Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

George F. McCulloch, Clerk of Della
ware county, Indiana, is indicted for
taxing excessive fees.
All the men at work in the building
trades at Hamilton, o., are out on
strike, and building is paralyzed.
In Cincinnati nine thousand barrels
of sugar were released from bond free
of duty under the Mckinley tariff.
The increase of the public debt during
March was S440,1 125, due to heavy pay
ments of direct tax-refunders, tobacco,
rebates, &c.
George Taylor was badly injured by
the explosion of still yesterday in the
Cornplanter Refinery at Warren, Pa.
Ali efforts to end the State election
dispute have failed, and the Connecticut
Legislature has adjourned until No
vember.
1t is stated that the scourge of leprosy
has made great progress at Victoria,
B. c., and has reached point that will
imperil the settlement unless the Gov
eminent takes immediate steps to wipe
it out.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
David and Joseph Nicely were hanged
at Somerset, Pa, for the murder of
farmer Umberger.
General albert Pike, Grand COmman-
der of the Scottish Rite Masonry, South
ern jurisdiction, died at his residence
in Washington City. He was eighty
one years old last December.
Strikers attacked the Morewood plant
in the PENNSYLVANIA coke region, and the
result is seven dead and forty wounded
of their number.
Safe-blowers secured small amounts
at Andover. o., in the stores of smith 6
Baker and L. R. Griffiths.
Reuben Pollock, car-builder, was
killed yesterday at Ensign, W. Va. A
car upon which he was working was
struck by switch engine and fell upon
him.
Porter Daily, conductor of construc-
ton train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton road was found dead in bed
Yesterday morning at Lima, o. There
is mystery surrounding his death which
is being Investigated.
SATURDAY S NEWS
H. p Lewis, butcher of Florence,
Ala. is heir to fortune of six millions
in England.
Robert Grigsby, of Newark, o., blew
the top of his head off with an old
fashioned horse pistol borrowed of a
neighbor for the purpose.
The will of the late Rufus King, of
Cincinnati, contains public and charita-
BILE bequests aggregating 100000.
Congressman Lorenzo Crounz, of
Nebraska, has been appointed Assistant
Secretary of the U. s. Treasury.
The direct tax claim of Ohio, 1882
OBS has been paid.
At Bloomington, Ind, Ward DeMarre,
in fit of insanity. cut his sick mothers
throat as she lay in bed, and then his
own. Both died.
The Committee on Location of
Capital of the Kentucky Constitutional
Convention has reported in favor of
Frankfort.
The International Monetary Confer
ence has closed its session, it being
considered impossible at this time to
adopt common monetary unit or fix a
ratio between gold and silver.
The majority against Parnell's candi-
date for Alderman in Sligo is 78O.
Reports come from various sources
of movement among certain Italians
in this country to avenge the massacre
of their countrymen in New Orleans.
The census of California shows that
the proportion of Chinese is one in
seventeen of the population.
Dominick c. O'Malley, the New Or
leans detective connected with the Malta
trial, has surrendered himself to the
Sheriff.