Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-11-18
THE NEWS.

The colored people in the South claim
to pay taxes on $90,0OO,0O0.
General John B. Gordon was inaugs
urated governor of Georgia last week.
Hon. NJ Quay is to be a candidate
for the U 5 Senatorship in Pennsylvania
Henry Irving is to make a tour of the
largest American cities in Faust" in
1887.
Another slight earthquake shock was
| felt ia Charleston, s. c., Tuesday of last
| week.
The official returns from the state
place the plurality of Gen. Robinson at
II ,581.
The discovery of case of smallpox
in Cleveland has created some excite+
nent there.
Allen O'Myers is said to have received
editor of the Enquirer.
Michael Burns was killed by the
bursting of fly wheel at the Clinton
Rolling Mill, Pittsburg.
JESSIE IL Lulu, lOI uuoIly OulGOI VI OuO
| Hartford Post, committed suicide on his
wife's grave in Hartford.
A five-year-old boy named Surface
| was burned to death while playing with
matches at Lafayette, Ind.
Justice Woods, of the U s supreme
court, is to return TO Ohio and then go
teCalifornia for the winter.
The u. 5. Manufacturing Company,
of Dayton, o.. engaged in the manufact'
ure of patent medicines, has failed.
Judge Francis Dickman, of Clevet
land, has been appointed to the supreme
bench, in place of Judge johnson, re-
signed.
A Henry George club has been organ
lied in Philadelphia, Its object being to
secure the election of labor candidate
for mayor.
prof" John Eddy, the spiritualist.
was mobbed by his disgusted audience
at Sycamore, ILL.,, and narrowly escaped
serious Injury.
The total number of persons condemn
ed to imprisonment for life for particit
pating in the recent revolution at Mad>
rid, Spain, Is 230.
Intimate friends of Speaker Carlisle
declare the stories recently circulated
concerning his contemplated removal to
Kansas as absurd.
Gen. J. R. Chambers R. will contest
the election of Judge j. b. Morgan I'd.
elected to congress from the Fifth shoe
string district, Miss.
J. C. Mccormick, of Hawkinsvill, Ga,
committed suicide on the eve of his
marriage to a young lady of high social
standing and great beauty.
Pleuro-pnenmonia is rapidly increasing
in Jasper and Clinton counties, Ind, and
the state board of health is consider
ing measures to stamp it out.
The torch of the Statue of Liberty is
unlighted owing to the lack of any gov
ernment appropriation for such purpose,
and of course New York can't stand the
expense.
Five masked men entered the house
of George Smith, near Cherry Tree, Pa,
and at the point of their pistols forced
him to produce $4,000 which he had
concealed in the house.
Ex Senator Mcdonald has left Wash
ington for IndiaDoplis to engineer mat
teTs in connection with the alleged elec>
ton frauds, and to look after his inter-
ests as senatorial candidate.
1t is estimated by internal revenue
officials ct Washington that the income
to the government for the fiscal year
from the tax on eleonargarine will
amount to more than $100,000,000.
Senator Smith, president of the Indi
ana senate and acting lieutenant COVER
nor, will bring action before the supreme
court to have Gen. RO6ertsOl's election
as lieutenant governor declared void.
Prof. Foster, the Iowa meteoroligist,
predicts severe and destructive storms
from December to II, and suggests
that many lives and much property may
be saved by making timely preparation.
Sam Purple, of Marine, Kas., shot his
wife and two children, wounded his sis
ter-in-law and another child, and was
starting to kill her parents, a few days
ago, when he was arrested and lynched.
The mayor of Indianapolis released
all persons arrested for getting drunk
on Sunday, because there was no effort
made by the authorities to close the
places where they had procured the
liquor.
The Indiana State Women Suffrage |
Convention, in session at Richmond,
reported resolutions demanding the ball |
lot for women as right, and the adop>
tion.of the sixteenth amendment to the
Federal Constitution.