Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-11-27
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.


Pitts II. Burt & Co., brokers, of Gin
cinnati, assigned; liabilities, $4,000
Trees similar to the big trees of the
Yosemite, have been found in the new
state of Washington.
W.K. Arkell, of New York, has agreed
to erect a hospital for consumptives If
the Koch treatment is shown to be a
success.
A Maryland Court has decided that
social clubs are subject to the same
local regulations in regard to the sale OF
LIQUORS as are individuals.
Senator Barbour, of Virginia, in an
interview says Cleveland is not the man
who should be nominated by the Dem
ocrats for President in 1892.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, thinks
the Mckinley bill had more to do in the
South toward aiding the Democratic
victory than the election bill.
General Selinerstoff. ex-Chief of the
Russian police, died from the wound of
poisoned bullet. He was shot by a
Nihilist in his apartment in Paris.
The Farmers Alliance National Con-
gress will open the first week IN
December at Ocala. Fla. There IS talk
of third party movement for the
election of President in 1872.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
Barker Bros. & Company, Philadelphia
bankers and brokers, have failed.
At the sale of VIM. Scott's horses,
Bolero was bought by Philip Dwyer for
$4,000.
Mrs. Sarah Evans took a dose of
paris green and died in the Cincinnati
Hospital.
Wilson Hines and Henry Bice, living
near London, o.. quarreled, and Bice
was stabbed and will die.
Twenty millions of capital has been
subscribed for the Mt. Carmel Aero
nautic Navigation Company.
Minister Reid has left Paris for two
months tour of Turkey and Egypt. He
is accompanied by Mrs. Reid.
The new cruiser Concord, develops a
speed of III knots an hour, proving
herself the fastest gunboat in the navy.
A postal train is to be put on the n.
Y. Central and Lake Shore that will
cover the distance between New York
and Chicago in twenty-four hours.
DIR. Kiser, a dentist of Fostoria, O.,
was arrested on the charge of criminally
assaulting Mrs. George Newman, while
in his office to have her teeth cared for.
He says it is blackmail.
The Rev. Petit, on trial at Craw-
fordsville, Ind, for the murder OF his
wife, has been convicted of murder in
the first degree and the penalty fixed
at imprisonment for life.
Word comes from India that wolves
are causing terrible devastation in the
central provinces. One pack of eight
wolves killed and devoured forty persons
who were engaged in watching cattle.
The victims were mostly children.
The gradual decline in silver is
watched at the Treasury Department
with solicitude. At the time the silver
bill passed Congress, silver was SO; to-
day it is 81. The lowest point ever
reached by silver was in May, 1888,
when it was 81 !.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
The Democratic plurality in Tennessee
for Governor is 29,220.
A Democratic member of the Ohio
Legislature has prepared a bill to in
crease the Dow tax to $500.
Jack Staples, negro, convicted of
outraging a white woman, was hanged
Friday at Knoxville, Tenn.
S. NJ. FELTON,, Jr., has been chosen
President of the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia, and Georgia Railroad.
Secretary Window is considering
plan to increase the money circulation
by S200,000,000, as an additional relief
to the financial stress.
At Huntington, Tenn, a mob at
tempted to take prisoner named
Widdis out of jail to hang him. He
secured a pistol by some means and
shot two of the mob and the others
retired.
Robert Hern, farmer. of Montgomery
county, O., signed an order for S. to pay
for new tips for his lightning rods. 1t
was turned into a $500 note, and he paid
5000 to compromise.