Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-07-01
q News.

The Buckeye Reaper and Mower
Works, at Canton cover seven acres oil
ground.
Mrs. Henry Lewis committed suicide,
at Wakeman, Huron county, last Tuesday,
by hanging. No cause assigned Tor the
act.
Mr.. B. f. Spikes, proprietor of the
Washington House, Cambridge, Ohio. was
shot, and instantly killed by one of his
boarders. q Mr.. Kennon, on last Tuesday
night about eleven o'clock.
Mrs. Guthrie, at Bunker Hill, Ash
tabula county, attempted suicide by cut
ting her throat, Tuesday nighilast. We'd
nesday morning her house was broken in
TO by her ~neighbors, and she was found
in q condition unable to speak, having
severed all the muscles on the front of the
neck, and nearly half Of the wlndpipe.
DR.. VanNorman was called, and as good
a surgical adjustment vas made as was
practicable, with such a CHASTITY wound,
and Thursday she was living with a pos
sible chance Of recovery,
Mr.. Josiah Legget, of Union, Tusca-
rawas county, sheared the feeces from
four three-Year old buckso o the 18th inst,
which weighed respectively 16, Il, is and
204 pounds. Total 71} pounds
A lad named Henry Robinson, resid-
ing with his uncle in st. Clair township,
received a frightful wound in the face,
from the accidental discharge of a shot
gun, on Saturday last His injuries
though severe and painful, are not consid-
cred Of a dangerous nature.
Mr.. Waterman, of Troy, Geauga coun.
ty, who had a valuable pair of horses
stolen a few days since, has been so forth
nate as to recover them and capture the
thieves.
Mr.. J. P. Pritchard of Nelson, kill
ed an eagle on the 4th inst, near his resi-
dence, which measured six feet three inch
es across the wings from tip TO tip. he
supposed it to be- hawk and did not dIscov-
er his mistake until after he bad killed it.
Andrew Sharp, who shot Miss Roberts
in gainesville, last fall, has been sentenced
to five years in the Pe~nitentiary.
On Tuesday night of last week about
l o'clock, the Touring mill Of Messrs.
BENJAMIN & Woodwork, at North Kings
Vile, Ashtabula county, was discovered TO
be on fire. The destruction was complete.
As to the origin of the fire, ther e is but
little doubt of its having been the work Of
design, as there had beeD-no fire or light
on the premises for a long time, and the
last grinding hat had been done, was
some fourteen bushels Of grain in the
morning of Tuesday. There was an insu-
rance, IN the Sun Co. of Cleveland. of 81
600 which will leave a margin for loss, of
about 5000 sy
The wool crop in Mercer county, Pa.
this year is estimated at $50, 900 lbs.
The Geauga County Agricultural So
ciety will hold q Fair for The Exhibition
OF all machines used IN haying and har-
vesting, st Burton, on Thursday and Fri
day, July I'd and Sd. 20.
Napoleon Young, who styles himself
| the Elkton Champion Walkist, and who
made his first mile in seven minutes and
twenty seconds, and the second in seven
minutes and seventeen seconds, proposes
to contest for the championship of Maho-
ming county, andwill be on hand at Youngs-
town, on the 4th Of July.
The next annual exhibition of the Co.
lumbisns County Agricultural Society
will be held on the grounds, near New
Lisbon, on Wednesday. Thursday and
Friday, 2Sd, Oath and 18th, OF September
next.
-Ashtabula County Horse Far will be
held at Jefferson on the Sd and 4th of
July. A premium is offered for the best
five colts, sired by one horse, best farm
teams, and on best pulling team, to be tes-
ted. The first day will be closed with a
purse of $75-for the best racker. The ex-
hibition of the second day VIII close BY s
troting race, purse Sl00.
The New Castle Gazette says that the
coal dIggers at Miles, Ohio, being on
q strike, the Iron Works there sent to
Rhodes & Co., of that place, for q supply
Of coal. As soon as it was known at the
banks that the Miles order was being filled,
the diggsrs at Rhodes gave notice that they
would quit digging if the coal was sent TO
defeat the demand of the diggers at Niles.
Accordingly no boats were loaded.