Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-08
STATE NEWS.

THE Sandusky Register says: ga man
named William Adams was drowned in the
river, near Monroeville, on Tuesday last"
HENRY KINNEMAN, of Ellsworth, Ma
honing county, lad only Is years of age,
at the last term of the Court of Common
Pleas for that county, plead suilty to an
Indictment for an assault with intent to
commit a rape, and was sentenced to the
Penitentiary for six years.
On Monday last, about noon, fire was
discovered in the timber dry-house of
Messrs. Blymyr, Day & Co., says the Mans
field Shield, at their foundry. The steam
and other engines were soon on the spot,
and it was extinguished before much loss
was sustained. Loss is from two to three
hundred dollars.
A GENTLEMAN residing on a farm near
Richmond, Va, a few days since, in view of
the passage of the territorializing bill, ad
dressed the Commissioner of Agriculture,
begging him to send on about five hundred
bushels of prairie grass and ten buffalos.
He. wanted all the appliances of terri
torial condition, we should judge.
AMONG the wonders at the Paris Expo
sition will be an ambulatory Chinese res
taurant, made of bamboo, and borne on the
shoulders of Celestial. It is an institu-
tion complete in ITSELF and is to be seen
everywhere in China where workmen are
congregated. 1t serves hot outlet or a
fried fish for a few farthings.
On Saturday, the 23d of February, Thos.
Morris, residing near Gray's Mills, in this
county, says the Marietta Times, drove his
team into Duck Greek, few rods below
the main ford. The water proved to be of
greater depth than he probably supposed,
and Aoated the bed from his wagon
Throwing his lines to some one on shore,
he plunged into the creek, and was drown
ed in his attempts to reach land.
THURSDAY night of last week fire broke
out in Warren, destroying property to the
amount OF about $4,000. The buildings
destroyed were all of wood and occupied.
That of Mrs. King by herself, Mrs. Ashbel
King and Henry Richmond for dwellings;
TruesdeIl & Townsend's building was oc-
cupied by themselves as cabinet shop fin
ishing house; D. Bishop by himself for
grocery store; the house of Frederick Stone
by Mrs. Adair and E. 81. Ensign for dwell
ing.
JOHN Fry, aged about twenty-five years,
committed suicide by hanging himself in
Hubbard, on the 23d instant. He went out
in the morning, on the east part of Edward
Moore's farm to chop wood, and was found
about half past two O'Clock in the afternoon
of the same day. He took off his suspend
ers, out of which he made moose and fast
ened it around his neck, and then bent
down sapling and attached his suspenders
to the top of it. He was found sitting on
the ground with life extinct.
MANSFIELD is getting to be a pleasant
place to live. The last number of the
Shield says on Saturday night as Mr.. Jas.
o. Galbraith was going home he was shot
at, the BAH passing through his hat. He
was known to have considerable money
about him at the time. It also says that on
Thursday night, last week. ball was fired
into the window Of Esq. Barbour. the ball
almost grazing the face of Miss Barbour,
his daughter, who was reading at the time.
On Friday night, Mr.. B. S. Runyan was
knocked down by one of these villains at
hisown gate, on Fourth street, for money,
of course. 1t is unsafe for citizens to be
out at night.