Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
SUNnAYfS NEWS.


Extensive forest fires are raging on
Long Island.
The May Day riotings are said to have
been the result of revolutionary con-
spiracy,
1t is said the Republican League of
Clubs will erect headquarters building
to cost $4,000.
Several patients have been discharged
from the hospital at Denver, pronounced
cured by Koch's lymph.
The new Democratic Mayor of Col
umbus has ordered all the concert halls
closed, contrary to the expectations of
those who aided in his election.
Northern Democrats are urging upon.
Southern members of the next Congress
the importance of electing Northern
man Speaker, and it is said they have
been bought off by promises of good
places on committees.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in Columbus for long distance
telephone company, for the purpose of
constructing and operating lines from
Cincinnati to Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo,
New York, and other Eastern cities.
MONDAYS NEWS.
Snow fell at Huron, S. d., Sunday
afternoon.
William Clark & Sons will establish
new thread mill at Pawtucket, r. l.,
having withdrawn from the Clark
Thread Company.
A tornado struck Paducah, Kentucky,
Saturday evening. One hundred houses
were eiul e demolished or badly damaged
and six persons badly injured. Property
damage about $4,000.
The fires in the Blue Mountains in the
vicinity of Reading, Pa, after burning
over 1,500 acres, were put out by the
rain Saturday night.
b. W. Cowan and c. T. MeLane,
members of the same church of Bland
vile, W. Va, quarreled on the way
home from service, and McLane STRUCK
Cowan on the head with fence rail,
fracturing the skull
The crusade against the variety halls
of Columbus. o., by the new Democratic
Mayor was inaugurated Sunday. The
doors were kept closed and no girls ad-
mitted, hnt liquors were dispensed to
male customers at the bar.
TUESDAYS NEWS.
Pete Schwab predicts the renomina-
tion of Governor Campbell.
The Presidential party began their
homeward journey from the Pacific
slope yesterday.
Italy has decided not to participate in
the Chicago Fair, necessary economy
being the excuse.
A decision of the Treasury Depart
ment is to the effect that bees are
animals, for the purpose of levying
duty.
The tornado that struck Paducah, KY.
Saturday, also did much damage at
Smithland, Marion, Salem, and Pink
neyville.
1t is reported that Germany and Aus
tria- Hungary have invited Italy, SwitZer-
land and Belgium to form coalition
against protectionist countries.
Volcanic eruptions of the past few
days have changed the fertile valley,
Lunahuana, Chilli, to desert Hundreds
of families have been left without
homes.
Miss Hannah Rosser, aged 10, residing
at Cornersburg, near Youngstown, o.,
attempted to murder her mother yester-
day. She then cut her own throat so
severely that it is feared she will not
recover. She was recently released
from an insane asylum.
wednesday, NEWS.
The strike in the coke regions ends
with the twelfth week, and 5000 men
are at work.
The carpenters on strike at Pitts
burgh are weakening, and part of the
men returned to work yesterday on the
old contract.
Charles Craig the Cincinnati mur