Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-11-13
New Series, Vol. 80, No 46
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
FRIDAY S NEWS.


The southwest of Ireland was swept
by tornado.
Giovanni Succi has begun forty five
days fast in New York City.
At Middletown, O., painter known
as Charles Chickens fell forty feet from
scaffold and broke his neck
Secretary of Interior Noble has denied
the petition of Mayor Grant, for re-
count of the population of New York
City.
The remains of Abraham Lincoln, son
of Minister Lincoln, were shipped from
New York to Chicago yesterday for
burial.
The unofficial majority of Hare over
| Foster in the Eight District of Ohio is
133, and there are rumors of errors suffi-
cient to change the result in Fosters
! favor.
Edith Freeze, wife of a Dayton (O.)
saloon keeper, while her husband was
celebrating the election, got together
some of his cash and ran off with the
barkeeper.
Jam9s Hopkins and Adam McCraeken,
Indiana farmers living near Washington,
quarreled, and Hopkins shot McCsacken
| through the heart, killing him almost
instantly.
The Democrats in Congress will renew
the tariff agitation in the hope that
enough support may be had from North
western Republican Senators to secure
a modification of the Mckinley bill
D. A. Greever, Kansas City cattle
dealer, was shot, in that city, by Charles
Clifford, New York travelling salesman,
who found him in a room with his
(Clifford's) wife at the Hotel Andrews.
Ex-Mayor Cottrell, of Key West, Fla,
who terrorized that place some weeks
ago and then escaped to Alabama, was
shot and killed by the Chief of Police of
Montgomery, whom he had threatened
to kill.
Among the Democratic candidates for
Speaker of the House of the Fifty second
Congress are Cultivate, of Ohio; Bynum,
of Indiana; Crisp, of Georgia; Hatch, of
Missouri; Springer, of Illinois; Wilson,
of West Virginia; Mcmillan, of Tennes-
see; Lockwood, of New York. Mills
wants to be Chairman of the Committee
on Ways and Means.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Four persons were badly burned 1.-TWO
may die) in the hotel fire at Owensboro,
KY, Thursday night.
The Inman and White Star Steamship
Companies have agreed not to do any
ocean racing after January L.
Joseph Shrock and five children, of
Canton, o., were poisoned by eating
tainted cheese. Condition not serious.
William Waldorf Astor has filed plans
for a million-dollar hotel on the north
west corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty
third street, New York City.
Mrs. Lilly Hildburgh, of New York
City, while delirious, escaped from her
nurses and jumped through window
into an area, where she was found dead.
An oil tank at the electric light plant
Middletewn, o., exploded, Joseph West,
who was at work near by, was hurled
distance of twenty-five feet and instantly
killed.
At Irvine, KY, on election day, in a
fight growing out of dispute over
negro's vote, John Wilson, Democrat,
and Grant and p. A. Lilly, Republicans,
were killed.
Exposure is made of plot to
assassinate Congressman Alf. Taylor,
Republican candidate for reelection in
the First Tennessee District, which was
discovered on the eve of election and
guarded against by armed men,
Congressman Breckenridge, of Ken
tucky, says he will not be candidate
for Speaker until be sees whether the
elections next year in the Republican
States that went Democratic this year
demonstrate that this revolution is to be
permanent,