Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-06-04
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

THURSDAYS NEWS.
John H. Maiden, a farmer near Hart
ford, KY, committed suicide, it is
thought because he lost a lawsuit
Michael Krabell, a stone mason of
Mansfield, o., ended long drunk by
swallowing rat poison, and died.
AT New Philadelphia, o., Henry We
hely was convicted of murder in the first
degree for the killing of James Booth.
J. H. Boehm, one of the jurors in the
Elliott murder case, at Columbus, was
fined S25 and discharged from the jury
for writing on box in the jury-rOom
the words, "Hang, Bill Elliott, until you
are dead, dead, deadp
Francis NJ. Kennedy and Henry Ken
nedy, President and Cashier of the sus-
pended Spring Garden Bauk, of Phila-
delphia, have been arrested on the charge
of making false entries and returns and
of embezzlement.
The American University has been
organized, with Bishop Hurst, Of the
Methodist Church, Chancellor. The
Board of Trustees contains Presbyterian,
Protestant Episcopal, Baptist and
Methodist Episcopal representatives.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
General JAS B. Longstreet is very i'll
at his home in Athens, Ga.
The U. S. revenue cutters, Bear and
Rush, have been ordered to the Behring
Sea.
The Rev. George W. Vaneil, living
near Duquoin, ILL.,, is under arrest,
charged with making counterfeit money.
Bishop 1. W. Joyce, of the M. E.
Church, has been chosen Chancellor of
U. S. Grant University, Chattanooga
and Athens, Tenn.
James Graham, of Scott county, Ind,
claims to have killed rattlesnake that
measured nineteen feet long and had
thirty-nine rattles.
The Ohio Farmers Convention deeid-
ed against an independent ticket this
fall. Their platform declares for the
suppression of the liquor traffic.
Alexander Caseman, of Lima, O., aged
eighty-three years, who married three
months ago, has sued for divorce on the
ground of desertion. The wife is sixty
five.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
Committee on the Briggs case has de-
cided against the appointment to the
Professorship at Union Theological
Seminary.
The American Express clerk who was
robbed near Carroll, Ia, Saturday
night, has confessed the scheme was
planned by him. and has turned over
the stolen money.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
A draft for s7,5OO,O0O to pay pensions
due June 4, has been drawn on the
Treasury.
A bill to prohibit British subjects from
catching seal in Behring Sea has been
introduced in the English House of
Commons.
At Lafayette, Ind, Geo. w. Bennett,
who shot and killed John WerkhOff and
W. H. Scott, was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for life.
Mrs. John Campbell, aged forty, wife
of a farmer near Columbus, Ind, de-
serted her husband and four children
and ran away with hired man.
John Bardsley, City Treasurer of Phil
adelphia, has been arrested, charged
with misappropriating $4,000 of city
money, the embezzlement of 100000 of
State funds, and with perjury.
A jury in the Police Court of Cincin-
natl decided that it was not game of
base hall unless nine innings had been
played, and so discharged the AssOeia-
tion players who were arrested by the
police last Sunday.
At Cabinet meeting Friday, it was
agreed that the Government would be
prepared to pay in full, principal and
interest, the maturing four and half
per cent bonds, September 1, so that the
S51, 100000 may be redeemed without
recourse to the two per cent. refunding
plan.