Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-19
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

NAVIGATION has been resumed on
Lake Erie.
-JNo. l.. SULLIVAN sailed for home
yesterday.
NEWARK. O., is afflicted with an epi-
demic of measles.
BROWN county (O) Republicans de-
clare for Sherman.
CENSUS of voters of Baltimore show
93.267 persons entitled to the ballot.
MEXICAN Congress has granted Pres
ident Diaz and his Cabinet vote of
confidence.
\ $4,000 VERDICT has been returned
against the Ne1rs and Herald, at Jack
sonville, for libel.
BODY of Egbert Wilkins, lost in the
great Dakota blizzard of January L,
has just been found.
BLINKY MORGAN is to be hanged June
l for the Hulligan murder. Robinson
is granted a new trial.
SAM SMALL has given up evangelism
for politics. and aspires to be the Moses
of the PrOhibitionists.
Jos. G. CANNON has been renominat-
ed for Congress by the Republicans of
the Fifteenth (lll.1 District.
NEARLY half of the business PORTION
of Fairfield, Neb., destroyed by an in
cendiary fire. Loss $4,000.
THE Upper Mississippi has over1own
its banks, and the lower portions of st.
Paul are several feet under water
WN. ANsoN WooD Mower and Reap
er Works, Youngstown, o., destroyed by
fire. Loss S250,000; insurance $4,000.
TIE last of the Kansas breweries has
been closed under the L. $. Supreme
Court decision in the Ziebold & Hagelin
case.
EZRA p. TAYLOR has been renominat-
ed for a sixth term in Congress by the
Republicans of the Nineteenth (O.) Dis
trict.
INDICTMENT againt John Coughlan,
held as one of the Hulligan murderers
at Rayenna, nollied and Coughlan set at
liberty.
THE Indianapolis Presbytery has elect
ed General Ben Harrison Commissioner
to the General Assembly of the Presby
terian Church.
CAPITAL of the State National Bank,
Omaha, has been impaired, and the in
stitutiOn placed in the hands of the Ma
tional Bank Examiner.
Mrs. NJ. AUSTIN JONES, a favorite in
Boston society, dropped dead of heart
disease while singing at a reception to
her friends at Hotel Vendome.
THE Leader and Sunday Dispatch of
fees, Binghamton, n. Y, destroyed by
fire. Loss $4,000, of which A W. Carl,
proprietor of the Leader, loses $4,000.
A COLLISION between strikers at Cum
berland Gap tunnel on the Powell's Val
ley Railroad and mountaineers resulted
in killing of five men and wounding of
twelve.
EXPERT GRANGER finds shortage in
the tax account of the New Albany
Democratic Treasurer of nearly $4,000,
and an unverified deficiency of nearly
$4,000.
THE War Index Record is being sub
jected 10 further delay by the removal
of the expert in charge of the heinous
offense of furnishing information to the
public.
SIXTEENTH Ohio District Republicans
select Colonel Churchill, of GAINESVILLE,
and Samuel T. Davis, of Newark, dele
gates to the National Convention, and
instruct for Sherman.
TIE Kootenai Indians in Montana are
getting ugly, and threaten to avenge the
hanging of three of their number for
murder by the white people. The Gov
ernor has been called on for troops.
WM. CULLEN, night watchman, Den
nison, O., assaulted by gang of roughs,
shoots and kills two of his assailants-
John Cow and Amos Thompson. Quill
len exonerated at Coroner's inquest.
ESMONs and James G. Blaine, jr., say
that letters received from Naples con-
tain only favorable notices of their faith
er's health, and denounce the report of
his ill-health. 5. B. Elkins says the re-
ports show malicious purpose.
DR. HOWARD SIMoNDS, distinguish
ed spiritualist, Allegan, Mich, who died
Of CT lNnli 10 l. ~
trance, the body forty-eight hours af-
ter apparent death remaining warm, the
color of the face natural, and tine express
sion of the eyes when opened bright.
TIE President has appointed Freder-
ick r. Coudert, of New York; Franklin
MacVeigh, Of Illinois; Alexander c.
Haskell, of South Carolina; NJ. A. Hama, Z,
of Ohio, and James A. Savage, of Ne
braska, as Government Directors of the
Union Pacific Railway Company
MINNIE ROSE PARSONS, a young girl
of Pittsburgh. was enticed from her
home by Lieutenant Ryan, of the L. s.
Navy, who acted under an assumed name
He promised to secure her stage en-
gagement, but deserted her in New York
where she was found by the police and
returned to her home Ryan and an ac-
complice, J. H. Meade, are under 81 900
bonds each in Pittsburgh.
AFTER drawing many moral lessons
from the life of Jake Sharp in his ser
mon Sunday night, the Rev. n. B.
of New York, paid tribute
to the public press that deserves to be
by more than those within
sound of his voice He said:
No, the newspapers did not hound
Sharp to death. Every man is publicly
for the influence he exerts. |
If he puts himself in position to be
pursued by the press, the public's moral
custodian, then he must not expect |
lightness of treatment. Evil and wick