Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-07
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

Jim Taylor was taken from jail at
Nashville, Tenn, and hanged by mob.
t General A. NJ. Warner, of Cincinnati.
: was elected Department Commander of
/ the Ohio G. A. r.
; The Farmers Alliance is preparing to
put thirty-fiye thousand lecturers in the
field to boom the cause
Isaac Smith, the Pike county muir
derer, has had his sentence commuted
TO Imprisonment for life.
Seventeen thousand dollars in notes
were burned in the wreck of the Cincin-
natl express on the B. and o., Tuesday.
James G. Fealey, of Sidney, Ohio,
Government clerk, being ill in Wash
lngton, fastened home to his wedding
and died the next day.
Three prisoners escaped from the Jail
at Vanceburg, KY, after setting fire to
the building, which was saved by the
promptness of the Jailer
At Toy, Ala, while a music class
was rehearsing at Folmar's Opera house,
the roof caved in. Two young girls
were killed, two others dangerously
hurt and others bruised.
Experiments with free delivery at
small towns have been so successful
that Postmaster General Wanamaker
thinks the time not far distant when
the system may be applied to the whole
country.
B. P. Hutchinson, the Chicago
speculator, suddenly disappeared from
that city. He passed through Evans
vile, Ind, for the South. 1t is rumored
he is again in financial trouble, and is
supposed to have wandered away in a
temporary fit of alteration.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
While boring for gas near Leechburg,
Pa, oil was struck at a depth of three
hundred feet.
DIR. R. c. Goodwin, alias R. H. Hotson,
wanted in North Carolina for forgery,
was captured in Cincinnati, Thursday.
A suit has been brought in the Ohio
Supreme Court to test the recent reap
portionment of the State for Legislative
purposes.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of
Paris dresses have been seized in New
York upon complaint of importers who
charge underyaluation.
Five thousand carpenters in Pitts
burgh have gone on strike for an
eight-hour day, and ten thousand men,
bers of the building trades are affected.
John Grubb, aged II, who has been
loafing around Mitchell, Ind, and living
off hard-working mother. was given
severe whipping by a mob of masked
boys of his own age.
A locomotive ON the Dayton and
Michigan railroad exploded near John
sons Station, Ohio. Fireman John
Fooly was killed, and Engineer Jacob
Eick and Brakeman o. NJ. Wood badly
injured.
W. B. Snooks, the bridegroom of the
Louisville wedding, where several per-
sons were poisoned at the feast, died
Thursday, at the Burnet House, Cinein-
natl. Coroner Bange has ordered a
post mortem.
SATURDAY \ ) NEWS.
During April 60, ,449 immigrants land
ed at New York.
The April reduction of the public
debt was sl,514,327.
The Kreamer fireworks factory, New
York, was destroyed by fire, and three
girls perished in the flames.
The law repeating the special tax on
dealers in leaf and manufaC tured tobacco
and cigars, went into effect May l.
The Farmers Alliance store at Man.
chester, o., has been closed by the Sheriff
at the instance of Portsmouth and Gin
cinnati creditors.
Mrs Trimmer, wife of saloon keeper
at Mt Vernon, o., eloped with an Ad-
ventist preacher named Burnbraeh, and
Trimmer is in pursuit.
Two engines collided in the B. and o.
yards at Newark, o., and were demol-
ished, causing damage of $4,000.
Two men were badly injured.
At Frankfort, KY, Robert Dawson
was caught and whiried around with
anu udSucQ W plcCCo
One arm and both feet were torn off.
Decisions have been announced by the :
Circuit Court at Cincinnati fully sup
porting the Sunday saloon closing law,
and holding that the keeping open is
though no liquors may be
drank.
Chicken Eater" Jackson and big
Bulldog" Crabtree, two desperadoes of
the Cumberland Mountain region of
Kentucky, came together, and both are
dead, one shot through the heart and
the other through the brain.
The English Government has proposed
to the United States an agreement to
suspend the killing of seals in the
Behring Sea for term to be decided
upon, that commission be chosen to
examine the whole subject, and for that
time England will engage to keep out
poachers from Canada 1t is thought
Blaine will agree to the proposition or
10 something like it.
l HAVE been bothered with catarrh for
about 20 years; l had lost sense of smell
and l had almost lost my hear
ing; my eyes were getting so dim had
to get some one to thread my needle;
now have my hearing as well as l ever
had, and | can see to thread as fine
needle as | ever did; my sense of smell is
partly restored, and it seems to be i'm
proving all the time; l think there is
nothing like Ely's Cream Balm for ca
tarrh.-Mrs E. Z. Grimes, Rendrill, Berry
Ohio. 4-3O-2t