Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-10-07
THE NEWS.

BARTLEY CAMPBELL, the play writer,
is hopelessly insane.
OCTOBER will be Railroad Day at the
Cincinnati Exposition.
PLEURP-PNEUsfoNIA is raging among
the cattle in Montgomery County, Pa.
NEAR Andalusia, Ala, three little
children were fatally bitten by rattle
snake.
HON. FRANK HURD, Democrat, was
renominated for Congress in the Toledo
District.
CHAs. F BAEDER, Philadelphia, largest
glue manufacturer in the country, died
Saturday.
FREDERICK ARGENTINE was fatally
injured by a vicious bull in field near
Waldo, Ohio.
GEORGE BIELEs. ex-policeman of Chill
licothe. suicided when on the verge of
delirium tremens.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR have selected
Washington, D. c.. as the place of next
Triennial Conclave.
DEATH of John B. Taylor, of Philadel-
phia, ex-President of Pennsylvania Rail-
way, is announced.
E. S. CLEVELAND, of Hartford, was
nominated Democratic candidate for
Governor of Connecticut.
Ex-PREsIDETT ARTHUR, since his ar
rival at home in New York from the sea
shore, has not been feeling so well.
AT Metropolis ILL.,, c. n. Jones. late
County Treasurer and Justice of the
Peace shot and killed Frank Burten.
A woRKINGMEN's club has been organ
ized at Springfield, o. for the support of
General Kenneday for Congress.
WEATHER WIZARD WIGGINs issues
an address in which he declares that he
never predicted earthquake disasters
the 10th.
w. o. THOMAS, editor Troy (O) Daily
News, has been arrested on a charge of
blackmail, preferred by 7. B. Townsend,
contractor.
GEORGE PRDPLE, aged ten, Cincin-
natti. found a railroad torpedo on the
tracks. His curiosity cost him the loss
of his right arm.
THE Dsmcats of the Eighth District
nominared J. II. S, Trainer, of Steuben+
vile, O., candidate for Judge of the Com
moa Pleas court,
D. R. WATSON. of Springfield, Ills,
Knight Templar at st. Louis COnclave,
was fatally stabbed in street light, Sat
urday morning, in st. Louis.
FRANK HURD, had sweeping victory
ih the Democratic primaries in the Tenth
Ohio District, and was nominated for
Congress at Clyde, Tuesday.
ADRoP from 81 80 to Sc 80 signalized
the collapse of a Chicago lard corner.
Successful lard corners in that city have
been exceptions to the rule.
VIM. E. Gould, the defaulting cashier of the
Portland First National Bank, has been COM
mitted to Jail in default of $4,000 bonds to
await the action of the grand jury.
B. J. CoNwELL, of Magnetic Springs,
was ridden on rail through the public
streets of Marion, o. He had alienated
the affections of another mans wife.
The Republican State Convention of Nevada
nominated G. G. Stevenson for Governor, H. G.
Davis for observation-disclosures and T. D. Ed
wards for Judge of the Supreme Court.
ALEX MANN, at one time known as
the Cattle King of Illinois, died at Paris,
that state. aged sixty eight years. Re-
Gently he lost all his wealth in specula-
ton.
AT the second National Convention
of Cigar Manufactures in Philadelphia a
resolution recommending the abolition
of the use of labor organization labels
was adopted.
The Forest City Rolling Mill, at Cleveland,
was destroyed by fire on Saturday The mill
was owned by William Clark & Co., of Pitts
burgh, and had been idle for nearly two years.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Gov. Larrabee, of Iowa, has issued procla-
nation forbidding the importation from the
State of Illinois of any cattle, unless the same
be accompanied by certificate from the State
Veterinary that the stock are free from conta-
gion.
Mr. Richard Butler, Secretary of the Ameri-
can Committee on Bartholdi's Statute of Lib
erty, announces that the 2Sth day of October
next has been decided upon by the Govern
ment aud the American committee for the in
auguration of the statue.
EDWARD SAvANCE, a nurse in the hos
pital of the Ohio Penitentiary, has made
affidavit of his personal knowledge of
the use of human skins taken from the
bodies of dead convicts to make canes.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was
felt in Patrick and Henry Counties, Vir'
ginia, Saturday morning about 2 o'clock
Persons were aroused from their slum-
bers. but no great scare or damage en-
sued. About 80 same evening slight
shock was experienced in Danville.