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

lne remains OF MILTON flSOer, OF CO>
lumbus, o, we're cremated at Pittsburg.
The st. Pasrick's Day parade in Gin
cinnati was favored was delightful
weather, and the display was good.
David Strong, aged 68, was choked to
death at Midway, o, by his false teeth
lodging in his throat.
The Governments suit against the
Bell Telephone Company was fled at
Columbus, o, Friday.
Gov. Foraker has nominated G. Fl.
Grosvenor, of Athens, as Trustee of the
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home.
Horsemen representing Ohio Indiana
and Michigan associations have formed
the Ohio, Indiana and Michigan Racing
Circuit.
The appointment of John 81. Oberly.
of Illinois, a machine politician. to be
Civil Service Commissioner, is causing a
broad smile.
Railroad engineers claim that the
color-blind law of Ohio is too nice in its
distinctions as to shades, whereas only
three coloIs are used in signals.
James F. Baker, of Franklin county,
@, has received lump of pension ar
rearages amounting to over S1l 900. He
isas been psralyzed since 1864.
- Cincinnati liberal Germans. organized
a gainst the Law and Order League, have
petitioned the Ohio League, have pc
titioned the Ohio Legislature for meast
ures for the thorough revision of the
Sunday laws.
The Cincinnati Democratic Conven>
ton will be held at the Bellvue House
Thursday, 25th inst.
The sunken steamship Oregon will
probably be blown up in the hope af al
lowing the cargo to be fished up. She is
so deep as to make diving operations
difficult.
The Ohio Senate is developing disposi-
tion to adjourn soon.
President Cleveland was forty nine
years old Thursday.
A large amount OF gold has been or
dered for export from New York.
Baltimore oyster men have agreed to
discontinue packing on April l.
The Ways and Means Committee has
adopted the entire free list of the Morri-
son bill
Over five million bushels of coal left
Pittsburgh Thursday for Cincinnati and
the South.
Farmers in the vicinity of Dayton, re-
port the wheat prospect fair for An av-
ersge crop.
The strike on the Southwestern rail-
roads in the Gould system is in fair
way to settlement by arbitration.
Miss Abigail Bates, famous heroine
of the war of 1912, has just died at Scit-
uate, Mass, aged SO years.
Carrie Kapp, a degraded Cincinnati
woman, committed suicide by swallow
ing dose of liniment left for external
application.
At Atlanta, Ga, Pat Hickey playfully
snapped an old pistol at his friend, Will
PiniUn, and shot him through the heart.
P. D. Armour. of Chicago, the hog king
of the Northwest, says pork is selling at
less than 1t costs 10 produce 1t, and Is
good property. He further says the
same is true of wheat. "If it is left alone
it will move out. and when it is moved
out it will go up"
Ex-President Arthur's intimate friends
are very anxious about him, and it is
reported that they do not think that he
will live long. His stomach and liver
are in very bad condition. 1t is stated
in New York. however that rumors re.
garding his ill-health are much exagger-
ated.
AS the Supreme Court gives it as
their opinion that Dan Dalton, Clerk of
the Courts of Hamilton county has
been guilty of misconduct sufficient to
warrant his summary impeachment and
dismissal" his tenure of Office is not
secure if proceedings are instituted to
bring him to account.