Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-11-20
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
SUNDAYS NEWS.


1t is said that the sentiment of the
recent Kentucky Farmers Convention
was against the reelection of Senator
Carlisle.
Otis Mallow. While hunting near
Washington c. H, O., was injured so he
will die, by the accidental discharge of
his gun.
Franklin Burche. living near Bloom
ington. Ind, was taken from his bed by
masked nen, and terribly beaten with
switches and ordered to leave the
country.
The National Capital Brewing Com
pany. of Washington City. has purchased
the brewerieS of Albert Carey and
Robert Portner for $4,000 and SlIO,-
600, respectively.
! Reemelin. Dunham and Montgomery,
OF the old BoOrd of Public Improvements
of Cincinnati, have begun proceedings
to test the conStitutionality of the act
creating the Board of City Affairs.
The Barring Bros, of London, are
financially embarrassed, and the Bank
| of England and other banking inStitu-
tions have agreed to carry them along
until Wednesday. Their needs are
about el1,000,000. The report so af-
fected Wall street that all speculative
properties deprecated heavily.
MONDAYS NEWS.
The Indians of the Sioux Reservation
have in some way secured arms, and
trouble is feared.
-Four grown members of the family of
James Boyer, of Sherwood, o., have
died from typhoid fever.
W. e. Finch, a prominent citizen of
Melrose, o., committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head.
The amount appropriated for foreign
missions by the General Missionary
Committee of the Methodist Church, in
session at Boston, is S540,907.
Mr.. Cowling, of the banking firm of
COwling, Gowenlock & Co, of Mt.
Carmel, ILL.,, died November 5, and the
cashier, David Gowenlock, absconded
with all the funds.
The Trustees of the Sandusky Soldiers
Home have recommended the appoint
ment of NJ. COckerel as Adiutant, d.
Dugant as Steward, and NJ. J. Moury
as Surgeon, the present incumbents of
those positions having rendered their
designations, upon demand of the Board.
TUESDAYS NEWS.
The official plurality of Secretary of
State Ryan is 10,969
A new comet was discovered Saturday
night by Prof. Zene, of the Observatory
of Palermo. Sicily.
Chas Wilhelm, of Wooster, O., com
mitted suicide in cheap lodging house
in Omaha. Nebraska.
Ned Stevens, the negro who killed
Sheriff Fraley, at Savannah, Tenn, was
lynched and his body riddled with
bullets.
George Elmer was jailed at Van Vert,
Ohio, on the charge of setting fire to a
bnilding in Convey, in which he had
stock of unpacked boots and shoes.
1t is reported that Gould has secured
a controlling interest in the Union
Pacific, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe
and Richmond Terminal railroads. He
denies it. II
A freight train of engine-and six cars
went through a bridge into the Kaw
River, Kansas City. Four are known |
te have been killed, four others injured
and eight others missing.
The Census bulletin on the financial |
condition of municipalities and States
show Ohio in the lead of the Western |
States as to bonded Indebtedness, sink
ing fund and debt in excess of resources. |
The aggregate Indebtedness of Ohio
cities is also greater than that of the
cities of any other Western State.