Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-09
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

THURSDAYS NEWS.
Straw paper men have formed a
combine.
Grape and raisin crop damaged by
rain in California.
President Harrison signed the Nc
Kinley tariff bill at 3:2l P. NJ. Wednesday.
Public debt outstanding October l
was s1,550.669, 500; decrease during
August, 1852, ,908.
The Office of Postmaster of the
National House of Representatives has
been declared vacant.
Democrats of the Fourth Ohio Dis
trict, after 813 ballots, nominated NJ. K.
Gantz, of Miami county, for Congress.
From Chicago comes story of six
months old baby being killed by cat
which sucks the breath out of the child.
National Prison Congress, Cincinnati,
has adjourned. Ex-President Hayes was
reelected President, and the next session
will be held in Pittsburgh, October 10,
1891.
There remains but little question that
Governor Campbell will convene the
Legislature In special session to wipe
out the obnoxious Cincinnati Board of
Public Improvements.
Mississippi expresses willingness to
have her Congressional delegation de-
creased for the sake of eliminating the
negro from politics. Congress is to be
memorialized to submit the repeal of
the fifteenth amendment to a vote of
the States.
Simon Obermayer, Cincinnati, who
recently eloped with and married Red
Cross nurse, and who was subsequently
sued for divorce and alimony by woman
claiming to be his wife, is again defend
ant In suit. This time it is for $4,000
for breach of promise, and the plaintiff
is fair Columbus damsel, who alleges
that Simon trifed with her affections.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
Henry White, Republican, has been
elected Mayor of Seattle, Wash.
The total population of the State of
New Hampshire is 325,827; increase
28,S36.
Ex-Governor Thomas, of Maryland,
who was Buchanan's Secretary of the /
Treasury, is dead.
Mrs. Helen U. Colfax, widow of the
late Schuyler Colfax, has been nominated
as one of the lady alternates at large at
the Worlds Fair.
Ernest Humphreys, colored, charged
with murder, was taken from the Jail at
Princeton, KY, Wednesday night by a
mob and hanged.
Governor Compbell opens the Demo-
cratic campaign at Canton, in McKinley's L
district, but fails to arouse any great u
amount of enthusiasm. L
tits claimed that the Original Package
act of Congress can not be made effective
in Kansas until the Legislature passes
another prohibitory measure. !
J. J. Gardner, a Pennsylvania lumber I
1ealer, is robbed of $4,000 in train In
while on his way to his home in la
from the East Liverpool Fair. L
Politics led to au alteration between
captain F. NJ. Wanamaker and NJ
1erlong, in Orangebury county, S. c., j.,
which the former was stabbed to death.
CHANGING to pass tree near Gintbrie
|. j. Mitchell mistook his brothers. | i
orm among the branches for a cat IL
mount and shot I'm. killing him In
Jacob kelte-., of Canton. O., under II
rrest for s,Iashing Charles Moore, his Ii
ival for a young lady's affections, with i
! kpIsIe. Moore was badly cut in the a
zee and arm. a
Masked desperadoes rob an Adams s
Express car on the c., S. and c. Railroad,
IN the limits of the city of Urbana, after [
binding and gagging the messenger.
The money taken was but $467.
The September crop statement of the c
New Orleans Cotton Exchange shows the s
largest movement of cotton for the first |
month of the season since the war, if {
not in the history of the trade. s
Deputy Marshal George w. Bird was I
,aking Arthur Palmer, suspected horse
.hief, to Jail near Frankfort, Ill, when
he latter drew revolver and shot Bird
,atally. Lynching is threatened. =
Thomas O'Conor, convicted in Mime e
,ota of the murder of his nephew, and r
sentenced to prison for life, has been a
Dardoned upon the condition that he e
caves the State. He has been twelve (
Years in prison. o
Jas. Harrington, pettifoging lawyer,
accused of perjury, was forcibly taken
rom the jail in Bakers Field, Cal, We'd
lesday by ten masked men, who con- =
7eyed him few blocks away, stripped q
lin and applied a coat of tar and .
eathers and then released him.
SATURDAYS NEWS. y
The population of Columbus, O.. is i:
)0, 1893. u
The historian, Bancroft, was ninety Il
7ears old yesterday. 6
Speaker Reed says he believes the
lext House of Representatives will be
f
Charles P. Taft has sold his interest e
:
.ate of Germans.
Hon. John F. Wilson received the !.
Republican nomination in the Eleventh n
kentucky District. +
Many Democrats in Congress have b
to Major Mckinley the hope q
hat he will be reelected. n
A. D. Bullock, a prominent citizen =,
Ind business man of Cincinnati, died :.
Friday night of apoplexy. "
An assessment of fifteen per cent has
'een made on the Democratic employees q
# Frnaklin county for campaign pur- G.
,oSes. II
A new oil field has been discovered ir
n the Elk River Valley, near Charleston, "