Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-15
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

/ y SHARP shock of earthquake was felt
/ ut Los Angeles, Cal. last week.
THE Indiana State Democratic Con-
vention has been set for April %.
/ THE Union Labor Party of Indiana
has nominated ticket for State offices.
\ MAN and his son were eaten by a
pack of wolves, near Fort lotion, ID. 7.
URIAH BUsKIRK was shot by an as
sassin while sitting in ahotel at Charles
ton, W. Va.
Miss LOUISA NJ. ALCoTT died at Bos-
ton from well developed case of spi
nal meningitis.
Mrs. JAMES ORR, of Salineville, O.,
was fatally burned by her clothes catch
ing fire from a stove.
TIE public schools at West Cairo, O.,
have been closed on account of an cpl
demic of scarlet fever.
HENRY MARSHALL was killed at In
dianapolis by falling chimney on a
house he was moving.
TIE Sterling Wrench Company, of
Sterling, Ohio, has contracted to remove
their works to Findlay.
THE Standard Oil Company has COM
menced the construction of pipe line
from Lima, o., oil fields to Chicago.
TIE American Base Ball Association
has decided to give prize of $1,000 to
the club winning the championship.
THE Republican Clubs of the State of
Illinois, in a delegate Convention at
Springfield, organized State League.
THE post-office at Lebanon, O., was
entered by burglars and 81 800 in money
and stamps was taken from the safe.
JOE THURMAND, charged with the
murder of viii Donaldson, at Charles
ton, W. Va, last January, was acquitted.
THOMAS SwAGGER, a farmer residing
at Negley, Columbiana county, o., was
caught by falling tree and crushed to
death.
MANNUS BOYLE, while scaling fence
at Youngstown, o., had his clothing
caught on picket and was strangled to
death.
THE Senate of MASSACHUSETTS has pass
ed resolutions requiring biennial elec
tiOnS of State officers and members of
the Legislature.
IT is claimed that the report of the
dynamite explosion at Williamsburg,
Ind, was heard at Hillsboro, o., dis
tance of AS miles.
Mrs. LUCRETIA GARFIELD, widow of
the late President, accompanied by her
daughter, Miss MOllie, has returned from
a trip through Europe.
JOIN H. COUGHLIN, one of the Ra-
VIENNA murderers of Detective Hullegan,
has been released on bail, and his trial
deferred to April 9.
Mrs. DANIEL W. BLIsH, who disap-
peared from Norwalk, O., ten years ago,
and was supposed to have been murder
ed, has been heard from at Wichita, KS.
4 FIRE in the office of the Springfield,
Mass, Union resulted in the destruction
of the property, the loss of six lives, and
the serious injury of half-dOzen other
persons.
J. Is. SNYDER was arrested at Denni-
son, Texas, charged with opening the L.
>. mails. In his possession was found
drafts on New York banks amounting
to Sl46,j75.
THREE HUNDRED workmen were dis
charged last week from the shops of the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railway, at Pittsburgh, on account of
lack of work.
GEORGE KIMBALL, a desperate bank
robber at Bradford, Pa, shot the cashier,
grabbed the money, made his escape,
shot the leader in the pursuit, and COM
mitted suicide.
A HERD of fifty head of cattle on a
farm near Kennedyviile, Del, has been
attacked with pleuro-pneumonia. The
diseased animals have been killed and
the herd quarantined.
JOHN TOsNEY, convicted of forgery in
connection with the Fourth Ward, A,
election fraud of Cincinnati, was releas- |
ed from the penitentiary on parole grant |
ed by the Board of Managers.
A SLEEPING CAR on the Alabama Great |
Southern was ditched near Ft Payne,
Ala, causing destruction of property |
amounting to several thousand dollars, |
and badly injuring number of persons. |
ROBERT BONNER, of New York, has
made another handsome present to his |
sons jointly. He has given them !
square of land on Fifth avenue val |
ued at million and a quarter of dollars. |
A JURY at London, o., has returned a |
verdict against the Pittsburgh, Cincin-
natl and st. Louis Railway Company for
5000 damages for the killing of An
drew c. Martin, brakeman.
A DYNAMITE store house at Williams |
burg, Ind, was blown up by an explo-
sion. One man and a horse were re-
duced to atoms. The report was heard
and the shock felt for distance of
about thirty miles in every direction.
In Chicago three men, with handker-
chiefs tied across their faces, entered a
drug store, placed a revolver at the head
of the clerk and rifled the till and show
cases of money and articles of value.
Another clerk was fired at , by the rob-
bers and made hasty retreat.
SOME curious interviews with several
of the great money kings of the country
prove that 'happiness depends, as nature
shnurS lnsS On exterior thinrs than most