Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-11-20
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.


City is in the hands of State Examiner
1t is reported that Senator Quay viii
resign from the National Republican
Committee.
Prof. Koch, of Berlin, will open {
hospital for the treatment of consump
tives by his method.
Henry J. King, of Oberlin, O., com
mitted suicide. He is the father Of
Prof. King, of Oberlin College.
The remains of General Crook were
removed from Oakland, Md, to Wash
ington yesterday and inferred in Airing
ton Cemetery.
The Adams Express Company has
adopted the regulations of the Post
Office Department in regard to lottery
business for the guidance of its own
employees in the same manner.
Thomas L. Tomey, a farmer near
Washington, Ind, while feeding stock
was attacked by two masked men and
cruelty beaten. 1t is thought to have
been an attempt at assassination.
The tobacco growers of Kentucky met
at Lexington yesterday, and took pre-
| liminary measures toward the organiza-
ton of cooperative society to build
warehouses and conduct their own bust
ness.
Elmer E. Gibson, rate clerk of the
Hooking Valley and Toledo Railroad
Company, has confessed that he appro-
priated book of press passes, forged
the name of General Passenger Agent
Fisher, and gave it to friend.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
The official plurality of Governor elect
Pattison, of Pennsylvania, is 1854.
The official returns of Iowa show the
election of the whole Republican State
ticket.
The Legislature of the new State of
Wyoming has forty-nine members, Of
whom nine are Democrats.
Reports reach Washington that British
poachers are still at work among the
seals of the Behring Sea.
Secretary Tracy has ordered the in
crease to forty-three of the number of
stars in the ensign and the Union jack.
The overland Southern Pacific pass
enger train went through trestle over
Lake Labish. Five persons were killed
and over hundred injured.
The latest election returns indicate
that in the South Dakota Legislature
the Democrats will have seven majority
on joint ballot, giving them the United
States Senator.
Daniel S. Appleton, of the publishing
firm of D. Appleton & Co., died yester-
day at his home in University Place,
New York. He was stricken with apo
plexy last Sunday.
Among the speakers at the Thurman
banquet were: Mr. Thurman, Grover
Cleveland, Congressman Outhwaite, Don
Dickinson, General Thos. Ewing, ex.
Senator Mcdonald, and Congressman
Breckinridge, of Kentucky.
Chas. Unger, Secretary of the Farmers
Alliance, of Crawford county, has been
reported to the U. S. authorities for
violations of the internal revenue law,
in selling tobacco to members of the
Alliance without taking out license.
The Knox county Savings Bank, of
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, has been forced into
assignment on account of the failure of
Decker, Howell & Co., with whom they
have $4,000 deposits. Their other as
sets aggregate $4,000, and the liabili-
ties $175,000.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Birchall, the murderer, was hanged
Friday at Woodstock, Can.
The hog cholera is doing great dam
age in Madison county, Ohio.
Senator ingalls,, of Kansas, expresses
confidence of his reelection.
The Mayor of Findlay, O., has ordered
all gamblers to leave town. Fifty have
left.
At Altoona, Pa, Boyd Gilmore killed
his uncle, Hugh Stewart, with a base
ball bat
W. W. Astor has leased the Lansdowne
House, in London, and will take up his
residence there.
Gail Wright was accidentally shot and
killed by his father, Knox Wright, while
out hunting near Newark, o.
Frank NJ Irion, ex-Clerk of the City
Court of Birmingham, Ala, has been
convicted of embezzleing $4,000.
The Farmers Alliance leaders of
Kansas have decided to establish an
assessment life insurance association.
Two persons were killed and eighteen
others injured (some will die) in wreck
on the Pennsylvania Railroad caused by
collision near Florence, Pa.
George Fisher, Henry Wyscup and
Chas. Burkett were killed by an explo-
sion of dynamite, at Clusters Stone
quarry, Lima, o. Three other men
were injured.
Jay Gould has written a letter to the
New York Sun, in which he expresses
a hope that the Railroad Presidents
may be brought together again in an
agreement on the question of Western
roads.
Lexington, KY, wants to become the
capital of the State, and special election
will be held on the question on indem-
nifying the State to an amount not to
exceed S250,000 for loss of moving the
capital from Frankfort.
Nor a few of the phrases in use at
this day originated with Livy, and are
found in his "Eupheus," a popular book
nnhlished in IhS0 Among them might |