Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-16
STATE AND GENERAL NEWS.

THE Hillsboro, Highland county, Gazette
says that on Sunday evening, the 10th inst,
a storehouse iii Blanchester was broken
into, and a thousand dollars worth of goods
stolen. No arrest had been reported.
THE Holmes county Farmer records the
marriage of Mr.. Samuel Weaver, of Berlin
township, aged seventy-seven years, to
Mrs. Magdalena Otto, Of Mechanic town.
ship, aged sixty-two. The Farmer congrat-
ulates the happy couple upon their union,
and hopes they may live to ripe old age
in the enjoyment of the blessings of we'd
lock. r2
SHOCKING ACcIDENT-The Springfield,
Clarke county, Democrat OF Thursday re-
lates the following:
| On the I'd inst, Romanus Zerkel, wor-
| thy and respectable citizen of German
| township, while in the act of oiling the
| gearing of his saw mill, was caught by the
arm and drawn in the segments of the
wheels, crushing 1t and breaking his ribs.
He was found in this condition by his wife
and mother, who called to some men that
chanced to be nigh, who succeeded in liber-
ating him. Notwithstanding the dreadful
manner in which his body was crushed, he
lived about half an hour. He leaves wife
and two children to mourn his loss.
THE Newark Adrocdte announces the
death of DIR. H. ". Owen, for thirty years
past practising physician Of Alexandria,
in Licking county. The Advocate says lie
was one of the most intelligent citizens of
the county, and was held in high esteem by
the community at large.
DAVID WYRIcK, a. widely known citizen
of Newark, Licking county, died at his res
idence in that city on the 18th inst. Three
or four years ago, his discovery of the. ia
nous "Holy Stone, in one of the mounds
near Newark, was the subject of comment
and conjecture throughout the country.
| A MURDERER ARREsTED.--Many of our
readers will remember the murder of Jacob
Baughman, an old bachelor, in his own
house, near Roseville, Muskingum county,
ON the 26th of August last. The murder
was perpetrated on Saturday night, and his
dead body was discovered by neighbor
the next afternoon, lying near the door of
his own house. 1t has been mystery, at
least with the public at large, as to who the
murderer was, and much has been said and
conjectured about it. III. T. Anderson, a
detective from Cincinnati, has succeeded,
after considerable effort, in ferreting out
| the guilty man. On the 18th inst he ar
rested John Griffin, charged with the cold
blooded murder. Griffin was arrested at
Granger's Mill, mile south of Lexington,
and is now in Jail in GAINESVILLE, where he
will be tried. .4n
O.S. FOWLER is lecturing on phrenology
in Springfield, Mass.
BRIGHAM YOUNG is about to prove to the
| Saints that he can keep hotel" having
purchased the Salt Lake House for $4,000.
A BosToN paper of the 18th inst. says |:
Gov. Andrew, and other gentlemen, gave a
| dinner to Messrs. Rondanez and Berton-
| neau, at Parker's, last evening. Messrs. r.
and B. are American citizens of African
descent"
THE New York Times has twice charged
| that the Secretary of the Treasury received
$3,5000O0 Of the gold I'm San Francisco,
shipped it via Panama to England, and has
| thus loaned it, and Is specializing In bills of
exchange on the strength of it.
A NEW YoRK paper asks, why not bor-
row brilliant idea from Secretary Chase,
and issue butter certificates? II gold GER
| tificates can cure speculation in gold, but
ter certificates can surely cure speculation
| In butter.
| A NEW YoRK penny-a-liner writes to q
London paper that there is not negro bar
Der in New York who is not an aspirant for
the Presidency.
The RHODE ISLAND ELEcTIoN.--The cleo
ton In Rhode Island Is so close that the re-,
suit may depend upon the vote Of Block
| Island, which has not been heard from for
| fourteen days. says the Providence Journal.
| The majority Of Gov. Smith In the rest Of
the State is only about fifty.
The Abolition Governor Of Iowa, Stone,
on demand, Of aso1dier named Knapp,
lawaiting second trial for numbering ne
gro At Davenport. last winter. Knapp has
been tried once BY civil court, the jury
fsilipG 70 agree on Z verdict.