Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

has been appointed pension examiner,
vice DR.. Holden, deceased.
GAS well No. ii has been drilled at
Findlay, O., and gives flow Of five mil
lion cubic feet per day.
DEMOCRATS in Indiana are quietly
working in the interest of Governor Hill
of New York, for the Presidency.
JOHN RICE, pit boss at the Lucy Mine.
Negaunee, Mich. fell into a shaft $50
feet deep and was instantly killed.
4 STRONG anti-CIeveIand element in
Chicago favor the nomination of Cover
nor Hill, of New York, for President
WASHINGTON Democrats agree that
Chicago will likely be chosen as the
place for holding the National COnven-
tiOn.
THE Indictment against W. H. Chat
! field, ex-Director of the Fidelity Bank,
has been nollied at the request Of the
District Attorney.
| Miss Josie Holmes, exchange clerk of
the late Fidelity Bank, refuses to plead
guilty and be released, but wants to be
! fully eXOnerated.
Mrs. ANNA B. PAvEY has been grant
ed divorce from Henry \. Pavey, a
prominent attorney at Hillsboro, o., and
given $500 alimOny,
A. G.. GREEN, father of Miss Jessie
Green, who was killed on the Cincinnati
] DasI 1t
Chattanooga of broken heart.
Coy and Bernhamer, the convicted In
dianapolis tally-sheet forgers, have been
taken to jail to await Justice Harlan's
disposition of their cases.
JOHN WEISsER, a wealthy farmer near
Pittsburg, committed suicide by hang
ing. He was worth 100000, and its
possession had impaired his mind.
MARION BROWNING, at Hopkinsville,
KY. shot and killed a weak-minded
neighbOr named Louis ShankS, while
the victim was pleading for mercy.
Miss LOUIE NJ. ROYCE, school teach
er who lay on the prairie all night with
three pupils during the blizzard at
Plainview, Neb., has had both feet am
putated.
c. F. WELLING, a dealer in musical
goods at MillerSburg, o., has disappear
ed with sum of money belonging to
creditors, deserting a young wife and
child,
CLAUDE MEEKER has sued the Co
lumbus Herald for damages for criminal
libel in which he had been charged with
being arrested for peddling fraudulent
certificates of registration.
THE President of the Yankton Oak J
Board of Trade publishes statement
dred lives lost by the blizzard, and no
one thousand, as had been reported.
F. L. HARPER, in an interview at the
Ohio Penitentiary, says in regard to the
failure of the Metropolitan Bank, that
the Government is more to blame than
the bank officers for these failures.
Miss Lucy DAVIS ALEXANDER, grand
niece of Jefferson Davis, ex-President of
the defunct COnfederacy, was married at
Paris, KY, to n. H. Anderson, train dis
patcher for the Kentucky Central Rail
road at that point.
FIVE cases of trichinOSiS have occur
red in the family of VIM. Mau, near To
ledo, Ohio.
THE Rowan County (Ky.) Investigat-
ing Committee will report in favor of
abolishing the county.
PROF. FRANCIS l.. PATTON has been
elected to the Presidency of Princeton
College to succeed DR.. McCOsh, resigned.
CHAIRMAN MILLS bill to invest the
Treasury surplus in L. 5. bonds will be
reported favOrably by the committee.
JOHN JANAUsCHEK, a farmer near
New Prague, Mimi, shot and killed his
wife and daughter and then committed
suicide.
GEORGE DUNHAM, convicted at Wood
bury, n. s, of the murder of his moth
er-in-law, was sentenced to be hanged
on March %.
THE Commercial Printing Company,
of Chattanooga, Tenn, has assigned.
Liabilities, 1888 .68; assets, nominal,
$43,92S .46.
CORNELIUS SULLIVAN, a miner, drop
ped dead at Terre Haute, Ind, the re
suit of beating at the hands of a Rose
vile salOOn-keeper.
THE Syndicate landowners of Find
lay, o., have formed pool, and will raise
100000 to induce manufacturers to To-
cate at that place.
JOHN WILLIAMS, farmer near Della
ware, o., while chopping wood accident
ally hit his twelve-year-old boy with the
axe, splitting his head open.
THE suit of Mrs. John W. Dittemore,
of Indianapolis, against her husband, for
divorce, which involves a well known
church scandal, is being heard in the
courts of that city.
WILLIAM MEANS, President of the
Metropolitan National Bank, surrender
ed himself to the L. 5. authorities upon
information that warrant for his ar
rest had been issued. He gave bond
for his appearance when wanted.
HENRY SCOTT pleaded guilty at Xenia,
O., some time ago, to the theft of
some diamonds belonging to Mrs. John
c. Allen, of Yellow Springs, and was
sentenced to the penitentiary. Since
that time the rings have been found in
the drawers of dresser in Mrs. Aliens
room.
Hon. BENZ. EGGLESToN died Thurs
day at the Walnut Street House, Cincin-
natl, where he was taken for treatment
For three years he had been incapacitat-
ed for business by an affection of the
brain, during which time he had been at
the home of his brother in Hooking
county. A sudden change in the trouble
required special treatment and for
this purpose he was taken to Cincinnati
short time ago. Mr.. Eggleston was in
public positions all his life. He served