Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-10
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
THURSDAYS NEWS.

THURSDAYS NEWS.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania have
nominated Robert E. Pattison for Gov
ernor.
The latest Russian railway company
has purchased full outfit of Pullman
cars.
A Pasteur institute, for the cure of
rabies, has been opened in connection
with the Rush. Medical College, Chicago.
The annual Convention of the Ohio
Republican League will be held July Is,
the day preceding the State Convention.
The White Star steamer Majestic made
her last trip from Queenstown to New
York in six days, four hours and two
minutes.
The receipts of the Government for
the year ended June 80 were S402 ,OOO,-
600, and the expenditures S31S,000,000,
leaving a surplus of $S4,000,000.
By decision of the Supreme Court of
Ohio, property to the taxable value of
$1,044, 800 is restored to the tax duplicate
of Hamilton county. having been omitted
for four years. The taxes on this to be
paid to the city are about S15O,00O.
Reports from Wednesday night S
storm in Muskingum county show
that it was one of the most disastrous
that ever visited that country. Over
fifty bridges and culverts were washed
away in the eastern part of the county,
and 100000 will be required to replace
them.
FRIDAYS NEWS
The Society of the Army of the Poto-
mac is in reunion at Portland, Me.
There is boom for General Miles for
. the Presidency, started, it is said, by
army officers.
Report from New York is that1emons
have not been so scarce and high priced
for years as they are at present.
1t is said Peru, Brazil and Argentine
Republic have formed triple alliance
against the aggression of Chilli.
For the first time when Congress was
not sitting, the Stars and Stripes floated
over the National Capitol,
Willie Maybe, of Cincinnati, an orphan
aged fourteen, having accidentally struck
a little girl with stone, and being
threatened with arrest by the child S
uncle, committed suicide.
Frank Wertland and wife, of Hoboken,
drowned themselves and their infant on
account of their inability to pay a chattel
mortgage on their household furniture
for $25.
The President signed the bill for the
admission of Idaho yesterday, and an
other star is added to the flag The ad-
mission of Wyoming was delayed by the
refusal of Democrats to consent to the
consideration of the bill out of regular
order, action on a Senate amendment
being necessary.
Striking cloakmakers in New York,
made desperate by hunger, mobbed the
shops of their employers, destroying
property and assaulting and beating
non-union workmen, injuring some of
them seriously. Two strikers were shot
and badly wounded.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Freight handlers in Indianapolis de-
mand an advance.
The latest in the way of a trust is a
nitroglycerine combine.
Annie Goble, aged eight, killed in
Coyington, KY, by stray bullet.
1t is reported that the President and
family will abandon Cape May for
Cresson Springs.
Benjamin S. Bennett, wanted in New
York for forgery, has been arrested in
Denver.
John Cadden leaps from the Cincinnati
Suspension Bridge and is drowned.
Cause: A desire for notoriety.
The Brennan Garrard mill, fought to
finish in Chicago Thursday night, re-
suited in the death of Brennan.
A gale of unprecedented fury ragged
Thursday night on Lake Michigan, many
vessels being damaged and several lives
lost
George B. Mcclellan, son of the late
distinguished General, read the Declara-
tion of Independence to the Tammany
braves in New York.