Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-04-05
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

| HAHHEN1NGS Ot 1HE W EEh.
THE Duke of Padone, Prince Victor
NapOleon's agent. is dead.
TIE old Board of Directors of the
Pennsylvania Railroad have been reflect
ed.
JUDGE COLLINS, of Chicago, has an
nounced that he will hear no more di-
vorce cases on Saturdays.
TREAS MERRICK. of Ogmaw town
ship, Mich, had $500 in cash and a
check for S400 stolen from his bedroom.
FRANK SMITH, wealthy farmer near
Anderson, Ind, is terribly scourged with
disease closely resembling leprosy.
Mrs. MARY J. GARLICK was crushed
to death by an elevator at the storage
rooms of Ezekiel & Bernheim, Cincin-
natl
THE remains of the late Chief Justice
Waite were deposited in the vault at the
Forest Cemetery, Toledo, o., on Thurs
day afternoon.
WM. DoRsHEMER, the New York
journalist and politician. died suddenly
at the Pulaski House, Savannah, Ga, OF
pneumonia.
JUDGE KELLAR, of New Orleans, shot
and mortally wounded himself through
disappointment at his failure to secure
a denomination to office.
THE house of Mrs. Peter Bertine, of
Bathurst, n. b., was burned during the
absence of the mother, and two young
girls were burned to death.
D. MCMILLAN, depot postal agent at
Chattanooga, has been relieved of his
position on account of verbal express
sions as to the rights of negroes.
THE trial of impeachment against
State Treasurer Tate, of Kentucky, has
commenced. 1t is the first proceeding
Of the kind in the Commonwealth.
JULIUS BERNSTEIN, the leading vio-
| linist at the New York cathedral, be-
came violently insane during rehearS-
al of music for the Easter services.
THE Board of Health, of New York
has engaged four extra physicians to
vaccinate persons exposed to smallpox
The vaccination corps will be increased
| to ten.
A CONVENTION representing Republi-
can clubs of Kansas was in in session at
Topeka, Wednesday. Fully two thOus-
and representative Republicans were
present.
HUNDREDS of seals are in the harbor
at Plymouth, Mass. They are fearless,
and will allow boats to approach within
easy gunshOt. They are very destruct-
i've to fish.
THERE is a great complaint against
the Postmaster at Indianapolis, made by
the Civil Service Reform Association, on
account of the wholesale removal of the
old and experienced employees.
THE Colorado alumni of Michigan
University have started movement for
the appointment of Judge T. NJ. Cooley,
of Michigan, as chief justice of the
Uunited States Supreme Court.
THE Canadian Government has de-
clined to interfere with the prohibitory
liquor law in the Northwest Territories
beyond giving permission for the licens-
ing of the brewing and sale of malt
beverages.
JOHN r. DECAMP, vice president of
the defunct Metropolitan Bank, of Gin
cinnati, was surrendered to the United
States authorities by his bondsmen. 1t
is rumored that he was preparing to
leave the country,
THE rear sleeper Of a train on the
Michigan Central Railroad was run into
by Wabash and Western freight train
at Burnside, ILL.,, Tuesday night of last
week, and wrecked, several passengers
being slightly injured.
AT the request of many citizens Gov
ernor Lowry has issued a call for con-
vention, May "a, of the people of Mis-
sissippi interested in the subject of i'm
migration to and the development of the
resources of the State.
TIE Republicans of Campbell county,
Kentucky, met in mass convention at
Newport and selected delegates to the
State and District Conventions. Reso-
lutions were passed indorsing John
Sherman as their choice for Presidential
candidate.
THE twelve-year- old adopted son of
John Dietz, who was murdered at Car
linsville, ILL.,, by VIM. Wineland, last
fall, Tuesday evening avenged the death
of his foster-father. Dietz, on his dying
bed, told the boy never to rest until he
killed Wineland.
In the Republican Convention of the
Eighth District, at Springfield, o., Gen
eral Kennedy was renominated for Con-
gress, and his course warmly indorsed.
John Foos and Hon. Festus Walters
were elected delegates to the National
Convention, and instructed to vote for
Sherman. The resolutions adopted de-
nounce the Mills tariff bill, and declare
that if wool is placed on the free list it
will be destructive to the wool growing
industry of the country. Toland Jones
was selected as Presidential Elector, and
Emmett V. Rhoades, State Committee
man.