Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-31
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

THE Columbus tally-sheet cases have
been postponed until June Z.
CUT-woRMs have done great injury tC
the tobacco crop in Kentucky.
THE Montana gold and silver output
last year is valued at $24,000,0O0.
THos. CAREY got fifty years in the Il
linois Penitentiary for killing China.
man.
TOLEDO will be the meeting place
next year of the Grand Lodge of Ohio
X. of p.
JOHN SPELLMAN was shot at Madison
Ind, by man who mistook him for a
burglar.
THE Senate Finance Committee has
reported adversely on the fractional cur
rency bill.
THE number of saloons in Philadelphia
has been reduced by high license from
5,773 to 1889.
A BILL has been introduced by Sena-
tor Blair providing for 1.-The observance
OF the Lords day"
JAMES LEAsURE, aged twenty, was
thrown from pony at Spenserville, o.,
and instantly killed.
GOLD shipped and withdrawn for ex-
port, so far this month, at New York,
amounts to s5,O0O,0O0.
TIE New York Hotel was struck by
lightning, at Broken Bows, Neb., and a
guest of the house killed
THE North American Turner Bund
decided, at Chicago, that it has nothing
to do with AnarchiStic ideas.
FIRE destroyed the iron and machine
works of the Belmont Iron Company at
Philadelphia. Loss $4,000.
PROF. E. B. ELLIOTT, Government
Actuary in the Treasury Department,
died at Washington last week.
ANDERSON CLARK, a colored Prohib-
itionist of Xenia, Ohio, was arrested for
cutting horse with hatchet.
IT is said that the appointment of
Melville w. Fuller to be Chief Justice
will be confirmed at an early day.
Hon. WIN. n. SPRINGER has been re-
nominated for Congress by Democrats
of the Thirteenth Illinois District.
WILLIAM PATTERSON, sentenced to
be hanged May 25, was given second
respite by the Governor of Kentucky.
A LITTLE 2 year old child of John
Wilson, living near Olney, ILL.,, fell, while
playing on a bed, and broke its neck.
A BILL has been introduced in Con-
gress giving fourth-class POstmasters
five dollars extra pay for each quarter.
IT is said that VIM. D. Hill, of Def
ance county, is to be Chairman of the
Democratic State Executive Committee.
THE motion for leave to file petition
in error in the Myers contempt case was
granted by the Supreme court at Colum-
bus.
A COUPLE at Mansfield, o., were mar
ried twice because of an irregularity in
the manner of procuring their first Ii
cense.
Col. CHAs. TUDOR WING, formerly of
Columbus, for many years Wall street
banker, died suddenly at New York
last week.
AN attempt was made to wreck pas
senger train on the B. & o. road half
way between Quaker City and Salesville,
one day last week.
JOSEPH REAMER was fined $25 and
costs and sent to jail for ten days for
violating the Owen Sunday closing law
at Newark, o.
SEvENTY-sEvEN Ohio towns are en-
titled to public buildings for post offices
under the provisions of a bill now pend |
ing in Congress.
WEBB WEST, young man residing
near HillsborO, o., predicted that he
would die at a certain time, and death |
the prediction.
FREQUENT fires at North Amherst, |
o., have increased the rates of insurance. |
Opposition to the purchase of fire en-
gines caused the trouble.
THE q. S. Court has allowed writ |
Of mandamus to compel Commissioner
Black to show cause why certain class
Of pensions should not be issued.
SEVEN of band of robbers who muir
1ered William Muller, wealthy land
and cattle man of Mexico, shot dead by
their captors. Soldiers in pursuit of
others.
JOHN HECKNER, sentenced to years
n the West Virginia Penitentiary for
funds of the CatholicKnights
Of America while Treasurer, was par
loned. He served two years and half.