Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-05-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WEDNESDAY.

NATHANIEL EDWARDS was horribly
bitten by mad dog at Bethel, o.
Miss MINNIE CURTIS, who weighed
400 pounds, died at Bordentown, n. j.
SIx-YEAR-oLD Emanuel Armburst
was fatally injured by train at Canton.
IT is expected that ''original package"
saloons will be opened in Pittsburgh.
JOHN MCCUNN was killed by falling
from the top of derrick near Danville,
Ill.
H. h PREssLER, formerly of Cincin-
natl, was instantly killed by cars at
Oberlin, o.
ETA WYANT, aged fifteen, was acci-
dentally and fatally shot by her sister at
Forest, Ind.
A NATIONAL University is proposed
by bill introduced in the Senate by
Mr.. Edmunds.
THE Chicago Real Estate Board has
selected the lake front as the site for the
Worlds Fair.
SILAs LAPToN was fatally injured,
near Lima, o., while trying to steal a
ride on freight train.
ARCHIBLE LAFoNTAINE was detected
setting fire to his room at the Shaker
village near Lebanon, o.
NEAR Ovid, Ind, farm hand named
Dolph, bound and gagged afourteen-year
old girl and brutally assaulted her. She
is not expected to live
AT youngstown the jury in the case
of Charles F. Marquette, who brought
suit against the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
railroad for damages, claiming curvature
of the spine through negligence of the
defendant, this afternoon gave the
plaintiff a verdict of $1,000.
THE fight for the Superintendency of
the West Virginia State Reform School
was ended Tuesday night by the election
of prominent Republican, c. c. Sho-
walter, of Preston county. The Demo
Gratis are embittered over the selection,
as two Democratic members of the
Board of Directors voted for Showalter,
and it is thought he will fill the subordi-
nate positions with Republicans.
THURSDAY.
WILLIAM FRANCIS, aged 19, and Daisy
Benedict aged 16, eloped at Youngstown.
APACHE INDIANS are numbering
whites along the border between Old
Mexico and Arizona.
THE trunks of jewelry salesman were
broken open at Waverly, Ia, and $4,000
worth of goods stolen.
DAVE STRATToN, who killed four men
during the Hatfield Mccoy feud, was
killed by cars near Brownstown, W. Va.
AT Danville, Va, Joseph Staples,
wounded Hamilton Woolwine, a U. S.
Marshal.
Mrs. JOHN PORTER, at Youngstown.
surrendered to her husband the child
which she took when she eloped with a
boarder.
JOHN SEYBERRY shot and instantly
killed his wife near Decatur, Ind. He
claims that it was accidental, but as
there had been domestic trouble he was
arrested.
The merchants of Warren, Ind, who
have been boycotted by farmers, say
they intend to retaliate by forcing the
collection of every debt owed them by
the farmers.
SADIE PRESLEY, of Youngstown, at
tempted suicide by drinking two ounces
of iodine. A stomach pump saved her.
Sadie was tired Of life.
PAUL TAUK was found hanging to
tree on Files creek, six miles from Bev-
erly, W. Va. The body was decayed
and had evidently been hanging for
days. Tauk was an important witness
against his nephew in murder case.
FRIDAY.
EARL BARLOW, aged nine years, was
killed by cars at Portsmouth, o.
MILTON BRADLEY accidentally shot
himself while hunting near Lebanon, o.
AN Allen county O., man, named
Mcguire, was bunkoed out of $4,000 by
two sharpers.
AN Indiana miser named Hilton tried
just before his death to destroy bonds
worth $4,000.
CHARLES Ross, brakeman, riding on
top af refrigerator car, had his neck
broken, near Canton.
A FARMER named Staver committed
suicide near West Alexandria, O., by
hanging to beam in his barn.
G. A. HOWARD, a commercial traveller
of Boston, committed suicide at hotel
in Chicago by turning on the gas in his
room.
FRAME LEFFLER has been arrested at
Athens, O., for the murder of Frank
Tolliver, brother of the notorious Craig
Tolliver, of Kentucky.
NEAR Winchester, O., Charles McIn-
tyre tried to force a shell into shotgun
by pounding it with an iron pin. The
shell burst and Mcintyre was fatally in
jured.
AN Indictment for murder in the first
degree has been found against Henry
Popp, who fatally stabbed Moritz Grether
a Canton, o., saloonkeeper.
TEXAS Farmers Alliance men are in
an excited state of mind, million dollars
of their money being said to have been
wasted by the managers at Dallas.
FLAG LORE.
To ''strke the flag" is to lower the
national colors in token of submission.
Flags are used as the symbol of rank
and command, the officers using them
being called flag officers. Such flags are
square, to distinguish them from other
happarc