Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-04
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS MEMS.

THURSDAYS NEWS.
Jay Gould has secured control of the
Union Pacific, and at the meeting il
Boston Wednesday the reorganization
was according to his programme. Sid
ney Dillon was elected President in
place of Charles Francis Adams, re.
signed.
Senator Sherman in part commends
Secretary WINDOWS two-per-cent. con.
vertible bond plan, but at the same time
calls attention to the danger of increas-
ing circulation beyond the current needs
of business.
Special Agent Elliott reports in favor
of suspension of seal-catching for sew
en- years, as absolutely necessary for the
preservation of the seal from annihila-
tion. He estimates that there are not
over ten thousand seal in American
waters.
C. C. Cook, of the Ohio Board of Par
dons, recommends to Gov. Campbell the
communication of the sentence against
Henry Popp to life imprisonment,o on the
ground that Popp was so drunk at the
time of the murder that there could not
have been premeditation.
Meredith Stanley, of Cincinnati, has
accepted an offer to swim the rapids of
Niagara.
VIM. F. Hill, aged go, of Perkinsville,
Ind, was horsewhipped by Flora Fares
and Bessie Dyer, to whom he had offer
ed offensive attentions.
La Grippe is spreading in Hungary.
The bank of 81. II. Bell, Duluth,
Minn.. suspended on account of tight
money. Liabilities s715,0O0, nominal
assets s1,300,OO0.
Governor Campbell was witness
Wednesday before the B. p. 1. Investi-
eating Committee.
The Northern Pacific Hotel and build
ings of the Oregon Pottery Company, at
Portland, Ore, were destroyed by fire.
Loss s150,0OO.
While Joseph Ford, of Green Ridge,
Pa, was abusing his wife he was shot
by his 12-year-old son, and will die.
The Washington Critic publishes that
Mrs. Senator Stanford has become con-
vert to the Catholic Church.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
Saranac Lake, n. Y, is frozen over.
Gov. Campbell has reprieved Isaac
Smith and Henry Popp until Dec. 19.
The steamboat T. P. Leathers was
destroyed by fire Thursday morning on
the lower Mississippi. twenty-five hun
dred bales of cotton were consumed.
Crew saved.
The old Andersonville prison has been
purchased by the E. S. Jones Post, G. A.
R., of Macon, Ga, for the purpose of
converting it into National G.. A. R.
Post.
George Weston and wife, of Atchison,
Kas., quarreled on account of the lat
ter's infdelity, fought with hammer
and hatchet, and the woman was killed.
The new Irish land bill was introduc-
ed in Commons Thursday, and given
first reading. Parnell and the Parnell-
ite members voted with the Govern
ment Gladstone, Harcourt and Morley
retired before the vote was taken.
1t is reported from Canada that the
Government will establish commercial
agencies in South and Central American
countries in retaliation on the United
States for the Mckinley bill.
The Princeton foot ball champi-
onship game resulted in a victory for
Yale. Score 80 to o.
The revised and final count of the
population of the United States makes
it 62,622,250. Ohio's population is g.
672, 1916, Indiana 1882 ,404.
A company, with a capital of $780,
600, is to be started at Kanawha City, |
W. Va, for the manufacture of salt, So
da ash, bromine, bi-carbonite of soda,
and other chemicals.
At Guthrie, o. T., May Bailey, wit
ness in land claim case, was poisoned
to death to prevent her giving testimony.
The Kansas Republicans are said to
have decided to support Ben F. Simp-
son, of Topeka, for U. S. Senator, on ac-
count of the impossibility of reelecting
ingalls,.
Archbishop Elder invites all Catholics
10 contribute to fund for the prevent
ion of distress in Ireland on account of |
the failure of the potato crop.
THE BUCKEYE SAVINGS AND LOAN Co.,
of Bellaire, issues certificates of deposit |
for any amount of money, large or small.
on which adividend is paid semi-annually;
the dividend is the full earnings of the
Company, which have never been less
than per cent; but should depoSltors /
want a guaranteed rate of interest, the |
Company will guarantee them per cent,
payable semi-annually. Deposits can be
by giving two weeks notice,
or if the Company has money on hand, |
they will be paid on demand The Com |
pany only loans its money on real estate /
in amounts not exceeding two
thirds of its value; in this way the depos-
tors are perfectly safe. For other in
formation address
lib 3t. WIN. PARKS, Secretary.
LIFE and its conditions exhibit the
operations of inscrutable power; we
know not its origin, we know not its
end; and the presumption, if not the de-
graduation, rests with those who place
upon the throne of the universe a mag
nified image of themselves.
HAPPY HOOSIERS.
VIM. Timmons, postmaster of Idaville,
Ind writes. Electric Ritters has done