Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-06-18
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
SUNDAY $ NEWS.

SUNDAY NEWS.
The Democrats of Indiana are alarmed
at the effect of their new tax law.
George Brown, convicted in Cincin-
natl of criminal assault on girls under
fourteen years of age, was sentenced to
the penitentiary for fifteen years.
Mrs. Jane Lewis, aged ninety, of
Hamilton, o., has come into possession
of her share of bequest in the will of
Colonel Taylor, in whose family she was
a slave.
While six boys were playing on raft,
near Cuyahoga Falls, the raft went to
pieces and the boys were precipitated
into the water, twelve feet deep, and
two were drowned
A passenger train on the Big Four
road was run into, at Litchtield Crossing,
Ind, by freight train, at right angles,
wreeking the baggage car and one
coach. About twenty passengers were
in the coach, all of whom were more or
less hurt, one fatally.
MONDAYS NEWS.
Philip Brady, wife and son, were
burned to death in a New York tene-
ment-house fire.
In Switzerland a heavily loaded ex-
cursion train went through a bridge.
Sixty were killed and hundreds injured.
The steamer City of Richmond caught
fire at sea from cotton in the hold.
Other vessels rendered aid and terrible
disaster was averted.
Miss Grace Raynor, aged fifteen, of
Patchogue, L. l., is kept chained by the
ankle to prevent her running away and
marrying hostler.
A Lima CO., special expresses a belief
that the Standard Oil Company is buying
up the lands on both sides of st. Mary's
Reservoir, for the purpose of tunneling
and draining the reservoir into the river:
At Nashville, Tenn, Nelson Jackson
was cut by J. W. Scott, receiving a
wound in the abdomen from which the
intestines protruded. They were re-
placed, and jackson will probably
recover. ~
North Carolina Republicans will hold
Convention July %, for the purpose
of organizing Protective Tariff League.
The object is to press the tariff issue
before the people as an Offset to the race
issue which is played by the Democrats
TUESDAYS NEWS.
A cavern miles in extent has been
discovered in Morgan county, Ky. l
At Madison, Ind, Stokes Brown beat
his five-year- r-old boy so severely as to
cause his death.
In Marshall county, George Bogart
had his head split open with buzz saw
and died instantly.
Eli Brooks, an aged man living neal
Conneautville, Pa, was tortured with
fire by robbers, compelling him to give
up forty dollars.
The agreement between the United
States and Great Britain for closed
season in Behring Sea was proclaimed
by the President Monday.
Near Parksville, KY, as the result OF
family feud, Eugene Owens shot and
fatally wounded Cans Blevlns. The
boys are about fifteen years old.
J. A. Marshall, Treasurer of Blue
Rock township, Muskingum county, o.,
who claimed to have been robbed OF
$500, has been arrested for embezzle-
ment.
The committee appointed by Cincin-
natl commercial bodies to report on the
Southern Railway lease recommended a
perpetual extension, with certain con-
ditiOnS.
William Farmhouse, living near Mum
Gle, Ind, aged eighty-one, who was
recently divorced from an aged wife, to
whom he had been married fifty years,
married girl wenty-five. years old.
WEDNESDAYS NEWS.
Mrs. McGawan, of Alliance, while
driving near Newton Falls, was killed
by the team running away.
Fire broke out in the City Hospital at
Cincinnati at midnight Monday, but all
the patients were removed without in
jury, The damage was slight.
Edward Benitz, engineer, and James
McSwyin, fireman, were yesterday re-
lieved from duty on the Lake Erie, AL
lance & Southern railroad at Canton for
fighting aboard a running train.
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