Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
TIE Republican Clubs of Michigan
have formed a state League.

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Carolina viii be held al Raleigh. on May
}0,h.
TIE colored Republicans Of Xenia. O..
have organized a strong Republican
Cub.
LUTHER J. SCHAFFER. of Lockhaven.
Pa. has been sentenced to be hanged on
April +.
PITTSBURGH has been chosen as Ma
cional headquarters of the Union Neter-
ans League.
VIZ. LINN, of Newark. fell from a
church roof at Tifiin, o., and sustained
fatal injuries.
Mrs. SARAH REED was burned to
death at her home near indianapolis in
4 mysterious manner.
PETER SIANDEAU, a laborer. fatally
shot his wife and then committed sui
eide, az Napanee, Ont.
CHAs. HoLToN was fatally shot by his
brother at Chicago. H., VINO was care
lesSly handling a revolver.
IT is claimed that gold is found in
Adams county, O.. ard prospecting is
going on at lively rate.
CALIFoRNIA wool growers have pc
Congress against the reduction
Of the duty on imported wool.
TIE indictments against Miss Josie
Holmes, the exchange clerk of the late
Fidelity Bank, have been nollied.
THE Greenbackers Of Indiana. at Sc
cret session, decided not to hold Il State
Convention this year.
Banner FLOOD, of San Francisco,
lost Sl0.000,000 in Chicago wheat deals,
and is mental and physical wreck.
WN. H. ROCKIULL has been appoint
ed Clerk of the Warren county (OJ
Courts, rice Harry Wilson, deceased.
NATHAN HANCKINs was found in an
condition near FairmOunt.
IL, and died later. He had been clubbed.
EDMUND DANIELS. of Wooster, Ohio.
beat his aged wife with a heavy shov-
el, infictiEg injuries which caused her
death.
Mrs. JOHN WILHARTE, in a fit of ap-
poplexy fell into an open CRATE at Blow
ing Springs, Ga, and was burned to
death.
REPUBLICANS of Lexington. Ky. have
placed a full ticket in the field for mu-
nicipal Offices, the first time in eighteen
years.
TIE village of Lafayette, KY. was
visited by a tornado on Sunday evening
of last week, and the whole town laid
waste.
CHARLES WINGARD and Anna Fox
suicided in the city prison at Alliance,
O., where they were confined on charge
of incest.
AT Amsterdam, \. Y, February %,
a bob-sled ran into a lamp post, Harlem
Plautz, aged IS, was injured internally,
and died.
EX-AGENT SWAN, of the Cheyenne
Agency, was reported short some $780,
coo, but now has evidence that the error
was clerical.
THOS. FITZGERALD, of Carbon, Ind,
in pursuit of his duties as Marshal of
the town, shot and killed John Yasagico,
a drunken miner.
CHARLES MARTIN, at New Albany,
Ind. proves himself to be the champion
horse-thief, having stolen and shipped
horses by car loads.
Mrs. d. ERAsTUs CORNING. of Au-
burn, n. Y, eloped with d. Morris
Kurtze, the Auburn correspondent OF
the Syracuse Herald.
THE Comptroller Of the Currency has
authorized the National Live Stock
Bank, of Chicago, Ill, to begin bust
ness. Capital 100000.
TIE grand jury at Chicago has re-
solved to return five indictments against
". 3. Tascott for burglary, and one for
the murder Of A. J. Smell.
TIE depth of the water on the bar at
the entrance to Sabine Pass harbor.
Texas, has increased over five feet since
the jGtties were constructed.
TIE students suspended from the Bi-
bic College at Lexington, KY, for at
tending a theatrical performance, have
been reinstated b. the faculty.
4 METHODIST reyivalist at Iron Noun
tain, Mich, turns out to be a detective
in search for murderer. He captured
his game and left for Janesville.
O.P. ADAMS. a lawyer of Chattan0o-
ga, Tenn, was identified as horse thief
who was wanted in Florida, and skipped
town before he could be arrested.
MARSHALL KINsLEY, a Chicago youth,
fatally shot his father, man aged about
fifty years, as the latter was in the act
Of striking his (the father's) wife.
EMMA LINDER. aged five years, of
Elizabeth, \. J., died from the effects
of internal scalding. She said her
brother poured boiling tea down her
throat.
TIE second annual encampment of
the Union Veteran League of Ohio was
held at Youngstown, at which delegates
were present from nineteen encamp-
mentS.
MASKED robbers boarded a Southern
Pacific train near Tucson, A. T., and
rif1ed the Wells, Fargo & Co.'S express
car of valuableS to considerable
amount.
". II. GRAY, of Chicago, has gone to
Richmond, Va, with certified check
for So, 300 with which to purchase Lib
by Prison, which viii be removed to
Chicago.
a MONSTER meteor was seen to pass
Monmouth, III. 1t was followed in a
few moments BY IN explosion that shook
houses. Neighboring towns make
similar report.
TIE large fly-wheel at the Globe Roll
ing Mill, Cincinnati, burst into a thou
sand fragments while the employees were
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