Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-05
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

Judge James Pillars, of Tifin. Ohio,
died on Thursday morning.
John L. Sullivan has challenged Jem
Smith TO fight for 1000 a side.
Gordon De Grot, of Quincy, Wis, was
found frozen to death in a farm yard.
James Steed has been pardoned from
the Ohio penitentiary by Gov. Foraker.
The Ohio river at Cincinnati has clos
ed. The ice extends from shore to
shore.
Theo. Sengstak, near Loyeland, Ohio,
has lost some valuable horses BY feeding
ensilage.
1t is estimated that the December rev.
enues will add another S15,000,000 to
the surplus.
O'Connor Power, ex-Liberal member
of the English Parliament, has arrived
in New York.
Fred Scott, of Shelby, O., has been
sentenced to years in the penitentiary
for burglary and larceny.
Senator Voorhees, has volunteered his
services to defend the tally-sheet for
gerry cases at Indianapolis.
Richard H. Barringer, of Troy, n. Y,
died from an affection of the heart
brought on by smoking cigarettes.
Coal is being shipped to Cincinnati
and Louisville from Pittsburgh by rail,
and the price is steadily advancing.
Alfred Wolfe, who deserted his wife
at Lima, o., taking his small child with
him, has been arrested at Columbus.
A county seat war is raging in Har-
per county, Kas. The rival factions are
arming, and serious trouble is feared.
At an election in st. Joseph county,
Mich, the local option advocates de-
feated the saloons by !, 400 majority.
Jefferson Arrowsmith fell from a rail
road bridge near Marietta, o., and was
instantly killed, Wednesday last week.
The safe in the store of H. B. NIillen
& Bro, at East Aurora, y. Y, was
blown open by burglars and robbed Of
$500.
Adam Martin, of Perry county, Pa,
has been arrested for defrauding an old
soldier named Scyoc out of his pension
money.
Frank Weeks, of Anderson, Ind, sew
enteen years old, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for two years for petit
larceny.
The Weber claim to land in New
York City, which amounts to millions
of dollars, is said to be an old Swindle
revived.
Gov. John S. Marmaduke, of Missou-
ri, died at 9:37 o'clock, Wednesday eve
ming, at the Executive Mansion in JEFF
ferson City.
George W. Harper, late Democratic
candidate for State Treasurer, is on trial
at Xenia, o., for assaalting Miss Mar
tina J. Hart.
Frederick, Nd, was visited By tor
nado on Thursday morning, which un-
rooted several houses and uprooted nu-
merous trees.
Kansas City's Sunday CLOSING ordi-
nance has been declared unconstitution-
al by Recorder Davenport. The saloon
lists are jubnant.
Robert Sadler, on tie eve of his mar
riage to Miss Carrie Richardson, at
Paris, KY, skipped cut, and has not
been heard from since.
The post-office at Massinon, o., has
been burglarized The thieves secured
about fifteen dollars worth of stamps
and ten -dallars in cash--
The post-of1ice safe & Charleston, w.
Va, was blown opeI and robbed of
S400 in money and S5100 in stamps,
Wednesday of last weel.
John J. Littleton, editor of the Ma
tional Review, who wa, shot by Joseph |
r. Banks on December "a at Nashville, |
Tenn, died on "Wednesday.
The steamer Oceanic, from China and |
Japan, is quarantined al San Francisco,
as two cases of small pc, were discover
ed among its steerage passengers.
Buck Harden, noted desperate and
jail bird, has been arrested and placed |
in Jail at indianapolis. On his person
was found 1920 in counterfeit money.
The hearing of the tally-sheet forgery
cases at Columbus, o., has been post
poned from January 3 to date early in
February, on application of the defend
ants.
\ limited express on the Atlantic
Great Southern was wrecked BY land
slide in a cut between Epps and Living
ston, Ala, and sixteen persons were in
jured.
The Purdy Silver Mining Company
has obtained verdict for $28,455
against j. V. Farwell and 3. T. Jacobs.
If Chicago, for failure to fulfill con-
5ract.
Rev. o. A. Clifford, of Boston, the
most prominent Baptist clergyman in
New England, has become an advocate
If the anti-poverty doctrine of Henry
George.
Benson Sewall, only son of Prof Sew
II, Of the Theological Seminary at Ban
Tor, Me-, was drowned this morning
While skating on the Penobscot at
iampden.
An eleven-year-old boy at Tihin, o.,
layed with dynamite cartridge It
EXPLODED, blowing off one of his hands,
nd another brother was badly injured
Il the leg.
John Dooley, of Chicago, became de-
rious from being i'll, and while his
Tatcher was absent he escaped, in his
ight-clothes. His frozen body was
Ound by police officers.
Two small children of H. A. Savage,
t Wilkesbarre, Pa, died suddenly after
n hours sickness. The bodies turned
lack after death, and physicians arc
nable to name the disease.