Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-07
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

Tuesday night.
Advices from North Carolina and
Virginia indicate that the tobacco crop
will be large and of fine quality.
At Scranton, Miss, Henry Dudley
(colored) was executed for the murder
of Henry Fleigge, white sailor.
In the burning of the house of Joseph
HuttO, living some twelve miles from
Lincoln, Neb., his four-year- old daughter
perished.
The steamship Majestic has crossed
the Atlantic in 6 days, % hours, 5S
minutes, the third ship to cross in less
than seven days.
Mrs. Graves, of Mt. Olivet, Tenn, is
the grandmother and great grandmother
of one hundred and ten living people.
She is ninety-four years old.
George Francis Train will leave
Tacoma, Wash, August z on the steam
ship China, and expects to make the
circuit of the globe in 81 days.
Spectators in Japan are buying up
all the rice and holding it for excessive
prices, while, on account of the failure
of the crop, the poor are starving.
The Russian Government has ordered
the application of the edicts of 1882
Iagainst the Jews. 1t will result in the
lexpulsion of over one million from the
Icountry.
Jesse Grubbs, of Manchester O., COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself at
Hutchinson, Kan. He was 80 ysars old,
formerly principal of schools at Man.
chester and was very popular.
FRIDAYS NEWS
Washington G. H., Alliance, Kenton,
Mt. Vernon, and Ironton, o., have appli-
ed for free delivery mail service.
The San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce has passed resolutions indorsing
Blaine's reciprocity project.
The wheat crop of the Dakotas and
Minnesota is estimated at one hundred
million bushels, one of the largest ever
harvested.
The total number of dead of the
Johnstown disaster of fourteen months
ago is put at 2,187. Two hundred bodies
have not yet been recovered.
The hot winds accompanying the high
temperature in Kans. has literally cooked
the corn, and it is said many fields will
not yield a single ear.
Charles Arnold, the Monon conductor
charged with the murder of VIM. Hilbert
by pushing him from train, has been
discharged.
The Treasury Department has issued
circular calling for offers of silver
bullion for purchase by the Government
under the new silver law.
1t is reported from Japan that the
starving people are destroying the prop
erty of the merchants who are "corner-
ing" rice for high prices during the
famine.
George Colby, a dying convict from
Geauga county, sent up for man.
slaughter, has been pardoned by Gov
ernor Campbell.
The Archduchess Maria Valeria,
youngest daughter of the Emperor of
Austria, renounced her rights to sue
cession to the throne in order to marry
her own choice of husband. She yester-
day married Archduke Francis Salvador.
The Boldrey family, of Sunman, Ind,
of whom there are five, are heirs to
$4,000,000 proceeds of certain New York
property leased to the U. Government
for ninety-nfne years in 1776.
jeremiah Miller, a wood chopper living
in lonely cabin on North Mountain,
eight miles northeast of Mechanicsburg
Pa, shot and mortally wounded his wife,
and then killed himself.
One hundred years ago yesterday, the
first mechanical patent was issued by the
Government. 1t was granted to Samuel
Hopkins for making pot and pearl ashes.
The total number of patents issued dur
ing the century was 433,432
SATURDAYS NEWS.
The decrease of the public debt during
July was S395,257.
By the will of General Fremont his
widow is made sole heir and executrix.
The insurrection in Salvador has been
suppressed by the Government, and
Rivas, who started and led it, shot.
Samuel Hazlett was killed and his
grandson seriously injured at New
Derry, Pa, by train colliding with
their buggy.
An old saw mill boiler, near Danville,
H., exploded Friday. c. Chester was
instantly killed, and John Chester fatally
| injured.
Two more criminals escaped from the
Columbus Penitentiary, Friday night.
There have been four escapes and five
pardons within two weeks.
A Fall River, (Mass.) .homing pigeon
flew from Owosoa, Mich, $50 miles, in
two and three-quarter days, breaking
the record.
The heavy wind-storm of Friday
afternoon did considerable damage to
property In East Newport and Bellevue,
KY. Several houses were blown down
or unroofed.
The total population of Cincinnati is
295,951 including the inmates of the
City Infrmary at Hartwell. This is an
increase of 41,712 over 1880, or 1872 per
cent.
Seven hundred gold bars, valued at
100000, were taken from the Assay
Office, New York, and shipped to
Europe There is still $20,000,000 worth
in the Assay Office.
Crabb's Landing, on the Ohio River,
is excited over the mysterious disappear
ance of Mary Nicklaus, handsome
young woman who was recently the vic
tim of an assault. Foul play is feared.