Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-15
THE NEWS.

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rierS.
Among the mentioned to succeed
Judge Baxter, is G. D. Martin, of Lam
caster.
Lacrosse, Wis. has suffered a million
dollars fire, including heavy lumber
losses.
Six thousand coal miners on the Mon-
nongahela River threaten a strike on
May L.
In the council and school board of
Cincinnati the Republicans have streng
majorities.
The nail makers strike, lasting eight
months, appears to be on the eve of
settlement.
Thomas A. Thatcher, an aged Yale
professor, was found dead in bed We'd
nesday morning.
The House Committee on Coinage will
report favorably bill for sub-treasu-
ry at Louisville.
Richard Arnold, head of the New
York dry goods firm of Arnold, Consta-
ble & Co., is dead.
1t is charged that the Irish Land
League is used for Political purposes in
the city of New York.
Robert Phillips, wife murderer, was
hanged at Indianapolis. The cause Of
the crime was jealousy.
Apache prisoners captured by General
Crooks command have been started to
Florida for safe keeping.
Thirty persons were wounded in the
West Deerield, Mass, railroad disaster,
some of whom have since died.
Respectable Democrats in Washington
City are jubilant over the downing Of
the gang" in the Cincinnati election.
ARRANGEMENTS are making for Dwight
L. Moedy campaign at Chicago to sup
plement the work of Jones and Small.
Valuable pictures were burned and
pieces of statuary damaged ia fire in
the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
The new Cincinnati Board of Police
Commissioners have issued An order that
officers must pay their honest debt or be
dismissed.
DR.. B. H. Warner, of Baltimore, died
of hydrophobia, having been bitten by q
small wounded dog in the street that he
picked up to save.
The iron works at Florence, Wis.
were completely destroyed by fire Tues+
day night of last week. Loss $50, 1000;
insurance. S13,4OO.
The fire in the lumber district of La
crosse, Wis, on Tuesday of last week,
caused a total loss of S562, 900, with an
insurance of $4,000.
The orchestra for the Cincinnati May
Festival will number 102, of whom SO
are from New York and the remaining
nine from Cincinnati.
The steamer Mountain Boy was over
turned in a gale at OWenSooro, Ky.
Three persons were drowned, and Il
others were rescued.
The Cincinnati Exposition COmmis-
sioners refuse 70 discriminate against
exhibits offered by firms bOycotted by
the Trades Assembly.
Wm. Ellis, drunken wife beater at
st. Francis, Ark, fired Winchester rl>
fe, mortally wounding his wife and kill
ing child in Ter arms.
The different roads at st. Louis will
resume business as usual, managers be-
ing determined to protect their property
and employees at all hazards.
Democratic Congressman are eonsid-
ering with much anxiety the Republic
can gains as shown in the local elections
Ohio Tn6iansr and IliinniC
The ninety-eighth anniversary of the
settlement of the Northwest, at Marietta,
was celebrated by the Pioneer Assoeia-
tion of that place Wednesday.
The st. Louis Fair Association an
Bounces that the race for the Eclipse
Stake for $4,000 will be run on Monday,
June Z. Entries close April Is.
James E. Grogan, Enrolling Clerk of
the Ohio Senate, has been dismissed, aud
]. K. Oil, correspondent Of the Toledo
Bee, elected to fill the vacancy.
The American Tube Works of Middle
town, Pa, have been located at Youngs-
town, o. The mill will cost 100000
and the daily output will be $50 tons.
1t is seriously believed that the four
fraud Ohio Senators from Hamilton
county will be made to get out and le5
those honestly elected take their seats.
A government detective followed two
Cincinnati diamond merchants to Amr
sterdam and back, suspeeting Snug.
CLING. but nothing contraband was found.
The bill in the Ohio Legislature to i'm
pose penalty of 5000 on Assessors for
failure to assess property at its true
value in money will probably become a
law.
Gen. Grants tomb. at Riverside Park,
will be decorated on MsROrial Day.
Gen. Logan will be the orator of the &C
casion, which will be made a National
affair.
In the four Cincinnati wards, most in
famous for frauds in the election of last
October, there was loss of S.169 Demo
cratic votes, as shown in the election
last week.
In Kansas City, No, the Republicans
elected Henry C. Krumpf Mayor, and the
City Auditor, while the Democrats carry
all the other offices and elect two out Of
Aldermen.
The banged-tail horse in the Niehaus
statue of Gen. Lee, so severely criticised,
is excused with the statement that the
tail, originally long. sweeping one,was
broken off by accident.
The recent snow storm center was
near Buffalo. extending north into Cana
ia, and south covering Cleveland, De-
troit, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, and
south of the Ohio River.
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
yoked the order of Commissioner Sparks,
If the General Land Office, of April 5,
1885. suspending final action upon en-
ries upon the public lands.
The Senatorial Committee will prOba-
)ly not be ready to report in less than