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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

TIE rise in sugar-about 80 per cent.
within few days is very exasperating.
The excess goes directly into the pock-
cts of the refners. If Congress can not
devise some plan to end this systemat-
ic robbery, there is not much use in
having Congress. The sugar trust is
now levying an average of not less than
40 cents per week upon each family in
the country.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

SEATTLE, Washington Territory, one
of the thriving fast-growing towns of
the Northwest, was swept by destrue-
tive conhagration on Thursday after
noon. Almost the entire business por-
tion of the city, which contains about
1900 inhabitants, was wiped out, en-
failing an estimated loss of fifteen mil
lions cf dollars.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

THE large flag now on exhibition in
the Office of the Secretary of War, has
been officially identified by Brig. Gen.
Townsend as the flag which draped the
casket which bore the remains of Presi-
dent Lincoln,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

MAGNITUDE OF THE DISASTER
Cleveland Leader.
The COnemaugh Valley catastrophe
has resulted in the greatest destruction
of life and property that ever, as a sin.
gle event, afflicted an English-speaking
people. The greatest disaster from like
cause recorded in history, the bursting
of reservoir, occurred at Lovca, in
Spain, in 1902, whereby 1000 lives were
lost. Bursting reservoirs at Hudders-
field and Bradfield, England, in 1852
and 1854, and at Northampton, Mass,
in 1874, destroyed from 80 to $50 lives
each. The floods in Hungary a few
years ago were attended with a loss of
life reported at $1,000 to $4,000, but
trustworthy figures were unattainable,
and the mortality was doubtless exag-
gerated. The worst floods of the Ohio
and Mississippi destroyed but a few
hundred lives at most.
Within 4 space of four hours more
people were drowned, crushed, or burn
ed to death in the COnemaugh Valley
than were killed in the frightful two
days battle of the Wilderness, and near
ly as many as at the battle of Gettys-
burg! The loss of property will exceed
that OF the greatest confagration ever
experienced on this continent, with the
exception of the great Chicago and Bos-
ton fires in 1871 and 1872.
From comparisons like these we may
approach to realization of the awful
magnitude of the Conemaugh Valley
horror, with its $4,000 dead and mostly
unburied bodies, and from S25,000,000
to S4O,OO0,0O0 worth of property wiped
out of existence. Even these facts and
figures feebly express the situation the
American people are called upon to re-
lieve. And beyond this there is the i'm
minent danger of far-spreading pesti-
lence to be met. Responses to this call
were never so prompt and liberal in any
previous emergency, but the aggregate
of all the contributions, magnificent as
they are, are barely adequate for abso-
lutely necessary sanitary measures and
the temporary relief of those whose
homes and means and employment
went out with the flood.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13
ANATIONAL BEREAVEMENT.

T TVIII TTV INVW lUTk IItTdIU
Would it not be proper thing to have
simultaneous memorial services for the
lost host of the Conemaugh Valley in all
the principal cities of the Union?
Thousands of American citizens will be
buried in trenches, hurriedly and without
ceremony fathers, mothers, children. 1t
is fitting that funeral music should 90 up
from the entire country. The sudden an
initiation of whole population is ma
tional bereavement.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

The New York World uses much val
liable space unnecessarily to demonstrate
that "the Democratic party has always
been a tariff for revenue only party
or, in other words, purely free trade
party.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

IT is reported that Hon. r. \. Alger,
of Michigan, has assured some of his
friends that he will accept the Presiden-
tial nomination in 1892, if the Republi-
can party insists upon it. This deliv-
erance is not unexpected, but its repeti-
ton at this time conveys the further
petition: 'Please do not forget to insist
on II -"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

Gov. FORAKER's determination that
it is necessary for him to run for a third
term is represented to the President as
carrying with it the necessity of his
having the distribution of fat offices,
says the PittsJurgh Commercial Gazette.
Possibly the President may reply, with
Tanyrand's bon mot: 81 do not see the
necessity"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

