Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-22
OHIO NEWS.

Scarlet fever and scarlet rash of Sc
we're type prevail in Crawford county.
James Carnes, a welI-to-do citizen
of Muskingum county, recently choked
himself to death with a strap.
The oldest man in Ohio is Romer
Griffin, of Lodi, Medina county, who
is one hundred and fourteen years old.
That rich lead mine said to have
been discovered in Butler township,
Montgomery county, had no existence.
Under the law regulating the sala-
ries of county officers. it is estimated
that the State will save about $24O, 900
annually.
Ohio has engaged more space in the
Centennial Exposition building than
any other State in the Union with the
exception of Pennsylvania.
A Southern Ohio county court re-
charged a man, who was ON trial for
killing his wife's scducer, the court
holding that it was justifiable honii-
eide.
Bancroft, the historian, says that the
Western Reserve contains more in
telligent population than any.other ter
ritory of the Same Of the same extent
anywhere in the world.
In Urbana contracts far some forty
new buildings have already been made,
and the total number for The season is
estimated at one hundred. This looks
like a revival of business.
The subject of purchasing land near
ToIdeo, fort the purpose of inaugurating
a district fair will be considered at a
meeting of the special committee of the
Lucas County Agricultural Society.
The County Commissioners will take
part i'm the deliberations.
At Bucyrus a burglar in female
apparel entered the residence of
George Donnenwith, jr., Tuesday of
last week, and stole a watch and chain,
and pocketboOk containing about
twenty-five dollars, and was seen eS-
Gaping through the window. Six 9TH
or houses were ransacked, but nothing
taken. -
The county Jail and Sheriff's resi-
dence at Sondusky had vehement
shakingsp Oh Friday of last week.
Some men were blasting rock adjacent
to those buildings, and put in all ex-
ira quantity of powder, which shook
the Jail so severely that the prisoners
thought an earthquake was about to
.engulf them. The Sheriff g house was
considerably battered by large frag-
ments of stone, and there were several
narrow escapes from death or serious
injury.
A few days since, Rev. T. Y. War
ner, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Fredericton, Wayne county,
with his wife went to church, leaving
their two children, little boy of seven
or eight years, and girl younger, at
home locking them in the house.
The day was warm, and the fire was
covered up with ashes to keep it. AZ
ter the parents had gone, the little girl
went to raking up the ashes aud play
ing with the fire, and in so doing, her
clothes took fire and she was burned to
death.
The suit brought by Sandusky c0un-
ty against Rush II. Sloan and stfretses,
to recover $4,000 bail, forfeited by
Sloan for non-appearance before Mayor
Daniel, of Sandusky, to answer seven
enteen charges of fembezzlement while
Sloan was President Of the Cincinnati,
Sandusky and Clevelan Railroad, was
settled March 3lst by Sloan's suretics
agreeing to pay the county S32, 800, in
five semi-annual instalments, $500
each, the first payment being made
April Ist. This il the largest amount
of forfeited bail ever recorded in this
State. Sloan is in Brussels, in the
banking business. His stealing from
the above road aggregated $500, 900.