Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

BENJAMIN NEwGAss, of London, has
offered SI,250,000 for the Louisiana
Lottery privilege.
JAY GOULD was fined 800 for not
answering summons of New York
Court to act as petit juror.
THE Cincinnati carpenters strike is
extending to the other building trades,
and many men are quitting work.
THE remains of a female, supposed to
have been murdered, were unearthed by
workmen while digging a road near
Newark, 0.
A NEGRO living at Livingstone, Tex,
cut the throat of a white man named
Morris. Shortly after several white men,
among them Alf Morris and his son,
lynched him.
REPORTS from Pope county, Illinois,
say that the country is oyerrun by rats.
They have been especially destructive of
grain and poultry.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL has granted a
respite until August 29 in the case of
Otto Leuth, in order to give time to
present it before the Board of Pardons.
THE wholesale liquor dealers of New
York have agreed to subscribe half a
million dollars to build distillery to
supply their own trade, and in opposition
to the Whisky Trust.
A SYNDICATE has been formed to
control the production and market of
onyx. 1t is announced that reduction
in price of this popular and beautiful
decorative mineral will follow.
WEDNESDAY morning, Herman Huer-
man, attempted to drive his two-mule
baker wagon across in front of a moving
train, in Cincinnati, but was struck by
the train, four of the heavily loaded cars
passing over him and literally grinding
man, mules and bread into an inseparable
mass.
FRIDAYS NEWS
THE Colonel Brice tax case has been
taken to the Circuit Court of Allen
county.
Mrs. HARRISON has left Washington
for Cape May, where she will spend the
summer.
1T is said the Senate will remain in
session this summer until it passes a
National election law.
SHERMAN HUsEER, while working at
a sawmill, near Spencerville, o., was
killed by log rolling over him.
CHARLES F. PUsTNER, of Troy, O.,
being threatened with total blindness,
escaped that fate by committing suicide.
THE Millers' National Association, in
session at Minneapolis, unanimousli
Endorsed the Butterworth anti-option
bill.
REV. NJ. G. LOCKWOOD, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, of Cincinnati, has
been nominated by the Prohibitionists
for Secretary of State.
JAMES BARLOW, farmer living near
Parkersburg, w. Va, fell while carrying
a scythe. The blade almost severed one
leg and cut the other to the bone.
IT is said million dollars is to be
raised to fight the tin plate clause of the
Mckinley tariff bill. The manufacturers
of Cornwall and Monmouthshire are in it. |
PAUL WOLF, Washington correspond
ent of the New York Stats Zeitung,
advocates an educational qualification
as best calculated to check Objectionable
immigration.
FRANK MILLER, aged twelve, of Cleve- |
land, when arraigned in Police Court for
larceney, said that his stepfather had
forced him to steal, threatening him
with the rod if he did not.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
AT Canton, O., Henry Popp was con-
victed of murder in the first degree for |
the killing of Morritz Grether.
FREDERIC MILLER and David Heller
were instantly killed by premature ex-
plosion of dynamite at Brazil, Ind.
Four deaths by drowning occurred |
within twenty-four hours at Peoria, Ill. |
Mystery surrounds two of the cases.
A 17-YEAR-oLD Italian water carrier |
on the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie fell
under the wheels of a slow moving
freight near Beaver Falls and had one
leg cut off.
THREE burglars were surprised rob-
bing the Woodbury., N. J., postoffice.
Many shots were exchanged with the
police. One was captured. The others
got away with a lot of letters, 5000 in |
cash and 5000 in stamps.
AN elderly gentleman, named Olden,
coming from some point in the West to
visit his aged mother at Harrisburg, w.
Va, fell from Baltimore and Ohio train
yesterday. His head was cut off and his
body literally chopped to pieces.