Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-23
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

e THURSDAYS NEWS.
q The wife of Private Secretary Halford
died Wednesday in Washington.
Nineteen saloon keepers at Tifin, O..
: were indicted for violations of the Sun
day closing law.
The new Mayor of Woodstock, Ohio,
Robert Guy, went on drunken spree,
and wound up by nearly killing his
wife.
White Caps in Wetzel county, W. Va,
set fire to the residence, barn and out
building of Henry Church, and they
were entirely destroyed.
Italian strikers at Lawrence Junction,
Pa, raided lot of Americans who had
taken their places, and threw the fore
man into the MahOning River, from
which he barely escaped with his life.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
Major Mckinley has been presented
bar of tin made in California.
A counterfeit two-dollar silver certiff-
cate, series of 1886, has been turned into
the Q. 5. Treasury.
The body of VIM. lines, buried two
years ago at CoruDna, Indiana, being
disinterred, was found petrifed
Near Ft. Ancient, Ohio. prehistoric
walled vault has been uncovered. 1t
contained the remains of twenty-four
persons.
Joseph H. Dubray, messenger of the
Euclid Avenue Bank, Cleveland, disap-
peared with $1,000 he was charged to
leave at the express office.
Representative Springer says Cleye-
land will be supported for President in
spite of his opposition to free coinage
of silver, if it is found that he is the
strongest candidate.
The boiler in the planning mill of
Stewart Bros, at Lebanon, Ind, ex-
ploded. David Campbell was killed in
stantly, and William Stewart so badly
burned and scalded that his recovery is
doubtful
There were sixty cities in the United
States that doubled their population in
the past ten years. The per cent. of
gain in Spokane Falls was 5,592, and in
Tacoma, Kansas City, Kas.; Ell Paso,
Texas; Roanoke, Va, the gain was over
one thousand per cent.
SATURDAY NEWS.
"A Nebraska murderer, who was re-
spited by the Governor is threatened
with lynehing.
1t is said the draft of the agreement
with Spain for. reciprocity between the
United States and Cuba has been COM
pleted.
Miss Addie Duncan, living near ALI
ance, Ohio, fell from fence and broke
her neck, and when found her body had
been partially deyoured by hogs.
Mrs. Newton Nesbit, Cincinnati, re-
sented remark of her husband by
shooting in the back of the head. She
then shot herself, inficting two wounds.
H P. Mcknight, year ago pros
porous Toledo attorney, was found
guilty of forgery yesterday in the Wood
county court and sentenced to three years
in the Ohio penitentiary. Mcknight is
wanted at dozen other places for the
same crime.
AT Dennison, o. ,yesterday,M. Hassett,
a hotel man, was killed by a shifting
engine at a crossing. James Murray,
Who was with Hassett, was also struck
and injured so badly that it was neces-
'ary to amputate one of his legs.
A boiler in the saw-mill on the @. W.
Oobbins farm, near Lima, o., burst yes
lay, fatally scaIding w. W. Sigler and
scalding and bruising Jake
Nentz and farm hand who was at the
Mill. The boiler was an old one and
lad been burned out by long usage.
SUNDAYS NEWS.
The total number of deaths in New
FORK to date from grips $50.
Robert Campbell, farmer of Carroll
ounty, respondent from an attack of
rip, hanged himself i'll his barn.
The Niles children who were kidnap-
d three weeks ago from Springfield, o.,
Tere found late Saturday night, and
Tiles, the father, has been arrested
The Auditor of Allen county, o., has
eported to the Supreme Court that he
as placed upon the tax duplicate, in ac-
with its decision, the taxable
roperty of Calvin S. Brice not return
1 by him for the years 1884 g. The
is 100000, upon which Briee
i'll be required to pay taxes and fifty
~ cent. penalty for four of the years.