THE appearance of typhoid fever at
JohnstoWn is an almost inevitable result
of the disaster; but it proves the neces-
sity Of vigorous work to keep it from
becoming epidemic there and from
spreading to other cities.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

WONDERFUL storms are the rule now
a-days. A remarkable rain storm oc-
CURED here on Monday night. On Sun
day tornado visited Arkansas City,
Kans., destroying several buildings and
killing three or four persons. On the
same day Oswego, n. Y, was visited by
the most remarkable storm in its history.
Hail of extraordinary size fell, followed
by great pouring of water and
an electrical storm of unusual violence.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

GENERAL THOMAS /. RossER has a
holy horror of the Celt. He has recol-
lection of a mellow autumn day in 1864
when a Celt, named Sheridan, at the
head of a column of Union soldiers,
sent him "whirling up the valley" No
wonder he hates CeltS.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

ARKANSAS CITY, KAs., was visited by
a terrible cyclone on Sunday. The Meth
odist and Baptist churches and ten stores
and residences were wrecked, while the
roof of the Arkansas Elevator, in which
is located the Missouri Pacific depot, was
number of loaded freight cars. Two
lives were lost, and a number injured.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

Col. j. c. KELTON has been appoint
ed Adjutant General of the army to sue
ceed Gen. Drum, retired. Col. Kelton
commanded the Ninth Missouri regi-
ment during the war.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

The floods along the Potomac River
have damaged the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal to the extent of over a million
dollars, and it is now probable that it
will be abandoned.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

THE Mugwumps are now obiecting
to the removal of pOstmasters for ''of-
fensive partisanship." The dear old
grannies seem to have forgotten that
the very term was coined by their adored
Grover C.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

The twentieth reunion of the Society
of the Army of the Cumberland will
meet in Chattanooga, September Is, l9
and 2O-twenty-fifth anniversary of the
battle of Chickamauga.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

The Ohio Republican Convention
should not take any one from the Ma
tlonal House for Governor. The organ
ization of that body is a matter of some
Importance, and no risks should be run.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13
THE LESSON OF JOHNsTOWN.

THE LESSON OF JOHNSTOWN.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
The lesson that Johnstown teaches is
plain. No one so dull as not to see it.
Travel and traffic will and must 90 on.
The railway and the bridges will be re-
constructed and the powerful locomo-
tives replaced. But will that dam be
rebuilt? The dead, after untold suffer
ing, are at rest. Shall those who are
left in the desolated valley be again
continually menaced by danger greater
than that natural to the mountain sides?
One cannot yet look dispassionately
upon the infinitely sad and terrible des-
olation of the valley of death. The
mind is aghast and the heart bleeds at
the frightful spectacle. Who is not
touched to tears by the hurried desorip-
tions the newspaper men give us of the
pathetic scenes and CHASTITY incidents
they have been called upon to report?
Who does not feel that all this should
not have been-that the people of that
doomed valley had right to their exist
ence, and that their cutting off was un-
timelyP When in great convulsions of
nature earthquakes, land slides, storms
and floods, multltudes are stricken out
of existence, MANNED and rendered
homeless, we Shudder and are dismaved:
but our feelings of compassion and sym
pathy are mingled with calmer reflec-
tions that it was COnvulsion of nature,
which is forever destroying and build
ing up, and could not have been averted.
1t would be cruel at this time to
dwell upon another lesson taught by
the Johnstown horror need of pay
ing more attention to warnings. Immu-
nifty from danger in the past is so apt to
inspire us with sense of continued i'm
munity, that we do not heed warnings.
Who knows bul that hundreds of lives
might have been saved by prompt es
cape to the mountain sidesS
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13
A SEVERE DENUNCIATION

Rev. Dr. McChesney, of Columbus, on the South
Fork Dam.
A small plutocracy has blotted out Chill
drens' Day through all that region. and
blOtted out the children, too. by the thous-
and, and hope and pray that if there be
any virtue in the courts of PENNSYLVANIA
such damages will yet be awarded that
the leveling process will leave that plu-
tOcracy as naked and pennileSs as the
thousands of people who are thrown upon
public charity.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

