Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-22
THE NEWS.


government aid.
The widow of the late General Durbin Ward
will be granted pension.
Maxwell, murderer of Preller in st. Louis,
has been sentenced to hang August %.
Remarkably destructive storms last week are
reported from various parts of the country.
The convict mine strikers in Tennessee have
been starved into submission, and will return
to work.
The Kansas Prohibitionists have nominated
state ticket headed by c. H Branscombe for
governor.
A destructive storm swept up the Ohio river
between Steubenville and Pittsburgh Wednes-
day morning.
Ex-Sheriff John Renfroe was lynched in
Sumpter county, Ala, for attempting to kill
his brother-in-law.
At Norwalk, O., county treasurer Martin o.
Van Fleet was sentenced six years in the pen
itentiary for forgery.
o. S. Langan has been arrested, charged with
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in money and securities.
Tuesday nights storm was very severe on
Lake Michigan. Storm damages are reported
from the state of Michigan.
The committee investigating Pension Com
missioner Black has found him guilty Of abuses
in the granting of pensions.
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Naples, were drowned while wading in the
Maumee river at Fort Wayne.
Space in the Cincinnati Exposition for 1886
is being rapidly taken up. The prospects of
success are very encouraging.
Near Lebanon, O., David and Ricard King,
brothers, fought with corn hoes and both are
thought to be fatally injured.
The Dundy county, (Neb) bank failed, the
president being in Canada with the funds. The
loss falls heavily on new settlers.
John Roach, the famous old ship-builder, is
dying at College Point, Long Island. His busi-
ness disappointments weigh heavily on him.
The Castle Garden authorities at New York
are on the lookout for foreign vessels bearing
undesirable immigrants, with the view of turn
ing them back.
Almond B. Thompson, chashier of the Provi-
dent saving bank, st. Louis, has abscOnded
and the bank has suspended Liabilities ex-
ceed assets $40 1000.
The Democratic congressional convention at
Boonville, Ind, broke up in a row, the Menzies
supporters withdrawing, and the friends of ex-
Senator Mccullough remaining and nominal
ing their man.
Near FAYETTEVILLE, Ark, Rev. John Lokey
and his son attacked a neighbor named Nc
Clelland in trouble about line fence. Nc
Clelland got out his knife and sliced his assail-
ants so badly that they will die.
There are now in Ohio 80, 800 government
pensioners, consisting of invalids, widows,
minors and dependent relatives. The invalids
number about u 800 and the widows, minors
and dependent relatives about 5000.
Prohibitionists of Cincinnati and Hamilton
county met last week, adopted platform,
nominated congressional and county Office can
didates for the November election, and appoint
ed delegates to the state convention to be held
at Canton, July % and 20.
Drunken miscreants visited Pleasant Hill
cemetery, in jackson township, Shelby county,
O., Sunday night, last week, and overturned
twenty -four handsome monuments and head
stones, several of them being broken in falling.
The damage is estimated at 1900. The scoun-
drels were tracked into an adjouining county
and arrested.
The presidents proclamation, warning feder-
al ofice-holders not to participate in conven-
tions or primary meetings, is said to have been
called out by representations that the conduct
of certain Democratic officials in Indiana, in
taking part in primaries, was bringing discredit
upon the Democratic party, and hurting the
presidents policy of civil service reform.
The Dakota constitutional convention, at
Sioux Falls, with about sixty delegates in at
tendance, unanimously adopted preamble and
resolutions declaring it to be the solemn belief
of the people of south Dakota that the state
now established and waiting admission to the
Union should be admitted without delay and
that division of Dakota is imperatively de-
manded.
The central labor union, of New York, rep
resenting hundred thousand working people,
has adopted new constitution. The declara-
| ton of principles hold that there should be nc
private property in land; that labor should
share in the wealth it produces; that it is the
| sacred duty of every honorable laboring man
to sever his connection with all political parties
of the capitalists, and to devote his energy and
| attention to the reorganization of his trade OF
labor union and the concentration of all uniols
into one solid body for the purpose of assisting
each other in all struggles, political or industrial