Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-24
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

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Mrs. Mollie Hamlet and her four
children were burned to death by the
explosion of lamp at Valparaiso, Ind.
At Council Bluffs, Ia, yesterday, Hank
Hall, a notorious character, brutally
murdered his wife and then cut his own
throat.
Gov Campbell has respited "Brocky"
Smith. the Cincinnati murderer, until
August %, to give him him an opportu-
nifty to bring his case before the Supreme
Court on writ of error.
The steamship Teutonic has come
within a few minutes of breaking the
record of the City of Paris, her time,
west bound, being five days, twenty-one
hours and fifty minutes.
Ettie Jewett, of Greensburg, Ind, who
ran away to Cincinnati, was found by
the police and taken to headquarters,
where she made an attempt to commit
suicide by taking arsenic.
J. A. Bear, peddler, fell from the
third story window of Moore's boarding
house, Wheeling, yesterday, and when
found was unconscious. His injuries
are serious, but not necessarily fatal.
At Youngstown the festival of the
Lady of Mount Carmel was celebrated
by the Italian residents yesterday, large
delegations being in attendance with
bands of music and handsome flags, the
Stars and Stripes being carried at the
head of the parade.
The employees of the Nail City Lantern
Factory, at Wheeling, about 65 in num-
Der, struck because two non-union men
were employed by the firm, and the
factory was shut down. 1t was pushed
with orders, and the strike comes at a
very inopportune time.
FRIDAYS NEWS
Smallpox is epidemic in Saltillo,
Mexico.
Severe storms are reported from all
parts of the country.
Brigadier General Daniel 7. Van Bu-
rem, died Thursday at Plainfeld, N. j.
At Omaha, Neb., Henry Hall, aged
fifty-five, teamster, shot his wife and
fatally wounded himself after quarrel.
Two counterfeiters were arrested in
New York, Thursday, having in their
possession $500 in 'two-dOllar counter
feits.
A brother and sister who were sep
arated forty-five years ago at the auction
block in Virginia, met the other day in
GolcOnda, Ill.
A judicial decision in an indianapolis
Court is to the effect that German must
be taught in the lower grades of the
public schools.
Frank X. Southland, of Newark, O.,
who has been drinking, stabbed himself
in the side with sword, and is not ex-
pected to recover.
General Alger says that the announce
ment of his candidacy for the Presidency
in 1892 by James F. Joy, of Detroit, was
not authorized by him.
Three sons of Otto Goldner, Monroe
vile, o., who were sitting on lounge
during the storm yesterday, were killed
by thunder bolt that came down the
chimney.
Arthur Pickard, in Jail at Akron, O.,
on charge of burglary, has received
notice that by the death of his father in
England he has fallen heir to an estate
worth $4,000.
A Kansas Judge has granted an in
junction restraining county officials from
interfering with the business of agents of
brewing companies handling goods in
original packages.
Law and Order people in Indiana
counties infested by White Caps are
preparing to organize for the purpose of
hunting down the miscreants and giving
them some of their own medicine.
An explosion of gas occurred in a
blast furnace at the Cambria Iron Works,
Johnstown, Pa, by which four men were
BADLY injured, two fatally. H. W.
Shaffer, carpenter, and his helper.
John Miller, aged twenty-five, is in
jail at Cadiz, O., charged with attempting
to wreck train on the Cleveland, Lorain
and Wheeling railroad. This is his second
attempt His friends claim he is of un-
sound mind.
Near Goreville, ILL.,, the sixteen-year-
old son of farmer Morris Sullivan, shot
his father and mother while they lay in
bed. He had previously tried to poison
them. He gave as his reason that he
was tired waiting for their property.
At a conference of the Republican
County Congressional Committee of the
Sixteenth District of Ohio it was decided
to hold mass Convention at Massillon
sometime in August for the purpose of
nominating Mckinley for Congress by
acclamation.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
La grippe has reappeared at st. Louis,
France.
William Bullard was swallowed up by
the mud in Mud Lake, MINI.
Nine men were sentenced to death in
the Federal Court at Paris, Tex, Friday.
The shock of the Kings Mills explo-
sion was felt at Columbus, Ind, ITO
miles distant.
a night force of counters has been
put to work in the Washington Census
Office.
During storm in the vicinity of
Princeton, n. j., hail-stones as large as
hickory nuts fell in large quantities.
Peter Kaufman a laborer on the Gin
cinnati City Hall Building, fell dis
tance of eighty feet and was killed.
a box containing the chopped-up
pieces of woman's body, was found in
the baggage rooms of the Union depot
at St. Louis.
Miss Alice Smith, of Jeffersonville,