Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-05-20
THE NEWS.

Anarchist Most has been releaSeu ON 81 ,uUU
bail.
Tramps are going to Xenia and claiming to
be food sufferers.
Miller's match factory at Akron, O., burned
Monday; loss $4,000.
The track of the tornado in Seneca county,
shows great devastation.
Geo ". Thompson has been elected presi-
dent of the Ohio River Railway company.
Betwaen two and three thousand striking
wOrkmen OF Cincinnati returned to work Friday.
The Cincinnati board of public works refuses
to abdicate in fnvor of the board of public
affairs.
Washington Mclean, former proprietor of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, is very ill in Wash-
ington.
Three persons were killed during a storm
Friday night in Hopewell township, Mercer
county.
Roderick R. Butler has been nominated for
congress from the Greenyille East Tennessee)
district.
One of two comets in the northeastern sky
may be seen in the early. morning with the
naked eve.
The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church are attending a business meeting at
Buffalo, n. Y.
General John L. Lewis, an 1872 verteran and
prominent citizen OF New Orleans, in dead,
aged eighty-two.
Nearly all the railroads terminating in Gin
cinati suffered severely by the storm Wednes-
day night, last week.
A New York surgeon has arrived from Paris
with an inOculated rabbit, and is about to start
a hydrophObia hospital.
At GAINESVILLE, O., George Gillogly, murderer
of Gordon AppersOn, was sentenced to fourteen
years in the penitentiary.
A large number of barns in Ohio and Indi-
ana were struck by lightning and burned dur
ing the recent great storm.
The counties of Ritchie, Peasants, Marshall
and Wood, in West Virginia, suffered severely
by wind and rain storms last week.
Leading Bohemian residents of Chicago are
indignant that the recent riout should be attrib-
uted to citizens of their nationality.
Arthur J. Grover was hanged in the Ohio
penitentary Friday morning for the murder of
Granville G. Loomis, of Wood county.
The seventh Cincinnati May Musical Festival
opened in Springer Music Hall, Monday even
ing, with the oratorio "The Creation"
A school building at Sparta, Ill, was struck
by lightning Friday. One pupil was instantly
killed, and the building badly damaged.
James L. Olney, of Ottawa, O., claims that
his horse was carried four miles through the air
10y recent tornado and landed unhurt.
Jefferson Davis, since his return home, has
suffered from prostration induced by the ex-
citements through which he has recently passed.
MendOn, kas., was struck by tornado Fri
day, and part of the town swept away. Eigh
teen or twenty persons were more or less in
jured.
The "Spencer riot gun" has been tested and
put on the issue list at the Springfield arsenal,
and the state can now draw them from the
general government. I
In the case of Alderman Jaehne, of New
York, charged with taking $4,000 bribe from
the Broadway Surface railroad, the jury brought
in a verdict of guilty.
Near NewagO, Michigan, Henry H. Miller,
an old farmer, burned his house and barn, and
killed himself because his wife would not mort
gage property in her name.
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police officers were struck, five of whom have
died, ten returning to duty and fifty-One are,
still under the surgeons care.
An engineer, fireman and unknown psssen-
ger were killed by train on the l., B. & W.
railway running into a washOut near New Cas-
tie, Henry county, Ind, Thursday.
Government troops surprised Geronimo and
captured his camp outfit and horses. Subse-
quently the troops were ambushed in a canyon
and lost two killed and three wounded.
The celebrated California race horses, Tyrant
and Volante, have been matched for $4,000
side. The race will be in ST. Louis or Chicago,
aid the distance will be mile and a half
The friends of Mr.. Cleveland in Washington
say the marriage of president is an event of
rare occurrence, and they propose giving him
big ovation on the occasion of his wedding.
Hon. D. 7. Patterson, son-in-law of Pres
ident Johnson, and an ex-U. S. senator, has
been appointed postmaster at Home, Green
county, Tenn, with a salary of $40 year.
A laborer, digging post holes in Clark Co.,
Indiana, found a copper box containing over
81, 200 in old gold and silver coins, supposed
to have been buried long ago by rich hermit.
A workman, breaking up old iron at Pitts
burgh, burst large anvil with an immense
charge Ofdyramite. The explosion was terrible.
Three houses were wrecked and one person was
seriously injured.
In response to a resolution passed by the
Ohio state senate, containing specific charges
of bribery in the Payne election, and asking
the U. S. senate to investigate, the latter body
will undoubtedly take up the case.
There was a restless feeling among the more
stubborn and lawless strikers in Chicago Mon
day, but the police were alert and 10y prevent
ing large assemblagrs in the streets, preserved
good order. Thousands of men returned to
work.
A drug store in Chicago sacked by
mob several days ago. and it is said that several
deaths and much sickness nave been caused
among the Poles and Bohemians by poisonous
drugs which they ignorantly swallowed for in
toXicants.
1t is reported at Columbus that the Demo-
Gratis have concocted a scheme to test the legal
ity of the Dow liquor taxation law in the U. s.
courts. The petition is TO be filed in the court
presided over by ex-senator jackson, lately
appointed to succeed Judge Baxter.
The New York Times prenOunces the case of
ex-President Arthur hopeless. 1t saws ''the
danger Is ever present that the poisoned blood
of the president will infuse the brain, and
when that happens the victim Of Bright's dis
ease feels the last OF his suferings."
Francis Murphy, temperance revivalist, in
dOrses the Dow liquor law. He says: The Scott
law closed every saloon in village l know of
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