THE rule of putting sightseers to work
on the grounds will diminish the attrac-
ton of Johnstown as an objective point
for junketing trips.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

The stricken survivors of the Cone
maugh floods may be homeless, but they
are not friendless, for the whole nation
has made itself their friend.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

SiAdlCo peISOndt a !
beauty is the daily
use of Ayers Hair
Vigor. No matter
what the color Of
the hair, this prepa-
ration gives it a lus-
tire and pliancy that
adds greatly to its
charm. Should the
hair be thin, harsh,
dry, or turning gray,
Ayers Hair VigOr
will restore the
color, bring out a
new growth, and
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

CONGRESSMAN BURROWS, Of Michi-
gan, is quite decidedly of the opinion
that there should be an extra session.
The conclusion is somewhat obvious
that the Michigan candidate is anxious
to have the Speakership agony ended.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13
THE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA.
From the Columbus Post, Den

T TTOHI IIU VUIUIIIDUS TOSI, UtIn.
W. W. Armstrong, for years a Demo
cratic journalist at Tif1in and Cleveland
and now Postmaster of the latter city, is
mentioned by the Toledo Bee and other
papers as candidate for Governor. He
has been for many years a prominent
worker in the Democratic ranks, is per.
sonally popular, and if nominated would
prove strong candidate.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

TIE New York World is engaged in
a crusade against the dumping of rub
bish into the streets. 1t should include
the back alleys, and extend the crusade
to every city and town in the country.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13
A VICTORY FOR PURE FOOD.
From the Columbus Dispatch.

T TOIII IIIt OUIIIIIIUIIS DISIJIIVII
The decision of Judge Outcalt, in Gin,
cinnati, relative to the injunction prayed
ed for against State Dairy and Food Com
missioner Derthick, who was inStituting
prosecutions against firms manufactur.
ing and selling distilled and acid vinegars
is a victory for pure food. The time has
come in this country when, in the midst
of abundance and fruitfulness, good and
unadulterated food should be furnished
to the exclusion of any fictitious product
The State Dairy and Food Commission
has done the State some service, and the
bogus product men know it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

render the old soft and shiny. For
keeping the scalp clean, cool, and
healthy, there is no better preparation
in the market.
1 am free to confess that a trial of
Ayers Hair Vigor has convinced me
that it is genuine article. Its use has
not only caused the hair of my wife and
daughter to be
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13
MARTINS FERRY. YOU MEAN.

MAhIIN , Ehh1: I UU MEAN.
From the Wheeling InteIligencer.
On last Friday Miss Flora Williams,
Wheeling's popular and accomplished
songstress, went to Parkersburg and that
evening assisted the Choral Society of
that place in a concert given for the ben
eft of the Johnstown flood sufferers. She
sang two solos, and took the leading part
in "The Heavens are Telling" from
Haydn's Creation" She was received
very cordially and was applauded to the
echo on her every appearance by the large
and fashionable audience that was pres
ent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13
THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Philadelphia telegram, June q.

Philadelphia telegram, June g.
President Roberts and General Mana
ger Pugh left at 1125 o'clock tonight on
special train for Altoona. They will in-
spect the work at various points along the
line, and will move Eastward from Altoo-
na on the middle division of the main line.
Mr.. Pugh will stay on the middle division
until direct communication between Har-
risburg and Altoona is re6stablished. 1t
is now thought that this will be accom-
plished by Wednesday evening or Thurs
day at the latest. Yice-PreSident Frank
Thompson is still in the vicinity of Con-
emaugh, supervising the work in that vi
cinity.
Some idea of the magnitude of the dam
age to the Pennsylvania Railroad lines by
the recent flood may be formed from the
statement that nearly five thousand men
are employed, in many cases working six
teen hours a day. This great army of
wOrkmen is building bridges and placing
track carried away, filling in and grading
the washed out rOad-bed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

