Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-02-12
.NeIghbOrhOOd Items.

the publication of the "Soldiers' Record
of that county, to be continued in success
sive numbers of the paper. After the
completion of the Record, the editor, Hon.
VIM. G. HoWells, proposes to publish in
the same manner q history Of Ashiabula
county, from papers placed in his hands
by the Historical Society Of that county.
That Society was formed many years ago
and has collected 8 vast fund Of material
of the early history of the county and of
the Reserve. We are pleased that Mr..
Howells has undertaken this task, for
which he is every way competent He
announces that he has very full notes Of
the county history, from the papers of the
Society, and viii be able to give a long
series of valuable reading from that source.
"A man named Edwin Jackson, an
Engfishman, who had been in this eoun-
try about four years, and was married to
Mrs. Hattie Shirtliffe, of Kent, on the 5th
of last October, was arrested recently, on
complaint of his wife, for bigamy, the
complainant alleging tn at he had q wife
living in England at the time of the sec
ond marriage, and brought before Justice
Fink, of RaYenns, for trial. The evil
dence of his first marriage consisted in
statements made by him that he had 8
wife in England and that letters he had
received were from his wife. he left his
second wife about the first Of January
without informing her of his plans, and
on the 18th she filed her complaint He
was arrested in Chicago upon arequisition
from the Governor of Ohio upon the Gov
ernor of Illinois. Upon the hearing he
wss held to answer the charge before the
Court Of Common Pleas.
Sheldon Newton, Esq, now one Of
the Oldest living residents on the Western
Reserve, gives the youngstown Register
the following account of a snow storm in
the oldeu tune: "Fifty years ago last
Sunday, on the second day of February,
the snow fell three feet deep. It began at
u o'clock on Saturday night with the
wind northeast, showing furiously, so you
could scarcely see two rods of. The wind
went round to the east, then to the south,
west and north, until it reached the north
east at u O'Clock on Sunday night, when
it stopped showing. The snow lay every
where three feet deep on the level, and
has never been as deep by n foot since.
The cold continued for about four weeks,
when the n went of, melted gradually
by the heat of the sum-"
Col. B. A. Gillette, of Rayenna, has
sold the "Gilette House" in that place
for $4,000. 1t is 70 be converted into
stores, &c. Col. Gillette has leased for
len years the hotel in the Etna Block, q
splendid new structure erected upon the
site of the old Prentiss House burned
down some years since, and will open it
on the first Of June next under the name
of the "Gillette House"
From the Ashtabula Sentinel of the
9th inst, we learn that on Thursday night.
about IL o'clock, the family of Cyrene
Pierce, living about mile south of the
centre of Austinburg, on the centre road,
were awakened to find the house in flames
At the time of the discovery of the fire, it
had made such Roadway that it was i'm
possible to arrest the flames. Very little
was saved in the way Of household goods,
in fact only such things as could be csught
up on the instant. The house was s fine
large tvo-story building. There was an
insurance of 81, 200, in the Ohio Farmers
Company, on the property.
The AshtabulA Telegraph OF the 8th
inst says, that the dwelling of Andrew
Yiets, in the society Of Amboy. township
Of ConneAut with its contents, was de-
stroyed by fire on Monday nightlast. An
insurance Of $500 had been effected upon
the house, and $500 upon the furniture, in
the Cleveland Company. The greater
loss isssid TO have fallen upon the furni-
ture, it being of more than three times
the value of the insurance. The cause of
the fire is not knAwn.
The Youngstown Register says that
most of the hands at the three furnaces of
the Brier Hill Iron Company have quit
work. About the first of January, the
company reduced the wages of the hands
ten per cent. and the hands continued at
work. A few days ago they demanded
the old wages, which the company refused
to pay, and t~hereupon the hands quit
work. The company are filing the stacks
with coal and will -'stop ups for the pres
ent.
"A stabbing ARRAY occurred in Youngs-
town on the 4th inst, near a liquor saloon,
which created quite a buzz for the time.
An alteration occurred between William
Crowley and John Fisher. Crowley stab
bed Fisher with a jaek-knife near the
temple, cutting the femOral artery. Fisher
knocked Crowley down. In the scufie
Crowley stabbed Fisher in several other
places. He was carried into the saloon
and a surgeon sent for who dressed the
wounds, who pronounced them severe but
not dangerous. Crowley was taken to the
lookup. In the afternoon he was exam
ined before Justice Mckee, and failing to
give $500 bail, was sent To- jail at canReld
for trial at the next Court.