Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-12-16
N~eighborhood News.

lectures there January I'd.
The furniture and fixtures OF the Gillette
House in Revenna, have been sold to the
present proprietors, Messrs. c. A.& a. NJ.
Pease.
Andrew Price charged with h murder Of
Lewis H~ilkenburg, about the middle Of octo-
Der last near ~Ironton, o., has been found
guilty.
Prot. ]. II. Rhodes was married, on We'd
nesday, Dec. I'd, to Miss Addie Robbins,
daughter OF Mr.. Jason Robbins, Of Scion,
Cuyahoga County.
Friday night, Dec. 18th, at gainesville, the
eight o'clock freight bound east, killed a
young man named James Wilson, about 25
years Of age.
VIM. Huntoon, Of Concord, Lake County,
was seriously injured in the hand on Thurs
day, Dec. Sd, by the premature discharge of
q gun which he was loading at the time.
Mr.. Chas. H. BOstwick OF Portage County.
slaughtered a hog nine months old, which
weighed three hundred n seventy-eight
pounds. Can Trumbull beat that:
The citizen ms Of Kent are talking about es-
tablising Agricultural Machine Works in
that town. A meeting was called for Mon
day evening, OF last week, to consider the
subject.
1t is reported that n young man in
Ellsworth named Broadsword, in digging
around an old house, unearthed an iron
kettle containing about six hundred dollars
in silver coin.
Mr.. Frederick Brandt, OF Carroll County,
committed suicide on last Thursday, by
hanging himself in his own barn. Mr.. B.
was the wealthiest man In Carroll county,
and his roubles were brought on by his
great losses in roc
The last session of the AshtabuIa Co. Mu-
steal Association was held in Geneva on
Tuesday and Wednesday Dec I'd and 3D..
Nearly two hundred singers were present.
The next session will be held sometime in
Tune next, at Conneaut.
n Portage Co. Democrat, announces the
decease of Mr.. Amasa Clark, aged ninety
eight years, being the oldest citizen Of Edin-
burg township. He was a native Of Connec-
ticut, in which State he cast his first vote, for
George Washington for President, and his
last vote was given for Grant.
Widow Pascal Mcintosh, well known by
all the old settlers Of the north part Of Por-
tage county, haspassed away, having attain
ed the extreme old age OF e~ighty-nine years,
a stranger to the present generation. She
was a resident Of Mantua nearly sixty years,
being n widow forty-six years of that time.
At the time Of her decease she was the old
est resident Of the township.-Rerenna Dem,
Three eonvicts in the Venango County jail
who were under sentence OF over six years
imprisonment, for robbery, attempted 70
break jail on Sunday night, Nov. %. by CHS
elling out the cross bars in their cell windows.
They were discovered and their escape pre-
vented through h vigilance Of ex-Sherih
Grey, who heard the noise n woke up the
Sheriff IND had the men secured. The next
day they were sent TO the Penitentiary in
AIlegheny.-Cragford Pd) Journal
Achild belonging to H. J. West, was drown.
ed on Thursday last, in VaIlonia, Crawford
Co., Pa. With two children she was playing
on the ice in a pond or a bend of the old
channel, when 1t gave way, and two OF the
children went into the water. One Of them
was resuscitated, but the other could not bS
brought to life. While the ice is forming
during his month, parents cannot be too
careful about keeping their children away
from it. Such accidents as this should be {
warning to them.-CrGwJord Journal.
On Tuesday evening Dec. LIST, about I'VE
o'clock, officer Bowden arrested Henry Van
derholt, familiarity known here as Dutci
Henry, for beating his wife, and committed
him TO the lookup, N a warrant issued by
Justice Budd for this offence some time ago
oficer Bowden left the room to procure ma
terial for a fire, and upon his return found
the prisoner partially suspended by an ole
comfort tied to the cross piece of the door
about a foot above his head, with life ex,
tinct.-Sharon Times.
Speaking Of Lieut.. Colonel Barnitz, tbs
Cincinnati Commercial says: IN the capturl
of the Cheyenne village on the 18th ult.
mentioned in u dispatches, it is reported
that Lieutenant Colonel Barnitz was severe
Nv II not fatally wounded. This is Lieuten
ant Colonel Albert T. S. Barnitz, U. S. \.
who made gainesville his home previous L
the war, and entered into the volunteer ser
vice from that city early in 1861, toward th'
end Of the war attaining the position Of Ma
jori in the ID Ohio Cavalry, and was transfer
red to the regular army afterits close.
The preliminary examination in the Low,
ell poisoning case, took place on Tuesday and
Wednesday, LIST and ID inst, before VIM
Watson, Esq, Of Lowell. The case was con
Quoted on the part OF the prosecution by
Judge Glidden and--an and defended by
D. II. Wilson, Esq, and Geo. F. ARIEL, Esq.
of Youngstown. The testimony brought oui
the facts as already given, with one excep
ton. Mrs James Moore is unable to wea
positively that the fiour which Mr., Myers re
+ s,-r,,ad to Vpar mas ar,NfFaa into the hon "
which the arsenic was found. This seems {
rather serious lack in the evidence. Mr.. My
ers was bound over for trial at the next tern
of Court The penalty for the crime charged
against him is from two to twelve years i'm
prisonment-AahoRin0 Re0ister.
A recent discovery made in the quarry
Of Mr.. Abram Powers, in the south
east part Of the township is probably n o
the most curious fossiles that have yet beer
unearthed. Mr.. Miehae Simon, LIST, Will
getting out stone for a cellar wall, found i'm
bedded in the middle OF the rock theremainl
Of wha seems to have been a huge serpent
seventy-two feet long, and over a foot in di
ameter. The rock had apparently formeC
around the body Of the huge animal or rep
tile, or whatever IL may be. The substance
within the space occupied by the body was
light black mould, as il some organized sub
stance had decayed there. Upon the contigu
Gus rock a most regular and wonderful sc
ries Of scales was formed, probably imprint
ed there by contact with the body before tn
rock had MISUNDERSTANDING Register.
h boiler in the saw mill Of Mr.. Davi'
Frampton, situated south Of Keel Ridge oil
the Crawford tract, nearthis place, explOde'
on Saturday Dec. 5, about half past twelvl
o'clock with terrific force, demolishlng tn
entire structure, killing three men Instant!
and seriously wounding two Others. Two o
the men who were killed, Phillip Luce ant
Enoeh Morford, were in the employ Of NJ,
James Pierce, at Sharpsville, as teamsters
and were at the mill awaiting lumber, whicl
had not yet been sawed. John Ginger, ais
killed, was employed at the mill, and wa
eating his Inner in front of the boiler a
the time OF the explosion. John Hollins
baugh had his thigh broken, and JOIN
Frampton his leg badly fractured. Boil
were employed at the mill. The boiler wa
thrown over five hundred feet from the mill
whirling in the air and tearing its coursI
through the tree tops and everything els
that happened to be in its way, finally strik
ing a stout oak tree, breaking IL OF at tn
butt before it stopped. The jury ~appOinte'
to hold an inquest visited the scene Of tn
disaster from Sharpsville, and It is reporte'
the iron in the boiler was not Of proper thick
ness, nor Of a quality to stand ~test.-ShGrol
Times,
Consolidation Of the Erie and A. 4