The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-01-25


e Of cold and pain and misery, we dasl
b ed into the main street of S.. A
e we came up i'm front OF the tavern th
y stage drove up and the inmates spran
/ out and ran to my assistance. 1 mus
have been almost inseusible, for 1 ba
: 10 be carried in by the landlord.
T. was given warm drinks until 1 ha
2 fully recovered, and was able to relat
my story. told them my suspicion
D and my fears, and this gentleman
here Carrie paused, and turning TO
, Fl he looking man near her, said, Mr.
j smes, by his ready belief in what
/, told, and his energy and spirit il
arousing the Sheriff and his men, ha
been the main cause in bringing assist
, ance.'
!. Mr.Spencer grasped the young man..
} hand and thanked him.
} your plan succeeded admirably
Carrie, he said, and advancing to the
washstand, he took out the money belt
saying, MY money is all right, as you
see.' -..lf5-.
| The landlord quivered with rage as
he saw he had been defeated.
| AS the men began to search the
room, the landlord protested his in
nocence, declaring that they had no
right to hold him or his men prison
ers, or to search his house.
Breaking open the door, above which
was the bust, the men rushed in.
The room was empty, save for long
ladder which reached shelf above the
door. A hole above the shelf disclos-
ed the bust to be broken in half, go
that man could easily climb up the
ladder, get on the shelf, thrust his
| head in the bust which was large
enough for an ordinary sized mans
head, and see all that was going on in
the adjoining room.
This certainly looked suspicious, but
absolute proof was let wanting.
On returning to the room occupied
by Mr.. Spencer, they again searched
every nook and corner.
Suddenly Carrie and Mr.. James
who mad been standing by the fro
place gave loud cry, for on close ex-
animation they had found spots OF
blood on the brick which formed the
hearth.
They began to pull up the bricks
which proved loose when Carrie, feel
ing faint, gave way to the Sheriff and
his men, who soon had them all pull
ed up when cavity was disclosed
containing the murdered body of
gentleman whom Mr.. James and the
Sheriff remembered to have stopped
at S. three days before.
The evidence was conclusive.
The landlord and his confederates
were well guarded through the night,
and the next day they were lodged in
the Jail where in due time they were
sentenced, and, suffered the extreme
penalty of the law.
GAS FROM THE INTERIOR OF THE
EARTH.
Natural gas is sufficiently abundant
in some localities to allow of its being
used for the illumination and heating
of towns and cities. Fledonia, N. Y.
which Ihas:been lighted withnatural gas
for period of over forty years, Erie,
Pa. Pittsburg, Pa, where some of the
large manufacturing establishment
have been successfully lighted and |
heated for some years past by gas re-
ceived from wells over forty miles dis
tant. There arc also many instances
in northern Ohio, near Cleveland, and |
in northeastern Ohio, principally from
the shale foundations, where gas wells
are in successful use, and in all the |
gas is obtained at SO trifling a cost that
can at all approach it for
cheapness, even for fuel. Within
few years it has been discovered that
natural gas exists in great quantities
beneath the soil of Mill Greek valley
in Ohio. Some six or eight years agOJ
q man, while boring on his grounds in
for the purpose of as
the locality of the old red
struck reservoiOr or car
buretted hydrogen gas at the depth of |
about two hundred and ninety-nine
feet below the surface. The volume
of escaping gas through the four-inch
shaft was so strong that when a match
was applied steady column of flame
shot high into the air. 1t was the in
tention to utilize the discovery for
lighting. Further boring, however,
tapped 4 vein of water, which in turn
filed the shaft and checked the flow
Of gas. Previous to this pipe with
one hundred and ten gas jets rudely
attached, furnished light at every jet
for many days and nights, and fresh
vein of gass was tapped every ten feet
until a depth of four hundred and
feet was rerched, and the
force of the gas was great enough to
eject columns OF water high above the
mouth. Professor Orton, in his geo.
logy of Hamilton county. says that
all the various drift depos-
its of Miil Creek (MiamD valley are
thick beds of carbonaceous clay,
heavily with vegetable mat
Ter such as the trunks and roots of
trees, twigs, branches, layers of leaves,
ripened trusts, grasses and sedges.
All deep geological researches in Mill
Greek valley have shown an underly-
ing stratum of heavy, tenacious blue