Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-23
THE NEWS.

Slight earthquake shocks continues at Sum-
mervile, S. C.
1t is said there is not case of pleuro-pneu-
monia in the state of Ohio.
R. ". Dunham was re-nominated for con-
gress in the first Illinois district.
Several blocks of buildings at Council Grove,
Kansas, were destroyed by fire Monday; loss
$IjG,G0O.
Bowman Paxton, Madden (Mo.) druggist,
was hanged by mod for killing j. McGrulney,
blacksmith.
The city council of Philadelphia has decided
to impeach Mayor Smith on charges of mall
teasance of Office.
From fifteen to twenty thousand Knights
Templars are in st. Louis in attendance upon
the triennial conclave.
Secretary Manning SAYS he has received no
offer in the Austrian mission, and would not
accept it if rendered him.
Martin Irons, the leader of the knights of
labor strike on the Missouri Pacific railroad,
last spring, was arrested in Kansas City.
Henry Hodlpp, well-known Cincinnati sa-
loon-keeper, died from the effects of beating
by two men to whom he refused drinks.
The treasury department has decided to
sleze the plates from which certain western
newspapers have printed representations of the
new ten-dOllar silver certificate
Thirty thousand visitors are in Boston this
week attending the Odd Fellows celebration.
According to reports of officers, the order in
1864, numbered in the whole world I37 ,263
members. To-day there are SIT 1910 members.
The order is prosperous in foreign countries.
The hearing of preliminary questions in the
case OF the United States V. the Bell Telephone
Company was begun Monday in the U. S. court.
Cincinnati, before Circuit Judge jackson and
District Judges Sage, of Cincinnati, and
Welcker, OF Cleveland. The purpose OF the
suit is to annul the Bell Telephone Company's
patent.
Judge Allen q. Thurman was serenaded by
the Thurman club at the Gibson House, Gin
cinnati, Monday night, and from the balcony
made brief and eloquent speech, in which he
remarked: "My friends, no one can say YOU are
worshiping rising sun. No, it is a setting
sun, low down in the horizon and fast disap-
pearin gforever. l shall never hold another
office, nor shall ever be candidate for Office
hence it will not be in my power to reward nv
friends or to punish my foes"
The production of pig iron during
July and August was greater than dur
Ing those months of any previous year.
The President and four members of
his Cabinet are absent from Washington,
and public business is practically at
StandStill.
Garrett W. Brown, druggist, of An
derson, Ind, took dose of belladonna,
supposing it dandelion extract, and is in
a dying condition.
Of the S15,OOO,OOO three percent.
bonds included in the forty-second call,
about 81, 100000 are held to secure Ma
tional Bank circulation.
About dozen cottages were destroy
ed by an incendiary fire at Johanna
Heights Methodist Campmeeting
Grounds, near Reading, Pa.
Joliet, H., was swept by a cyclone,
Saturday night. A dozen frame build
lngs were leveled to the ground, but not
a single person was fatally hurt.
c. B. Jones has offered his resignation
as Superintendent of the Xenia Orphans
Home. There are already seven or
eight candidates for the position.
Asher B. Durand, perhaps the oldest
American painter of note, died Friday
at his home in South Orange, n. J. He
was born in 1896 at Jefferson, n. J.
Republicans of the Twenty-frst Dis.
trict, at their Convention in Cleveland,
Saturday, nominated Hon. Amos Town
send for Congress on the first ballot.
Rumored that Secretary Lamar will
soon marry Mrs Holt, of Macon, Ga, a
widow of large fortune and mature
years, with whom he has been travelling
in Europe.
Sandusky, o, was without telephone
service Friday. Lightning struck the
exchange tower, setting it afire and
melting the four hundred and fifty
wires running into it.
Deputy Collector Douglas Smith, Ex-
amlnrr OF Malls In the New York Gus
tom bOuse, has been arrested, charged
with embezzling $1,000, the duty on I'M
ported books coming through the mails
Conflicting rumors are abroad con-
cerning the dissatisfaction of the heirs
with the provisions of the will of the
late Samuel J. Tilden. 1t is very prob
able from all reports that the will will
be contested.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, aged eighty-eightI
years, widow of Major Hall, who served
on General Sc0tt's staff during the Mex
ican war, committed suicide Sunday
by drowning herself in the |
Central Park Reservoir, New York.
The Charleston earthquake has had
the effect of making it almost impossi-
BILE to rent the upper stories of the high |
apartment houses in New York. Real |
estate men there estimate loss of |
100000 per year in rents from this
cause.
I had given myself up as lost because of
scrofula; tried everything for puri-
flying the blood without brnefit until used |
Parker's Tonic, and can truthfuily say that it |
has cured me; | still use it for its splendid |