Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-02-26
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city of its size in the State.
A Chillicothe druggist killed him
self recently by taking an overdose
of raw alcohol to taper off spree.
Several coal mines are being
worked in the immediate vicinity of
Nelsonville, giving employment to
1900 miners.
The Licking county Infirmary has
lodged and breakfasted seven hun
dred tramps since the middle of No
vember.
The next exhibition of the Cen
tral Ohio Fair Association will be
held at MechanicsLurg, Sep. to 4,
inclusive.
A boy of ten was crushed to death
at Crestline, on the Sth, by freight
train, while playing among the cars
in the yard near his home.
The Kansas Senate has passed a
Joint resolution to submit the ques-
tion of female suffrage to a vote of
the people of the State.
Chicago has 'staiIed" to date, this
season, 81, 1,503,43 hogs, against l,
PIG, 900 for the same time last year.
The ice season on the Hudson
has closed: 100000 tons of ice have
been gathered to 100000 last
year.
The change in the weather has re
moved the danger of a destructive
flood on the Ohio as feared on Sun,
day evening.
A horse thief was captured on the
4th, after hot pursuit, in the woods
near Washington Court House, and
a farmers horse and wagon recov
cred.
The proposed harbor improve
ment at Cleveland comprises a crib
work break water forty feet wide
with three arms, each four thous
and feet long, the whole costing 81,
100000.
As a result of the temperance
movement in Franklin, a Young
Mems Christian Association is t.
be organized at once in that place
One Of the ladies who took an &C
tive part in the whisky war has do
mated $500 to fit up rooms, and pro
poses to secure the payment Of tn,
rent of the same for twenty years
Moses Steddom, of Warren coun
ty, recently sold forty-four hogs, o
his own feeding, which average.
five hundred and sixty pounds gross
They were the Poland China breed
and eighteen to twenty months old
Whilst the women in Ohio ar
praying against whisky and wine
blbbing the worms in France ar
preying on the wine roots. But tn
stupid worms haven't found ont tina
nowadays French wines do not com
to any great extent from Frencl
, vines.
The Pope has summoned tn
Bishops to Rome, to his dying bed
I as it were, that he may have tall
with them before he dies concern
3 ing the state of the church. Expec
tation will be on tiptoe to knoI
l what important communication h
has to make in this unusual man
5 ner.
+ Senator Thurman's position o.
. the financial question is not yet de
!. fined, and as he keeps away from
the Senate whilst the matter is un
der discussion he cannot define il
He is Ohio's indefinite Senator.
The Senate adjourned Monday il
honor of Washington's birthday
t Immediately after being called t.
order and before Senators Sherman
Morril al. others had entered th
chamber. Taey would have oppos
ed adjournment, being anxious Il
90 with the discussion of the financ
bill for more currency.
Steve Lowery, tile last survivor o
the notorious band of Robson coun
ty, N. G. outlaws, was instantly kill
: ed in the upper part Of Robesor
county by three citizens. He wa
Turning his banjo preparatory te
playing for some wagoners, wher
: three shots were fired at him, ia
king effect in the head and killing
him instantly.
The Secretary of the Treasury is
authority for the statement that 9
number of prominent English man,
ufacturers contemplate the removal
of their manufactures and capital
to the United States, provided as
surances are given that our tariff
will be kept up. They see that our
policy in this regard has been wise
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