Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-22
THE NEWS.

A strike of Michigan Southern switch
men in Chicago is threatened.
Chicago is full of wheat-actual wheat
and the price is down to nearly rs cts
bushel.
The jury in the John Steig murder
case (CIncinnati) returned a verdict for
the secand degree.
Fred Grant has ia view book con-
tanning his fathers private letters, dat
ing back to the Mexican war.
Mrs. Ross must yield to the fight by
able-bodied men against her. and give
up the postofice at Newport, KY.
E. W. Kinsey. formerly clerk in the
Cincinnati postoffice, has been found
guilty of robbing registered letters.
After June there will be practically
uniform track guage and train time on
all the railroads of the United States.
Grand Master Powderly is in favor of
using the full strength of the labor order
in the fight against the Gould system.
John Ellis, Missouri stockman, blew
out the gas in his room in Chicago ho-
tels and was found dead in the morning.
Since the defeat of Frank Hurd in his
contest with Romeis, it is believed that
he will leave Toledo and locate in New
, York.
The Democrats in the Ohio Senate
continue their policy of delay for the pur-
pose of keeping the Cincinnati frauds in
their seats.
The strike against the Gould roads in
the Southwest promises to be war to
last all summer. Money is pouring in to
support the strikers.
Reports on the Payne bribery case will
sooa be submitted to the Ohio House.
and the Democrats are awaiting them
with anxious solicitude.
H. F. Edsall, treasurer of Brookfeld
tp., Trumbun county, o., has absconded,
leaving the township 81, 500 and private
creiitcrs $4,000 short.
A passenger train on the Republican
Valley railroad was thrown into Blue
river. near Oketo. Kas. A little girl was
killed. and baby fatally injured.
Michael McCoffman, of Crestline, O.,
deserted his wife on train, taking her
baggage and leaving her penniless to
pursue her journey to Richmond. Ind.
The President of the American Agri>
culture and Dairy Association has issued
note of alarm to the farmers of Amer
ica to organize and down the oleomar>
garine iend.
The refusal of the D-m cratic House
to adjourn for few minutes in order TO
view the procession of the veterans of
1861, who volunteered To defend the
Washington Capital, is unfavoraGly
commented on.
The Cincinnati police commissioners
recoDsi cred the Mayors appointment of
Arthur G.. Moore 10 be Chief of Police,
and confirmed it. Messrs. Dodds, Minor
and Morgan voting for it, and Mr.. Topp
still holding out against it.
Mr.. Alonzo P. Kendall, an old soldier
and citizen of Lockland, O., shot and
killed burglar who was entering fis
house at an early hour. The victim was
evidently tramp and was accompanied
by two other men, who escaped.
for State Board of Elections provides
lOT IOuT suptINlSOIS, 10 D6 appointed Dy
the Governor and confirmed by the Sen
ate, who shall have their Office in Colum-
bus. and whose terms shall be for one,
two, three and four years respectively.
The Governor is to divide the state into
four sections by county lines, and to as
sign district to each men Der.
A tornado swept st. Cloud and Sauk
Rapids. MInn.. Wednesday afternoon. A
path was plowed through st. Cloud. and
ESQ to 200 houses leveled. Ninety per-
sons are reported killed. and over hun
dred injured. AT Sauk Rapids between
thirty and forty persons were killed, and
double the number injured. The whole
State of Minnesota has been swept by
wind and rain storms for day or two.
In the war which Pewderly declares
against Gould. he says: "Iniconclusion.
let us again ask that you send at once
every dollar you can at present raise, to
uphold the men who are now out along
the lines of the Southwest system Of
Gould's railway. Do not delay. At the
Ssame time make ready to bring the whole
power to bear on the man who wrecks
railroads, homes. fortunes and lives iD
bis greed FOR gold