Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08
THE NEWS.

in anticipation of voting on liquor ordinance
The city council of Gallipolice, O., has or
dered street lighting by gas to be discontinued.
The withdrawal from New York in two days
Of s., ,500,000 in gold is causing much comment.
John B. Peaslee was elected president at the
Ohio teachers association, meeting at Chautas-
qua.
Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, was in
vested with the scarlet beretta, Wednesday, and
is cardinal. o
The Ohio supreme court, without passing
upon the dow liquor case, has adjourned until
September 20.
At Dover, n. H., George ". Varney, while
acting as pall-bearer at funeral, fell dead OF
heart disease.
Chas Hess is on trial in Cincinnati, charged
with soliciting a bribe while member of the
board of equalization.
According to the vote on governor last year
Ohio has fourteen Republican congressional
districts and seven Democratic.
The adjournment of the Ohio supreme court
without passing on the Dow liquor law has put
the liquor tax collection in statu quo.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania have NOM
mated General James A. Beaver for governor,
and William 7. Davis for ieutenant-governor.
George Rossman, a prominent farmer OF
Salem township, Wyandot county, Ohio, fired
his residence and outbuildings and hanged him
self.
J. AsL. Wilson, secretary and treasurer OF
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, !
is said to be defalter to the extent of $5O0 900
or 100000.
| The appeal of Mrs. Roxanna Drusc, convicted
of the murder of her husband in Herkimer Co.
N. Y, has been refused, and she will be re-
sentenced to death.
There is talk of an independent Democratic
candidate for congress in the sixteenth Ohio
district to oppose Beriah Wilkins, who is said
| to have used Doodle.
The revenue of Mexico the fiscal year will
show an increase of 10 TO 15 per cent, and the
prospect fer re-establshing the national credit
is very encouraging.
The jury in the case of Chas Hess, of Cincin-
nati charged with soliciting bribe while a
member of the board of equalization, returned
a verdict of not guilty.
The July crop report of the Ohio state board
of agriculture makes good showing, though
not so favorable compared with the average for
| several years, as expected.
Mrs. Sarah Brown recently celebrated her
one hundreth birthday near Camden, o. She
has been an active member of the Quaker
church for over eighty years.
John Hume and James E. Neal, of Hamil- !
ton, O., would like to go to congress, but it is |
said that Mr.. Campbell will be reneminated by |
the Democrats without opposition.
William Smith, assistant secretary of the |
treasury, has rendered his resignation, and the |
president will send In the name of Hugh Thomp- |
son, governor of South Carolina, as his sue
cessor.
Rev: E. R. Jones, of Caldwell, O., Metho-
dist minister, who is charged with committing
an abortion on Miss Mary Ward, has been sus-
pended from duty, and church trial has been
ordered.
The jury in the case of Robert Schilling,
knight Of labor organizer at Milwaukee, who was
tried on the charge of boycotting a cigar firm,
failed to agree upon verdict and he was dis
charged.
A remarkable number of Democratic con.
gressmen announce their intention to close out
their public careers with the present session.
Among them is the prevailing idea that the
next house will be Republican.
Captain A. S. Bushnell, of Springfield O.,
refuses to be candidate for congress in the
eighth district, and pleads pressing business
duties. 1t is conceded that General Keifer will
be an active candidate for the nomination.
The government guard has been withdrawn
from Garfeld's tomb at Lakeview cemetery,
Cleveland, and the remains removed to the
public vault, where they will rest until placed
in the rotunda of the monument erected in his
honor.
DR.. Amos N. Bellinger, who killed Stephen
Reilly, prominent colored Democrat, Charles
ton, 5. c., in October, 1885, has been acquit-
led of the charge of murder, after second trial,
continuing three days.
The population of Chicago, as indicated by
the new directory, is over 100000 The devel-
opement of the business and building features
OF the city in the year is reported to have ex-
decided any other like period. An increase ofl
$4,000 in the population is shown over last
year.
The northern portion of Rockcastle county.
ky., has band of KuKlux which is causing
great alarm by whipping men and women, and
ordering them to leave their homes. One old
man whose family was threatened wandered
away and was found in the woods dead whether
from self-hanging or by murder is MOI vet
known.
The New York Evening Post edtorially SAYS.
dispatch from Cincinnati on nego-
tio1 for the sale of the Enquirer: ''The news
that the Cincinnati Enquirer is in the market,
and that it has had hard work to find a pur-
chaser because of its general bad reputation, is
a piece of welcome intelligence to everybody
who believes in reputable journalism.
Mr.. P. D. Armour, of Chicago, is reported as
saying: sour trade in meat was never so large
in our history as it is now. Our travelling men
IRE getting back for the month, and never had
such large business before. In meats, hams
and stripped pork the demand is phenomenal
We are selling twice as much at those prices as
when pork was IS 50 barrel The merchants
ire feeling good, and are much more inclined
20 buy with the market going up"
A law and order league, with its present
nucleus in st. Louis, is said to be reaching out
Is national organization, having spread in
Missouri, Illinois and Iowa, and reached Min.
lesOta, Michigan, New York and Maryland
legion of honor men, massOns and knights oil
abor are reported to be taking an interest in
he movement. The present membership is
,iyen at seventeen thousand. The prevention
# labor riots and other unlawful outbreaks is
aid to be the prime object of the league
A riot occurred at Darbyville, O., Thursday.
The trouble originated in the marshal mpound-
ng live stock found running at large. citi-
ems barn was burned, and arrests were made
The mayor was waylaid at night and severely r