffered
stroke of apOplexy.
From November to March 1, 1856, Gin
cinnati packed 332, ,6O6 hogs. against 1856, ABS
for the previous year.
n. S. Bates murdered his wife at Hagers-
town, Ind, by cutting her throat with his pocket
knife. He narrowly escaped lynching.
A saw-mill boiler exploded last week near
Centralia, ILL.,, destroying the mill, killing the
sawyer and fatally iniuring the fireman.
Charles Meyers, of Cincinnati, was attacked
by burglars on the Versailles Qnd.) pike one
night last week and terribly beaten and robbed.
A compromise has been effected with striking
switchmen at Kansas City, which opens the
blockade except as regards the Missouri Pacific.
An agent for Chicago firm who mas trsv-
eled over Kansas and Illinois reports the wheat
crop in much poorer condition than expected.
st. Louis merchants are demanding a close
of the strike, and invoke the militia and gov
ernmeRt troops, if necessary, to enforce the
laws.
Rev. Charles Cheveraux, of Norwalk, Ohio,
shet burglar in the breast. The burglar, who
had entered the clsTyman's house, threatened
to shoot first
A new order, called the Knights of Industry,
somewhat like the Knights of Labor, has been
started in Boston. 1t receives the encourage
ment of the Labor Knights.
Otis o. Hall has filed suit against Charles
F. Bragg, of the Cincinnati Graphic, for $780,,
900 damages. on account of criminal prose-
cution in the police court.
j. G. Snyder has been working Indiana
counties as tombstone agent, and sending in
fraudulent orders to an indianapolis firm, from
which he collected commissions.
There is no certainty as to when the PAYNE
investigating committee will be ready to report.
But the Doodle crowd is very anxious, and at
torneys are in Columbus in force.
Jay Gould is quoted az saying that the strikes
on his southwestern railroads are beyond his
control, and that no compromise on the part of
the railroads need be thought Of.
An Ohio company has tackled the Washburn
and Moen barbed wire company in suit for
over Sill 900 in Chicago court. The suit is
to recover royalties that were paid.
Arthur ]. Groves, sentenced at Bowling
Green, O., to hang April for murder, has had
his sentence suspended, and it will probably
be commuted to Imprisonment for life.
Geo. Sample, clerk in Ball, Wsr6eld L Co.'S
drug store, Ironton, O., was mixing blue fire in
mortar, when the powder exploded, killing
the clerk and partly wrecking the store.
A freight train taken out of Sedalia, No.,
under guard of police, was wrecked some
miles out A deputy sheriff and citizen we're
killed, and three other special officers hurt.
A passenger train on the Louisville, New
Albany and Chicago railway was wrecked by
miscreant prying heavy bowlder down on the
track from an embankment. The engineer was
injured.
The Seneca county (O.) wool-growers' asso-
citation have resolved that if the wOol-grower
can not secure the restoration of the tariff Of
1867 on wool, a free trade in wooden manufac-
tured goods should be demanded.
Secretary Manning is reported by bis physi-
clans to be suffering from slight stroke OF
apoplexy. The sprained ankle story originated
with the secretary himseiI, VINO seems 70 nave
really thought he could not have fallen from
any other cause.
One of the cases furnished by Commissioner
Black to sustain his charge that the pension
Office was run as political machine, turns out
to be a true-blue Democrat, and Black is en-
barrassed, and wishes to withdraw the case
from investigation.
The Ohio state sinking fund commission has
clssed the contract with Albert Meter and the
Citizens National Bank, of Cincinnati, for re-
funding state six-per-ceRt. bonds due Decem-
ber next, the rate being 2.63. The governor
has approved the contract
A stranger shot and fatally wounded two
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