Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
SATURDAYS NEWS.


SATURDAYS NEWS.
The population of the State of Colo
RADIO is about 100000.
Secretary Blaine has written a second
letter to Senator Frye, urging his reci-
procity plan.
Albert Ramsey, living near New
Hampshire, o., fell from a wagon
loaded with wheat, and was fatally in
jured.
At Ripon, Cal, three children were
burned to death. They were playing
with matches and one of them set fire to
a can of oil.
The House Committee On Military
Affairs has decided on Lewis B. Gunckel
to succeed Colonel Harris at the Dayton
Soldiers Home.
The Fourth District Democratic Con-
vention, after six hundred ballots with
out result, adjourned to meet at Piqua
September 3.
At Fremont, o., burglars tried to
force an entrance into the residence of
c. Baker. He fired two shots at them,
and at daylight the tracks of the retreat
ing robbers were marked with blood.
Business men at Birmingham, Ala,
are strongly opposed to the boycott
proposition of the Atlanta Constitution,
and so express themselves.
A young inventor of Chicago thinks
he has discovered how to run a steam
boat by electricity, by the use of storage
battery of his own design.
The Supreme Court has overruled the
motion of the murderer Sharkey for
leave to file petition in error, and now
the Governor is to be asked to commute
the sentence.
The agents of the Louisiana Lottery
Company are moving on Congress pre-
pared to fight against the passage of the
bill agreed on by the Post office Com
mittee of the House.
SUNDAYS NEWS.
A young Englishman, ]. c. Farrell,
was murdered at Middlesborough, Ky.
George Grassman, New York trav-
cling man, was killed in a runaway
accident in New York City.
\. J. Owens, saw mill owner, was
killed by Joseph McCann, a railroad
laborer, at Lynn, Wisconsin.
At Evansville, Ind, Mrs. Groves, a
boarding house keeper, was brutally and
criminally assaulted by one of her board
ers, who forced an entrance to her room.
The Coroner of Warren county. O.,
has decided, in the case of the Kings
Mills disaster, that the accident was the
cause of neglect on the part of railway
employees.
The frauds in the census of st. Paul
and Minneapolis have been found to be
so great as to cause the Superintendent
to order recount of both cities, under
the supervision of special agents.
Orian NJ. Oblinges, Vice President of
the First National Bank of Germantown,
o., committed suicide by hanging him.
self from a transom cross piece. Cause,
temporary insanity from ill health.
A tornado swept through Lawrence,
Mass, killed eight people, injured about
forty others, destroyed seventy-five or
hundred dwellings, and rendered five
hundred people homeless, all in less
than fifteen minutes time, at a cost
of 100000
The House Committee on Rules has
reported in favor of granting the Demo-
cratic request for an investigation of
Commissioner Raum's administration of
the Pension Bureau, in order to vindicate
the Administration and satisfy the coun-
try that everything is all right.
MONDAYS NEWS
Governor Campbell is reported Sc
riously i'll at Deer Park.
The Senate on-concurred in the
House amendment to the Original
Package bill and committees of confer
ence were appointed.
In Columbus, O., Fox Anderson had
a quarrel with his mistress, and slashed
her horribly with dagger. She may
recover. He is under arrest.
Sixteen members of the Kentucky
State Guard have gone to Perry county,
to help Judge Lily hold Court.
Governor Ross, of Texas, pronounces
the Gordon boycott utterly impraeticable
and unwise.
AT Hamilton, O., during the progress
of birthday feast, John Haacke, aged
eighteen, stabbed and killed Peter Theo-
bald, about the same age. 1t was the
outcome of quarrel.
A man named Jennings, supposed to
be one of the Burrows train robbers, has
been arrested in Birmingham, Ala.
About 1000 miners have returned to
work along the Cleveland, Lorain and
Wheeling road, their differences with
the operators having been compromised
Charles E. Addison, an ex-Represen-
tative of Muskingum county, Ohio, has
been arrested, charged with shooting a
woman named Joan Outcalt, with intent
to kill. She is a woman of the town.
The affair occurred while they were
riding in carriage.
Winfield Clark, an employ6 of the
Salem Wire Nail Mills of Findlay, was
instantly killed while walking along the
track of the Toledo, Columbus and Gin
cinnati railroad. He was about 30 years
old and unmarried. He came from
Pittsburgh several months ago.
TUESDAYS NEWS.
There is genuine case of>leprosy re-
ported from New York.
The village of Bairdstown, O., has
been nearly destroyed by ineendiary fires
within the past two weeks,
One hundred thousand dollars worth
of property was destroyed by cloud
burst in Walker county, Alabama.
George J. Krape, one of the best
engineers on the Big Four, was crushed
to death in collision in the Yards at