Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-05
New Series, Vol. 81, No 8
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
WEDNESDAYS NEWS.

WEDNESDAYS NEWS.
A Union Pacific train bearing troops
from Pine Ridge was wrecked at Flor
enee, Kas., and two soldiers killed and
twelve others injured.
Petitions have been presented to the
Wisconsin Legislature to make Mil
waukee the capital of the State.
While carelessly handling gun, VIM,
Sennhenn, living. near Sandusky, Ohio,
killed his eleven -year-old sister and dan
gerously wounded another, aged ten.
The remains of Gottlieb Wier, of
Chillicothe, o., who has been missing
two months, were found in the canal.
A bill has been introduced in the U.
). Senate to incorporate the Pacific Cable
Company, capital $5,000,000, to operate
cable between San Francisco, Hawaii,
Samoa and Japan.
The Ohio mine operators have refused
the demands recently made by the
miners and strike is expected.
Francis Murphy. the temperance evan
gelist, is i'll from nervous prostration
from overwork, at Morristown, Ind.
THURSDAYS NEWS.
David N. Comingore has been ap-
pointed Collector of Internal Revenue
for the Sixth District of Kentucky.
The Knoblaugh Company, manufact-
urers of carriage wood work, Cincinnati,
assigned. Assets $4,000, liabilities
s22, 900.
Frank Smallwood is under arrest at
Decatur, ILL.,, charged with hiring an
assassin to kill his father.
Mrs. Russell Blair, of Laporte, Ind,
went insane over the prediction of a
fortune teller, that her husband would
be killed in a railroad accident
The Executive Council of the Fedora
tion of Labor has decided not to join the |
Alliance movement, deeming it unwise |
to meddle in politics as an organization
Wm Gay Ballantine has been elected |
President of Oberlin College.
A great mass of meteoric iron fell
Wednesday night near Lathrop, Mo.
U. S. Senator Cameron was burned in
effigy by the Republicans of Allegheny
City, Pa.
Democrats are working up charges of
bribery against q. s. Senator Squire, of
The National Farmers Alliance Con-
vention has decided against the ad-
mission of any laboring men but farmers
into the organization.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
Three passengers were seriously in
jured in wreck on the L. and N, near
Birmingham, Ala.
Twenty four persons were killed and
eighty houses destroyed by an avalanche
in Greece.
Secretary Blaine says that there are no
negotiations in progress to effect reci-
procity with Canada.
A case involving the right to fifteen
dollars worth of calves has been decided |
in an Iowa Court. The costs are over |
$4,000.
The British Government is negotiating
with Amour & Co., of Chicago, for the
of dressed beef plant in
India.
The sundry silver bill as agreed upon
by the subcommittee of the House Ap-
Committee appropriates over
s36, 100000.
Physicians have decided that the
sickness of the members of the Presi-
dents family is due to the constant
presence of large plants used for decor
atoms.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
There is another financial panic in
Buenos Ayres.
Charles Bradlaugh, English politician,
is dead.
Brown hematite iron ore has been
near Mobile, Ala.
In fire at Cygnet, O., seven buildings
were destroyed and three persons burned
to death. Financial loss $4,000.
The fast train on the Cincinnati
Southern collided with some freight
cars on a trestle south of Lexington.
No one was hurt.
Lieutenant Schwatka, Arctic explorer,
fell over banister in the Park Hotel,
Mason City, Ia, and sustained injuries
that are probably fatal.
The Grand, Jury of st. Paul, Mimi,
has returned indictments against nearly
all the county officials, charging fraudu-
lent appropriation of county funds to
their own use.