Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.


Frank Mauk is under arrest at Wooster,
o., on the charge of criminally assaulting
his cousin, Myrtle Miller.
Secretary Proctor has decided to
change the name of the new military
post at Newport, KY, from Fort Crook
to Fort Thomas.
J. II. Lamar, a Bible canvasser, is in
Jail at Wilmington on the charge of |
criminally assaulting Miss Ella Thomp-
son, of Sabina.
1t is reported from st. Louis that
British syndicate is after the leading
shoe factories of New York, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Rochester and St. Louis.
The Republicans of Indiana nominated
Milton Trussler, of Fayette county, for
Secretary of State. They indorsed Presi-
dent Harrison and congratulated Speaker
Reed.
At Bay City, Mich, two men engaged
the teller and book-keeper of the
Second National Bank in conversation,
while third stole a pile of bills con-
tanning $1,000.
A Congressional apportionment bill
was introduced in the House yesterday.
1t provides for 354 members on basis
that will reduce Ohio's quota of Con-
gressmen by one.
At Lexington, Ky, Tom Finnell fired
two shots at w. w. Flemming, who he
thought had caused him to lose job
and shot the nose off A. B. Pullen,
Flemming's partner
A freight engine on the Ohio and
Northwestern Railway, at Cincinnati,
became unmanageable Wednesday night,
and dashed down the steep grade below
Oak street tunnel over the high trestles
and into the Court street yards, crashing
into passenger engine and killing
James Howard, a yard hostler.
FRIDAYS NEWS
Rev. Martin Luther Fitch, of Reading,
Pa, has been convicted of larceny.
President Depew, of the New York
Central, has refused to interfere in behalf
of the strikers.
A revolution has broken out in the
Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, owing to |
differences about the revision of the
constitution.
The mother of Otto Leuth has written II
letter to Governor Campbell, in which S
she curses him for refusing to interfere S
with the death sentence against her son. i
Steve Crump and George Boalter, two
negroes convicted of rape at Armory,
Miss, were taken from the Sheriff on the
way to jail and hanged from convenient
limb by mob. :
A freight train on the Erie and 7
Pittsburgh railroad could not be stopped
Oh the five mile down grade at Linesville,
Pa, yesterday and crashed into work !
train. Both engines and seven cars were
wrecked. An engineer had a narrow
escape from death and five of the crew :
were slightly injured.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Charles Risk, aged IA years, was d
fatally crushed between cars at Kent. o. d
There are indications of a large cotton .
crop. The average of condition is higher a
than for several years past.
The Scioto River at Columbus is up to
the flood of last May. Three hundred .
acres are inundated, and thousands of {
dollars of damage has been DONE
The Jackson Club, of Columbus, has 4
expelled State Labor Commissioner
Mcbride because he appointed Repub-
@ican Superintendent of the Free Labor v
Agency.
Freight Conductor John Patrick, of =
the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling !,
road, fell at Sterling, o., while attempting q
to board moving train and was crushed
to death.
An inch of snow is reported at Vim
cent, MINI. The rain of the past few L
days turned to snow Friday morning.
Much wheat will be lost in the Red ,
River Valley.
The Paxtang Presbyterian Church,
four miles from Harrisburgh, Pa, will
celebrate its 150th anniversary next Il
Thursday, September Is. 1t stands to- C
day as originally built, d
Captain Wishart, of the British steam :,
ship Toledo, on his arrival at Philadel- =
phia reported passing large iceberg .,
south of the Azores, 490 miles further ''
south than drift ice was ever before
reported. A
Judge James 81. Anderson, of Colum- d
bus, has been sued by Mrs. Minnie L
w. Strauser for $4,000 damage for an a
alleged criminal assault, said by the S.
plaintiff to have been committed before tl
her marriage, December 16, 1889. The "
Judge says it is blackman.
"WHo was the wisest man." asked the
Sunday school teacher. Ii
Solomon" promptly replied little s.
girl. g
"And who was the holiest?" O
"MoseslD a
"What makes you think so?" u
because often hear papa speaking e
of Holy MosesP" c'
-.- N
FRIEND-"Was your uncle's will sat
isfactory to you, BrownY"
Brown-"Perfectly so! Pm a lucky a.
dogl He left his entire fortune to lu- tf
natic asylum" P
Friend-"You mean that you are an Il
unlueky dog" s.
Brown-"No, 1 don't; the other rela- d
tives are going to contest the will, and o.
I'm to be the lawyer" e.
BROWN IRON BITTERS b.
Cures Dyspepsia, In
digestion G Debility. IL II
Rose Stegner fell twelve feet down a
stairs yesterday at her home in Fair :,
mount, Cincinnati, and was killed. At ~
the st. James Hotel Lille Burns fell e,
down the cellar stairs fifteen feet and a
sustained severe injuries. John McNally, =;
fell out of door a distance of six feet, - -
and sustained injuries from which he IL Il