Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04
THE NEWS.

" bAS OAShoAN7'
The Dark county, Ohio, children's home has
been located at Greenville, o.
Ex-Governor Brown, of Tennessee, died Sat-
urday morning at Nashville, aged rs.
A Cincinnati woman died, Sunday, who had
for months drank daily five pints of bad whisky
Miss Alice Breg, aged nineteen years, drop
ped dead in the street at Seymour, Ind, Friday
night.
Frank James states that he does not believe
that Governor Crittenden was privy to the
killing of Jesse.
A mass-meeting at Charleston, W. Va, pre-
sided over by the governor, resolved in favor
of fee coinage of silver.
Liquor men in Covington, Ky, are discour-
aged by the prospect of the Legislature raising
the saloon license to $500.
Colonel S. K. Donsvin left New York Friday
night for Delaware, o. He was warned of an
attempt that might be made of his life.
Babe Allison, colored, for attempted rape
on young lady near Nashville, Tenn, was
sentenced to twenty-one years Imprisonment.
The count of the coin in the sub-treasury at
New York has been completed, and shows that
the vaults contain five cents more than the
books call foT.
Scott Digman, of Plymouth, Ind, has been
found guilty, at Charlottesville, of swindling
farmers in timber contracts, and sentenced to
two years in prison.
A,heavy vein of gas has been struck at Sid
ney, O., at depth of seven hundred feet. The
amount escaping is estimated at two hundred
thousand cubic feet day.
Paymaster General, J. A. Smith, U. S. N,
has been found guilty by court martial, and the
sentence approved by the secretary of the navy
and confirmed by the president.
Complaint is made among expectant Demo-
Gratis in Indiana that the leading party men
have been too liberal in providing members of
their own families with fat Offices.
W. W. Mikes and V. J. Card are in custody |
in Wabash, Ind, charged with forging notes
against prominent farmers. 1t is supposed the |
signature were clipped from the assessors list |
AT Cleveland, on Saturday, Alfred Smith, a
sailor, killed his wife and woman named |
Louisa Wilson by beating out their brains with |
hammer and unsuccessfully tried to kill him
SELF with razor.
Gas wells are being sunk at various points in |
the country surrounding Findlay, O. The light
from big well at Findlay illuminates nearly
the entire county, and the roar of tine escaping |
gas can be heard to distance of twelve miles, |
The conference committee Of the Ohio sem |
ate continued its session during Friday in the |
discussion of differences, without agreement
except the appointment of a committee of six
to take evidence in the contest cases. The
committee adjourned to Tuesday.
A desperate attempt was made to rob Ed. C. |
Rickard, the Baltimore and Ohio express agent,
at Olney, ILL.,, on Saturday nigit, of his bag
while going to meet train. Mr.. Rickard was
badly cut. He fred three shots at the retreat
ing robber, and it is thought that he was
wounded.
A remarkable dinner in New York was that
of John W. Mackey, the present richest man
in the world, on Friday, to seven famous man
Roscoe Conkling, Senator John P. Jones,
Charles P Crocker, John Russell Young, Robt.
G. Ingersoll, Larry Jerome and Colonel Tom
Ochiltree.
DR.. j. NJ. Justice, president of the Indiana
from service by Commissioner Black, Saturday.
The doctor was probably the oldest pension
surgeon in the state, being commissioned by
President Lincoln in 1864, at the original Or
ganization of the pension bureau.
J. NJ. Wells Post, G. A. R, has adopted
memorial to congress requesting that it be
made an essential condition of any act that
may be passed approPriating money for the
erection of monument to General Grant, that
in connection with, and as part of such me-
mortal, there shall be established national
abled soldiers and sailors.
The police commissioners of Cincinnati are
formulating defense to the charges filed by
the committee of one hundred for their removal
by the government The arguments are, in
substance, that where unfit appointments may
have been made, they were upon reports and
of prominent politicians and busi-
ness men; besides, the pay is so small that
merchants, bankers and other good meR cannot
be secured, and the pressure is so strong when
men are suspended or discharged for un6tness,
that the commissioners are often induced to
action which is contrary to their better judg-
ment.
The case of chief Hudson, of the Cincinnati
police, was decided in the police court by the
lcquitta of the defendant. The information
charged contempt in willfully failing to serve .
warrants sworn out by the committee of one s
hundred for arrests for violations of the regis I
Try law. Judge Fitzgerald held that the officer Y
lad only followed the old system for years in :
rogue in the police department, however OBJ :
it might be, and as reform meas
ire his honor ordered that hereafter, instead
# intrusting warrants to regular patrolmen, a
hoy shall be given for service to person esp,- Z
tally charged with the duty. Icc