Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-01-28
NEWS In BRIEF.


reported a genuine case of glanders.
. The largest American cannon throw
a l,S00 pound ball.
OF the $500 school teachers in Ne
braska, 1900 are women.
Ruth and Boaz are the names of tive
postoftices in Corysli county, Texas.
There are 10 foreign born members Of
the present National House of Repre-
sentatives.
New Years day four years hence viii
begin the year 1890 with total eclipse
of the sun.
A whistle used on the stage by j
Wilkes Booth, assassin, is kept as an odd
relic by Bostonian.
| A Massachusetts, nan has invented q
machine which he says will tie square
knot. hitherto regarded by inventors as
beyond the power Of machinery.
A baboon on Staten Island is a con.
firmed beer drinker, and often gets hi.
larious on it-makes man OF himself,
as it were-but will not tolerate the mu-
sic of band in his vicinity if he can
prevent it.
The Missouri Cremation Society has
four hundred members, 25 Of whom are
women.
Henry Lloyd has been elected Gover>
nor cf Moryland, and A. P. German U. S.
Senator.
a steamer arrived at New York with
fire in the hold that had been shoulder
ing for nine days.
Charles J. Canda has been nominated
by the President for Assistant Treasurer
at New York.
The effort to organize Hendricks
Monument Fund ComHittes in Cincin-
nall has thus far failed.
Amusement business in Chicago is as
it is in q number of other cities-bad,
judged from financial standpoint.
Some mysterious New York party has
sent the government treasury at Wash
ington 81, 500 conscience money
The undertaken of the Grant funeral
has received $500 from the War de
partment as part payment of his bill for
over $4,000.
The Hamilton county (O) grand jury
has indicted Nat Goodwin, the actor, for
appearing in theatrical performance On
Sunday.
Governor Lees newspaper organ at
Petersburg, Va, publishes an article vir-
tually advocating the reputation of the
State debt.
The University of Michigan has rer
ceiyed the first installmeRt of the works
of art donated by Randolph Rogers,
sculptor. of Rome, Italy.
President Cleveland is reported to be
Influenced against ex-Gev. Crittenden, of
Missouri, by belief thai there is gen
eral impression that CrIjtenden conspir
ID with the Ford bo,s to assassinate
Jesse James, the outlAw
Murphy, the temperance revivalist,
has secured ever Eve Thousand names to
the pledge among the mill men and oth+
ers at Youngstown. o.
The n. s. House Committee minority
report on the bill for the relief of Fitz
John Porter has b. IN presented. 1t ar
CUES against the passage of the bill.
There are intiu,atlons of a mammoth
wheat corner, arranged by Chicago spec
ulatOrs. The belief is that the price of
wheat cannot go much lower.
Edwin Stevens has been elected Presi-
dent of the Cincinnati Board of Exposi
tion Commissioners for the year 1886.
The guarantee fund has reached $4,000.
Clerk Vallandigham, who attempted to
run the Ohio Senate, both as member
on the floor and as presiding officer, was
severely sat down upon by the President
in the midst Of scene.
The labor troubles In the Pennsylva-
MIA coke regions continue to be serious.
Three hundred strikers, armed with all
kinds of weapons, are rowing about, at
tacking all who do not join with them.
Secretary Manning has appointed an
inspector of materials for public build |
ings whose record at Washington is no. |
toriousIy crooked, going back as far as
1858. The Secretary has also appointed
a Philadelphia house painter to be in
spectOr of ocean vessels.
Nine thousand New York cigar maxi
ers are idle on strike. Throughout the |
country there are about 1900 members
Of the association, and there are funds |
to sustain the strike for perhaps six |
months. The Unien pays striking mem
bers five dollars week.
Regarding the man whom the Police
Commissioners of Cincinnati have been
for months paying a regular salary AS
patrolman without assigning him to duty |
it is said he WAS paid for his services as
a good Democrat, Clerk Dalton furnish
ing the funds, and the clerk of the Po>
lice Commissioners acting as agent for
their disbursement
THERE are charges of more than ordi-
nary Importance before the Senate Cont
mittee on Finance against the coDfrma-
fiOn IF n L Pra1lau G,llook |