The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-01-30
Neighborhood.

Lille Bowers, had been found prove
cd to he false report.
In Bellefontaiue, Ohio, they sell
fresh beef for i6 cents per pound,
aud live turkies at s cents per pound.
Two families in Bellefonlaine, we're
poisoned on Monday Of last week, by
the use of ssleratus in making cake.
Fatal results wero prevented by the
prompt use of emetics.
A destructive fro occurred in Men.
roevillo, on Monday night last. Six
buildings were destroyed, aud two
badly injured. Tho FIRE originated
about nine o'clock, but how II is not
known. The houses destroyed were
Hosmer's dwelling aud Saddler shop;
Grocery store of Urlow & Soppel a
tailor shop, the grocery of Benjamin
StuliG, two barber shops aud meat
shop, The total loss is estimated at
s 10000, on which there was insura.
nee to the extent Of $4,000.
Tho Lake Shore Grape Growers
Association will hold their annual
meeting at Cleveland on the 19th Of
February. A report will be made on
the moral influence Of Wiue.making.
The Sandusky Register reports the
quite sudden demise of Mrs. @. c.
Keech, wife Of the noted fur dealer
Of that place. She was found dead
in her bed by her daughter, about
5 o'clock in the evening Of Thursday.
Sho was able to attend a concert the
evening before.
The Columbus Journal says that
the Western Central Railway Com.
pany 6led its certificate for incorpora.
ton with the Secretary of State, OF
Saturday. 1t is the intention Of tn,
Company to build a railroad from
West Salem, Wayne county, to q
point on the western boundary Of
Ohio, in the township Of Washing
ton, Mercer county. The road is to
run through the counties of Wayne,
Ashland, Richland, Crawford, Wyan-
dot, Hardin, Auglaizo and Mercer,
The capital stock of said Company is
one million Eve hundred thousand
dollars. A meeting of the incorpo-
rators of the Company was held at
Bucyrus on Thursday, the 18th inst
Delegations were present at the meet.
ing from all points on the line from
West Salem to Logausport.
On the night of the 18th inst, a
ire broke out on South Market street
Canton, Ohio, which destroyed prop
erty to the amount ofS20. 900.
Frank Hamilton, in the employ oil
the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleve'
land railroad, was badly injured a
Forrest, on Saturday, while coupling
cars. Ills hip was dislocated. Aftci
much labor the joint was reset, bu
was again thrown from its place on
Sunday. 1t was again set.
The Hamilton Telegraph annOun-
ces the death, at Darrtown, Butler
county, o., on the 10th inst, of Mrs
Nancy Cooley, at the age of IOs years
and II days, She emigrated to Ken
tucky from Virginia, while very young
and came to Ohio with her husband
when it was Wilderness,
The Columbus Journal says Mis-
Susan Trout came to her death b,
over exertion in skating. After vor,
severe exercise on the ice she fel
into spasms, suffering terribly unit
her death. Several cases Of illness
have occurred in Columbus, owing t.
skaters sitting down in the open ali
after being heated by skating.
At Bsllefontaiue, during the weeE
Of prayer, some two hundred dollars
were contributed for the relief of tht
necessitous poor in that vicinity
which was turned over to the "Char-
ity Committee" of the Young Men'i
Christian Association, for distribu
ton among the destitute and suffer.
ing. That was praying and working
to some purpose.
A Mrs. Bowsher of Upper sandus
ky. Ohio, has been arrested on tho
charge of poisoning her three chill
dren, and committed for trial. The
death of her eldest daughter, aged
Is years, occurred over year ago
and was soon followed by that oi
another dnughter--and few weeks
since by the death Of a son, young
man. Mrs. d. is a woman Of about
40 years, and has been a widow foI
severrl years. II is said that she
bore a good character until the death
of her husband, some years since,
when she became dissolute, and the
mother of three illegitimate children,
She became attached to a man who
promised to take care of her and her
younger children, If she c,uld be re-
lieved of her legitimate children
which it is believed she proceeded to
do by poisoning them. Failing TO
give the requisite bail $1,000 she is
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