Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-17

JOHN m. WEBB, OF Esahoning.
News OF the Day.
GENERAL NEWS
GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
l427s. ss f4 is
THERE were three fatal cases of sun
stroke in Chicago, on Tuesday.
TWENTY laborers on the Vincennes road,
near Indianapolis. were Frustrated with
suu-stroke on Tuesday. ?
Ar Omaha. Nebraska, on Tuesday, SER
want girl named Mollie Miller, took poison,
and was found dead In her room at the
hotel Cause unknown.
MATTHIAS MAGaER, middle-aged Ger
man, and prominent brewer in Terre
Haute, died on Tuesday from the effects of
a sun-stroke he received on the preceding
day.
AN Irish woman named Julia O'Neal,
who had only recently arrived at Indian
apolis from Ireland, died on Tuesday from
the effects of the heat and drinking too
much ice-water. -
A YOUNG man said to be from Toledo,
named Worrell, shot himself near the left
temple, in Fort Wayne, on Tuesday eyen-
ing. He died few minutes after. 1t is
not definitely known why he committed
the rash act.
A BAND of eleven Seminole Indians and
Chief Wild Cat, from Texas, after giving
very remunerative exhibitions in the South,
under the direction of white managers,
were deserted by the white men on their
arrival at Cairo, they owing the Indians
nearly s1,700. and leaving them penniless.
They have started northward on foot.
sJosErH GErTINeER. of Jonesboro, Illi-.
nois, stripped himself on Sunday and jump
ed into the river a short distance below
Cairo. He Immediately disappeared, and
his body has not yet been found. 1t is not
known whether he committed suicide, or
became fastened in the mud at the bottom
of the river. His clothes are in the hands
of the police.
A FEW nights since a heavy thunder
storm passed over the vicinity of Great
Falls, Maryland, and during its prevalence
q building occupied by a colored family
named Offut, in the vicinity of the Cross
Roads, was struck by lightning. The end
of the building was torn out, and two of the
family, sisters, who were lying on the bed
at the time, were killed outright, and
third sister, sitting near, was very badly
injured. 5.
WHAT is called 'sa civil funeral" that is,
funeral unattended with religious rites,
took place at Brussels recently. The de-
ceased was Madame Van Moenen, a lady in
her eighty eighth year, and the widow ofa
Judge. The ceremonies were conducted
by an association called the"Free Thought
Society,"" and we are told that a procession
of more than two hundred persons, '.al-
most all belonging to what may be called
the elite of intelligent society at Brussels
followed the remains to the last resting
place. M. Coffin, the President of the Free
T hought Society, delivered a funeral ora
tion.
STATE NEWS.
THERE were seven cases of fatal sun
stroke in Cincinnati on Tuesday.
A MAN died from sun-stroke in Green
castle, just west of Dayton, on Monday.
SEVERAL horses have died at Dayton
from sun-srtoke within couple of days..
THERE viii be a grand Seymour and
Blair ratification meeting at GAINESVILLE next
Saturday evening.
TIE Democrats had grand Ratification
meeting last Saturday night at Chillicothe
and Washington c. II.
AT Massillon, on Tuesday, Peter Early, a i
hrvf L.
vesting, and has since died.
A HEAVY storm of wind and rain visited
the neighborhood of Salem, in Montgomery
county, Monday evening, blowing down
trees and fencing and damaging corn and
standing grain.
NORMAN LOVE, for several years a mem
Der of Council, and local Democratic pol
itician of considerable note in Dayton, was
struck down with the heat on Tuesday, and
died in few minutes.
The GAINESVILLE District Camp Meeting
win be held two miles east of New Lex
ington, near the C. d q. R. R., commencing
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, Tuesday, August 25,
lS6S and closing the following Saturday.
The Cincinnati Times says that German,
a worthy disciple of Gambrinus, drank,
last Sunday, at one of the beer gardens
over the Rhine, forty-five glasses of beer
in five hours, and has enjoyed his usual
health since. 81
The Springfield Advertiser says: Our city
just now is overrun with common thieves,
pick-pockets and burglars. A number of
the light-fingered gentry from Cincinnati
are with US, and it will be well if all our
citizens keep sharp lookout for them.
TIE Toledo Blade of Monday, says that
workman in the town freight house of the
Cleveland 81 Toledo Railroad, named
Theodore Lanskey, was drowned Saturday
afternoon in the Bayou. He had been hard
at work during the day, and at the close of
his work concluded to take bath, He
undre-sed and went into the water from the
dock in front of the freight house. Being
missed about two hours after, it was feared
that he was drowned, and search being
made for him, his dead body was found in
the water Immediately under the dock.
On Monday night serious fight took
place at Jacksonburg, in Butler county. in
which man by the name OF William Craig
shot and killed a man by the name of wal.
ters. The quarrel arose about bottle of
whisky which Walters had charged CRAIG
with using in the harvest field. 1t is nor