Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-10-20
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

d. A. EVANS and G.. w. Elliott, two
Cleveland lightning-rod men, were ar
rested at Springfield on the 8th on the
charge of obtaining notes from farmers
and others and raising them to double or
triple the amount. In their possession
when arrested were discovered over
81, 900 of these notes. At their exami
nation on the 9th Evans was, in default
of 81 900 bail, sent to Jail, and Elliott,
although acquitted on two charges, was
held to answer 10 a charge of obtaining
signatures to note under false pretenses
in the sum of $500. Bail was furnished.
ONE of the coal-minersat Nelsonville
is perfecting steam man to assist in
mining. The machine has cost several
thousand dollars in perfecting. 1t is
built in the shape of a man and has iron
claws for hands, with which it attacks
the coal and fairly makes it fly. When
they get the chang of the machine" the
Hooking Valley is to double track with
steel rails, to be able to market the inn
mense supply that this iron coal-miner,
that does not "strike" but grabs, will
bring to the surface.
A FIRE in the lumber-yard of the
Mitchell & Rowland Lumber Company
at Toledo on the evening of the 10th de-
stroyed about 100000 feet of pine lum-
ber Loss estimated at $4,000. Fully
insured.
WILLIAM SPENCE, eighteen years of
age, shot himself with rife at the resi-
dence of his stepfather, William Thomas,
at Madison early on the morning of the
C 18th. He lived about one hour. The
ball entered at the lower margin of the
ribs on the right side. The cause is sup
posed to be love affair.
A SON of Geo. Miller, of Lancaster,
aged fourteen years, fell from tree on
the 10th, distance of twenty feet,
breaking his leg and cutting fearful
cash in his head. Slight hopes are en-
tertained of his recovery.
Mrs. JAMES PERRY, living near Ur-
bana, was burned so badly on the night
of the 10th that she died the following
morning.
AT Hamilton, on the evening of the
11th, colored servant girl named Utz,
aged eight years, attempted to start a
fire by the aid of coal-oil, when the can
burst and set her clothing on fire. She
ran into the street and a man who was
passing succeeded in extinguishing the
flames. She was badly burned all over
the body, face and neck and expired in a
few hours.
JOHN SMITH, the prisoner at the Peni
tentiary who, a short time since, made
an attack upon guard named w. P.
Dawson, and was shot, died on the 11th.
A SOLDIER of the Dayton Home Band,
named George Hanley, native of New
foundland, went out to Liberty, the
voting place of the Home, on the 10th,
He was intoxicated, and returned home
in the band wagon, in which he was found
dead the next morning. The Coroner's
jury returned a verdict of death by intox-
ication and exposure.
Mrs. MARY STEIN, widow of German
farmer living near Hamilton, committed
suicide on the 18th by hanging herself in
the barn. Her husband died last July,
and within few days her husbands
mother, who lived in the house, to whom
she was much attached, also died. These
Affections weighed upon her mind until
she was led to take her own life. The
Coroner of Butler County, with jury,
went out from Hamilton to view the
! body on the 14th, and while the party
were returning in the wagon two of the
| Jurors were thrown out. Asa Cain
suffered severe concussion of the brain
and died shortly after Robert Reed
had his spine injured, and is not expected
to live.
| FRANK DEsHLER, teller of the Franklin
National Bank of Columbus, committed
suicide on the 14th by shooting himself
through the heart in the presence of his
wife. Domestic infelicity is supposed to
have been the cause of the suicide.
The Ohio delegation in the Forty fifth
Congress will stand as follows: Repub.
licans-Third District, Gardner; Sixth,
Cox; Eighth, Keifer; Ninth, Jones
Tenth, Foster; Eleventh, Neal; Fifteenth
! Yam Worries; Sixteenth, Danford; Seven
teenth, Mckinley; Eighteenth, Monroe
Nineteenth, Garfield; Twentieth, Town
send-12. Democrats-First District
Sayler; Second, Banning; Fourth, Nc
Mahon; Fifth, Rice; Seventh, Dickey
Twelfth, Ewing; Thirteenth, Southard
Fourteenth, Finley--s.
ENos SELLEw, for over forty years {
resident of Cincinnati, and member o
the firm of Sellew & Co., died on tn,
18th. '' .'''.,9
JOHN MCCLIsH, of Columbus, ha
grown this year, from California seed,
pumpkin six feet four inches in length
four feet ten inches in circumference
and weighing 10 pounds.
JOHN BRRcKENRmaE, a eolored barbe
in Franklin, Warren County, shot an,
killed Thomas Caleb, an employe Of tn
Franklin Company's paper mills, durinI
quarrel on the 18Th. Caleb was il
company with a friend, and was abou
to give Breckenridge whipping, whe
the latter drew revolver and fired a
him five times Three of the balls too
effect, and Caleb died in half an houI
Breckenridge was taken before Justic
of the Peace and bound over to tn
EGrand Jury in the sum of $500.
Miss LIZZIE MURPHY, an employe /
the Cincinnati Times printing rooms, i
some way, on the 14th, became entangle
in the revolving wheels, and before al
sistance reached her she was drawn |
and killed. r'E-
E. II. FITCH, of Toledo, editor of th
Scientific Monthly, has received from tn
Imperial Government of Brazil the al
=, pointment Of North American CORE
spondent of the Brazilian Bureau of G'
ology, ,0 or -a mr-ry v-rau
THE State debt now amounts TO $6
D 4S0, ,340.30.
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