Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-11

be mustered to clear the snow off the
!. sidewalks.
Col. Elliott, of Hamilton, o. has been
appointed Swamp-fand Agent, and or
dered to the Interior Department at
Washington March /.
The remains of Mrs. Bsyard, wife of
the Secretary, were consigned to the
family vault at Wilmington, Del, Tues
day of last week. The Obsequies were
very simple
The solution Of a murder mystery at
Nashville is to the effect that Frank
ArHold was killed by relatives to get SO
acres of land which he owned.
AT sale of trotting horses at Lexing-
ton. Ky, 55 head were sold for S19,765,
an average of nearly $3.50. Boston
Wilkes, 4-year old stallion, sold for
81. 600.
Lima, o, has a new gas we'll that
yields. when not furnishing gas, about a
hundred barrels of oil day. A num-
Der of other wells are being pumped for
from fifty to hundred barrels day.
The Grand Army of the Republic Wo-
mans Exchange of Cincinnati is to be
turned into stock company, with shares
at ten dollars each.
Messrs. Zukertort and Steinitz have
begun their chess wrestling match for
the worlds championship, at st. Louis.
to which point all eyes are turned.
At Connellsville. Pa. twenty miners
in the coke strike we're turned out of
/ knir ir1fN efA h,-f fhn
companies. but were received Into the
families of other strikers.
| At Dillon's Falls, near GAINESVILLE, B.
& o. freight train ran into another in
advance Conductor Charles Sisk was
fatally injured, and number of other
trainmen were hurt.
Pension Commissioner Black draws a
pension of 500 month and salary of
81, 900 a year, while some poor old SOL
diers employed in the department can
not get the eight dollars a month to
which they are entitled.
A veteran French soldier who served
in number of bloody battles under the
great Napoleon, is saving wood for his
daughters family near Batavia, o. He
is over ninety years old and his name is
Louis Christman.
The Ohio Republican League, in pro-
cess of organization. proposes a State
Convention of local clubs every year im.
mediately after the State Convention,
every club in the Lc.gue to have an
equal voice tn the elec,i7n of officers.
All Republican clubs in good sta nding
are entitled to membership.
Ex.Cemptroller of the Currency Can
non, speaking on the silver question,
saws: 81 have always felt that We were
coming too many silver dollars. The
people did not want them. The Sher-
man bill is omarOmise between the
silver and anti-silYer men. 1t was not
put forth AS a sensation, but to call
forth discussion.
The credit for the removal of the corr
rupt Police Commissioners Of Cincin-
natl is given to th- charge of the noble
One Hundred, and the committee fellows
up the triumph with a proposed law for
a non-partisan police force, a citizen sol
diery of honorable record and reputable
ambition.
Gov. Foraker has removed the three
Police Commissioners of Cincinnati, thus
abolishing the Board. The Mayor is ex-
pected, as custodian of the peace to take
charge of the police force until new Com
missioners are elected in the spring, or
until the head of the department is de-
fined by new legislation.
A young man named Edward Cowles
was arrested at Newburg, n. Y, charged
with forgery, and taken to his home in
Cleveland. 1t is stated that he has
squandered his mothers fortune, e,ameunt-
ing to over 100000, intrusted to his
management.
Six men were drowned in the Hudson
River at New York by ting running
down long boat of an Austrian man.
of-war. Among the lost is brilliant
Young midshipman, who recently grad
uated with highest honors in the Naval
Academy at Fiume.
The Ohio penitentiary managers turn
ed eighteen convicts loose last week.
F. d. Harkrader, editor of the Ger
mantOwn CO., Express, has been declared
insane.
A cattle barn burned near Troy, O.,
] duu ". H. W. DgC iOSb 0oIU VI SlAty-
eight blooded Jerseys.
A silver mine is said to have been
struck near Chillicothe. and citizens "are
wild with excitement"
The heavy snow storm in the South
delayed not only the stage coaches, but
laid out some of the railroad trains.
The Ohio State Archaeological and His
torical Society will hold its annual meet
| ing at Columbus, Feb. 1S and 10.
| 1t seems that floating debt of about
100000 must soon be provided for or the
Cincinnati Geological Gardens will be
closed.
The East Tennessee Wesleyan Upiver-
sity at Athens, Tennessee, has been
changed in name to the Grant Memorial
University.
Ex+Policeman John r. Evans is out
in an interview giving some interesting
particulars of the attempts made by POI
lice Commissioners, the Cincinnati En-
quirer Office and others to keep him silent
regarding the bogus tickets given him
by Commissioner Hawkins, at the En-
uirer Office, % snlistii ute for ballots
Regularly cast in the October election.