Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
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HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
THURSDAYS NEWS.

MAJOR BUTTERWoRTH says thaI IL
the Secretaryship of the Worlds Fair is
offered him he thinks he will accept.
AN aged lady and her granddaughter
were fatally burned by an explosion OF
natural gas in the cellar of their house
in Pittsburgh.
THE carpenters and other wood work
ers at Denver are on strike for nine
hour day with ten hours pay, and all
building operations are paralyzed-
AT Morris Park race track, Cincinnati,
the well-known horse, Brother Dan, drop
ned dead while running one of the races.
He was ridden by Jockey Garrison, who
escaped being injured. At the same track
Prince Royal broke the mile and one
sixteenth record by three-quarters OF
second.
NEAR Moore Station, Texas, two cow
boys fought duel on horseback with
lariats. 1t was desperate and prolonged.
At last one was taken unawares and re-
ceiyed the moose about his neck. His
captor quickly turned his pony and
galloped away, jerking his victim from
the saddle and breaking his neck.
THE village of Elmwood, Hamilton
county. O., was visited by tornado
Wednesday evening. A number of
houses were demolished and one man is
known to have been killed. The damage
is estimated at $4,000. The same ap-
pears to have been general, and reports OF
damage, more or less serious, come from
various parts of the country.
FRIDAYS NEWS
THE sundry civil bill in Congress pro-
vides for making and preserving the
battle lines at Antietam.
THE National Furniture Manufact-
urers' Association, in convention at
Chicago, decided to advance prices on
July l.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL has reappoint-
ed VIM. J. O'Neil and Charles B. Russell
to serve as members of the Cincinnati
Board of Elections for four years.
NEAR Darksville, Mo-, lightning
struck a barbed-wire fence to which a
number of horses were tied. Twenty of
the animals were Frustrated and four
killed.
DURING the passage of a severe
electrical storm over Reading, Pa, it is
said "balls of fire entered private dwell
ings, exploding with fearful sounds" and
that many people were stunned.
THE aggregate of appropriations by
the present Congress for the benefit of
soldiers of the late war and their widows
or children is $167, ,419,731. Last years
appropriation for the Homes is increased
$605,899.
GOVERNOR HovEY, of Indiana, eX-
cuses his failure to proceed against the
White Cap ruffians by the lack of funds
at his disposal, and the absence of infor-
nation that the local authorities are
powerless.
THE Board of Public Improvements of
Cincinnati has applied to the Commits
sioners of the Covington Water-works
for an estimate of the cost of tenn
porary supply of water to the city in the
event of the Cincinnati pumps giving
out entirely.
JAMES O'DAY, foreman of the Tyler
Wire Works, Cleveland, pointed re-
volver at the head of the President of
the company, and compelled him to sign
d Cu6Ch lOE OuC D, pay dDlC
to O'Day. The robber was captured at
the bank, where detectives on telephone
orders were awaiting him.
THE Committee on Ways and Means
heard arguments yesterday on the bill
to prohibit the use of other ingredients
than malt, hops and yeast in the manu-
facture of beer. Defenders of the pres
ent methods of 'adulteration," so-called,
say that it is necessary as measure of
health and temperance, making the beer
nutritious with the least possible guam
tity of alcohol.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
ATaC. &. o. crossing, in Covington,
an aged man was run over by freight
train and cut in two. His name is James
Gibson.
SINCE the beginning of the erection of
the bridge over the Ohio River at Jeffer-
sonville, twenty-one workmen have lost
their lives.
WINFIELD S. RANK was arrested at
Canton, o., for attempting to wreck a
street car. He claimed he was acting
under authority of the City Engineer.
AT Burlington, Ia, an old man,
Joseph Sottle, of Gladstone, ILL.,, laid his
neck across a rail in front of backing
switch engine, and was decapitated.
In Indianapolis citizens of the Second
Ward, in order to get rid of an obnoxious
saloon, raised money, by subscription,
bought the property and tore down the
building.
THE steamship Columbia has made
the voyage from southampton to New
York in six days, fifteen hours and fifty
one minutes, actual sailing time, beating
all records.
GENERAL ALGER has rewarded the
New York police officer, who saved the
General from possible serious injury by
stopping runaway team, with a silver
bowl, gold lined.
A NUMBER of Democratic ex-of1icials
of the New York Custom House, under
Cleveland, have been summoned before
a U. S. grand jury for violations of the
civil service law in extorting money
from subordinates for campaign pur-
poses.
JUST as sure as hot weather comes,
there will be more or less bowel com
plant in this vicinity. Every person, and
especially families, ought to have some re-
liable medicine at hand for instant use in
case it is needed. A 25 or soc bottle of
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Di-
arrhea Remedy is just what you ought
to have and all you would need, even for
the most severe and dangerous cases. 1t
is the best, the most reliable and most
successful treatment known, and is pleas
ant to take. For sale at J. b. Hoges
drug store 65-4t
A CONNECTICUT man has Just been |
fined $50 for kissing a girl whom he had |
known for only week. In every other
State the time limit for kissing is a var
liable quantity, depending great deal on