Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

Miss Annie Borchardt, teacher of
the public schools of Chicago, committed
suicide by jumping into the lake Tues
day night.
Nelson Saylor, a prominent attorney
of Cincinnati, was accidentally shot and
killed on Tuesday by companion while
hunting in West Virginia.
Edward Salters, aged 20, an inveterate
cigarette smoker of Grafton, W. Va,
was seized with a fit of insanity while
trying to break off the habit.
Miss Frances E. Willard says there is
movement on foot looking to union
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union and the Salvation Army.
Mrs. Hidden Seips, near Elkinsville,
Ind, became violently insane, and when
her twenty year-old daughter saw her
mother in her rawlings she, too, lost her
reason.
Negotiations between Powderly and
Vice President Webb have failed to
settle the New York Central strike, and
Powderly says it now becomes one of
the whole organization.
The State Department received tele-
gram from Minister Miner yesterday
saying that the good offices and mediation
of the United States have been accepted
by both Guatemala and Salvador. A
basis of peace will be presented.
FRIDAYS NEWS
Steve Cummins, NypanO brakeman,
was killed yesterday at Youngstown, o.,
by falling beneath the wheels.
The Republicans of the Sixth Con-
gressional District of Ohio, nominated
Colonel j. II. Brigham, a farmer of
Fulton county.
The Republican campaign in Ohio
will be opened at Urbana September 30.
Major Mckinley will probably be one
of the Speakers.
A detective claims to have located
Craven E. SilcOtt, the absconding As
sistant Sergeant-at-arms of the U. S.
Senate, in Silverton, Col.
Miss Sarah McKaig, a lovesick girl,
living near Logansport, Ind, committed
suicide by taking morphine because of
being deserted by her lover.
Alex Humphrey, living near Terre
Haute, Ind, has been arrested on the
charge made by his thirteen-ye old
daughter, of criminal assault.
Michael Shelly, an aged farmer living
near Wooster, o., was visited by masked
men, Thursday morning, and robbed of
between three and four thousand dollars
in cash.
President Harrison, while visiting the
Mint at Philadelphia yesterday, saw for
the first time the medal struck off in
commemoration of President Harrison,
his grandfather.
John Henderson, the negro who muir
dered and mutilated Gilbert Satterwhite,
near Midway, KY, was taken by mob
Thursday morning, and hanged to a tree
on the outskirts of Versailles.
M. Warren Garnet, of San Antonio,
Tex, now in Cincinnati, says small pox
is raving the Northern States of Mexico, |
and hundreds are dying monthly, and |
that no attempt is made to check the
disease.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
By freight wreck near Cascade. Col,
four men were killed, several injured, |
and nineteen cars smashed to pieces.
Three men were killed and three |
others seriously injured by the runaway
of stone train at Lyons, Col.
At Hazardville, Pa, Mamie Hogan,
aged twenty, was shot and fatally |
wounded by her father, who mistook |
her for burglar.
Joe Forsyth, a Deputy Sheriff of |
Bourbon Co., KY, insulted some ladies |
at the Maysville Fair, and was shot by
a friend of one of them. The wound is |
fatal.
A wild engine collided with switch |
engine at Springfield, o., Thursday.
The crews of the engines escaped by
jumping, but it took six hours to clear
the track
The State Board of Pardons has re-
fused to interfere in the case of "Brocky"
Smith, the Cincinnati murderer. There
is belief that the Governor will COM
mute the death sentence.
The investigation of the Pension office
administration of General Raum has
been adjourned until September l. The
Democrats have not yet proven any one
of all the charges made.
Mrs. Annie Gringle, living on Ohio
avenue, Cincinnati, having been deserted
by her husband, with whom she had
quarrelled on account of his drunken
habits, committed suicide by hanging.
A car on the Mount Penn Gravity
railroad, near Reading, Pa, ran away
distance of five miles. 1t contained
eighteen passengers, and when the car
finally jumped the track down fifty
foot embankment four were killed and
the other fourteen badly injured.
TAKF CAREf THERE Is NIGER