Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-11
THE NEWS.

The municipal row at St. Louis COM
tinues.
Senator Miller. of Califoraia, has near
ly regained his usual health.
There is an intimation that Congress
will not adjourn until August.
The Ohio Governors Guard will or
gauize battery with Gattling guns.
There are no developments in the Sem
aterial situation at Columbus.
The last chapter of the second volume
of Mr.. B.aine's book Was finished few
days ago,
A bill will soon be introduced in the
Ohio Legislature providing for Board
of Pardons.
Twelve crooked distiIleries have been
destroyed In Oyerton county, Tenn, by
U. s. Revenue agents.
Mrs. Richard Jenkins, Of unsousd
mind, living near Urbana, Ohio. was
burned to death by her clothing taking
fire.
Jacob Niesz, farmer near Canton. o.,
was killed in his stable, last week, by a
savage bull.
John Kelly, of New York, is recover
ing from his bad case of nervous dyspep-
sia.
The great strike in the Pennsylvanis
coke regions is likely to cause small
coke famine.
There is diversity of opinion on the
bill to abolish the intermediate Penlten-
tiary of Ohio.
Smallpox is still spreading at varions
places in Canada. Dipbtheria and scar
latina are prevalent at Montreal
Boiling Parker, of NaHsemond county,
Virginia, murdered his wife and sister
with an axe. Supposed insane.
Orson K. Whitlock. a wealthy farmer
of Riohland, Mich, stabbed himself
through the heart with a butcher knife.
An alleged teacher in water colors
who has swindled ladies in Cincinnati
and other cities has been arrested at
Pittsburgh.
killed bis wife and another woman, will
recover from his self-inficted wounds.
Joseph Hulsemeyer, charged with
killing his brother at Robinson's box
factery, Cincinnati, last August, has
been acquitted.
Edison's new invention for telegraph
ing from moving railway trains was
tested Tuesday, and it is claimed the re-
suits were satisfactory.
An insurance case is on trial at Chica-
go to test the question whether suicide
Is An accident and an accident insurance
policy can be collected thereon.
The Narional encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be
held in San Francisco, Tuesday, August
8, 1886.
The Cincinnati Municipal Reform As
socia. ion has been disbanded and turned
over its cash balance. to the Committee
of One Hundred.
Valentine Keyser, a Wabash, Ind,
farmer. living alone. was found in the
burned ruins of his house, and the theo>
ry is that he was murdered.
A gathering of Republican politicians
of National prominence is promised at
the banquet of the Michigan Club at
Detroit, February %.
a company has been incorporated to
build railroad In West Virginia from
Ripley. jackson county. to the Ohio Riv-
er Rrilroad, near the mouth of Mill
Creek.
The Ohio Society eff New York assem-
bled last week in the first regular meet
ing since the permanent erganizAt alton.
The society has enrolled many distin-
guishsd names.
A bill has been prepared iRstructing
the Secretary of the Treasury to call in
and REDEEM SI0OO0.0O0 worth of the in
tsrest bearing bonds of the Uaited States
each moath, until the surplus cash in
the Treasury shall be reduced to $780,
O0O. 900. the amount set aside by him as
greeRbsck reserve,