Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-25
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
THURSDAYS NEWS.

THURSDAYS NEWS.
All the Representatives now in
Congress from Alabama have been
renOminated.
The House Committee on Judiciary
decided to report in favor of striking
Kennedy's speech attacking Senator
Quay from the Record.
Maggie Edgar was burned to death in
Cleveland by gasoline explosion, caused
by her stepping on parlor match while
carrying a can of the fluid.
r. Gardner Chase & Co, Boston
bankers and brokers, assigned yesterday.
They owe over two million dollars. They
give "tight money" as the cause.
In spite of Governor Fosters declara-
tions against accepting nomination for
Congress, the Republicans of the Eighth
District unanimously nominated him.
The passenger train on the Louisville,
New Orleans and Texas Railroad was
wrecked, near Vicksburgh, by mis-
placed switch. supposed to have been
turned for the purpose of wrecking the
train.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
DR.. Harper, of Yale College, has been
elected President of the new University
of Chicago.
Dion Boucicault, the well-known play
wright and actor, died at his home, in
New York, Thursday afternoon.
At Long Prairie, Mimi, Frederick
Paul killed Mrs. Louis Buelow, neigh
Dor, and then committed suicide.
Charles Drumm, a saloon-keeper of
Springfield, O., killed his wife Thursday
evening, and then committed suicide
The Nashville Times is being boycott
ed by the Federation of Trades on ac-
count of the papers unfriendly utter
ances against workingmen.
The Cookson Iron Works, located near
Kansas City, made an assignment yes
terday for the benefit of their creditors
Liabilities and assets unknown.
The strike of gold beaters in Boston,
Philadelphia, New York and Chicago,
has been settled in favor of the men,
they having obtained their demand.
The Commissioner for Utah has ap-
piled for ten acres of space for the dis
play of that Territory at the Worlds
Fair. 1t is proposed to construct pal
ace 100 feet square of minerals.
The capital of Portugal is now the
scene of rioting. This is announced as
the beginning of movement to pro-
claim a republic. All classes are said to
be eager to welcome the new govern
ment.
Millionaire residents of Spokane Falls,
Wash, take the place of striking car
penters, who quit work on the Exposi-
tion building because the Directors pur-
chased lumber from boycotted mer-
chant.
In the effort to secure a quorum in
the House of Representatives yesterday,
the Speaker ordered the doors locked,
but the Democrats kicked them down
and went out, and the House was
obliged to adjourn.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
The official count of the population
of Cincinnati makes it 296, 300,
The President has signed the anti
lottery and river and harbor bills.
An incendiary fire at Whitehall, Mich,
caused a loss of 100000. Thirty build
ings were destroyed.
Governor Campbell complains that the
press treats him unfairly, and he refers
particularly to the Democratic press.
Mrs. Allen Wrichter, of Whitehall, Pa,
has not tasted food or drink for over 172
days She has cancer of the pharynx.
The Democratic employees at the State
house, Columbus, have been assessed five
per cent. of one years salary for cam
paign purposes.
Prof. Peter j. Fox, Principal of the
Seventeenth District School, Cincinnati,
had an attack of apoplexy while in his
school-room and died there.
An express on the Reading Railroad
ran into freight wreck near Reading,
Pa, and went down an embankment
Forty people were killed and many
injured.
VIM. W. Hartford and Miss Alice
Huery, each aged twenty-six, were
married at Grassy Creek, Ind, at an old
settlers meeting, in the presence of
four thousand people.
Henry Burris, a wealthy Quaker farmer,
near Smithfeld, O., was swindled out of
$4,000 by couple of sharpers who bor-
rowed that amount, giving as security a
satchel said by them to contain about
$4,000.