Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-06-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DISPATCHES from various points in
Southern Kansas report extraordinary
storms on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
At Fort Scott the rain was the hardest
in thirty years, washing out bridges and
railroads. At the town of Humboldt the
Neosho River was five miles wide, and
thousands of acres of wheat were ruined.
From Augusta, EldOrado, lola, and other
points immense damage to crops. roads,
and bridges is reported.
LONDON, O., is to be lighted by electric
ity.
PARTIES in Texas have brought suit to
recover $40 acres in Admission, Ala
WILLIAM SENIPLE, the millionaire dry
goods merchant of Allegheny, is dead.
ABOUT forty arrests for violating the
Sunday law were made in Cincinnati last
Sunday.
THE gold engagements in New York
for shipment to Europe Saturday were
S3,y15,OOO.
RANDOLPH UNCLES, colOred will be or
dained to the priesthood by Cardinal Glib
DOnS tomorrow.
\ NUMBER of BellefOnte, Pa, women
sensibly put on masculine attire to clean
up after the flood.
\ GREAT iron and coal discovery is re-
ported in Colorado.
\ BOSTON sugar refinery has purchased
twenty-five thousand tons of Cuban sugar
at five cents pound.
THE fair grounds at Findlay, o., have
been sold to the American Midland Rail
road Company for S37 800 cash.
DR.. T. B. Mellow has been indicted at
| Charleston, ). c., for the murder of Capt.
| f. W. Dawson, in March last.
OTTO LEUTH, the slayer of little Mag
| dicted for murder in the first degree.
GENERAL WM. T. WITHERs, the we'll
known breeder of trOtting horses, died at
his home in Lexington, KY, Sunday.
THE work of laying the proposed cable
| between Honolulu and san Francisco will
| be commenced within eighteen months.
THE Standard Oil Company is prepar-
ing to build an eight-inch pipe line from
| Cygnet, o., to Detroit, for handling fuel
oil.
SMALLPOX and yellow fever prevail in
| Brazil, in all the States surrounding Rio
! JaneirO to a distance of two hundred
miles.
| COLONEL CONGER says he is candid
ate for Chairman of the Republican EX-
ecutive Committee, to succeed W. s. Cap
peller.
BY an explosion of natural gas at Indi-
annapolis, on Saturday, a residence was de-
moliShed and eight persons injured, two
! seriously.
A CADIz dispatch announces that Mrs.
Susan Fryer, probably the oldest woman
in Harrison County, died Sunday night,
aged "a years.
| THE Navy Department has advertised
| for proposals for the construction of two
| steel cruisers, to cost not more than 81,
| 10000 each.
! Mr.. PEELING states as a popularity
/ that preceded the late flood at Lock Ha-
ven, Pa, that earth worms craWled up the
side of his barn.
THE conference committee of the two
| houses of the Michigan Legislature has
agreed to fix the retail tax at $3.50, and
! the brewers tax at 500.
FRANK RYAN and Frank Sadler, who
made two attempts to wreck train near
! Canton, o., have been sentenced to fifteen
years each in the penitentiary.
THE town of Grinnell, Iowa, which was
destroyed by tornado seven years ago,
was visited by big fire last week, which
burned about all the business houses in
the place.
THERE We're serious floods in Southern
Indiana the latter part of last week, COW
ering thousands of acres of farming lands
with water. Crops were greatly damaged.
and some totally destroyed.
STANLEY has been heard from again.
On December 2 he was at Ururi, on the
Southeastern shore of Victoria NyanZa
The letter, received at Zanzibar, says the
expedition has lost many men from dis
ease and famine.
DISPATCHES from New Jersey, Della
ware, Maryland, Eastern Pennsylvania,
New York and New England report ex
tensive damage to property and some loss
of life by storms accompanied by light
ming on Saturday evening.
THE mutilated remains of a man sup
posed to be Perry Mckinley, of Cadiz, o.,
were found upon the railroad track near
Frazeysburg, o., on Sunday. 1t is sup
posed he fell between the cars while steal
ing ride and was ground to pieces.