Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-05
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

General DR.. Fonseca has been elected
President of Brazil
Cora Collins, negress weighing 391
pounds, died in Cincinnati
Thad. Ward was crushed to death be-
tween car and heavy plank at the
Lima car works.
A blizzard prevailed in Kansas We'd
nesday night, with the thermometer 10
degrees below zero.
Valuable deposits of manganese, sui
phur. copper, lead and salt have been
discovered in Mississippi.
At Louisville, Ohio, narcotics were
given A. Douglass Walser, an insane
man, ''to quiet his nerves." and he died
from their effects.
j. II. Moll, of Defiance, Ohio, in his
efforts to commit suicide, cut his throat,
stabbed himself, and then threw himself
before railway train.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
VIM: West was hanged at Washing
ton, Pa.
Annie Dickinson is Frustrated by
nervous exhaustion produced by over
work.
James NJ. Ayres, of Cincinnati, has
been appointed U. 5. Consul at Paris,
Brazil.
Mississippi was visited by a furious
snow storm Wednesday night. The
mercury fell fifty degrees in few
hours.
The gold product of the country for
1890 was s32, ,S45,000, the silver product
s57 7,225,000
A snow-slide in Colorado overwhelmed
boarding house at Irwin. Sew T per-
sons are buried, with little hope of their
being rescued alive.
| 1t is said that L. S. Treasurer ]. n.
Huston has resigned and that the office
has been rendered ex-State Treasurer of
| Indiana Lemcke.
SATURDAYS s NEWS.
The town of Yuma, Cal, was nearly
destroyed by the flood in the ella River
Valley.
1t is reported that thirty type foundries
in this country have effected business
consolidation.
A landslide occurred near Barre, Vt,
thousands of tons of rocks and earth
sweeping down upon the city, damaging
many dwellings.
US. Senator Blair, of New Hampshire,
whose term expires March 8, was yester-
day nominated by the President and
confirmed by the Senate, Minister to
China.
Lieutenant Peary, of the L. S. Navy,
has secured an eighteen months leave
of absence to make trip to the North
Pole. He will go north as far as a
vessel can take him, and will try to
reach his destination by foot across
Greenland.
SUNDAYS NEWS.
The Republican city Convention of
Cincinnati is called for Thursday,
March r.
The cable of an incline plane at
Whitewell, Tenn, broke as miners were
going to work. Two were killed and
eleven injured.
Mexicans have ordered Americans to
leave Vermigo county, New Mexico.
The latter have organized to resist, and
trouble is probable.
Tom Axworthy, the defaulting Treas
urer of Cleveland, o., writes from
Hamilton, Canada, that he is prepared
to settle with the city.
The cowhiding of a negro by indignant
citizens threatens to precipitate conflict
between whites and blacks in Hender-
son county, Tennessee.
Roy South, aged nine, of Alliance, O.,
who used his coat-tail to secure better
grip on the shaft of a revolving turbine
wheel, was crushed and pounded to
death.
In Pike county, Mo-, nineteen-yea
old boy was killed by two younger
brothers, who shot him as he lay asleep.
brother
MONDAYS NEWS.
Mormons are leaving Utah in large
numbers for Mexico
At Mentor, O., Andrew Lett stabbed
and killed Frank Lett, his nephew.
The st. James Hotel and several other
buildings at Cairo, ILL.,, were burned
Sunday.
.. II. Hamilton, Government levee
contractor, was shot and killed by Frank
Burgess, colored, near New Orleans.
Eighteen blocks, including the Baptist
Church and many residences, were
burned at Herman, N. y, Saturday
night.
Two hundred and fifty houses at
Yuma, AriZ., have been destroyed by
the flood, and fourteen hundred people
are homeless.
The dry goods store of Byram & Sui
livan, at Indianapolis, was destroyed by
fire. Several other firms lost very heavily
by smoke and water.
TUESDAYS NEWS.
A tin.plate plant is to be established
at South Joliet, Ill.
lHe cases VI ILo New OIh Importers
against the Mckinley tariff have been
brought before the U. S. Supreme Court
on appeal.
The residence of ex- Governor Oglesby.
of Illinois, OF Elkhart, was destroyed by
fire, and Mrs. Oglesby painfully burned.
Loss $25,000.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
issued call for a report of the eondi-
tion of the National banks at the close
of business February 26.
IT is quite probable that you may need |
the services of physician some day; but |
you c&n postpone the time indefinitely by |
keeping your blood pure and your system
invig, aied through the use of Ayers
Sarsapdrilla. Prevention is better thar