The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-12-13
Tennessee's peanut crop is $50, 900

->~~-S --<-' Sef-
: Dimmitt,. who was tried sometiu
( ago on acharge of robting the treasur
in of Clermolt county. but in whose ca:
"A the jury disagreed was brought befol
q. Judge Co~ai', on Friday of last weei
4 The Judge stated that as he held DO
tive opinion in the case, he woul
have to appoint conveient day whe
Judge Farbell could hear it, or els
e dismiss the case. The prosecuting al
= torney declined TO try the case and n
e quested the appointment of Mayo
Blackborn- The appointment wa
made, and the court also appointed "
! A. Towniey to defend Dimmitt, bn
stated that if the prosecution coul
I not advance more evidence thai
l. on the first trial, it would be an out
!, rage on the count, and a farce upol
e justice
9 The Steamers Morgan and Cottol
p Valley collided during a storm on th,
r Mississippi, on Saturday morning Cd
posite Donaldsonville. Tho Cottor
Valley sank soon after and twent,
persons were drowned. -.t.
. Commodore Spicer, commandins
, the Navy Yard at Boston, Mass, diec
! last Friday morning. ...s-rs
L At Port Gibson, Miss. On the 9th. DIR
: Buck, Sheriff OF Claiborne county,
went to the home of negro de: peradc
named Page, to arrest him. The
, sheriff took two of his deputies with
} him. One of the deputies was shot
from the window, and the sheriff Ia
trying to force the door open was shot
and fatally wounded. The other dep
uty was knocked in an old cisteru and
left for dead. A posse left town to
help in the arrest, and Charles We'll
man, one of the posse, was shot
through the face and arms. The as
sassin escaped, though some of his &C
complies were killed.
At Baltimore Md, on the 9th. an
explosion of gasoline occurred at a low
variety theater, on Thames Street,
just before the performance COM
menced. Several of the actresses in
making their escape were badly burn
ed. The pianist, who was in the act
of lighting the foot lights, when the
explosion occurred, was badly burned
and was taken to hospital.
AT Willamstown, KY, on the 2dth,
Frank Turner aged 20 years called at
the house of Samuel Judd, and invited
him to drink with him. Judd refused
and Turner drew a revolver and order
ed him OH his knees, and while in that
position cut his throat killing him in
stantly.
| At Sauk Center, Mi n, on the 26th,
woman named Frances Roihinasni,
was arrested by Cleveland detective
and taken to Cleveland on the charge
of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses from various Cleveland parties.
A German named Cashier Euebar is
the largest sufferer. She succeeded in
swindling Tim ont of $50, 900 by repre-
sentiDg herself as heir to a large prop
erty in Germany, and Inducing him to
start for Germany to look after the
property, and then abscondeJ with
the money he let her have, going to
st. Joseph, NO., and then to Sank Cen
ter investing the money in farms, etc.
The inquest on the body of Dora
Cookey, in the Dayton abortion case,
has failed to fix the cause OF her death
on any one. The woman Simpson was
discharged, the evidence having failed
to crimlnate her, abortion has been es
tablished, but the testimony is very
conflicting, aud although the examin
alton continues, the party or parties
who are guilty of the crime remain an
known. -s
A heavy snow storm prevailed along
the Missouri & Pacific Railroad, on
Sunday night last, miles of telegraph
lipe were down, and Kansas City prac-
tically isolated from the rest of the
world. 'r'p Its b.
The Steamer Pommerania, of the
American and Hamburg line, which
left New York Nov 18th, and reached
Plymoth, England on the oath, was
proceeding to Hamburg on the 25th.
when she was run into by the Welsh
bark Noel Eilan, and crushed so that
she sank in a twenty minutes carrying
will her about fifty persons who could
not escape. 1t appears that the bulk
heads were left open after the removal
of freight at Plymouth, otherwise the
interior water tight. compartment
would have kept the vessel afioat un-
til it could have been landed, or at
least until all on board could have
been safely gotten off, AS it was, had
the captain been able to oblige obedi-
cree OF orders, all could have been
saved, but the sailors rushed for the
boats and succeeded in saving them
selves. 2.
Garfield, Bros. & Co., jewellers, Bal
timore, Md, have suspended. Liabil-
tiles $3.50, 900; assets unknown,
Rev. j. W. Stevenson, presiding elder
of the Dayton District of the Methodist
Episcopal church, was arrested in
Dayton last Saturday in a healthy
state of intoxicatiou. The officers haf
considerable trouble in making tho ar
rest. His identity was not discovered
until bis arrival at the station. The
cause of his sad plight was said to be
family difficulties.
A farmer named Robert Gray, while
returning home from Indianapolis last
Friday night, got into an alteration
about some trivial matter with bis
hired man, Thomas Huntsinger, who
stabbed him fifteen times about the
chest and abdomen. He cannot re-
cover. Huntsinger fled but was after
wards captured, in Johnston county.
He does not deny his crime but claims
it was done ID self defence.
George Mcbride, who was recently
parted fro his wife, succeeded in ab
Quoting two of his children. He was
followed by his wife and eaned, and
the children recovered.