Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-19
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
WEDNESDAYS NEWS.

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sistant Postmaster General.
At Pelican Rapids, Mimi, Mrs. o. c.
Hanson hanged her baby from the hinge
of door and then hanged herself.
Charles Peene, Democratic Treasurer |
of jefferson township, Madison county, |
Ohio, is short in his accounts $4,000
The estate of the late John b. Shoen-
berger is valued at S4,5OO,OOO, out OF
which Sl,295,000 is bequeathed for
charitable purposes.
John A. Hons, of Dayton, O., an old
soldier, was found near Good Hope, in
Ross county, with his throat cut and
stabbed to the heart.
A train on the B claire, GAINESVILLE
and Cincinnati Railroad upset near
Summerfeld, o. Several persons were
badly hurt, but no lives were lost
The Government crop statistics show
that there are about 542,000,000 bushels
of corn of last years crop still held by
the farmers, and 112,000,000 of wheat.
THURSDAYS NEWS.
Ex-State Treasurer Woodruff, af Ar
kansas is short In his accounts about
$4,000.
The German Reichstag has rejected
the petition to admit women to the
liberal professions.
The Jefferson Insurance Company, of
New York, will retire from business on
of had finoc
Mrs. o. G.. Butterfield, of Lima, was
burned to death by her clothes igniting
from lamp she was filling with coal oil.
A. Gale, banker and politician, after
losing his fortune on the Chicago Board
of Trade, committed suicide at Sioux
City, Iowa.
Three hundred Chinese pirates and
robbers were beheaded in Kwantung
Province during the last few days of
the old Chinese year.
Secretary Blaine says that the last
communication of Salisbury means the
settlement of the Behring Sea contro-
versy by arbitration.
The police Commission of Denver has
| given orders to the Chief of Police to
see that saloons and gambling houses
are closed on Sunday.
William J. and Patrick j. Elliott, of
Columbus, o., were indicted for murder
in the first degree for the killing of
Hughes and Osborne.
General John NJ Palmer was elected
Z. S. Senator by the Illinois Legislature.
He is the first Democrat to have that
honor since the days of Douglas.
The joint ballot of the California Leg
islature for U. S, Senator resulted: NJ.
NJ. Estee 90, NJ. Fl. DeYoung "a, Chas.
N. FELTON, 13, scattering 20-all Repub-
lican votes. Goucher (Dem.) received
| 25 votes.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
The Pennsylvania Senate has passed
the eight hours a-day labor bill.
There is a snow blockade on the
Denver and Rio Grande in New Mexico.
Destitute miners at Rendville, Ohio.
broke open box car and took flour
and meat to save their families from
starvation.
Matthew Hawking, farmer living at
| Mechanicsburg, O., confessed the forgery
of an $500 judgment note, and then fled.
The Supreme Court of Ohio, by vote
of 3 to 2, has ousted the Board of City
Affairs of Cincinnati and reinstated the
Board of Public Improvements.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Two hundred and fifty soldiers of
Fort Omaha are down with la grippe
Isaac Smith, the Pike county MUIR
erer. has been reprieved for the eight
time, this time until May 20.
Cal L. Grain, the Corporation Treas
urer, of Cedarville, o., is missing and
his accounts are S1,400 short.
William Sommers. aged seventy five,
committed suicide by jumping into a
well on his farm, near Delhi, Ohio.
Rev. John S. Smallwood, a young
negro orator of Virginia, has contracted
to lecture in England for six months on
the race problem in America for $6,000
The California Legislature has passed
the bill providing for the insurance of
certificates of residence to Chinese now
in the State and the exclusion of all
others.
Mrs. William Baker, living five miles
from Fostoria, o., tried to light a fire
with crude oil, and the can exploded.
Mrs. Baker was so badly burned she
died. Her little child was also badly
injured.
At Caldwell, O., Elmer Johnson, while
drunk, stabbed Mrs. Melissa Graham in
the neck with pocket knife, death re-
sulting almost Immediately He had
become abusive and she attempted to
put him out of her store.
SUNDAYS NEWS.
Nine lives were lost in the fire at the
lunatic asylum at Nashville, Tenn.
A fire in Syracuse, N. Y, Saturday
morning destroys several buildings,
causing loss of 81 100000.
P. T Barnum will erect a $125,OOO |
building as gift to the scientific and
historical societies of Bridgeport, CT.
The three-year- daughter of Ed
ward Smith, of Mechanicsburg, O., was
terribly burned by throwing coal oil
upon the fire.
A call for mass meeting of citizens
in New Orleans to take action in regard
to the failure to convict the assassin of
Chief Hennessy resulted in an organized
attack on the Jail and the shooting of
eleven of the assasslns in their cells or
as they tried to escape the vengeance of
outraged justice. The work of the Wig
ilants was approved by the leading COM
mercial bodies, one of which expelled
from membership one of the jurors.
MONDAYS NEWS.
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