Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

CLYsrINE LAaNE was accidentally
shot and killed by samuel Low, at West
Mansfield. O.
THE President has removed the polit-
ical disabilities Of Henry ". Marmaduhe.
If Missouri.
CoNGREsSeiAN TIMOTHY Z. TAEsNEY.
Of Michigan. is very Ill at Providence
Hospital, Washington.
TIE House Judiciary Committee has
agreed to a favorable report on the reso-
luton To change Inauguration day 10
April 30 instead of March +.
\ SMALL child Of Lewis Harper, at
Zanesville. O.. WAS SO badly mutilated
by dog that 1t has since died.
ALoNzo HALLV. negro raviShe1,
was taken from the PincRucyviIe liz
Jail and lynched by a mob Of sixty men.
w. HACKER, Of Danyille. H., shot
and killed Miss Mabel Ste;ke, at Belle
Piaine. Ia, and then killed himself,
TIE Cincinnati Board OF Police Com
missiuners have resolved to inaugurate
"A crusade against gambling in club
houses.
RoBERT LEMON, a sober and indus
trious S.one-mason. committed suicide
at Coshocton. O. The case is shrouded
in mystery.
THE Rowan county (Ny) investiga-
ton shows that. out Of twenty murder
ers committed, only one conviction has
been secured.
ADDIE BEYER, a good-Ioolling white
woman. aged twenty years, has been
licensed to we'd a negro named B. ;.
Turner, at Tifiin, Q.
LEE FURTu. a farmer living near
Nenia. Ohio. met his wife, from whom
he is separated. and cut her throat with
a razor. He fed and escaped arrest.
ABOUT two hundred wooden goods
manufacturers and commission men mej
in New York and organized the Wooden
Goods Association for mutual protec-
ton in trade
IN an interview at Terre Haute, Ind.
Henry George said he would support
Grover Cleveland ON the issue Of tariff
reform in case the issue against him was
protection.
THE President and lIrs. Cleveland
will make living trip to Florida. ac
companied by Secretary and Mrs. Whit
ney and Colonel and Mrs. Lamont. The
trip will occupy only about four days.
GEORGE ". LEVI. recently sentenced
to the Indiana State Prison at Jefferson
vile, has confessed to the commission Of
a crime for which Frank Nelson is sery-
ing a twenty-one-year sentence.
THE derrick used in hosting heavy
girders to be used in the construction OF
the Union Elevated road Of Brooklyn
fell on a Reid Avenue horse car, killing
three men instantly and seriously injur-
ing a dozen others.
THREE delegates from the African
Emigration Association, of Topeka, kas.,
are on their way to the Dark Continent
on a tour of inspection, with q view to
eolonizing colored people in that country.
TIE Apollo Building, Pittsburgh, Pa,
was damaged by fire Sunday. to the ex-
tent OF $4,000.
THE celebrated Storey case, at Chica-
90, has been practically settled by the
removal of Receiver H. \. Hurlburt.
TIE liquor dealers of Lexington, Ky,
have organized for mutual protection
and resistance to the laws prohibiting
the selling Of liquors on Sundays and to
minors.
AN incendiary fire destroyed the bust
ness part Of Augusta, a small town in
Carroll county, on Sunday Loss about
$300G0.
SAMUEL Brooks, father of Hugh N.
Brooks, GliaS Maxwell, the murderer of
c. Arthur Prelier, has arrived in st.
Louis, to make a final effort to secure
Communication OF his sons sentence.
RALPH LEE, who attempted the as
sassinatiOn Of Banker RaWson, at Chi
cago, has been sentenced to eighteen
months in the county jail.
THE birthday Of Abraham Lincoln was
celebrated at Columbus under the au-
spices Of the State League of Republi-
can Clubs, by banquet.
RECEIVER JAMES MCCoNvILLE has
taken charge Of the Metropolitan Ma
tiOnal Bank.
PTUs BEAN, farmer residing near
Concordia, Kan, was squeezed to death
in feed grinder.
JARRETT Brooks, colored, has been
arrested at Springfield, O., charged with
poisoning VIM. 7. Hanes.
D. r. LOCKE. '.Nasby" died on We'd
nesday morning. last week, at his home
in Toledo, o., of consumption Of the /.
lungs.
LILLE Y. JOHNSON has been awarded /
3, 800 damages against George R. Scar
foSs at Lima, o., for breach of promise. /
TIE jury in the Stanyard murder case
at Youngstown, O., has returned a yer
dict Of murder in the first degree.
J. H. PAUL has sued DR.. Williamson.
Of New Paris, o.. for $4,000 damages
tor malpractice IN treating fractured
arm.
MARY DOWNING. aged y years. while
skating on the canal at Indianapolis.
broke through the ice and was drowned.
f. H. TAYLOR, an aged colored man,
vas found dead at Lexington, KY. with
wounds on the head which indicate that /
ne was murdered.
THE.w Of :. GustafSon started to
he barn to milk the cows in a storm.
lear Morris, Minn. Her body was
'ound a mile and half away.
TIE Ohio River Commission. in ses-
ion at Washington, has passed rcsolu-
ions condemning the project to build
mother bridge between Newport and
incinnati'