Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-06-25
New Series, Vol. 81, No 26
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

THURSDAYS NEWS.
Secretary Blaine, at Bar Harbor, is
F attending to public business by wire.
General Grosvenor has been appointed
to visit Europe on Worlds Fair business.
A gang of young thieves, ranging in
years from seventeen to nineteen, has
been captured at Newton, Ind.
Louis Schlesinger, passenger on the
steamer La Gasconge, reports money
and jewels of the value of SAC, 900 stolen
from his state-roOm.
The decision of the Ohio Supreme
Court in the Hamilton county ''back-tax''
cases is against the Morganthaler col
lection ring.
The air ship which is being construct
ed by the Crawford Electric Company
for the Universal Erial Navigation
Company will be tested in Cincinnati,
June 81.
Two persons were killed and twenty
five injured by a wreck on the Chicago,
Milwaukee aud st. Paul railroad, near
Coon Rapids, La, caused by some one
placing a tie on trestle.
Governor Campbell attended a meet
ing of his Cincinnati friends at the
Burnet House, Wednesday. Resolutions
were adopted demanding new call for
a primary election to select the correct
number of delegates to the State Con-
ventiOn.
| FRIDAYS NEWS
General John NJ Schofield, and Miss
George KilbOurne, of Keokuk, Ia, were
married Thursday.
E. T. Jordan, Natural Gas Inspector
for Indiana, predicts the failure of the
gas supply of Findlay, o., within two
years.
By the explosion of a portable boiler
at Akron. o., Henry Golden was killed,
John Harvey fatally, and six other men
seriously injured.
Emma Belcher, aged Is, of Riverside.
o., died from the effects of breathing
the flames of gasoline lamp that fash
ed across her face as she carried it.
Charles Jenkins, living near Bridge
port, Ind, was killed by the accidental
discharge of spring gun he was setting
for a chicken thief
Sarah Sims, aged Is, of Shelbyvllle,
Ind, after quarrel with her father, be-
come respondent and took dose of
morphine with suicidal intent, and is in
a critical condition.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has
decided as unconstitutional the State
law passed by the Democratic LegisIa-
ture taking the appointment of State
officers out of the hands of the Governor
The census of the Ohio tobacco crop
shows that for the census year ended
June 1, 1890, the yield was 37,S53, ,563
pounds, worth S2,642,S59, from 44,303
acres. There were 1929 planters in
the State.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
The peach crop of the country will be
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Charles Evans, a young druggist of
Youngstown, o., died from excessive
cigarette smoking.
John F. Templeton, the first white
Aiesh OOAh Ii AAAuAetufe, IOetI
that State, aged eighty-fOur.
Larry Neal expresses his confidence
that he will be nominated Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio.
AT Charleston, W. Va, Sim johnson,
he negro who criminally assaulted
Alice Baily (white), was hanged Friday.
Richard Rhein, aged 50, jumped from
he Suspension Bridge over the Ohio
vt Cincinnati, with intent to commit
uicide.
The friends of the proposed new con-
titution of Kentucky have effected
State organization for the purpose of
ecuring its adoption.
Miss Ella Ragan, of st. Marys, Ohio,
vas thrown into cataleptic state from
fright at lightning, and continued in
hat condition for ten days.
Twenty years ago James Arbuckle
nd his eight year-old son were placed
n the aimshouse at Youngstown, Ohio.
he boy was sent out TO learn a trade,
ecame contractor in Pittsburgh, and
he other day took his aged father to his
ONE for the rest of his days.