Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-09
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
F. W. Roth. the Wooster, O., murder
er, who was to have been hanged March
10, has been granted a new trial.
CHARLES WICK, who has escaped the
penitentiary for fifteen wears, has finally
been sentenced from Newark, O., fOl
two years.
NEW YORK advices say that John r
Mclean is negotiating for the purchase
of the New York sun. Outsiders claim
there is no truth in the story.
FIELDEN and Schwab have personally
thanked Gov. OgleSby for saving them
from the gallows.
TIE Exposition Building at Oshkosh,
Wis. a huge frame structure, was crush
ed in by the weight of snow.
ROBERT F. MORROW, the San Fran
cisco millionaire, has been acquitted of
the charge of attempting to bribe a jury.
TIE indictments against Henry Pogue,
former Director of Fidelity Bank, have
been nollied in the District Court.
TIE Commissioners of the Cincinnati
Centennial Exposition have decided that
all departments will be closed on Sun
days.
TIE jury in the Ben Hopkins trial
has returned Il verdict of guilty as charg-
ed in the indictments. Hopkins coun-
sci have moved for new trial.
ELMER GEsT, of Xenia, o., has been
bound over to the L. 5. Court in the
sum of $500 for tampering with L. :.
Mails while in the pOstoflice Us clerk.
Gov FORAKER has signified his will
ingness to accept the position of Dele
gate-at-large to the National COnven-
ton, and to lead the Sherman support.
HUBBARD HARRELL, a colored boy
aged ten years, at Eastman, Ga, became
intoxicated and killed three small chill
dren, boiling them in large kettle of
water.
THE Post office Department has deci-
ded to arm postal employees on routes in
the West where train robbers seek torob
the mails This is done at the urgent
solicitation of General superintendent
Nash.
LESTER SINGLETARY and wife, color
ed, of Clarendon county, ). c., locked
their six children in the house, and went
to religious revival. The house caught
fire. and The children perished in the
flames.
c. F. SMITH and John Russell have
been sentenced to the penitentiary from
Urbana, Ohio, for forgery.
MATTHIAS BUSCH, a Chicago saloon
keeper, cut his wife's throat with a
butcher knife, killing her instantly.
LEWIS HOFFMAN, aged nine years,
was run over by freight train at Chi
cago junction, near Tiflin, Ohio, and
had his head cut off.
S. 5. TATMAN, wealthy farmer, of
O., suicided in the Akron jail
He was under sentence of seven Years
for shooting Thomas Briggs.
AT Memphis, Tenn, viii Summer
vile, an 1S-year-old boy, touched pros
trated electric light wire with a piece of
hoop iron, and was killed almost in
Miss JOSIE HOLMES, Exchange Clerk
Of the Fidelity Bank, by arrangement
Of counsel, will be arraigned, plead gull
ty and be released. Sentence deferred
n PLOT to entrap young women for
the dives of Northern Wisconsin has
been discovered at Eau Claire, Wis, and
the members of the conspiring gang
have been spotted.
TIE Metropolitan National Bank of |
Cincinnoti has suspended business, and |
Vice President John r. peCamp has
been arrested. The President asserts
hat the suspension is not caused by
speculation.
\ NINE-YEAR-OLD daughter of An
lrew Gink died at Havana, Ohio, after
intensely. Before her death
she stated her father had brutally kicked
Ter in the side on Christmas. 1t Is
hought the kick caused her death.
PRESLEY SEIGMAN, of Warsaw, Co
hoctOn county, o., is charged with
.riminal intimacy with his nieceS, one of
whom he sent to an inlirmary, another
lad three idiotic children and a third is
to have been murdered to hide
he crime.
New BREMEN, O., claims a gas well
With a capacity of ten million cubic feet
er day.
AT Chippewa Falls Mimi, DR.. Jurden
J. NJ. Phillips, editor of the In
erendent, injnring him possibly fatally.
TIE blasting mill of the Austin Pow
or Company, at Cleveland, o., was en-
rely destroyed by an explosion. Reu-
en Wright, vino had charge of the ma
hinery was instantly killed.
GEORGE G. MCCARTHY. a conductor
n the Chicago and Grand Trunk Rail
,ad. shot and killed brakeman named
arpenter, at Battle Creek. Mich.
In the woods near Duluth, Mimi, a !
lrmcr found the remains of Il stranded
llloon; also the remains of man
edged in the limbs of tree.
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.
The best Salve in Tie world Tor Cuts,