Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

NM. BEUMAN, Young man OF Ell
low Springs, O.. has gone DAFT on relig-
ion.
LEURO-PNEUMoNIA prevails among
the cattle on Staten Island to an alarm
ing extent.
Two CARLOADS Of corn, potatoes and
food were sent to Kansas sufferers from
Pierre, Oak
THE grand jury ignored the case of
Mrs. Ida Macauley, who shot her hus-
band in Chicago.
THE Pullman Palace Car Company
claims to be exempt from the operation
of the Interstate commerce law.
Mrs. JOHN FLEMING, living south of
Owensboro, Ky, was burned to death,
her clothes catching fire from CRATE.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been in
vited to attend the sub-Tropical ExpOsi-
ton at Jacksonville, Florida, on the
22d inst.
BUFFALO, \. y. was the scene of a
great con1agration, destroying business
blocks and property amounting to ST.
100000.
Mr.. THOBE has presented a bill to the
House Elections Committee for S4,700
expenses in contesting the seat of Speak
er Carlisle.
JOHN CULLEN. at Buffalo, Y. Y, kill
ed his mother, as he said, to save her
from the Workhouse. He was drunk
when arrested.
EIGHT affidavits have been prepared
asking for new trial for Coy and Bern
hamer, the convicted taily-sheet forgers
at Indianapolis
THE New Jersey Senate confirmed the
nomination of Charles Garrison, of Cam
den, to succeed Judge Noel Parker on
the Supreme Bench.
THE jail authorities at st. Louis are
alarmed lest Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias
Maxwell, shall cheat the gallOws, by
committing suicide.
HARRIET MARIETTA TULLER has eS-
tablished her claim to a dover interest
in so acres of Chicago real estate. 1t is
worth about $1,200,000.
\ GERMAN named Anschlag was
lynched at Santa Anna. Cal, for having
murdered C. B. Hitchcock and wife for
the purpose of robbery.
APAN-HANDLE express train ran into
switch engine at Urbana, o., killing
and wOunding several persons and de
molishing engines and cars.
FREDERICK B. LODGE, of Michigan,
has been appointed Division Superinten-
dent of Railway Mail Service. with head
quarters at Cleveland, Ohio.
THERE are fifteen hundred idle con-
victs in Sing Sing Prison awaiting the
passage of an appropriation by the Sen
! ate for prison manufacturing.
Mrs. ALICE COBB. wife of Manager
Cobb, of the Peoples Theater at Toledo,
o., has sued the Detroit Eoenjng Ne1cs
for 100000 damages for libel
THE people of Findlay, O., are making
desperate effort for local option, and
a committee has been appointed to pre-
sent their cause to the Legislature.
THE Sioux Indians have elected twelve
delegates, one from each tribe, to repre-
sent the Nation at Washington on the
proposition to open the reservation.
THE steamer City of Ney York, from
China and Japan, arrived at astn Franz
cisco with three cases of smallpox on
board. The steamer was quarantined
A company is being organized to pipe
natural gas to Chicago for fuel and illu-
minating purposes. 1t is calculated that
the plant will cost ten million dollars.
IT is expected that the tariff reform
bill being prepared by the Democrats in
the Ways and Means Committee will be
ready for the House in about two weeks.
Ten prisoners escaped from the Fay
cite County Jail at Uniontown, Pa, by
breaking off bolt, getting into the
cellar, and thence easily emerged to
freedom.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
awarded silver medal to Captain c. W.
Johnson, of Winneconne, Wis, for ser
vices rendered in saving lives during the
past two years.
Mrs. HENDRICKS, the Philadelphia
brokeress who is said to have swindled
customers there out of 100000, has been
arrested and held under bonds to appear
! for examination.
Mrs. ELIZA PALMER, the wife of a
Il f,.Di 4 saI,
mysteriously disappeared in October.
Her body has been discovered buried un-
der stall in the barn..
THos 5. GARDNER, a publisher of
Chicago, has been found guilty of fraud
ulent use of the mails in conducting a
lottery enterprise, and was fined $500 in
Judge Blodgett's Court.
THE Soldiers Monument Commission
of Indiana have accepted the design
submitted by Bruno Schmitz, of Berlin.
The Legislature has appropriated $780,
coo to be expended in the work
THE Merced Canal, to convey water
from the foothills of the Sierra Noun
tains, at San joaquin, California, was
opened Monday. The canal will irrigate
over quarter Of a million acres.
INDIANA swine breeders, in session at
Indianapolis, ask Congress to prohibit
the importation of French and German
beverages in retaliation of the attitude
of these countries toward the American
hog.
MARY WILSON, pretty and engaging
young girl of New York, has confessed
that she set fire to the Hospital for the
Ruptured and Crippled, which resulted
in panic among the children and in
the death of a domestic.
Gov. WILSON, of West Virginia, has
issued a requisition on Gov Buckner, of
Kentucky, for the release Of parties i'm
prisoned in Pike county to await trial
who are alleged to have been implicated
in the Mccoy Hatfield war.
REV. EDWARD 7. Miles whose mvs-