Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04
THE NEWS.

The Terre Haute iron works have resumed
business.
Two good oil and gas wells have been struck
ut Lima, o.
The food in the San Joaquin river, Califor-
MIA, is serious.
1t is reported that the MOrmons may colOnize
on the Sandwich Islands.
DR.. A. B. Brubaker, on trial at Wapakoneto
for murder, has been acquitted.
The mortality in Indiana was about one
thousand less in 1885 than in 1884.
Two farmers have recently died near Terre
Haute, Ind, of gangrene from frezen feet.
Hon. David R. Atkinson, ex-U. S. senator,
died at st. Joseph, No, aged seventy-nine.
The unpleasantness between the President
and the Q. S. senate concerning appointments
continues.
The state house at indianapolis will proba
bly, be completed far enough by January, 1887,
to accommodate the legislature.
Resolutions will be resented in the Ohio
legislature regarding preparations for the pro-
posed state centennial exposition.
Lieutenant Governor Kennedy has been
given, by Cincinnati admirer, a miniture
gavel of solid gold for watch charm.
The supreme court of Missouri has settled a
number of contested election cases in st. Louis
by prohibiting the circuit court from trying
them.
Two boys named Curtis and Hall, of Mari
eta, Ohio, were fired upon and injured by a
negro in Florida One of the boys killed their
assailant.
Some northwestern men, forming pool, are
said to be arranging to develope a rich gold
field recently discovered in the Republic of
Honduras.
The Wheeling, W. Va, Register has been
sued for libel-damages $l0,000-for publish
ing sensational story about young woman
named Elsa Nixon.
The Cincinnati Sun, under its new owner
ship and management, is to be of straight Dem
ocratic persuasion, and will support Mr.. Cleve-
lands administration.
Democrats were expecting bloodshed in the
Ohio senate Monday of last week. Their mem
bers were armed, and there was large mob of
armed Democrats in the lobby.
The family of Jacob Lutzenheiser, near North
Manchester, Ind, were made seriously i'll by
an unknown scoundrel who mixed rat poison
with sausage of which they ate
A rolling g-mill at Youngstown, O., idle for a
year and started up Monday of last week, was
burned Tuesday morning; loss, $4,000. Two
huIdred men are thrown out of employment.
Friends of George Foster, the burglar who
was shot and killed at Cleveland by Officer
Corner, are accused of the dastardly attempt to
blow up the policeman's house with dynamite.
The jury in the trial of General Alex. Shaler,
at New York, failed to agree.
The body of Jacob W Thornau, an actor,
was cremated at Lancaster, Pa.
General Hazen defends the signal service
against charges of Irregularities in accounts.
Harry Werman, of Fostoria, O., was killed
while playing with a dynamo at the electric
| light works.
A sleet-storm on Thursday played havoc
with trees and telegraph wires in portions of
Massachusetts.
John B. Mccoy, Louisville sport,was found
murdered Thursday morning. 1t was supposed
he was assassnated for money.
Captain Emmett Crawford, of Gen. Crooks
cavalry, was killed by Mexicans, who mistoOk
his party for hostile Indians.
Mrs. Fred. Kneier, who engaged in several
dances at the Beckel House, Dayton, O., Thurs
day night, swoomed away, and soon died of
heart disease.
H. Herman, Hungarian Rabbi at GAINESVILLE,
has filed charges against several of his parish
toner's for violently assaulting him in the
synagogue.