Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-03-25

Minnesota knights of labor have purchased
six hundred acres of land, and will establish
colony on the cooperative plan.
The secretary of the treasury has decided t,
issue a call for $lO,OOO,OO0 three-per-cent
bonds, the call to mature May l.
Three blocks of buildings, including the
fopera-house, were burned at Helena, Ark
The total loss is estimated at 100000.
Returns show gradual decline in the week
ly number of failures in this country, while il
Canada they increase as the spring advances.
The grand jury of Hamilton county has re-
commended an investigation of the management
Ex-senator J. B. Chaffee left will be.
queathing S5O0,00O to his daughter, Mrs. U. S
Grant, jr, and about 100000 to other rela.
tives.
James Fennessy, of Heuck's opera house
Cincinnati, has been bound over to the grand
jury for giving a theatrical performance OF
Sunday.
Frank Hurd expresses hope that when the
house comes to review the judgment of the
committee on his contest case that he will be
given the seat
Alderman Henry W. Jaehne, of New York
city, has again been put under lock and key
because of the indie tions that he was about to
leave the country.
There is prevalent impression that money
sent to Cuyahoga county, o., to carry the cleo
ton for Doodle Johnny iailed to reach its in
tended destination.
The inquiry into the causes of the sinking ol
the Oregon has establish that the blame is
with the company, through the gross negli-
gence of officers and crew.
The Republicans of Columbus met in con-
vention Saturday, nominated strong ticket,
and took decided stand in favor of hunting
down the tally-sheet forgers.
There are at present 4,40O inmates at the
Dayton soldiers home, twenty-four others are
On their way and 200 applicants have been no.
titled that there is room for them
The widow of GAINESVILLE man whose life
was insured for $4,000 refuses the money be-
cause she thinks that if her husband had not
been insured he would not have died.
Charles o. Scull, assistant general passenger
agent of the Panhandle road at Pittsburgh,
has resigned, and Frank Van Dusen, of Cincin-
natl, has been promoted to the vacancy.
The Farrar liquor bill for the taxation of the
liquor traffic is not likely to come up in the
Ohio senate very soon. A bill more favorable
to the liquor dealers has been prepared as a
substitute
st. George Best, of Cincinnati, has again
been arrested for sending circulars regarding
obscene publications through the mails. He
was recently pardoned out of the penitentiry
by President Cleveland.
The magnificent collection of art treasures
collected by Hon. John W. Bookwalter during
eight years of foreign travel, are on exhibition
at Springfield, o., for the benefit of the assOci-
ated charities of that city.
jeff Davis has accepted an invitation to de-
liver lecture at Montgomery, Ala, for the
benefit of the fund for a monument to be erec-
tad to tho namorv of AIahamo soId;arS ubo
were killed in the rebellion.
According to the annual report of the gov
ernment's bureau of labor seven and one-half
per cent. of the industrial establishments of
the country and nearly million working peo-
pie were idle during the year 1885.
A street-car strike was on in Columbus, O.,
on Thursday and Friday. A temporary COM
promise was effected and Saturday the cars
were running. The differences between the
company aud employees will be arbitrated.
The refusal of the senate to confirm the ap-
pointments of Governor Foraker will enable
the Democrats to retain for the present ma
jority of the managers and trustees of the most
important state, penal and benevolent institu-
tions. This, it is charged, has been done at the
OF the Doodle boss, who desires to
maintain his grip on these institutions for dis
honest purposes.
A meeting of l 200 representative Cincinnati
Germans was held in Turner Hall, Sunday, to
give emphasis to the memorial to be submitted
10 the Ohio general assembly for the repeal of
Sunday laws. 1t is expected that
signatures to the memorial to the legislature
will reach twenty thousand in Cincinnati alone.
The memorial, constitution and declaration of
principles of the league, ,were adopted with great
On the authority Of the governors ofMissOuri
and Kansas, the responsibility or blame for the
Missouri Pacific railroad strike lies with the
strikers, the railroad company having observed
its agreement. The chairman of the executive
committee of the assembly of knights of labor
which ordered the strike takes another view of
The matter, and declares that il the grievances |
are not settled within the next three days, the |
knights on every railroad will be called out, |
and every wheel be stopped.