The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-07-06
NEIGHB0RROOD NEWS.
WOOD COUNTY.

Perry sburg, Wednesday afternoon. A
young man named Paden, fiom OF
tawa, in attempting to jump on the
engine Of the Cincinnati express
train, had his foot caught in the drive
wheel and terribly crushed, and re-
eeived other severe bruises about his
body. He was. To have been married
that same evening, snd was on his
way TO his happy fate when this sad
one overlook him. His foot was
ampntated, and he now lies at Per-
rysburg among strangers. The
crops look promising. Wheat will
yield better than was expected. The
hay will be heavy, and will he cut
soon. Corn looks splendid. A large
area Of the staple production will be
harvested. and an immense crop Is
anticipated. Fruit will be abundant /
Colorado beetles are ravacing the
potato fields. Not half as many acres
Of potatoes were planted this season
as there were in 1875. Farmers have
become disgusted in the potato hIsi-
ness. One farmer raised 500 bush
els last year and found no chsnee TO
dispose OF them. a farmer Of West
Aiillgrove planted fifteen pounds OF
Peerless" potatoes, last season, and
raised twenty-nine bushels and three
peeks of excellent tubers Nine |
persons died from small -pox at Hoyt's |
Corners. The disease is rapidly abat- |
ing......... John Noble, who was sent
to the Penitentiary from this county |
for the murder Of his wife, cries q |
greater part of the time. His life |
seems TO be one of darkness and re-
morse, with few rays OF sunlight or
peace Of mind. Abraham Legron,
Of Jerry City, is the owner of pig
five weeks old, which has six feet.
Four Of these are in front. These ex-
ira legs start at knee-joint OF the
natural legs and are well proportion
ed
ERIE COUNTY.
Thursday an old man named Adam
ZiegeImiller, who lived In a small
house on Franklin street, Sandusky,
committed suicide by hanging him
SELF He had for some time been con-
fined to his bed with typhoid fever.
While his attendant was absent a few
moments, Ziegelmilier arose from his
bed, procured short piece OF clothes
line, fastened one end OF It to y nail
driven about five feet from the floor
in a corner post in the wall at the
foot Of his bed, and, making a moose
on the other end, placed it around his
neck, then bent down. and literally
strangled himself. He must have
suffered terribly, as his body had no
fall and his neck was, Of course, not
broken. He was about fifty-six years
of age, and leaves son and two
daughters. HIS wife died several
years ago. He had lived there great
many years, and is highly spoken of
by those who knew him.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Prof. F. H. Tufts, for several years
past the efficient Superintendent OF
the 9th DIstrict Schools OF Findlay,
has accepted the superintendeney Of
the Schools of Aurora, Ind, and will
take charge Of the same in September,
next......Isaac B. Charles the noto-
rious poisoner, is now in the Findlay
Jail on a charge OF murder in the first
degree. FindIay will eelehratet the
Fourth.
HIGHLAND COUNTY
Wheat is coming out better than
was anticipated. The oats crOpis fine,
clover and timothy are doing well,
and the corn crop, of which there is
large area planted, gives promise at
this early stage of its growth, of an
abundan. yield. OF fruit there will
be apples to ship from this county,
peaches in some localities, and rasp-
berries and blackbeTries are abund-
ant.......On Tuesday evening last
week about seven O'Clock, during the
vivid lightning, the belfry of the
Third Ward school building in
Mansfield was struck, setting it on
fire, but the heavy rsin falling at the
time fortunately extingulshed it..-.....
On Tuesday evening last, Edward
Kirk, an old and highly respected
citizen OF Butler township, this
county, was kicked to death by q
horse on his farm. He was about six
ty years old, in good circumstances,
owning some twelve hundred acres Of
land, and leaves a wife and child.
sANDUsKY COUNTY.
Gen. Buckland, President OF the
Mcpherson Monument Association,
says that McPherson's remains shall
not be taken to Washington, and that
Clyde shall have the monument, and
that not very far in the future .......-.
Governor Hayes, ,on Friday, pardonsd
John Zeigler and Ira Smith Jr., Of
Fremont, who were convicted about
nineteen months ago for stealing
horse and wagon, when intoxicated,
from Mr.. Tuttle of the same place.
CRAWFORD COUNTY.
Two hogs, s months old, raised by
Christian Wingart, Esq., were weigh
ed and sold to C. X. Ward, on Satur-
day, their combined weight being $40
pounds. At cents a pound they
brought S27.7O. They were Of the Nc
Gee stock and had been fed only
in the ordinary way...-.....The
house of ]. II. BlaekfOrd, Of
Sandusky township, caught fire on
Monday afternoon probably from a
spark falling on the rOof-a lap shin
gle roof-and but for the presence Of
mind of his daughters, Melisss and
Mary, would undoubtedly have burned
down. Mr.. BlaekfOrd's wife was ly-
ing in one of the rooms sick and was
seriously frightened.
HENRY COUNTY.
Sam. GrOsscup, Of Napoleon, has a