Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-30
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

q 1hO hSDA1 > NEWS.
Much damage was done by the storm
OF "Wednesday night throughout Central
S Ohio.
A stone weighing three hundred
pounds, found near Huntington, Ind.
is believed to be garnet.
John Grier, employed at the mines of
Ridgeway, Burton & Co., near Canton.
o., was killed by falling slate yesterday.
The statistics of exports and imports
tor the year ended March 81, show a
balance IN favor of the United States of
$22, 100000.
At Burlington, Ia. five men who
drank from an old well poisoned with
sewage, died, and several others are re-
ported dying.
Mrs. Michael Sullivan, of Pittsburgh,
tired of quarreling with her husband,
stabbed him with butcher knife as he
slept, and cut Ter throat from ear to ear.
Rev. DR.. Lytle, for thirty years pastor
of the United Presbyterian Church at
Bloomfield, Ohio, dropped dead there
yesterday. He was about 70 years of
age.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
Kate Brammer, aged eighteen, of
Raleigh, W. Va, in resisting the attempt
of a burglar to enter through window,
broke his skull with an axe.
The Convention of the New York
Farmers Alliance adopted the Ocala
platform. The offer of the Knights of
Labor for union was rejected.
One hundred Italian nemasons at
Port Chester, N. Y, went on strike for
eight hours day. They created riot
and several were arrested. They were
armed with revolvers, knives, and
Stilettos.
George Graber, of Cincinnati, worth
less fellow, who had been separated
from his wife, returned to demand of
her portion of an Inheritance in
Germany, and because she refused to
do anything for him, shot and killed
her and then blew his own brains cut.
"Regulators" in Spencer county, Ind,
visited Walker Lowe, whose attentions
to another mans wife had become a
neighborhood offense, and gave him
SiXty-five laShes on the bare back with
hickory switches. Mrs. Kleeman, the
offending woman, has received warn
ing of fifty lashes.
SATURDAY S NEWS.
At AtI.awrenceburg, Ind, Louis Ricketts,
astrngled himself to death with clothes
line.
The Republican State Convention of
Ohio xrifi hn haII -, vi,
and IL.
Nelse Gray, a colored burglar, was
shot and killed by Jailer Hall as he was
attempting to escape from the jail at
Versailles, KY.
An agent of the Republic of San
Domingo is in Washington to negotiate
a reciprocity agreement between that
country and the United States.
The Ohio State Association of Mexi-
can War Veterans will hold their
seventeenth annual reunion in Sidney,
o., on Thursday and Friday, May-7
and 8, 1891.
The Agriculture Department an
1ounces that it will be ready in two
weeks to meet all the requirements of
tOAAAols III W OAO AAoHCCI1Ou
American meats.
Secretary Foster says there are
s70,000,000 of available assets in the
Treasury to meet the obligations of the
Government. So much for the Demo-
;ratic alarm about deficiency.
Two Mormon Elders who have been
)roselyting in Lincoln county, W. Va,
Ind made themselves offensive by their
controversial dispositions have been
lriven away by indignant citizens.
The U. S. Treasury Department has
evied tariff of twenty-five per cent. on D.,
I'll lottery tickets coming from Mexico
Inder the protection of the postal con-
'entiOn between the two countries.
Rev. Geo. W. Boutwell,, of Brooklyn,
swallowed a cork, and is
lying at one of the hospitals. 1t lodged
n his throat, and the operation of
was unsuccessfully per-
Ormed.