Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-01-21
THE NEWS.


dead in the streets at GAINESVILLE, Sunday, on
her way to church.
bankruptcy bill (probably like that of last sea-
SOM is fair.
Some of the leading Democrats in Indiana
are highly incensed at Mr.. Voorhees, because
of the bad appointments he has procured iR
that state.
The Salvation Army at Parkersburg, W. Va,
is about to surrender. Its influence is reported
to have been evil, especially among the young
people.
The Mormons, Lorenzo Snow, Jas. N. Nell
son and James Taylor, were sentenced at Og-
den, Utah, for bigamy. Snow gets eighteen
months Imprisonment and $500 fine.
Records at Washington disprove the state
ment of General Wallace that General Halleck
out of jealousy of General Grant, was willing
to betray his country and permit the city of
Washington tobe captured.
General Durbin Ward is in Washington on
a myterious mission. and it is whispered that
he will contest the seat of Senator Payne, out
of which Ward was beaten by fraud in the Dem
ocratic caucus in the Ohio legislature.
General Sherman having denied ever having
said, as reported by General j. B. Fry, that
chad c. F. Smith lived, Grant would have dis
appeared to history after Donelson," an, early
reply from General Fry is looked for.
Thousands of cattle are reported frozen to
death in Indian territory by the late blizzar.
Thirteen hundred new members have been
elected by the one hundred committee of Gin
cinnati.
Three thousand negroes have emigrated from
North Carolina within short time to the west.
Reports continue to come in from the west
and northwest of the finding of bodies of men
frozen during the late blizzard.
Ex-Governor Hoadly was banqueted by
frinds and members of the Cincinnati bar at
the Gibson House Saturday night.
Colonel G. S. Cotter, late superintendent of
laborers at the Ohio State House, was found
dead in bed at the Hotel Gardner, Columbus,
Saturday.
School Superintendent Miller, at Nanticoke,
Pa, locked tardy boys out during the recent
cold spell. The legs of one boy may have to
be amputated.
Chicago saloon-kcepers have been notified
by the chief of police to keep front doors and
windows closed ON Sunday. The ordinance
has not been enforced for years.
The Knoxville, Tenn, city election resulted
in the reelection of ]. c. Luttrell, Democrat,
as mayor. by 433 majority. Six of the nine
aldermen elected are Democrats.
At the gas well being bored for the Briggs
Manufacturing Company, at Findley, Ohio, a
vein of gas was struck which, il is estimated
will yield two million cubic feet per day.
Strange stories of the power of prayer come
from jamestown, Ohio, where one man was
cured of paralysis and smother was stricken
with lockjaw and afterward relieved through
prayer at religious revival.
Natural gas was struck at Tifin, O., Satur-
day night at depth of sos feet. The gas is
equal to the best manufactured article for il
Eliminating purposes.
Benjamin t. o. Hubbard, the defaulting
cashier of the First National Bank, of Mon
mouth, ILL.,, was refused new trial by Judge
Blodgett, at Chicago, and received sentence
of seven years in the Joliet Penitentiary.
An explosion of $50 pounds of dynamite |
at the works Of the Croton aqufduct blew the
building to atoms, but injured no one except
woman keeping clearinghouse near, and very
slightly. Surrounding villages thought it was
an earthquake.