Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-12
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
WEDNESDAYS NEWS.

d CIlDSOn House.
1t Near Belleville, H., Henry BrechtolC
shot and fatally wounded his brother,
q wife and committed suicide.
o 1t is announced that the trustees OF
Z. l.. Harper & Co. expect soon to be in
= a position to pay dividend.
. Michael Eyraud, the Paris murderer
was guillotined Tuesday morning about
d z O'Clock. He rejected the 'consolations
r of religion
James Walker, of Kansas City, Kas.,
: stabbed his wife under the left eye with
:. pocket-knife and put her on red hot
stove. He escaped to Kansas City, Mo.
The Republicans of the Ohio Legisla-
+ ture have signed a communication to
President Harrison suggesting ex-Gov-
ernor Foster for Secretary of the
Treasury.
Samuel Campbell who has been mys-
teriously missing from his home in
Monroe county, Ind, and was supposed
to have been murdered, has been located
, in Aberdeen, Kan.
THURSDAY ) NEWS,
1T is estimated that the cost of the
late Indian war will be 100000.
Secretary of War Proctor SAYS he does
not want to be Secretary of the Treasury.
The Hecla Iron Works, in Brooklyn,
were destroyed by fire Wednesday
morning. Loss 100000.
Mrs. Austin, of Laporte, Ind, whose
son was killed by cars some time ago,
has become insane from grief
1t is said that a syndicate is being
promoted by Englishmen to invest $11,-
100000 in breweries in Milwaukee and
Chicago.
Fifteen miuers were drowned in a
mine near Hazleton, Pa, by the waters
from an old mine breaking through into
a new one.
Robert Bond, aged eighty-five, living
near Greencastle, Ind, was burned to
death in his house, which caught fire
Tuesday of last week.
An eight-year- old daughter of Kelly
Murphy, living near Martinsville, Ind,
was burned to death by her clothes
igniting from heating stove.
The President has recommended to
the Senate the ratification of the treaty
signed by him, with representatives of
seventeen other Nations, for the exclu-
sion of firearms and spirituous liquors
from Equatorial Africa and the abolition
of the slave trade.
A rear-end collision occurred on the
c., L. and W. railroad at Beach City, O.,
yesterday morning, between two coal
trains. c. w. Lehman, fireman, was
killed, and John Mcconnell, brakeman,
of Lorain, was SO badly burned that he
will die. Two tramps, who were in the
caboose. were injured.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
John Zumstein has been nominated
Postmaster at Cincinnati.
There are 1852 saloons in Hamilton
county, who paid as taxes for the half
year $314, 4,337.1S
The President has issued his procla-
nation of the reciprocity agreement
between this country and Brazil.
Rev. Henry C. Swentzel, of Scranton,
Pa, has been chosen missionary Bishop
for Japan by the House of Bishops of
of the Episcopal Church.
Walter Damrosch, son-in- law of James
G. Blaine, has secured a permanent
orchestra for New York, to take the
place of the one that Theodore Thomas
moved to Chicago.
The Indiana Senate has passed bill
providing that all trusts, pools, contracts,
arrangements of corpora
lions which attempt to decrease outputs,
control prices or limit production shall
be considered conspiracies to defraud
the people, and any person being
member of such organization shall be
subject to fine of from 81 900 to 5000
and Imprisonment in the State prison
from two to five years.
SOUTH POLAR EXPLORATION.
Sew York Sun.
Prof. NOrdenskiold has written to the
of the Geographical Society of
Paris with regard to his proposed expe- :
iition to the South Pole. He calls at
ention to the fact that since 1858 Swe-
len has sent to the Arctic regions fif-
cen scientific expeditions, more or less
equipped. Two of these ex-
petitions went to Spitzenbergen for the
purpose of trying to reach the North
Pole. Both parties set out in sledges,
me using reindeers and the other dogs.
They were both defeated on account of
he ice conditions. He says Sweden
las accomplished some of the most i'm
,ortant results in Arctic research, but it
S evident that many questions of physi-
al phenomena, and particularly those
elating to geology and natural history,
vill remain unsolved, or at least, will be
cry difficult of explanation until cor
observations and collections
re made in the Antarctic regions
these considerations have induced the
wedes to think of extending their re-
earches into the South Polar regions,
nd it is proposed to send out new ex-
edition as completely equipped as that
f the Vega, in which Nordenskiold
nade the Northeast passage.
He says the King of Sweden is deeply
Interested in the project, as well as the
cientific authorities of that country. and
,aron Oscar Dickson, the well-known
atroa of polar explorations. This gen
Ieman has promised to contribute $25,-
90 to the expedition, and the same
mount is expected from Australia.
'aron Nordenskiold speaks rather slight
ngly of "the leading men of science"
lie says that they have been talking
reat deal about the question, but that
hey seem. to encounter insurmountable
ifficulties when they proceed "from
ounds to things" LII any case, he says,
he expedition viii not leave Sweden be-
GOD and Iaarharac hSf,.<, 1909