Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-10
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
SUNDAYS NEWS.


A new Spanish Ministry has been
formed. with Senior Canovas del Castillo
as Prime Minister.
Mrs John G. Wright, native wife of
an American missionary, was murdered
at Salinas, Persia, by discharged en-
ploye.
A Cleveland Judge has decided that
the ordinance closing barber r-shops on
Sunday is not in conformity with the
State law on Sunday labor.
On the Fourth of July, while Mrs.
John Rother was walking on the street
of Washington, Mo-, her dress caught
fire and she was burned to death.
Colonel Len A. Harris, once Mayor of
Cincinnati, and lately member of the
Board of Managers of the Soldiers
Home, died Saturday at his home in
Cincinnati.
George Seals, who was driven from
Crawford county, Ind, by White Caps,
and went to Perry county, murdered his
wife, shot and killed the Sheriff who
went to arrest him, and fed the country.
Miss May Wright, of jamestown, n.
Y, heiress of $4,000, ran away from
her uncle's house to Cleveland, O., where
she took employment as a domestic.
The romance soon wore out, and when
her uncle came with detective she was
ready to 60 home.
The striking cloak makers of New
York are not only out of work, but out
of funds and credit. There was but
S1315 in the treasury of the Union Sat
urday noon, and several hundred hungry
men waiting for relief. Yet the leaders
express a determination to continue the
fight for more wages.
MONDAYS NEWS
The business portion of lola, ILL.,, was
burned Saturday morning.
Harry Marsh cut Miss Clara Jones
throat from ear to ear, at GallitZin, Pa,
because she refused to marry him.
A cloud-burst in Richmond county,
Wis, destroyed four mill dams and
wrecked an iron bridge at Eagle Mills.
The st. Paul Railroad was so badly
damaged that traffic will be prevented
for at least five days.
Prof. William C. Jones, a noted school
teacher of Western Kentucky, a native
of London, and a schoolmate of Hon.
William E. Gladstone, died at Princeton,
Kentucky.
John Moody, colored, was drowned at
Wikesbarre, Pa, while trying to save a
white child who had fallen into the
water.
The yardmen of the Pennsylvania and
Louisville and Nashville Railroads, in
Cincinnati, have quit work, the COM
panies' having refused to pay the Chicago
scale as demanded. The draymen of the
city have resolved to support the striking
freight handlers.
TUESDAYS NEWS.
E. L. Harper has renewed his agitation
for pardon.
The Louisiana Legislature passed the
lottery bill over the Governors veto on
Tuesday.
Governor Nichols, of Louisiana, has
returned the lottery bill to the House
with message setting forth his reasons
for not signing it.
A special Knights of Pythias train
was wrecked at Manteno, Ill. j. ].
Crowder, of Waco, Tex, was killed.
-Four other Knights were injured.
A bill has been introduced in the
House of Representatives having for its
object the establishment for industrial
training schools and to provide lands for
negroes.
Miss Susan Rea, of Canton, o., was
burned to death. Her dress caught fire
from a stove.
John Ebersole, aged eight, of McComb,
o., tied one end of rope around cows
horns and the other about his waist and
hit the cow. He is dead.
Four of the Democrats of the Jersey
City Election Board, convicted of frauds
on the ballot, have been sentenced to
the penitentiary for eighteen months
each.
A sixteen-year-old daughter of Jacob
Lowe, near Millersburg, o., fell from
machine in front of the cutter
bar and was horribly mangled.
A call has been issued for a negro
Democratic National Convention to
meet at Atlanta, Ga, some time in
October, and take action on the Federal
election bill now in Congress.