Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26
HAPPENINGS OF TIE WEEK.


TIE Edison Electric Light Company,
OF baltimore, viii place its wires under
! ground.
Miss RAFF, courteSan, at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, attempted suicide by drinking con
eentrated lye.
4. DIEBoLD, coal dealer at Louisville,
by, WAS found in his Office 50 badly frozen
that he has since died.
JOHN PALMER, millwright at a Pitts
burgh iron mill, was dragged into the rolls
and crushed TO death.
WM. MURDOCH, aged eighty-two years.
was bunkOed out of $1,000 at Pittsburgh
by the usual methods. 4
\ FIRE in the wholesale stationery
store of y. w. Cloy X Co. at Pittsburgh,
caused loss of $4,000.
An accident on the Delaware and Hud-
son Railroad derailed train, killing four
men and injuring several others.
THE Brooklyn Base Ball Club will re-
eelve Si,uOO for the release of the players
Kansas City wants from its reserve list.
SAMUEL IRKIT, an old man. at Wells
Vile, o., was found il a barnyard and the
flesh torn from his face and body by hogs.
SEVERAL cans, containing -. .OO0 worth
OF stolen watches and jewelry, were found
hidden IN the woods near Valley Falls, W.
Va.
WILLIE HOGAN, thirteen years old, ac-
cldentally shot and killed his sister, aged
sixteen, at Brooklyn, while playing with
pistol.
| SPEAKER CARLISLE has been confirm
ed III his seat, after having refused to give
his opponent fair and impartial inves-
tigati0n.
RANNEY B. SHAFFEH. a student of
| tlndley (O) College, has been caught in
/ the act OF stealing and will be expelled
from college.
Two TRAMPS were struck by an express
train OF the Pennsylvania Railroad. near
GreenSburg, Pa, and their bodies literally
ground to pieces.
SEVERAL farmers. arrested near Xenia
o., for gIgging fish contrary TO law, have
been fined, and number of other eases
are yet to be heard.
JACOB ROBINSON has been found guilty
of murder III the first degree at New Al
bany, Ind, and punishment fixed at i'm
prlSonment for life.
THE First National Bank of Auburn.
y. :, has closed its doors pending an ex-
animation of its affairs. The Cashier and
the book keeper have fed
JAMES F. NowLIN, the boy murderer.
was hanged at the Cambridge Mass jail
on Friday morning. for the murder OF
| George A Goldman in 1887,
THE party of masked robbers who kill
ed Cashier Reynolds at Limestone, [. T..
| were captured by pursuing citizens. and
the ring-leader was lynched.
THE Standard Oil Company has began
work on extensive oil docks at Duluth,
Mimi, where they propose making their
general Western headquarters.
\ PASSENGER. tram was thrown from
the track near Morris, Mimi, killing an
express messenger named Benz Prentice
and several passengers were seriously in
jured
JAMES P. FOSTER, of New York, Pres
EideRt of the Republican League of the
l Rfted States, has promised to be present
at the Lincoln birthday banquet at Co
lumbus, o., on February 13.
THE City Council of Terre Haute. Ind.
has ousted the Board of Police Commits
siOners, who refused to enforce the laws
closing saloons and preventing gambling,
and new Board was chosen.
AT st. Omer, Ind, Baptist minister
was visited by white Caps" and was
given severe whipping for imaginary
wrongs. The victim has been unable to
leave his bed since the occurrence.
Mrs. JENNIE BRICKLE was assaulted
III the streets Of 'iitttSbtTTgi Dy f<a.faTfvhC
felled her to the ground and Stole her
satchel, containing money, jeWelry and a
railroad ticket from st. Louis to San Fran
cisco.
Two FARMERS near Little Rock, Ark,
named Baker and Hit, became involved
in a quarrel over the division of some
land, and stabbed each other with bowie
knives. Baker is dead and Hit can not
recover.
THE dead body of Ed Dunn, a cattle
dealer of WellSville, Mich, was found in
the road two miles from that place His
team had run away, and being hurt by the
accident he froze to death before being
discovered.
Mr.. CHARLES ARBUCKLE, of Brooklyn,
Baby Bunting" has purchased an exten-
sive farm at Brentwood, L. l., which he
will transform into an English gentle
mans estate" including an extensive
game preserve.
TIE funeral of Grandma Garfield was
held on Monday, at Mentor, and the re-
mains were taken to Cleveland, and placed
in the receiving vault, alongside those of
the late President.
THESupreme Court of theUn States
has refused tOinterfere with the judgment
of the lower Court in the case of Maxwell,
who is under sentence of death for mur-
dering Arthur Preller, at st. Louis, in 1855.
THE Pennsylvania Company, operating
four thousand miles of road West Of the
city of Pittsburgh, has decided to place on
sale individual mileage tickets, good for
two thousand miles, at two cents mile