Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-24
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

quantities at Chickasaw, o.
a DESTRUCTIVE tornado passed over
Baxter county, Arkansas, last week.
TAsCOTT is not the murderer of Bank
er Smell. So says the bankers son-in-
law.
a JEALOUS lover at Indianapolis kill
ed his rival with a stone. He was ar
rested.
LOCAL option carried a second time
by majority of six votes, at Mt. Gil
cad, o.
The United Labor party nominated
Robert H. Cowdrey, of Illinois, for Pres
i1ent, w. H. Wakefield, of Illinois, for
Vice President.
CONNECTICUT Republicans promise
hearty support to the nominee of the
Chicago Convention.
HEAVY frosts have seriously damaged
fruit and growing crops in various por-
tions of Ohio and Indiana.
Coy and Bernhamer, the convicted
Indiana tally-sheet forgers, have been
taken to the Northern Prison.
WEST VIRGINIA delegates to the Ma
tional Republican Convention are unin-
structed, but are favorable to Blaine.
URBANA Democrats are dissatisfied
with the ticket nominated and the plat
form adopted by their party at Dayton.
THE colored Baptists are not pleased
with their treatment by the white Bap-
lists in the Convention at Washington.
WARLOCK has been sold by John A.
Madden, of Bethlehem, Pa, to S. A.
Brown of the Kalamazoo Farm, for $15,-
900.
WHEN the name of James G.. Blaine
was mentioned in the New York Con-
vention the greatest enthusiasm was
manifested.
MAHONING county gave its nine votes
to Thurman at the Dayton Convention
for delegate at-large to the st. Louis
Convention.
ELBERT E. KDIBALL, Commander of
the Department of Missouri, G. A R.,
was nominated for Governor by the Re-
publicans of Missouri.
DIR. JAMES ORR, a prominent dentist
of Pittsburgh, committed suicide in his
office at midnight by inhaling gas. Drink
and domestic troubles.
BILL PATRICK, desperado, shot and
killed Saloon-keeper at Bloomington,
Ind, because some beer foam was acci-
dentally thrown in his face.
THE flood in the Sny bottoms, reach
ing from opposite Louisiana, Mo-, to
Mo, covers an area of forty
miles long and FIVE miles wide.
CHARLES CHOATE, of Fremont, O.,
barely escaped being victimized by a
confidence man, who represented HIM
self to be the oldest son of Ex-Governor
Foster.
NEW YORK Republicans selected His
cock, Miller, Depew and Platt as dele
from that State to the
Chicago Convention. They are unin-
;trueted.
Rev. W. A LEONARD, D. D., rector
IF 81 g. j 5vnn's Church, Washington, D. c.,
mas been elected Assistant Bishop of the
Ohio Diocese Protestant Epis-
,opal Church.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the large expor-
ing flour mills met in Chicago and
agreed to form two bureaus, one to take
,harge of the export trade and the 9TH
er the domestic.
THE dead body of VIM. J. Meyer was
found in a yard in a yard in the rear of
| saloon at Terre Haute, Ind. His neck
vas broked and he had evidently fallen
rom high stairway.
A CORRESPONDENT of one of the New
I Ork papers, writing from Genoa, Italy,
quotes Mr.. Blaine as saying that he fav-
,rs the nomination of Hon. Chauneey
u. Depew for the Presidency.
DIR. NJ. E. WILSON and DR.. H. G.
Blaine were charged with grave robbery,
md when the trial came on at Tifin, o.,
Wilson changed his plea of not guilty
o guilty, and Blaine was discharged.
SUIT is about to be brought for the
possession of the ground on which half
he city of Streator, ILL.,, is built The
,laim is that it belongs to the heirs of
Eliza Cramer. Over 100000 of prop
.rty is involved.
A ''sTRAw"was taken among the del
gates to the New York Republican Con-
'ention. The result for first choice was
IS follows: Blaine 23S, Depew 179, His
'ock l. Harrison l, Sherman 2, Sheriden
!, Gresham 4, Warner Miller /.
a SPECIAL passenger train on the B.
I o., road, running at speed of fifty
niles an hour, ran into freight pulling
n on siding at Fredericktown, o. The
ngineer of the special reversed, but the
ngines eollided with sufficient force to
Iamage them considerably.
SERGEANT PORTER WEBSTER, of Com g.
,any A, Twenty-fourth Infantry, was
hot and instantly killed by Private
David SimonS, of the same company, at
Fort Reno. Simons had threatened the
ife of q woman, and Webster was at
to arrest him.
y PROtESSOR OI udJllTdl history wall
ered away from the Smithsonian the
ther day, and got into lawyers office
n F street, where there is very pomp-
'us young clerk. The professor asked
wo or three questions on the point at
ssue, and the clerk finally remarked to
lim very largely:
Il tell you it's true, and it is true.
What do you know about law, anyway"
Nothing, nothing at ALL replied the
meekly; ''but l know great
Ieal about natural history, and l think
-ou are an ass. Washington Critic.
TIE Democratic party, since the or
,anization of nominating conventions,
las never nominated but two of its Pres