Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-21
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
SUNDAYS NEWS.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
SUNDAYS NEWS.
Preparations have been made to make
the nomination of Mckinley at Massillon
a Republican ovation.
Near Madison, Ind, an aged lady was
fatally burned, her dress catching fire
from spark from passing locomotive.
Thomas II. Elser, superintendent of a
coal mine at North Lawrence, o., was
fatally crushed by being caught between
a car and post.
| Four hundred cigar makers of Cleve-
land, o., quit on account of refuse of
their demand for an advance of one
dollar per thousand.
The strike of Rock Island switchmen
at Chicago because a man was discharged
for drunkenness, was renewed because
he was not reinstated.
Three men were killed and fourteen
injured in wreck on the st. Louis,
Alton and Springfield Railroad near
Celpton Terrace, ILL.,, Friday evening.
An Indianapolis desperate, Harry
Kokemiller, made an assault on August
Defor, man sixty-five years old, and
received wounds with knife that will
result in his death.
The Farmers Alliance of the Fifth
Congressional District of Ohio, in con-
vention at Lima, decided not to put a
candidate in the field. and refused to
indorse the Prohibition candidate, Henry
Price.
In Daviess county, Ind, Joseph
Wilkey, a young farmer, member of the
M. E. Church, was taken from bed by
White Caps, and whipped on the charge
of undue intimacy with woman of the
neighborhood.
James Griggsby, in what was evidently
fit of insanity, leaped from the Suspen-
sion Bridge, Cincinnati, into the Ohio
River, falling distance of about ninety
| five feet. He sustained severe injuries,
but is still alive.
| MONDAYS NEWS
The first carload of hops was shipped
from San Francisco to a New York firm.
Five thousand four hundred and fifty
steerage passengers from Europe passed
through the Barge Office last week.
While men were digging at clay
bank, three miles from BOrdentown, n.
j., the bank caved in, killing Fritz
Soloman.
A magazine of the Hercules Torpedo
Company near Buckland, o., was blown
up Saturday evening. A spark from a
| locomotive was the cause.
The family of Aaron Thompson, living
at Branch Hill, o., was poisoned by
drinking coffee made from berries that
had not been sufficiently roasted. The
poison that should have been eliminated
by perfect roasting was distilled by the
steaming.
At Albany, Sunday, the crowds of
roughs along the New York Central
tracks amused themselves throwing
stones at the armed PinkertOn men.
The latter replied with lead, missing
their assailants, but wounding three in
nOcent people. One Pinkerton man was
arrested, but afterward rescued by his
associates.
A quarrel between two white men and
some negroes occurred on the Big Four
accommodation that left Cincinnati at
II o'clock Saturday night. 1t begun
near Coal City, between Delhi and North
Bend. 1t led to revolver duel, as re-
suit of which Mrs. Queen Crooks (cOlored)
was killed, George Singleton (colored)
and George Godfrey (white) fatally
wounded, and two other men seriously
injured.
In "Robber's Gut" near Otterville,
crimes of the James boys and the
Younger Brothers, masked men attacked
and captured the Kansas City Limited,
on the Missouri Pacific road, and robbed
the car of the Pacific Express Company.
1t is surmised that they got about SIS, 900,
but the Superintendent of the Express
Company says only about $74, gold
watch and package supposed to con-
tain Government securities was taken.
TUESDAYS NEWS.
At Bloomington, o., Henry Baker,
aged five, was bitten by rattlesnake as
he stood on the veranda of his fathers
house.
Ephraim c. Mower, bachelor farmer
near Wooster, O., is under arrest charged
with causing the death of Allie Albright
by abortion.
The decomposed body of an unknown
man was found in clump of brush near
GAINESVILLE, Sunday The body had evil
IDENTIFY been there month.
A freight train on the Q. and c. was
wrecked near Faulkner's Station, KY,
by the spreading of rails, from which
spikes had been drawn. 1t is believed
it was designed to wreck the fast mail.
Vice President Webb, of the New
York Central, has declined Mr.. Pow
derly's offer to arbitrate, and, according
to the decision of the General Committee,
all the brotherhoods of railway men will
be ordered to strike.
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