Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04
OLD NINETY-THREE
A Erief Summary of Its Chief
Happenings In This Town
And Vicinity.

And Vicinity.
Below is given a summary of the more
notable happenings in this vicinity dur
ing the year 1898:
JANUARY.
2. The Caldwell s. Peterson Company
at Wheeling was burned out.
9. Robert Goldsborough suicided at
Jerry Clemens house.
80 The Commissioners heard the
charges against Engineer Dawson for
bad work on the Pultney Township pixies.
81. The First National Bank of Bel
mont was organized.
FEBRUARY.
4. The home of Gus Esch, near the B.
and .. depot burned.
s. A special report on the financial
condition of the county prepared by Au-
ditor Henderson and John Pollock show
ed the Indebtedness to be Sl16,46h.
10. The body of H. G. Wilson, the de-
faulting Superintendent and Secretary
of the Bellaire Water works was found
in West Virginia. He had suicided.
I0 and I6. A Farmers Institute held at
ST. Clairsville was largely attended.
%. The case of the County Commits
sioners against w. j. Berry to recover
s2S0O alleged to have been fraudulently
collected by overmeasurement, was de-
cided against the plaintiffs.
MARCH.
2. A meeting of taxpayers was held at
St. Clairsville to suggest ways of getting
the county out of debt.
8. Peter Giffen resigned as Sup't of
Children's Home, and Rev. n. c. Stuart
was appointed.
8. While cleaning a we'll at the Meth
odist parsonage, workman lit match
and looked in. Gasoline had came into
the water underground from the Court
house gas making plant near by, and an
explosion followed. Asbury Fields and
Billy Jackson were badly burned, and
the house was shaken up.
II. An injunction was asked by the
Methodist church people to restrain the
county from operating the gasoline plant.
IA. The Commissioners did not dismiss
Engineer Dawson from the Superintend-
ency of the Pultney Township pixies.
Is. A Temperance ticket was put in
the field for Council at st. Clairsville; an
other called the 4" Taxpayers was also
nominated.
IS. The home of John Wiley, south of
town, was burned to the ground
APRIL.
8. The wet ticket was elected at St.
Clairsville. Flushing went dry.
4. The right to build and operate a
Street railway along the pike in Bridge
port was given a company by the Com
missioners.
4. TO relieve the county's scarcity of
funds, the Commissioners pursuant to
legislative act, offered $4,000 of
county and bridge bonds for sale.
5. In Smith township, Miss Myrtle
Clifford and John C. Gay were to be mar
ried, but the groom fled.
"a. The B. and o. a train on the branch
was caught by landslide.
%. The Nichols bill taxing. telephone,
telegraph and express companies and
adding IL millions of money to the
State revenues, became law.
MAY.
l. The NJ. L. Sunday school changed
the time of meeting to the morning.
2. The Wheeling Presbytery of the
United Presbyterian Church met here.
8. Ordinances repeating the prohibito-
ry ordinance and regulating the saloons
were passed by Town Council.
Is. Hope Commandery, No. 26, K. T.,
observed Ascension Day with elaborate
exercises at their asylum here, and at
the Methodist church, closing with ban
quet at the Clarendon.
a. A class of eleven was graduated
from the High School.
25. The High School at Belmont held
its first Commencement.
%. The third trial of the Bethel Sharp
bastardy case resulted in verdict for
plaintiff.
28. The Northern station was burned
to the ground at 8 A. NJ.
80. Drummond Post, e. A. R.. st.
Clair Council, .. U. A. NJ, and several
visiting Councils celebrated Memorial
Day with fitting ceremonies.
JITNE
1. The first township commencement
was held at Louisville.
8. The first county commencement was
held at st. Clairsville.
Is. W. s. Taggart who disappeared ten
months before was brought back to st.
Clairsville'to answer charges of forgery.
He was caught at Oceana, Va, where he
went under an assumed name.
9. The Commissioners granted the
Electric Railway Co. the privilege Of
building their line out the pike from
Bridgeport one mile. Terms, 800 a
year for two years; $3.50 year for three
years; $3.50 year for three years; $500
year for twenty years.
IA. Robbers attempted to break into
the home of Enoch Crawford, but were
repulsed.
Is. Zack Fawcett had an arm broken
and heel crushed by the falling of a
bent at a barn-raising at Mrs. Newland's
| farm.
27. Joel Walker, Pleasant Grove, was
badly hurt by fall.
JULY.
2. The A. N. Z. church at st. Clairs-
vile was dedicated.
| 2. Captain DanfOrd's home was bur-