Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-02
~NeighborhOOd News.

Books were opened for subscription tt
the Youngstown and Ashtabula r. R.
on the 25th ult., at the banking office o
Wick, Bros. & Co., Youngstown.
Morgan Davis, who murdered Charles
Christy, in Sharon, in December last
was sentenced to two and a half years
Imprisonment in solitary confinement in
the Western p~enitentiary, on the 2lst ult.
A boy named Marquis, who lives in
the vicinity of reenfeld, recently, while
skating, fell on an elder stub, which m
tered the bowels, running upwards, dan
gerously wounding parts about the blad-
der. 1t is now thought the boy will re-
cover.
The citizens of Garrettsville offer a re-
ward of one thousand dollars for the
arrest and conviction of the person or
persons who set fire to the store of the
Crane Brothers on the night of the 10th
inst.
The certificate of incorporation of the
New Lisbon Coal Company was filed at
the Secretary of States Office on Satur-
day, the sth of January, with a capital
stock of $50, 900, in shares ofS50. The in
corporators are C. II. Andrews, III. h.
Bowman, BENZ. Cunningham and A. h.
Price.
The fees of the Auditor, Treasurer,
Prosecuting Attorney, Clerk, Sheriff and
Recorder of Mahoning county, for the
wear 1869, were-Auditor, $2,l4O; Treas
urer, SI,942.I2; Prosecuting Attorney,
s49S.7; Clerk, 1894; Sheriff, S2,1lO.5O;
Recorder, s1,Oss.4O.
Mr.. D. c. Hill, who has been confined
to his home for the past ten years with
infiamatory rheumatism, during which
time he has made himself master of sew
eral languages, vas recently admit
ted to practice in the Court Of Common
Pleas in Ashtabula county, at which
place he resides.
They are to have a Hard Times Ball"
at Greenville, on Friday night next.
The invitations are printed on brown
wrapping paper, and are very neat and
stylish. Ladies are to wear calico dresses
and gents are requested to appear in their
everyday clothes-those who have but
n suit will be admitted in Sunday
clothes.
Asman named Amos Rouse, an EN-
ploye Of Messrs Curtis, Trout & Co.,
of Sharon, was killed on the Mt. Carbon
Railroad, on Saturday, the 2d ult. In
jumping from a train while in motion he
fell upon the track and was run over be-
fore the train could be stopped. He leaves
a wife and two children. His remains
were taken t New Castle, on Monday
morning, where his relatives reside, for
interment.
From the Ravenna Press we extract
the following particulars of the fire in
that village on the hight of the Dist inst:
About four o'clock on Friday morning,
a fire broke out in the two-story frame
building, on the alley north of Main
street, in the rear of the First National
Bank, occupied by Mr.. G. W. Fox, as a
Factory. The flames communi-
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the Marble Factory, and, in a few MN
utes more, to the west of the two livery
barns belonging to J. r. Newton & Co.
The flames were also communicated to the
north end of the warehouse in the rear
of the First National Bank, occupied by
Mr.. Andrew Poe for storing cheese
The barn of Nh. S. r. Poe, and one of
the barns belonging to the livery stables
of J. r. NeNUon & Co., was consumed
The losers by this fire are Mr.. C. A.
Mills, the owner of the building in which
it originated, about $1,000, no insurance.
Mr.. G. W. Fox, stock of marble on hand
including an elegant piece of Statuary-
monuments nearly finish
and a number Of h~eadstones, from
81 1000 to 5000; insured for 5000. Mr..
II. II. Coe, who had stored in the same
building a quantity of material for
ufacturing Welding Compound, 800; no
insurance. Messrs. J. R.. Newton & Co.,
insured barn $500. Mr.. 5. Poe,
barn $500; no insurance. Messrs. Rus
sells, from 500 TO $500, carpenters tools.
Messrs. Siddell, Jones and Grant, tools
about 500: First National Bank, dam
age to Warehouse about 500. 1t is the
universal belief, that the fire was the
work of an incendiary.