Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

! EX-SENATOR CoNKLTNc bequeathed
al his property to his wife.
y DEMOCRATIC bolt is promised in
! Congressman wilkins district.
BLAINE and Sherman Will divide the
Kentucky delegation to Chicago.
EX-SENATOR BRUCE viii deliver a
course of lectures during the coming
season.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has vetoed a
bin granting pension 10 Mrs Georgia
A. StrickIett
An effort to admit women into the
Order of Catholic knights of America
failed of success.
HENRY BOHL, of Marietta, mas been
appointed receiver of the Second Nation
al Bank, at Xenia Q.
MARTIN p. BovEE, noted advocate
of the abolition of capital punishment,
died at Whitewater, Mich.
A BILL appropriating three and one
half million dollars for pension deficien-
eies will be reported to the House.
DEMOCRATS of the Thirteenth District
renOminated Cultivate and indorSed
Cleveland and his free trade message.
NATHANIEL WATTS, the last of the
| sold defenders. who defended Baltimore
from British invasion in 1914, is dying
SENATOR VOORHEES, has apologized
to the Senate for his actions during the
debate between him and Senator Ingalls,.
BLAINE is said to be the choice of del
egates to Chicago selected in the four
Congressional Districts Of Kings county.
y. Y.
WM. KENNIsToN, an old farmer at
North Boohbay, Me-, was murdered in
his home by Llewellyn Quimby, aged
twenty.
HENRY MILLER shot and killed VIM
| A. Aderholt, near Beecher City, ILL.,, be
cause the latter won a law snit between
the two.
y >'n""I.-H"I'~E al DAYTON. o.. was
struck hl lightning. TUESDAY. and tw"
children were injured in The panic which
followed
DAMAGE suits will probably be broght
by relatives of persons killed in the re-
cent accident at the Columbus Board of
Trade building.
TIE daughter of Amos H. Tyler, of
Bath-on-the- Hudson, n. Y Ion her death
bed told her father to Shoot her betray-
ec. He did so.
HON. ROBERT G. INGERsoLL deliver
ed an address before the New York Leg
islatUre on the life and character of ex-
Senator Conkling.
Miss IDA HAGEMAN, in charge of the
pOstoflice at New Madison, o., commit
ted suicide by shooting herself in the
head with a revolver.
WM. HOPKINS, who stoned a stranger
to death at country church because he
wore "biled' shirt, has been respited
by the Governor of Georgia.
HENRY J. BARRON shot and Instantly
killed his son-in-law, j. S. Higgins, at
Denver, Col, during family quarrel
about the ownership of dog.
WHILE Mary Floyd was milking a |
COW at Urbana, o., little sack con-
tanning $S5 dropped from her bosom.
The money was eaten by the cow.
FRANK 4. BRANNIGAN, of Steuben-
vile, o., has been appointed Discussing
and Appointment Clerk of the Depart
ment of Justice, vice James w. Ewing,
removed.
WIN. SHOWERS, under sentence of
death for the murder of his two grand
children, dug hole through the solid
stone wall of the jail at Lebanon, Pa,
and escaped.
IT is said that Gen. James W. Ewing,
Disbursing Clerk of the Department of
Justice at Washington, has been found
short in his accounts to the extent of
$1,000 or $4,000.
THE bill appropriating S150,200 for
Government exhibits at the Cincinnati
Centennial, has passed the House An
provides that Marietta shall
have three days.
HENRY CHRISTIE and Thomas Kelly
have been indicted for burglary at Mt
Vernon, o. They are in jail at Wheel
ing, W. Va, awaiting trial for murder
in the first degree,
Hon. GEO. E. SENEY has been renom-
mated for Congress by Democrats of the
Fifth District. The delegates to St
Louis were instructed to vote for Cleve-
lands denomination
]. L. CAIN, proprietor OF the Peoples
at Columbus, O., was fined $75
and costs, and sentenced to thirty days
for giving theatrical
performance on Sunday.
JACOB MORGAN, an aged farmer Iiv-
ing at Hebrun, W. Va, was attacked by {
tramps in his house. Herefused to give
them his money, and after killing him ]
they robbed the house.
In the Georgia Democratic State Con-
yention the free traders, led by Senator
Colquitt, yanquished the protectionists,
ed by Senator Joe Brown. Cleyeland's
was indorsed.
A RELIGIOUS crank who was taken
before Judge Cummings, at Toledo, o.,
% be remanded to the asylum, informed
he court that he was Christ, and had
come to this wicked earth to reign eight f
months.
A PICTURE of James G. Blaine was
llaced, amid tremendous cheering, on
he platform during the Republican State
Convention of New Jersey. A resolu-
ion fayoring William Walter Phelps for
he Presidency was adopted. 1
JUDGE TULEY decided, at. Chicago, t
nat children born in slavery are inegit-
mate. The question arose in a contest t
d will case. The ground of the decis-
on is that slaves being chattels there
ould not be a legal marriage.