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


accept a nomination.
AN explosion at the Wellington Col
liery. Victoria, B. c., resulted in the death
of fifty-seven miners.
THE New York Democratic State Com,
mittee is tie between the Administra-
ton and the Hill factions.
THE Grant Monument Association OF
New York proposes to erect a memorial
structure at cost of 100000.
STELLA NJ. BARNES,a IA handsome young
widow of Jackson, Mich, has fallen he'll
to an estate valued at $l50,000.
THE President has approved of the
postal convention recently concluded be
tween this country and Canada.
FRANK EMERSON, convicted of bur
glary at Kansas City, was sentenced tC
twenty years in the penitentiary.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Democratic
clubs will meet at Indianapolis early il
March to perfect an organization.
ONE thousand dollars worth of stoleI
silks were found in house OF ill-famt
kept by Matte Burns, at Sandusky, o.
CRUDE petroleum is reported to have
been discovered near Carmi, H., and il
quantity equal to the best Pennsylvania
product.
"BLNKY" MORGAN says the report
that he will confess is untrue, and was
started to prejudice his case in the Cir
cult Court.
LOCAL option was carried in Allegan
county, Mich, by 1,50O majority, making
fourteen counties in that State that have
voted for this measure.
MASKED men bound and gagged Hen
ry Merritt, an old wOodSman near Hun
tingtOn, Pa, and after torturing him stole
81 800 from the house.
SEVEN prisoners in the jail at Vance
burg, KY, made their escape by prying
off the iron sheeting and making hole
in the roof of the building.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND con-
tradicts the report that he was to become
a candidate to succeed L. 5. Senator Ber-
~, whose term expires in 1889.
Mrs. A. ]. ELLIS, of Kansas City, Mo-,
awoke on Wednesday morning and found
her twin babies dead by her side, having
been smothered during the night.
THE lockout at the Central Glass
works, Wheeling, W. Va, has been end
ed by the decision of the arbitrators, who
have decided in favor of the operatives.
HAPPY MEDIUM, the celebrating trOt-
ting stallion, owned by General WitherS,
of Lexington, KY, died on Wednesday
morning, of spinal meningitis. He was
valued at $4,000.
JOSEPH HUBER, a farmer near Mays
vile, KY, followed horse thief, shot and
captured him, took him home and kept
him till daylight, when he was taken to
the Maysville Jail.
REV. Mr.. BAYLEY, in a prohibition
sermon at Portland, Me-, announced that
there was more drunkenness in that State
than ever, and that even school children
were made beastly drunk.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MICHENOR, of
Indiana, has brought suit against the
Steward and Warden OF the State Prison
South, charging them with appropriating
the supplies of the prison to their own use.
THE American Horticultural Society
met in it's eighth annual session at San
Jose, Cal, on the 24th inst, many of the
most prominent men in horticultural and
agricultural circles in the country being
present.
GEN. JOHN W. FINNELL, late of Ken
lucky, died at Helena, Mon. He was a
prominent Republican politician and
journalist, and was Collector of Internal
Revenue in the Sixth Kentucky District
under President Garfield.
FoRTY-TwO prisoners at the Jefferson
vile Penitentiary Qndianal had planned
to make their escape, and an accidental
discovery by the Warden was made just
in time to prevent the success of the
scheme, which included bloodshed and
murder.
THE Royal Baking Powder Company,
of Brooklyn, is in the courts to settle diff
ferences between the prOprietOrs. The
Hoagland brothers are trying to force
VIM. Ziegler to sell his interest in the
company, and the District Attorney has
been asked to bring criminal proceedings.
ISAAC A STANLEY, late paying teller
of the National Bank of Commerce, of
Cleveland, pleaded guilty in the United
States Court to having embezzled $780,
600, which he had lost in Chicago wheat
speculatiOns, and was sentenced byJudge
Welker to five years in the penitentiary
without hard labor.
CoLoRED people at Charleston, S. c.,
are much stirred up over reports of the
formation of an Exodus Association in
Topeka, for the colonization of negroes
in South America. Fuel has been added
to the flame by an article published in a
newspaper warning negroes that there is
danger of their being sold into slavery if
they 90 to South America
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