Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-18
THE NEWS,

Mt. vernon, ONO, mas gone into the natural
gas business.
Absenteeism in the Ohio Legislature is be-
coming nuisance.
President Cleveland did not attend the
funeral of General Hancock.
The food losses about Boston. Mass, are
estimated at q million dollars.
state sanitary convention will be held at
Columbus, O., February "a and 25.
Farmers in the vicinity of Akron, O., have
been duped by lightning-rod swindlers.
DR.. J. c. Jacobs, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, died at
Newark from an overdose of fchloroform.
Bohemian oats swindlers have transferred
their field of operations from Ohio to Michigan.
The arrest of George Q. Cannon, Mormon
chief, has caused much excitement at Salt Lake.
W. W. Sutton, dry goods merchant, has
been appointed assistant Treasurer at Cicin-
natl.
Generals Howard and Terry are expected to
succeed Handbook and Pope in army proma-
tions.
The family of Cyrus Kenworthy, of Rich
mond, Ind, were chleroformed by burglars,
who robbed the house.
1t is announced that unless the guarantee
fund is filed by March l, there will be no ex-
position in Cincinnati in 1856.
Twenty four horses were burned in stable
near Hunters Point, n. Y, including a num-
Der of valuable steeple-chasers.
President Cleveland gave his annual dinner
to the Justices of the supreme court at the
white house, Thursday evening.
About thousand persons have recently
signed the temperance pledge at Medina, O.,
where Murphy revival is in progress.
Martin o. Van Fleet, charged with embez-
zing $4,000, as treasurer of Huror county, O.,
has been arrested at Brantford, Canada.
The Morrison tariff bill, introduced in the
National House, Monday, contemplates re-
duction of $40, 900 900 on last years revenue
A relief fund for the widow of General Han
cock was started in Philadelphia, headed by
A. j. Drexel and George W. Childs with $1,000
each.
John B. Cough, famous temperance lecturer,
suffered a serious stroke of apoplexy, at Phils-
dsnphis, Monday night, while delivering a
lecture.
There Hungarian laborers brought to Han
cock county, ". Va, to replace strikers, crept
into barn to pass the night, and were found
frozen to death.
The costly county court house at Chicago is
tumbling in pieces, and there is danger in walk
ing the street near it. Huge blocks of stone
frequently fall crushing to the ground.
Farmers in Champaign county, Ohio, have
been taken in by fellow pretending to sell
contrivance for sharpening reaping sickles
without taking them from the machinery.
Rev. DR.. J. G. Pershing, President of the
Pittsburgh Female College, has been found
guilty by an investigating committee of minis
ters of dishonesty, lying and immoral conduct
A clergyman writes from Dodge City, Kas.,
that during the recent cold weather, within a
radius of a hundred miles of that point, one
hundred thousand head of cattle and one hun
dred human beings perished.
A resolution has been offered in the Ohio
legislature earnestly favoring the restoration
by congress to wool growers of the same pro
lection which they had prior to 1888, or as it
was established by the act of 1867.
In livery stable fire at st. Louis ffty-eight
horses were burned. Employees were rescueing
the animals when two stupid policemen arrived
and dubbed the rescuing party into insensibil-
ity, supposing them to be thieves.
The death of Major General Hancock and
the retirement of Major General John Pope,
which will take effect on the 9th of March, will
cause two vacancies in this grade of General
officers, promotions all along the line
Hon. Columbus Delano, of Ohio, represent
ing the western wool-growers, will probably
soon call a convention OF the wool-growers, to
meet in Washington and combat the proposed
reduction in the wool tariff. But it is said that
Mr.. Morrison will propose no reduction in the
wool rates.
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