Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-04-22
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS
TEE Mt. Vernon Banner says: A man III
the employ of the S. NJ. & N. r. R., whos.I
name we did not learn, had his scalp
knocked off by coming in contact with a
bridge, few days ago, while riding on the
top of q ear.
The Marietta Register says: Col. jas.
Washburn, one of the best citizens of this
part of Ohio, has just left Woodsfeld, Mon
roe county, to take up his residence in
Richland county, Wisconsin. We are re-
minded of a remarkable fact in Col. WIS
army life. When in command of his regi-
ment, the 10th Ohio, in one of Sheridan's
battles in the Shenandoah Valley. he was
shot through the head. The ball entered at
the bottom of one of his eyes. destroying it,
and passed out just under the back of the
opposite ear. In three weeks he was again
..tit for duty His face became somewhat
distorted, and he has a glass eye. And
still remarkable: He once informed us
that, from first to last, he never expe-
rienced the slightest pain from this wound.
The express train which left Cincinnati
Thursday morning for Dayton, met with
an accidentjust before entering the depot
at Dayton. 1t seems that the switch en-
gine, Detroit, was standing on the left
hand track, and that the express train, as
usual, was to enter the depot on the right
hand track. The switch, owing to the neg
ligence of the flagman, had not been prop
erly turned, and the train took the wrong
track. The consequence was, that the en-
gine, "Stone," drawing the express train,
and the "Detroit, were both badly dam
aged-the boiler OF the "Stone" being
broken to splinters. Mr.. Slater, the engi-
neer of the ''Stone," seeing the danger
jumped from his platform, and received
slight injuries in the breast by the fall.
A brakeman, named Clark, had his leg
broken. Fortunately no other persons
were injured. IL - "a
WE learn from friend who arrived in
town on Sunday, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, that on Saturday a young man, en-
ployed as a eopyist in the Recorders office
In Findlay, Hancock county, was shot and
instantly killed by an infurlated husband.
1t appears that the young man had become
acquainted with the wife of night watch
man of the town, and had succeeded in
leading her from the path of virtue, and
had been so imprudent as to boast of his
intimacy with her. The facts coming to
the ears of the husband, he called upon the
young man, and informed him that 1t he
ever caught him in his house he would kill
him. On Saturday afternoon, about three
o'clock, he went to his house and there
found the young man in his wife's bedroom
in q very equivocal position. Upon find
ing himself discovered the clerk attempted
to escape through window, but the hus-
band, seizing an old rife that was near the
door, shot him instantly dead. He at once
proceeded to the police station and gave
himself up.
TIE Neeodrk Aduocdte says: On FRIDAY
night last, a stranger named John r, Ellis.
formerly OF Cincinnati, but lately of De-
troit, only few days in this city, commits
ted suicide by the use of strychnipe. and
was found dead on Saturday morning in
the woodshed of Rev. e. T. Evans, ON Mt
Vernon street. He was a man about forty.
five years fold, and in former. years was
largely engaged in mercantile pursuits in
Detroit, but failing in business there, he
became depressed in spirits, irresolute in
purpose, and gave himself up to intemper-
ance. He leave wife and three small chill
dren, who during the past winter took up
their residence In Newark, and who for
three or four years had been supported al
most wholly by her brothers in Cincinnati.
Sometime ago, neglect and intemperance
had caused o separation between the de-
ceased and his wife; but earnest promises
to do better, induced her, after an interval,
again to join him. A patient trial proved
that the old evils were too deeply set to be
eradicated, and an application for divorce
was to have been acted on In the Detroit
court the present month. This addition to
the sorrows which the weak and unfor-
tunate man had sought to drown In the i'm
toxicating bowl, was too much for him,
and he resolved TO die il it could not be
ayerted.