Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-03-24
Stafa Items.

Colonel Robert Hume, an old and
well known resident of Columbus,
died at his residence on the 10Th inst.
Colonel Hume was, for a long time,
Chief Clerk in the State Treasurer's
Office, and was Assistant Adjutant
General under Governor Tod.
The Committee on the new Peni-
Tertiary of Ohio having been unable
to agree upon a location, will present
the claims of each c~ontending locality
to the Legislature, and leave that
BODY to decide upon their respective
merits.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee meets at Columbus on the 3lst
inst, to fix upon a day for holding
the State Convention.
The Pittsburg Conference of the NJ.
f. Church is now in session at New
Philadelphia, Ohio, Bishop Ames pre-
siding.
On Friday last, Mr.. Jonas Roberts,
of Shelby, Richland county, Ohio, had
his right leg amputated for cancers,
cero cystic tumor. The tumor, before
removed, measured "a inches in cir
conference, and weighed 10 pounds
after integuments and muscles were
removed.
Warner Stripe, an old resident of
Lancaster, Ohio. died recently at the
advanced age of 50 years. He was q
soldier of the war of 1S12.
The next annual exposition of the
Western Manufacturers Association
is TO be held in Cincinnati.
A Street railway company in Cleve-
land has compromised a suit by pay
ing $500 to Ellen PilkingtOn for in
juries sustained through the careless
ness of a driver in 1866.
The Sidney journal says that a
most horrible tragedy occurred al
Montra, Shelby county, Ohio, last
week. On Friday morning last the
wife of George Fowler got up out Of
bed, and taking an axe, she struck
her husband blows on the neck and
face, killing him instantly. Fowler
had grossly mistreated his wife and
has persisted in his unkind treatment
starving and abusing her in every
conceivable manner. She is a young
woman, and of rather pleasing looks
though much emaciated.
334 emigrants passed Columbus las
week. 30 propose stopping in Ohio.
A centenarian named Corneliu:
TObin died in Toledo a day or two ago
MI. Tob'n was born in the county o
Kerry, LELAND, in 1764, and at hi.
death was a hundred and five years o
age. He had been q resident of thai
city some fifteen or sixteen years.
Youngstown has los retail liquor
dealers.
Gen. ]. A. Campbell, Of Columbi
ana Co., Ohio, will, it is said, be ap-
pointed Governor of Wyoming Terri
tory, at the special request of Genera.
Schofield.
The London Union says jacob
Thompson, who recently died neal
that place, has been a resident of Mad
isOn County for fifty-three years, anC
was never on a railroad car in his life
although a railway ran through hi:
extensive farm. His wife has lived
almost in sight of London for forty
years, and has ley been in the
place.
The safe in the Cleveland Custom
House was robbed of three hundred
dollars on Tuesday night of last week,
Andrew Price, sentenced to be hung
at Ironton, Ohio, March 18th, ha:
been reprieved by Governor Hayes
until April I'd.
A deserted husband from Pittsbure
sought his wife and child in Canton
n day last week. He found the for.
mel living in fdgrdnte with her run.
away paramOur. He left her, but
took away his child.
The Hillsboro (O.) AeUs says that
the mother of the child found by Mr..
Reed, some weeks since, in a field
where she had abandoned it, has been
discovered. She belongs to a respecta.
BILE family residing near Marshall, in
Highland county.
A runaway couple was arrested in
Cleveland, on Thursday, where they
had just arrived from Oneida county,
New York. The man was q husband
and father, and the girl only sixteen
years of age.