Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
THE NEWS.
Lima, Ohio, has forty yielding oil wells.

Lima, Ohio, has forty yielding oil wells.
Masles prevails among conviets in the Ohio
penitentiary.
The guard at the Grant tomb, Riversids Park,
New York City, is to be withdrawn June 80.
At Lexington, Ind, the population is wild
with excitement over the striking of natural
gas.
Two little boys, sons of H. Wells and ]. L.
Heer, were smothered in a grain bin at Dana,
Ind.
= At Terre Haute, Ind George Bisop shot
and killed his wife, who refused to live with
him.
President Cleveland delivered diplomas to
graduates of the Washington normal and high
schools.
The courts have been petitioned for a receiver
for the Hemrod Furnace company, of Youngs-
town, Ohio.
The Hamilton county grand jury returned
ffty-fOur indictments, only ten of which are
made public.
The Democrats Of the nineteenth Illinois dis
trict have nominated Representative Townshend
for congress.
The house ways and means committee has
reported adversely to the restoration of the
wool tariff of 1861
Lieutenant Governor Ormsbee has been
nominated as the Republican candidate for
Governor of Vermont.
Hon. b. j. Durham, first comptroller of the
treasury, was married to Mrs Margaret Letcher
Carter, both of Kentucky.
The senate rejected John C. Shields, of Mich
igan, nominated 10y the president to be chief
justice of Arizona territory.
The village of Vanlue, O., has prohibited the
sale of intoxicating liquor under the local op-
tion section of the Dow law.
A bitter fight is promised for the congression-
J al nomination in the Cleveland district between
lex-Sheriff Sawyer and N. a. Foran.
| The residence and barn of Abraham Cox,
near 1itfin, O., were destroyed by fire while the
family were attending camp-meeting.
The public school building at Lodi, Wis.,
burned Tuesday night, 18th. Loss $4,000; in
surance $1,000. Supposed incendiary.
Benjamin Zehner, prominent miller near
Muncie, Ind, was stung TO death by swarm
of bees which he was attempting to hive.
A dynamite bomb exploded in the carriage
way at the residence of Mayor Secor, Racine,
Wis, injured a Bohemian named Jamber.
Manufacturers have agreed to the amalgra-
mated associations scale of wages. That OF
the naiers and nail-turners is not included.
Findlay, o., has decided by large majority,
in popular vote, to bond the city for 700
to lay main and distribute natural gas for fuel
VIM. S. Holman, last week, was nominated
for congress by the Democrats of the fourth
Indiana district by vote OF l2l to so for John
R. Cravens.
Luther NJ. Frank, thirteen -year-old son of
Judge j. l.. II. Frank, of Dayton, Q. was killed
by being struck in the region of the heart with
base ball.
A. G. b. Johnstone, clerk at the Dennison
House, Cincinnati, has been arrested by the
proprietors Of the house on the charge of en-
bezzlement
The new evidence presented in the Payne
bribery case is to be of startling character, and
such that will drive the principal corruptionists
from the country.
Mrs. Samuel l.. Vining, st. Louis, is about
TO receive 100000 from the government,
awarded by the court of claims, under the
French spoliation bill.
In the opinion of Cincinnati furniture man
ufacturers not more than one-third Of the men
who went out on the strike can be received
back until business improves.
At Akron, O., a lake of salt water was found
more than 600 feet deep and the surface 2,40O
feet below the surface of the earth. The owners
of the well were boring for gas.
Prohibitionists, meeting at Warren, Ohio,
nominated Charles E. Holt, of Ashtabula, for
congress, and listened to a speech by DR.. Leon
arc against the Dow liquor law.
Four additional afidavits have been filed
against jurors in the Maxwell case at st. Louis,
accusing them of expressing opinions on the
case before bringing in their verdict.
Saloon-keepers who paid the Scott law tax
are going to ask in the court that the same be
considered set-of against that under the Dow
law, if this law be held constitutional.
The statue of Daniel Webster, presented to
the state Of New Hampshire by Benjamin P.
Cheney, of Boston, was dedicated at Concord
Thursday. The entire cost was $4,000.
The president has approved the act author
izing the construction of bridge across the
of VClo A,fb
and to establish the same as post road.
information from Columbus is to the effect
that scheme is on foot to save Senator Payne
from expulsion, by charging all the bribery in
that senatorial election on Pendleton and W ard
1t is now said that the removal of Messrs,
Crisweli and Roe from the Enquirer staff was
because they refused to testify as directed be-
fore the grand jury and Payne investigating
committee.
The American association of nhrserymen,
meeting in Washington, elected officers, indors-
ed commissioner OF agriculture, Colman, and
passed resolution urging the passage of the
oleomargarine bill.
young married pair registered as Winfield
Lee Thompson and wife, Kansas City, Mo-,
were found fatally wounded with pistol shots
in their room at New York hotel. They were
on their wedding tour.
The tenth commencement exercises of the
Vanderbilt university at Nashville were held
last week. Chancellor Garland stated that the
year had been the most successful in the his
tory of the institution.
H W Comnton has heen eIacted sunarintan
dent of the Toledo schools, to succeed Prof j.
W. DOwd, resigned. Chas. Bill, clerk of the U
S. district court, same city, has resigned, at the
request of Judge Welker Crookedness IN charg-
ing up fees is charged
Two girls, the eldest aged eighteen, reared in
the home of W. E. S. Waller, near Newmarket,
Ind, beat Mr. Waller into insensibility with a
club, served his aged sister in the same manner,
secured lot of money in the house and fed
Miss Waller was fatally injured.