Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15
THE NEWS.

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Paul b. Hayne, the southern poet, is dead.
a self-binding reaper was burned by incen-
diaries near Wabash, Ind.
P. J. Creger was ambushed and killed by
Ku-klux near Mt. Vernon, Ky.
The Republicans of Missouri will hold their
next state convention at Sedalia, Sept. l.
A Pittsburgh dispatch says the prospects for
the iron industry are now better than for four
years.
The saloon-keeper's society of Cincinnati is
moving against those who sell beer at cents
a glass.
Martin Conklin, planning mill proprietor, of
Lancaster, O., was killed by being caught in
machinery.
The damage to the northwestern wheat crop
by drouth is estimated from twenty-five TO
thirty per cent.
Two thoroughbred fillies from the Fleetwood
stables of Frankfort, KY, have been sold for
shipment to Japan.
The police commissioners of Cincinnati will
probably close at once the assignation houses
and concert halls in the city.
Some of the towns in Missouri are closing
up the saloons under the law prohibiting sales
of liquor in less quantities than one gallon.
Business men of Indianapolis, disgusted with
the bad mail service under the new administra-
ton, are sending important letters by express
Arms have been procured at Columbus with
which law-abiding citizens of Darbyville, Ohio,
NAV protect themselves from the lawless ele-
ment there.
The city council of Manchester, O., voted to
close the saloons. The action is due to saloon
keepers refusing to obey the 8 o'clock and
Sunday closing ordinances.
Calvin s. Beard, of Princeton, Mo-, passen-
ger with his family, cut his throat on Cinein-
natl, Indianapolis, ST. Louis and Chicago train,
near Indianapolis, Thursday.
The West Virginia Republicans are going to
make hopeful and aggressive campaign this
fall. This tariff will be their lever TO lift the
state out of the Bourbon rut.
The brotherhood of postal clerks have pre-
pared a reply the Postmaster General Villas,
asking for the reasons for their removal, and
denying any intention of Obstructing the service.
1t is estimated that the cost of the strike
against the Gould railroads was 100000 to the
knights of labor order, 81 900 in wages TO
the strikers, and So, 100000 to the railroad
companies.
Amos Bish, of Miami county, Ind, died in
the state insane asylum, near Indianapolis. In
vestigation indicates that his death was caused
by violence. Efforts we apparently made to
conceal the manner of his death.
The cotton crop report for the Memphis dis
trict shows that there has been too much wet
weather, and the conditions are not so good as
last year, though with favorable weather hence
forth an average yield may be secured.
The Prohibitionists of Minnesota have placed
state ticket in the field The party in Alabama
split into two factions, and each will have a
ticket. The Republicans of the latter state have
ticket headed by Arthur Bingham for governor.
Ex-Alderman Chas B. Waite, of New York,
informer against the notorious board of alder
men of 1884, has, by his own request, been put
under lock and key to protect him from annoy
ance by persons approaching him regarding the
trials.
The Rural New Yorker, from 1000 reports,
figures out the wheat crop of this country at
455, ,000,0 900 bushels against 357 100000. The
oat crop will fall under last years yield. The
potato crop is heavy, and there is fine pros
pect for corn.
In dismissing the case of the anarchists in
st. Louis, Judge NoOnan said this government
was strong enough, at any rate, and there was
no use in inspiring timidity by paying attention
to the vaporings of few men who held peculiar
views on social and political questions.
The order of Cincinnatus, of Cincinnati, will
present this year by way of public entertain
ment series of tableaux representing the fall
of Babylon. There will be no street pageant.
The tableaux will be given in an amphitheater
to be erected on the Cincinnati base ball
grounds.
A meeting of Republican editors was held at
Columbus, o., Thursday. There were sixty-fye
present. Telegrams indorsing the object of the
meeting were received from many absent ones.
A memorial to the U. S. senate was adopted,
earnestly requesting an investigation of the
PAYNE case, also an address to the senate and
izing as the Republican Editorial Association
OF Ohio, the meeting Adjourned to call on Gov
ernor Foraker at his Office, where remarks were
made by the Governor, Mr.. Halstead and Others
Representative VIM. Il. Cole, of the third
Maryland district, died Thurday at his residence
in Washington City, in 49th year of his age.
DR.. Cole, as he was commonly known, has been
a sufferer from Bright's disease for several years
past and his demise was not entirely unexpect
ed. He had been unable to attend the meet
ings Of the house, of which he was member,
except once or twice during the present session.
The deceased leaves a wife, but no children.
DR.. Cole was born in Baltimore. His father /
was prominent a Democratic politician, who
educated his son for the legal profession. In
bis early manhood he went to Texas, where he
was at the breaking out of the late war, and
joined the Confederate forces from that section.
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