Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-04
STATE NEWS.


The damage done at Fremont by the high
water. will amount to four or five. thou
sand dollars.
THE total number of hogs killed in Chilli
cothe during the winter is eight thousand
and four hundred.
The organization of what is left of the
18th Regiment o. v. ". L, held their an
nual meeting in Wheeler's Hall, in Findlay,
on Friday, the 22d inst.
COLONEL G. B. WHITE, of Delaware, was
confirmed by the Senate on Thursday last,
rs Assessor of Internal Revenue for the
twenty-fourth District. sc hns r
THE bridge across the Portage river, at
Elmore Sandusky county, was carried off
by the ice on Sunday, the 18th inst The,
grist mill of the Gates Brothers was also
considerably damaged. .aTE
WE have sad duty to perform this week,
In announcing the death of Mrs. Silcott,
wife of our townsman A. e. Silcott, Esq,
says the Ohio State Register, who died sud-
denly on Monday afternoon, about 4 O'Clock,
leaving husband and three children to
mourn their irreparable loss.
WE learn from the Mansfield Herald that
on last Friday morning, little girl, a
daughter of Mr.. Mangen, Of Shelby, was
SO severely burned that she died the fol-
lowing day. Her clothes took fire at the
stove while her mother was absent from
the room procuring wood. The child was
about two years old. e
Tar HsHs5orough Gazette regrets to learn
that most exemplary and worthy young
man, named John Mckinney, was instantly
killed on yesterday "wednesday morning,
by the falling of tree which he had been
cutting down, about one and half miles
from the first toll-gate on the Ripley turn
pike.
SISTER MONICA LYNCH, formerly known
as Mrs. Catharine Lynch, of GAINESVILLE.
died on the 9th of February, at St. Mary's
Academy, in Perry county. at the advanced
age of eighty-three. For the past seventeen
years she has been daughter of the reli-
Qious order of st. Dominic. She moved to
GAINESVILLE with her husband, Patrick
Lynch, who died some twenty years ago, in
1920. and was the mother of five daughters,
two of whom are nuns, and one son, Rev.
J.H. Lynch.
Mr.. J. M. RoosA died at his home near
Lebanon, Warren county, at 10 o'clock, p.
NJ. on the 23d. Mr.. Roosa was brother of
the Roosa whose family was murdered by
Covert two years ago, and for which Co
vert was hung at Lebanon last summer.
MR.. was prominent citizen of Warren
county, and was a man Of considerable
wealth. enjoying one of the finest residen-
ces and most beautiful places, near Leba-
non, in the State.
Mrs. EMKLINE NoRTHUP, of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio. desires Information of her son, Le-
ander Wiiburn, who left his home suddenly
about the 1st of October, 1865. He served
over four years in Company X, 10Th o. v. v.
I. Deaths in his family appeared to have
weighed him down for days before his dis
appearance. Any one sending information
of his whereabouts to an almost heart
broken mother, will perform christian
act. Exchanges are requested to copy.
Mr.. WIN. SwANK, carpenter, residing on
North Seventh street, says the GAINESVILLE
Courier, was severely injured about two
o'clock Friday afternoon, while working
at Mr.Johl Alters new building, corner Of
Main and Second streets. He was on a
scaffold at the tima about eight feet above
the pavement, and by some means lost his
balance and fell of, striking the pave
ment, disloeating the left hip Joint, and
fracturing the bone. The injury is a very
bad one: 2-ss . ~