Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-05
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

of liquors in the House restaurant snail
cease.
JOHN LUTz, County Auditor at St.
Cloud, Mimi, absconded, several thous-
and dollars short.
A RIOT occurred at Ann Arbor Tues
day night between the students and
attaches of Franklin's circus.
THE S400,0 900 necessary to secure J. ID.
Rockefeller's 100000 subscription for a
Baptist University in Chicago, has been
secured.
+. ILLINOIS Prohibitionists nominated r.
r. Link for State Treasurer and DR..
Carl Johann for Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction.
NINE distinct earthquake shocks were
felt at Indianapolis early this morning.
They were accompanied by sounds re-
bling the rushing of water.
Miss SUSAN RICHARDSON, Laddonia,
Mo-, commits suicide in her wedding
clothes because her parents object to the
man of her choice.
WHITE CAPS of Harrison county, Ind,
drag two helpless coloTed women from
their bed, tie them to trees and whip
them until they are rendered insensible.
TwENTY-FOUR members of the Thirty
fourth Congress who helped elect n. p.
Banks Speaker after a memorable con-
test assembled in Washington City to
celebrate the event.
THE festivities in connection with the
ceremony of the unwilling of the Lee
Statue at Richmond, Va, opened to-
night with military ball. The reporter
says: 'The Confederate emblems were
araped in graceful harmony with the
national colors."
FRIDAYS NEWS
BENZ. HAWKINS hanged in Washing
ton City for the murder of bis wife
March IA, 1889.
EX-JUDGE HUNTER and Lawyer ]. ID.
Jones came to blows in the Courtroom,
Newark, o.
JACOB EPSTEIN, Russian cigarmaker,
New York, murders his wife because
she refuses him money.
HENRY c. DREEsE, outgoing Demo
cratic Treasurer of the village of Minister,
o.. found 81 800 short in his accounts.
THE parade in honor of the Lee
Memorial proves to be the greatest pop
ular demonstration ever witnessed in
the South.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
SIX prisoners escape from the Lima
jail by digging hole through an out
side wall.
FORMATION of a Cracker Trust, with
a capital of ten millions, is announced
from Minneapolis.
A DISPATCH from Henderson, Mimi,
reports hail lying four feet deep in places
in the Red River Valley.
ELBERT RAPPELEYE arrives in Gin
cinnati on tour from New York across
the continent in paper canoe.
MEREDITH STANLEY jumps from the
Cincinnati and Newport Railroad Bridge
into the Ohio, distance of sixty feet,
for a purse.
A CLoUD-BURsT at Arcadia, Wis,
sweeps away two dams and one mill and
floods the town. One person is drowned.
ROBERT BONNER was chosen Pres
dent of the Scotch Irish Congress, in
session at Pittsburgh. President Har-
rison will attend the Congress to-day.
LoRING, son of Isaac Jones, of Mar
tins Ferry, o., has lived on liquid food
for three months, and has not spoken a
word or moved his hand for seven weeks,
the effect of La grippe, which developed
into lung fever.
ED DAILY and Robert Odones, con-
victs in the State Prison at JeffersOnville,
Ind, made break for liberty Thursday
morning. Daily was shot in the arm by
a guard, and both were captured before
they got outside the wall.
DECORATION DAY was observed yes
terday wherever the soldiers of the
Union are buried throughout the country.
Notable among the celebrations was the
unveiling of the Garfield monument in
Cleveland, laying of the corner stone of
the Washington memorial arch in New
York City, and the services at Gettys-
burg and Arlington. In Cincinnati
there were the customary services at
Spring Grove and on Walnut Hills,
Ex-Governor Foraker delivering the ora,
tion at the latter place.
THOSE HORRID QUESTIONS.
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
Those Democratic journals and politi-
clans who are so busy ringing the
changes of the ''impertinent'' and sin
quisitoriaI" questions which the census
enumerators are required to ask, should
read the history of the law which they
are condemning. The air has been fill
ed with the most exaggerated statements
regarding the mortgage Indebtedness of
the country put forth by free traders,
who demanded that the facts should be
officially obtained and tabulated. Re-
publicans denied the correctness of these
statements, and were willing that they
should be made subject of official
inquiry.
Democrat than the late S. S. Cox
Chairman of the House Committee on
Census, that the questions as to popular
Indebtedness were incorporated in the
act. The census law, which is now be-
ing so severely condemned by Democrats
was passed by Democratic House and
signed by a Democratic President, and
there is nothing in it for which Republi
cans should be held responsible above
their Democratic colleagues.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 67DAYS
New York Press.
That erratic individual, George Francis
Train, who is half philosopher, hal
crank, half lunatic, half sane, has
broken the record of globe circline
travel by nearly week. He accom-
plished the trip in 67 days, I3 hours,
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