Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-02
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

The first bank failure has occurred il
Oklahoma, the Capital City suspendins
business.
4 German American Prohibition
League has been organized in In
dianapolis.
Benjamin F. Swingle nominated fol
Congress by the Fourteenth Distric
Republicans.
The Indian Run Oil Company STRUCK
an immense flow of gas at their wei
near Marietta, yesterday.
City Marshal A J. Lichty, of Bucyrus
O., has been arrested on a charge Of
forgery. Lichty is a Democrat.
1t is believed that ex- Governor Foster
will accept the Republican nomination
for Congress in the Eighth District.
A strike of switchmen in the Unio1
Pacific yards, Denver, is affecting the
entire business Interests of Colorado anG
the Far West.
Pennsylvania Prohibitionists have
nominated John d. Gill, of Westmore
land, for Governor, in place of Charles
Miller, declined.
Nelson, a stallion owned by C. H
Nelson, of Waterville, Me-, trotted a
mile at Kankakee, ILL.,, Wednesday, in
PIP equalling AXtells record.
William Walter Phelps, American
Minister to Germany, arrived in New
York in the Elbe yesterday. Mr. Phelps
comes home for rest and enjoyment.
Republicans of Objector Holman,s
district Fourth Indiana in
dorsed the nomination of John p. Rankin,
recently made by the Farmers Alliance.
The entire corn crop this season
promises to be about 1866, 100000
bushels "a reduction of 5S4,O00,0OO
bushels, or nearly 25 per cent, COM
pared with last year.
Lou Houk, paroled murderer and
confidence man, calls upon Governor
Campbell and demonstrates against the
Chief Executives attitude regarding his
release from the penitentiary.
Louis Philippe, Comte de Paris, on
the eve of his departure for America,
has issued manifesto, asking his friends
in France to boldly assert their confidence
in the principles of monarchy and to
unite among themselves in order to
keep up the struggle.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
The damage of the floods in France is
estimated at 50,000,00O francs.
Five hundred women vote at the
school election in Birmingham, n. Y.
1t is said that the cost of U. s. Sen
atorship from California is 100000.
The Pope is pleased with the deport-
ment of Queen Victoria toward the
Catholic Church.
The issues of newspapers containing
lottery advertisements received at Mont
gomery, Ala, have been seized.
Eighteen carloads of bottled tomato
catsup was shipped from Cincinnati,
to st. Louis and Chicago.
The Hill farm mine, at Dunbar, was
again opened few days ago and again
the fire obliged it being shut down again.
Will Runkels, aged 19. was fatally
struck by Baltimore and Ohio engine
at Parkersburg, w. Va, Wednesday
night.
Rev. A. NJ. Deford, of Hortonville,
Wis, was arrested yesterday on his way
to Conference on the charge of raising
bank bills.
National Prison Congress opens its
twentieth annual session in Cincinnati
Hayes delivers the intro
ductory address.
Two Cinnamon are under arrest in
st. Paul, Mimi, for blowing open and
robbing the safe of bank in Dallas,
Oregon, of $4,000.
Lieutenant Francis 2. Fremont, son
of the late General John C. Fremont,
says the stories of his mothers destitu-
ton are greatly exaggerated.
At Philadelphia yesterday John New
suicide by shooting himself
as he stood over an ice-box containing
the body of his dead wife.
The survivors (Union and Confederate)
of the battle of Lexington, Mo-, have
taken steps to erect a monument to
those who were killed on that occasion
Colonel r. E, Doan, of Clinton county,
was nominated for Congress by the
of the Tenth Ohio District
at 2:30 yesterday morning on the 34th
ballot
A 2-year-old child of Anthony Shaffer,
Of Canton, o., unobserved by the mother
drank cup full of lye, which
was standing on a table, and died soon
after in terrible agony.
Mary Hughes, insane, while in the
Probate Court, Cincinnati, threw an ink
stand at Judge Goebel, barely missing
,he Honor's head and making a dent in |
he wall behind his seat.
Several attempts have been made to
wreck trains and burn trestles on the
and Lake Erie Railroad, at
NOrwalk, Ohio, lately. An effort is
'eing made to detect the guilty parties.
There is county seat war between
he towns of Boston and Springfield In
3oca, Col. Winchester rifles were called
OTTO requisitson to aid in settling the
lispute. Two parties were killed and
everal seriously wounded.
A Senate joint resolution authorizing
he extension for one year of the time
# payment for land on pre-emptiOn or
homestead claims whenever, by reason
# failure of crops, the settler is unable
o make payment within the time pre-
cribed by law was passed by the Senate
esterday.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Columbus detectives nearly kill an ;
man at Washington, C. H.,
7hom they mistake for horse-thief.