The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-05-04


down on the track of the Little Miam
road, where he was run over by freigh
train and cut to pieces.
Bluffton Ne,cs: Last week John Wei
ty, Christian Kohl and Anthony Army
left this place for Kansas. To day Jacol
Amstutz Christian Hilty. Jacob Hauver
Andrew Clay, and Schill Matter start fol
Oregon, and next week, Isaac Hilty anC
Peter Neuenschwander are going t.
Kansas. 1t seems that the boys are tax
ing the advice of Horace Greeley, anC
are going west to grow up with The
country.
The moulding room of the foundry O
A \ Smith, of Lima, was destroyed by
fire on Wednesday of last week. Los,
in patterns, etc, several thousand dollars
The citizens of Van Vert are agitat
ing the question of gas.
A frighttul runaway occurred in
Van Vert county last week, in which
DR. w C Cole had five of his ribs broken
and was otherwise bruised.
Bellevue wants baby show.
Yesterday afternoon Master Freddie
Jones, son of Rev VIM Jones, in com.
pany of son of Mr. VIM Clark, took a
horse back ride to Rev Jones farm, some
two miles North of town. They hitched
their horses to a rail fence and went to
the fields and gathered wild flowers
which they stuck in their clothing and
hats. When they returned to unhitch
the horses, Master Freddie's horse was
frightened by the flowers and pulled
down the rail to which he was tied
Fredd;e's leg was caught by the strap
and rail and broken below the knee He
was carried to town and the leg set
Van Vert Bulletin, April 30th.
Mr. o C McCurdy, of Van Vert, had a
knuckle of his right hand cut of, by an
ak falling from the top of steep ladder
which he was in the act of moving.
A little girl eight years old, daughter
ofMr Alspaugh.o of Erie county, went out
into a clearing where her father was al
work picking and burning brush. By
some sad casualty her clothing caught
fire at burning heap. She ran scream.
ing back to the house, and when she got
there her clothing was literally burned
off Of her except the bands about her
waist The flesh on her limbs were
burned to a crisp, actually cooked. Med
ical assistance was Immediately called
but the physician thought she could not
live, and only adopted measures to palli
ate her sufferings until death should re-
move them.
On Thursday the 10Th ult, John G.
Heller, of Port Clinton, Ottawa county
had his leg broken, and on the morning
of the 21st died, declaring his son, John
Haller, responsible. His son wasarrest-
ed, and port mortem held. No evi
dence of poisoning was discovered, but
the Coroneris Jury returned verdict
that the deceased had died of violence at
the hands Of his son, and yound Haller
was bound over in the sum of 81 900, on
a charge of manslaughter.
Our readers will remember the ac
count of the Indianal Nationa Bank, at
indianapolis, on the 21st of March. The
robber carried box into the bank, got
upon it, reached over the railing grabbed
number ofpackages of bills, amounting
to about $25!OOO and made off Several
suspected parties have been arrested,
but not until Wednesday afternoon did
the detectives pounce upon the man
they wanted, at Norwalk, Ohio. He was
a medium sized man, well dressed, florid
complicated, sandyish hair, and rather
genleel looking, who had registered some
time previous at Toledo, as Alfred Zanes,
of Chicago. Soon after the robbery he
appeared in Toledo, was flush of money
drove fast horses, went to see fast wo-
men, and conducted himself generally
in "free and easy" manner. He visi-
ted Detroit, Defiance, and other points
and was a particular favorite of Mollie
Mckenzie, a handsome nymph, with
whom he went to Norwalk, a few days
before his arrest. Monday last, promi-
nent detectives who had traced Zanes
whose real name is Floyd, to Toledo, ar
rived there, and called into requisition
Capt Purdy' assistance. He soon discov-
cred where the twain had gone, and fol-
lowing them to Norwalk, discovered
Zanes, or Floyd, in buggy driving
along Main Street.. Waiting till he drew
up alongside the pavement, the officers
drew up cautiously and had the hand
cuffs on him ere he was aware of their
presence He was taken to Toledo, and
thence to indianapolis.
Hon NJ Root, of Sandusky City, was
robbed of $50 few days aeo, by SER
want, who entered his room while he
slept, and abstracteG the amonunt from
his vest pocket. She was arrested come
days after, and is now in Jail.
Henry Berger, aged fifty years. fell
from a hay NOW, in his barn, in Riley
township, Sandusky county, on the oath
and striking on his head on the barn
floor, was so badly injured that he died
few evenings later.
Fremont Messenger: County Record
er Worst informs US that the mortgage
given by the Wheeling and Lake Erie
Railroad Company, to the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company, of New York
city, in 1874, for s5ysOO.OOO, is satisfied
and was discharged from record in the
Recorders Office of this county, on the
18th of this month, in consequence o.
the bonds of said road never having beer
issued, and in its place another mort
gage filed for record, amounting in the
aggregate to $25OO,OOO.
The Agricultural Society of Sandus
Ky county. will build a large new Flora
Hall, the coming summer.
The murder of Nettie Russman, al
Tiffin, has not yet been discovered.
&c Bollinger, Esq, recently of Por
Clinton, has purchased the Wauseon Er
positor. Handy finds place among the
legal fraternity.
Upper Sandusky is agitated on the ga'
question, and Zahm's tongue runs fluent
ly on the subject of a petroleum article
as being much cheaper than the Other
kind.
On the evening of the 23rd, a woman
stopped at the Cliff House. near the de
pot at Lima During the night she gave
birth to child, which she threw into
the privy vault, where it was discovered
still living, by some ladies, in the morn
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