Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-15
THE NEWS.
Chas. scribner's Sons will issue new mag

Chas. Scribner's Sons will issue new mag
azine.
The Indiana Democratic state convention
will be held August 10.
Clermont county, (O.,) Prohibitionists have
commended the Dow law.
Two hundred Massachusetts Republicans
met in Boston and indOrsed prohibition.
A man named Q. D. Graham safely passed
through the Niagara whirlpool in cask.
The remains of Paul H. Hayne, the southern
poet, were buried at Agusta, Ca, Sunday.
The Prohibitionists of Miami county, Ohio,
have placed full county ticket in the field.
Rev. John F. Lloyd, D. D., president of the
Hillsboro (O.) female college, has resigned.
Mrs. Regina Deisser and her twelve-y -year-old
son were killed by lightning at Wakefield, Ill.
John Brown, who escaped from the Ohio
penitentiary some months ago, was recaptured
in Illinois.
The president has pardoned R. Porter Lee,
now confined in the Buffalo penitentiary for
embezzlement.
Secretary Bayard will again address the
British Minister on the subject of the Canadian
fisheries troubles.
A prisoner named Wilson, who escaped from
Jail at Athens, o., was drowned while attempt
ing to swim the Hooking river.
Congressman Randolph Tucker has intro
duced bill granting pension of seventy-ive
dollars month to a ex-Confederate officer.
James Purdy, an old citizen of Mansfield, O.,
died Saturday, aged ninety three years. He was
president of the second railroad built in the
state.
A number of Democratic newspapers boldly
charge Beriah Wilkins with purchasing the
congressional nomination in the 10th (Ohio)
district.
At Wichita, Kas., C. R. McClinteck shot his
wife fatally and then sent bullet into his own
breast, from the effect of which he will die. He
was jealous.
There were 221 deaths in New York during
the twenty-four hours ending at noon Friday.
Seventy-fve per cent. were of children under
years of age.
The army of the Potomac society will meet
in San Francisco in August. Sherman, Sheri
dan and Logan will be among the famous gen.
erals present.
Daytonians of all political compilations are
disgusted over the action of the president in
vetoing the bill providing for government
building in that city.
An express train on the New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio railroad ran into the rear of
freight train near Youngstown, o. A number
of persons were injured.
Martin VanFleet, on trial at Norwalk, Ohio,
for embezzling $65, 900 of Huron county's funds,
caused a sensation by pleading guilty 10 one of
the counts charging him with forgery.
In drunken row between A. W. Tanner and
his son William, near New London, Mo-, the
father was shot six times, and the son received
three bullets in the abdomen. Both will die.
Damage by rain, hail and wind is reported
from Indiana points. A hail storm, Monday,
in the vicinity of Wabash was very severe.
Crops were also destroyed in northern Illinois.
Mrs. Eleanora Cole, of Baltimore, mother of
he late congressman, VIM. h. Cole, who was
buried Saturday, died shortly before the fun
eral of her son from the shock occasioned by
MS death.
The Doodle Democrats of Ohio are attempt ]
ng, by the use of tafy, to get Mr.. Thurman to
end them the use of his name, in their efforts
o rescue the coal oil statesmen from their pre-
tent trouble. II
As a result of domestic troubles between
George w. Chatterdon, farmer living near
Irand Rapids, Mich, and his wife, the latter
shot her husband in the back, kill (
ng him Instantly.
Judge Bannon, of the common pleas court at /
ronton, O., declared the Dow law constitution 4
/, dissolving the injunctions of nearly hum /.
red liquor dealers in Scioto and Lawrence :
ounties. The cases have been appealed. a
A workman employed on the construction of +
he basement of the new United Presbyterian 4
hurch at Springfield, O., being discharged, in r
evenge returned at night and mutilated the
ne cut stone-work, requiring its pulling down 7
nd rebuilding. He escaped. 81