IT is asserted by the Atlanta COIlStt-
tuition that while there may be differ
ences in the Democratic party on the
tariff, the silver question, the civil ser
vice and the internal revenue, shack of
all of it is the fundamental principle of
Democracy" What the fundamental
principle of Democracy is, which ignores
all these questions, might be rather hard
to guess, if it was not the essential plat
form of the Constitution that "this is a
white mans Government"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

PEOPLE along the river are being
warned by the medical profession against
the dangers to be encountered in using
the water without publication, arising
from its contamination by the Johns
town disaster. Ordinary filtering is de-
clared to be useless, and boiling for a
half hour is generally recommended as
the only adequate process for the de-
struction of the bacteria.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13
FREE TENT BOOKS

| From the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
| There is a considerable element in the
State of Pennsylvania who favor the fur.
nishing of school books by the State.
To these and to all others who take an
interest in our public school system the
result of the experiment as to this method
/ of supplying the pupils will be instruct
/ i've. 1t has been in operation five years,
and, therefore. has had fair trial.
! The annual report of the Committee on
/ Supplies. lately submitted to the Boston
! School Board, enters at some length into
! this subject, and presents several facts
well worth considering.
| The cost for furnishing books drawing
materials and stationery during five wears
/ has been S272. 1885, to offset which the
/ city has on hand books, etc. estimated to
/ be worth so. 10955. From these figures
/ it is apparent that the average cost for
such supplies is about S39. .226 per year. or
at the rate of 63 cents for each of the g.
| 900 pupils. Considered in gross the sum
seems large. but when divided by the
number of those who receive benefit from
| the expenditure it dwindleS into compar-
atively small amounts. Who would think
that school boy or school girl could be
supplied during an entire school year with
books, drawing materials, and stationery
for the paltTy sum of 90 cents?
The matter of waste and wear and tear
is dealt with in the report. Those who
opposed the adoption of the free text book
system strenuously urged as an objection
to it that pupils would heedlessly destroy
the free supplies furnished them, and that
even teachers could not be relied upon to
aid in the care of property which belong
ed to the taX-paying public. The expert
ence of five years is conclusive proof that
such fears were grOundlesS. The total
number of books lost during 1888 was 74O,
of which number more than 60 per cent.
were in the primary and evening schools,
where the books used are inexpensive.
The same evidence of honesty and care
is found in the statistics of books return
ed as worn ont. The total for the past
year was 25.397, or only about per cent.
of the whole number in use The COM
mittee estimate, on the basis of five years
experience, that the average duration of
text books loaned to pupils will be six
years, and that the average annual ex-
pense for replacing those worn out will
be 30 cents for each scholar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

ENToMoLoGIsT's have about settled
it that the cicada, or locusts, instead of
being visitor to our country only once
in every seventeen years, appears in
some part of the United States every
year. 1t is said to be due this year in
Southeastern Pennsylvania, New jersey,
Long Island and Staten Island, and is
expected to put in its appearance be-
tween this and the first of July, as it last
appeared in that section in 1872.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

TIE Democratic members of Congress,
it is said, are preparing to unite under
the leadership of Mr.. Randall, to pur-
sue a policy of obstruction in the
coming session of that body. Our Bour-
bon friends may possess their souls in
peace. The Republicans have majori-
ty and will organize the House to their
own liking, and if there is delay in the
business the blame will attach to the
Democratic party.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

How EASY it is to spend other peoples
money for them. Some public officials
know how it is.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

Hon. JOSEPH MEDILL, editor of the
Chicago Tribune, sailed for Europe on
the 18th inst.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

DIPHTHERIA has made its appearance
at Johnstown, and there is reason to
fear that it may become epidemic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

In level sections of the country the
heavy and almost continuous rains of
the past few weeks have caused much
damage to the crops. The season thus
far has been a remarkable one for ex-
tremes in heat, cold, drouth and wet
nacC
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

