The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-01
NEWS ITEMS.

! The OHIO Statesman. Democratic
has been sold to John Fl. Putnam, Of
. Chillicothe, for S11, ,000.
Douglas Goodale, one of the par
ticipants in the late murder aud stage
robbery, while being conveyed to
Cheyenne city, in custody of w. Ii.
Ward, escaped by throwing himself
from the window of pass nger trair
at Lone Tree, Nebraska.
At Vincennes, Ind.. cn the 23d
John ID Vacelet, q Fcenchman, to.
gether with his wife and two sons
were brutalIy murdered. Perrie Pro
vost, a Frenchman also, who has beer
living with Mr.. Vaeelet, was arrested
and charged with having committed
the deed. An ak was evidently tht
weapon used as the head and throat'
of the victims had been cut anC
gashed in horriabiemsnner.
The prairie fires are still raging neal
Kearney Nebraska, and other sections
OF the State are suffering very severely
Several persons have been burned to
death. and a large number severely
burned.
! Iowa and Kansas are suffering
severely from prairie fires which are
destroying grain, bridges, houses,
barns, fences and other property.
Many persons have perished in the
flames. Albion, Boone county, Neb.
a town of $50 inhabitants, has been
utterly destroyed. The fires in some
places are supposed to have been
lighted by the Cheyennes.
The dwelling of Michael Reuter-. at
Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire on
the morning of the 22d. When Mr..
Reuter- awoke he rushed up stairs
through flame and smoke to rescue his
little girl. He succeeded in doing so,
but received iDjnries which, it is
thought, will prove farai The
little girl was badly burned.
At Streetsboro, on the 2lst, little
three year old son of William Fnrgeson
was kicked il the face by a horse
and fatally injured.
James McDermott, sentenced to the
Ohio penitentiary for life, for the
killing Benjamin Rogers, of Xeria,
eight years ago, was pardoned by Gov
Bishop, a few days since
Five boys escaped from the Soldiers
and Sailors Orphan Home. at Xeria,
Oh the oath. They were all willing TO
return again when captured
Parents, mothers, nurses. do not
fail to give d.. Bulls Cough Syrup to
the little ones for all cases of coughs
and colds Only costs % cents.
A man named Phillips, living at
Ellington Mich, recently whipped
his 13 year old daughter into marry
ing an entire stranger to those parts.
The girl escaped after the marriage
and was taken to Caro-. where prosecu
ton was commenced against the
father, but be and the young maG left
for parts unknown
At Boston, Mass, on the 24th,
General s. Whitney died suddepi y of
apoplexy as be was about to take the
coach for home. He had been a prom
nent member of the Democratic party
of Massachusetts, for years.
At Philadelphia. on the evening of
the 22d. while Hon. L. j. Randall.
was addressing a crowd some body
threw a stone at him. and nearly lit
him on the head.
At Derby Line, VT, on the oath, |
a Mr. Learned, proprietor of the Lear
ned's Hotel, at Cooks Gull, was shot |
dead by tramp to whom he refused
whisky.
At Erie, Pa, on the Path, E NJ |
Sherman, while drunk, fel. from the
third story window of the Hayes Hotel
at Southeast and was killed.
Diphtheria is raging to a considerable
extent at Toledo, and the doctors are
becoming alarmed for fear it may BE-
come epidemic. 1t is very virulent
and the Board OF Health is taking
steps to prevent its spread.
The stockholders of the Glasgow
Bank, have been called upon for an
of 50, 500 each.
Lydia Russell, aged fifty, suicided
lear Ravena, on the 9th.
Susie Belts. aged eighteen. vas
lrowd in water trough, near Akron,
N the 25th. She had an epiieptic flt
nd fell in the trough.
The first spike in the Valley Rail
oad was driven on Saturday last,
ear Akron.
Dan pemend, one of the gang of
rain robbers, was over taken by De
-etive Light. about fifteen miles from
Kansas, a few days ago,
nd a struggle ensuing Light shot and :
illed pemend.
On the gath the steamer Express, P
'om Baltimore for Washington found
red In a gale at the mouth of the Y
otomae river, and out of a crew of
senty, and eight PASSENGERS, only
iRflt escaped