The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-06-09

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Green has been leased by W G Brown.
formerly of the Island House, Toledo.
Jonathan S Hare has been appointed
Treasurer of Wyandot county, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death Of Mr.
Smalley.
Smalley, the Democratic Treasurer of
Wyandot county. who suicided several
weeks since, was deflulter to theextent
of 1880.
Belmore and Its vicinity is very much
excited over story that man had been
murdered recently there by Mr. and
Mrs Mathews. The storyis told by Mrs
Tigner, who lives in the same house with
the Mathewses. She says that one even
ing a strange man knocked at the door
in the absence of her husband and Mr.
Mathews when he m:rie indecent pro-
poSals to Mrs AIaihe, : and herself, but
was repulsed. That Mr. Mathews came
in and rushed at the stranger with knife
and his wife assisting him they forced
the man across n chair and cut his throat,
and then compelled her under threats Of
violence, to take knife and cut his throat
also. The Mathewses then removed the
body of the man from the house, and
disposed of it. Search has been made,
but no body has been found, and the
story of Mrs Tigner is regarded as the
result of a mind diseased by long illness.
Anger, of the Defiance Express went
west to get wife and has transplanted
a prairie flower to his vineyard, where
it will no doubt bud and blossom and
bear fruit. Joy to that household.
Rev III d Jencks, of Wisconsin, who
has been lecturing with such success, in
this vicinity, will lecture in Findlay this,
Friday evening.
We acknowledge the receipt of a COM
i.::.mentary TO the Putnam county fair
We would remark to Bro kinuer, that
We are Kinder indoubt whether We can
be there. The fair will be held Oct. 8, 4,
Sand 6.
A young girl named Bates, at Osceola,
Crawford county, died on Saturday even
ing last under circumstances that Occa-
stoned suspicious of foul play. a post
mortem examination revealed the fact
that an abortion had been procured, and
two men named Kellogg and Walters
we're arrested as concerned in the same
DIR Martin of Tifiin, is said to be impIi-
Gated.
Neighbor J.C. Powell,of North Find
lay, is the champion strawberry cultiva-
tor in this vicinity. He INDUCED in the
luxury from his own patch, the first of
the week.
The hot weather was overtaken with Il
chill after the rains of Saturday.
The freight train coming West on the
L. E. & l.. Ry., on Monday, was delayed
about two hours by the breaking of an
axle, some four or five miles from Find
lay.
The proprietor of the Findlay Water
works, has procured new force pump
tosupply his reservoir with water-aneat
little afl;lir-go and see it.
Mr. Bassole, on the corner Of Wash
ington and West streets is puttinganOth-
story on his house, decided improve
ment
The lady, who on Tuesday afternoon
used her garter to string fish on, may
well be called the mother of invention
A two horse team while crossing the
railroad track on Washington street on
Wednesday morning became frightened
at the cars, and started off West at a rap
id pace, but was soon halted by the driv-
er, without doing any damage.
There will be services on Sunday both
morning and evening 81 the Bethel on
Front street, by the b ar & w Wilson,
General Evangelist of the Western Ohio
Eldershipo of the Church of God.
Van Tine, recently Postmaster ut san
dusby and who was under 50 ,OOobond ON
a charge of embezzlement, was arrested
at Sandusky, on Monday night last, on a
charge of forging receipts to money or
ders He was placed in Jail and on Tues
day taken to Cleveland.
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