Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
SUNDAYS NEWS.

Harry Strobe at Terre Haute, Ind,
killed his step-father with a club as the
result of quarrel.
An epidemic is prevailing in the
eastern part of Carroll county. Six
deaths occurred in one day, and the
victims are sick only few hours.
Physicians pronounce it genuine Asiatic
cholera.
Will Clark, a soldier quartered at the
Columbus barracks, outraged an eleven
year-old girl and threatened to kill her
| if she told of his crime.
The rains of Friday night and Satur-
day did great damage to farms, railroads
and all kinds of property over Northern
Ohio, and along the Allegheny and
Monongahela and tributaries.
By an explosion of natural gas at
Findlay, o., Fred Singley, baker, was
fatally burned.
Four professional thieves, who have
been "doing" Dayton for some time,
were captured on Saturday. They were
heavily armed and thoroughly equipped.
All are ex-convicts.
MONDAYS NEWS
Ericsson's body was received in Stock
holm yesterday with imposing hOnors.
The President is expected to return to
Washington from Cresson Springs next
Saturday.
The body of VIM. Stinzler, who resided
at 67 Fifteenth street, Cincinnati, was
found in the canal yesterday.
Julius Ritterman, of Cincinnati, aged
fourteen, crazed by reading trashy liter
chief, Sunday.
Charles L. Jungerman, City Engineer
of Newport, KY, was shot and killed by
Thomas S. Reilly, Newport reporter of
the Covington Commonwealth, Sunday.
Messrs. Specht and Ranger have pur-
chased for syndicate l ,250,000 acres of
Texas land, for the purpose ofrenting to
cattlemen for grazing purposes.
Robert Ray Hamilton, of New York,
whose domestic troubles caused a sensa-
tion year ago, was drowned in Yellow
stone Park while on hunting trip.
Secretary of the Treasury Window
yesterday issued a circular stating that
proposals would be received for the sale
of $16,000,000 tour-per-cents at noon on
Wednesday.
Conductor Charles Smith was killed in
wreck in the c., II. and d. yards at
Lima, O., resulting from his train run
ming over and killing Dallas Carter,
whose relatives reside at Byington, Ohio.
TUESDAYS NEWS.
The average Democratic majority in
Arkansas at the recent election was
22,500.
Rains In Georgia since the first of
August are said to have damaged the
cotton crop in the State at least 20 per
cent.
Alexander Pickett, living near Wilks-
barre, Pa, was set upon by a gang of
ruflians Sunday night, and fatally beaten
and stabbed.
Gen. J. 5. Crocker, Warden of the
District jail, died at his residence in
Washington City, Sunday. He was 40
years of age.
Counterfeit SO greenbacks bearing
the stamps of the German National
Bank of New Orleans are in circulation
at st. Louis.
The case of the Wheeling and Belmont
Bridge Company, who tried to prevent
work on the Wheeling Terminal, was
decided in favor of the latter at
Charleston, w. Va.
Hog cholera is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent near Findlay, and in number
of instances farmers have lost whole
herds of swine within the past few days.
The body of James Bailey was found
near Elkhorn, w. Va, riddled with
bullets. Bailey had been missing some
time. He was an important witness
against a number of prominent men
who are indicted for murder in lynching
a negro.
The case of G. c. Hale, of Cleveland,
charged with shooting with intent to
kill Eugene II. Cowles, his brother in
law, at Montreal, came to an end yester
day by the acceptance of Hale's plea of
guilty of aggravated assault. He was
fined $500.