Mr.. HALsTEAD is greatly missed by
the readers of the Cincinnati CONNER
cidL- Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13
Beauty

Is desired and admired by ALL Among
the things which may best be done 10
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

'DowN with the sugar trust" should
be the united and persistent cry of the
people.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

IN commenting on the large amount
of property destroyed by lightning this
spring the New York San calls atten-
tion to the fact that no matter what
style of rod is used unless it is ground
ed, that is, sunk so far into the earth as
always to rest on moist ground, it not
only is no protection, but is far worse
than nothing.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
4 CIVIL service examination is in pr,
gress at Columbus, o.

4 CIVIL service examination is in pro
gress at Columbus, o.
GOVERNMENT officials are overhaulin.
the Columbus (O9 postOtfice.
SECRETARY BLAINE and family viii
spend the summer at Bar HarbOr.
THE Governor of Connecticut has We
toed the bill providing for secret ballot
THE loss by the Seattle fire is estimated
at S1OOo,OOO, with probable insurance
of S5OOOOOO.
FIFTEEN thousand people attended the
National German Baptist Conference. al
HarrisOnburg, Va, Sunday.
EX-SENATOR d. NJ. SABIN has brought
suit for divorce from his wife on the
ground of habitual drunkenness.
THE Wabash and White Rivers. in In.
diana, are rising rapidly, and great dam
age Is threatened in the lowlands.
SEVERAL men were seriously injured in
a drunken row between pipeline work
men, near Titfin, O., ON Saturday.
A GENTLEMAN just from Cleveland
says 1t is not true that Editor Covert. of
the Leader, is candidate for Lieutenant
Governor.
In. II. IEHN IN MEL, IdSJ Eminent
Grand Commander of the knights Temp
lar, of Ohio, was stricken with paralysis
at Chillicothe, o.
The Balletine Brewery, at Newark, n.
j., has been purchased by the English
syndicate. Price S5,10O0OO; S4OO0OOO
cash, balance in stock.
THE Bee Line and Big Four certificate
of consolidation was filed at Columbus,
o., on the 9th inst The fee for filing the
papers was $4,000.
As THE State Convention draws near.
Northern Ohio papers are clamoring in
chorus for the nomination of a man for
Governor from their part of the Com
mOnwealth.
JUDGE JACKSON rendered a decision
favorable to the city in the proceedings
to enjOin the Toledo Pipeline Trustees
from issuing natural gas bonds. There
is great rejoicing at Toledo.
BLIND Tom, the well-known pianist. is
supposed to have been lost at JOhnStOWn.
He and his manager went there on the
day of the catastrophe, billed to give
concert there that night, and nothing has
since been heard of either of them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13
Abundant and Glossy,

but it has given my rather stunted mus
tache respectable length and appear
ance. ."-R. Britton, Oakland, Ohio.
"My hair was coming out (without
any assistance from my wife, either).
L tried Ayers. Hair VigOr, using only
one bottle, and l now have as fine a
head of hair as any one could wish for"
R. I. Schmittou, Dickson, Tenn.
81 have used Ayers Hair Vigor in my
family for number of years, and re-
gard it as the best hair preparation I
know OF. 1t keeps the scalp clean, the
hair soft and lively, and preserves the
original color. My wife has used it for
a long time with most satisfactory re-
suits. Benjamin NJ. johnson, NJ. D.,
Thomas Hill, Mo.
"My hair was becoming harsh and dry,
but after using half a bottle of Ayers
Hair Vigor it grew black and glossy. /
cannot express the joy and gratitude
fee. Mabel c. Hardy Dalavan I'll
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13
ARTICLE III.

Snc Is The regular session of each General
Assembly shall commence on the first Monday Of
January next after 1t is chosen.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-13

SEE. Is. Whenever the Office Of secretary of
state, auditor of state, treasurer of state or at
torney general becomes vacant, for any of the
the Governor shall fill the vacancy by appoint
ment for the residue of the term or until The dis
ability is removed.