Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-29
THE NEWS.

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Rev. DR.. ha Ballentine, Bloomington, Ind.
died suddenly, aged seventy-seven years.
) Several men engaged in hoycotting Mrs
Gray's bakery, in New York, have been ar.
rested.
Coal miners of the Mahoning valley are ex
pected to make demand for higher wage.
soon.
Strikers again prevented, last Thursday, the
Chicago.
Chattanooga has just turned out its first lot
of Bessemer steel, manufactured from North
Carolina ore.
The body of DR.. Benjamin R. Eggemann, an
aged physician of Detroit, was iucinerated in
the Buffalo crematory.
Important legislation in the U. s. house is
being delayed by the crowd OF measures of all
kinds on the calendar
The strike of B. & o. switchmen at Chicago
has been compromised. The Lake Shore
strikers still stand out.
John r. Bender (Democrat) has been ap-
pointed and confirmed chief clerk of the Gin
cinnati police department
year ago the total stock of wheat at Chi
cago was two million bushels larger than now,
and prices nine cents higher.
Miss Louisa Mann, of Painfeld, N. j., blind
for twenty years, is claimed to have recovered
her sight through the faith cure
Lena Ruth, st. Louis servant girl, at
tempted to fill the tank of burning gasoline
stove, and was burned to DEATH
Broker G. P. Morosini of New York, will
take his daughter, bitten in the face by dog,
to Paris for treatment by DR.. Pasteur.
A call is out for meeting of Indiana liquor
dealers at Indianapolis, May 6, to take action
for resisting the proposed high license.
Stephen N. Clifford, veteran clerk in the
Massachusetts state senate. is dead, after
twenty-nine years of service, aged 20 years.
joint resolution has been offered in the
Ohio senate to authorize the publication in
book form of Ohio's record in the war of 1912.
The German press of Cincinnati, Republican
and Democratic, protests against the nomina-
tion ly the president of John c. Riley for post
master.
Mr.. Florus P. Plimption, for many years
leading editorial writer on the Cincinnati Com
mercal and the Commercial Gazette, died on
fhursdey last.
Chief Justic Waite presided at the sixty
fourth anniversary of the birth of Gen. Grant,
at the Metropolitan NJ E. church, Washington,
Tuesday evening.
AT Fairland, Ind, in quarrel over a game
of pool, N. F. Anderson struck Press Cochran
on the head with billiard cue, killing him.
Anderson escaped.
The Ohio house has passed bill designed
to protect innocent people from grain or seed
swindles, such as the Bohemian oats and red
line wheat enterprises.
Several of Lorillard's race horses were sold
last week, including Thackeray, that defeated
Miss WOOdford and other great racers, the
price paid for him being $4,000.
Three banks of Harrisburg, Pa, have lost
ST, 900 through forged notes presented by Miss
Priscilla B. Mcclure, of that city, who has al
ways figured in the best society.
Mrs. Mary S. Campbell, mother of the late
Hen. L. D. Campbell, died on Thursday last at
Franklin, o. She celebrated her hundredth
birthday on the Doth of last March.
The senatorial committee, which has been
investigating the frauds in the election at Gin
cinnati last October have disagreed on party
lines, and two reports will be submitted.
An appeal has been sent out addressed 10
Knights of Labor, trades unions and the public
generally, asking for financial contributions to
aid the strikers on the southwestern roads.
| The wheat market is Chicago last Thursday,
showed a sudden advance. Some dealers think
the upward turn is only temporary, while others
think the price will naturally go up to dollar.
East Lee. Mass, was inundated by the burst
ing of reservoir dam. The bodies of eleven
drowned persons have been recovered. Other
persons are missing Much live stalk and other
property were lost.
The executive committee of the Irish Ma
tional League of America has issued a circular
calling upon all the branches to Immediately
organize citizens meeting, and pass resolutions
expressive of American sentiment in support
of Gladstone and Parnell.
I The first days auction sale of choice seats
for the Cincinnati May Festival was very sue
cessful, premiums ranging from 800 downward.
The total sales of the day were 1884 and she
average premium ($543) was higher than any
days sale for previous festival.
John Long, colored, died last Sunday week
near Milford, O., aged 119 years. Long was
born on the James river, Virginia, and at the
siege of Yorktown, when he was boy of IA,
he attended his young master, Major William
Byrd, jr., who was on Gen. Washington's staff.
In the Kentucky senate, Mr.. Feland offered
joint resolution appropriating $4,000 to erect
a monument over the remains of Gen. James
S. jackson in the HOpkinsville cemetery. 1t
lies over. Jackson was an ex-congressman
and Federal general killed at the battle of
Perryville.
The Ohio tax revision commission has found
a number of frauds committed in Cincinnati.
Persons connected with the listing of property
have in many instances raised the amount of
property returned by tax payers, and then of
Tered to have the forged valuation reduced for