Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
THE NEWS.

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Mr.. Morrison is preparing a new tariff bill.
DR.. Hammond, an old citizen of Steubenville,
is dead.
Secretary Manning's condition is reported
as much improved.
A gold mine is said to have been discovered
near Lexington, Ind.
The case of Judge David Davis, of Illinois, is
pronounced hopeless.
Three thousand acres of wheat were destroy
ed by fire near Modesto, Cal.
The preliminary hearing of the Electric
case will be held in Cincinnati.
A wind and rain-storm caused great destruc-
ton in interior Texas Saturday night.
Henry Ward Beecher has sailed for England
where he will lecture. He'll return in October,
Jacob Swingley, of Creston, ILL.,, crazed by
grief and sickness, killed his little daughter
and himself.
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the Haymarket riot and murders in Chicago,
began Monday.
A test of freight car brakes and other rail-
way contrivances will be held at Burlington,
Iowa, July, 13.
The average daily production of the Lima, o.
oil field is about fifteen hundred barrels for the
fourty-fOur wells.
Henry Zody, wealthy farmer living near
Toledo, Ohio, committed suicide by blowing out
his brains with rifle.
Three per cent government bonds to the
amount of S4000,000 have been called, the call
maturing August L.
Two thousand persons signed the temperance
pledge at UrbaRa, O., as a result of the recent
meeting of Francis Murphy.
Henry Boiling, Licking county, O., murderer,
sentenced to be hung next Friday, has been
granted a respite until August 81.
The corn outlook in the states of Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois
and Indiana is almost uniformly good.
Colonels Entrekins and Hurst and Senator
Pugsley are candidates for congress in the 18th
Ohio district, with the latter in the lead.
Investigation by the trustees Of the Ohio
state reform farm fails to sustain the charges
of mismanagement against the superintendent.
There are "splits" in five Democratic con-
gressionBl districts in Indiana, and the Repub-
icans hope to gain two of the districts at least.
Mrs. Hannah NJ. Ladd, whose little daughter
was spirited away and secreted by her divorced
husband, recovered her from convent at Titus
vile, Pa.
President Cleveland writes that he will pro-
badly be present at the opening of the Cincin-
natl exposition, or some time during its con-
tinuence.
Archibald Forbes, the English war cores
pondent, was married in Washington Saturday,
the 18th, to Miss Louisa Meigs, daughter of
General Meigs.
George Van Fleet, brother of Martin Van
Fleet, the defaulting treasurer of Huron county,
O., was arrested at Norwalk and taken to Clevs-
land on charge of forgery
Hon. L, A. Brunnea, editor of the Advertiser,
Tiffin, O., died suddenly Of heart disease Mon
day, aged sixty-two years. He served several
terms in the Ohio legislature.
Two brothers named Williams attempted to
open powder keg with pick near Youngs
town, o. They were both very seriously injur-
ed by the explosion that followed.
A market special from New York says every
one is beginning to note an improvement in
general business. The movement of wheat for
export promises to continue to increase
j. Harris Rogers, inventor of the Pan-Elec-
trict telephone, has brought suit against Attor-
ney General Garland, Senator Harris and others
for the recovery of large amount of money.
Winfield Buckler, a promising young lawyer
of Paris, KY, and Democratic candidate for
judge of the supreme court, has become violent
ly insane, and was taken to the Lexington
asylum.
Among candidates for the Ohio supreme
court are Judges Knowls, of Marietta; Dick
man, of Cleveland; Haynes, of Dayton; Will
liams, of Washington c. H.; Cox of Cincinnati,
and Clement Bates, also of Cincinnati
John Taylor, farm hand, was stung on the
wrist by blowing viper, a venomous snake,
several days ago, near Newark, 0. Since then
he has suffered numerous violent paroxysms,
his disease somewhat resembling hydrophobia.
Among the fifteen vetOes sent by the presi-
dent to the senate Monday were two disapproy-
ing bills to appropriate $3.50, ,009 each for public
buildings at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, and Sioux City,
Iowa. The veto of the GAINESVILLE causes much
unpleasant comment.
1t is believed that matters have gone so far
that the senate cannot avoid an investigation
of the Pay.ie bribery case. Immense amounts
of Doodle appear to have been used. Oliver
Payne and John r. Mclean are each charged
with contributing and handling 100000.
The New England institute fair building in
Boston, used for storing and repairing street
cars, burned Monday. The structure originally
Dost $500, 900 and was sold last winter for $500,
900. Eight men lost their lives, including four
Of the 81 workmen employed in the building. J