The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-12-13
WisreHanrpns.

Henry McCann, formerly a hacl
% man in Cleveland, was arrested
a Lockport, n. Y, last week, charge
e. with committing robbery in Clev
et land, last October. He returned witt
nj out the necessary requisition papers.
re Some miscreant purposely mis-
~ placed switch on the Erie road nea
= Hornellsville, on Wednesday night {
7o last week, causing the death of th
10 fireman. The train was running thirt
ye miles an hour. The passengers wer
lie badly shaken up but not injured
d The postal car was smashed to kind
-v ling wood and strange to say neithe
= of the clerks in the car were Injured
. The Fox River Hotel Waukesha
Wis, was destroyed by fire on tn
= night of the 26th Loss S12, 900; 10
sured for $4,000. The hotel stable
were also destroyed and the trottin,
stallion "Weasel. Jr.," with two othe,
!. valuable horses burned to death. =.
Last week Rob McKimmie, the no
torious Black Hills desperate was re
arrested in Highland county. He wa,
r arrested at Hillsboro, O., some tims
n ago and about month afterward.
broke Jail. He was discovered in 6
cabin and made a desperate resistance
' refusing to surrender until shot
n through the breast and cheek.
d Tee Wyoming Thread Company
:. Factory, at Fall River Mass, was
n totally destroyed by fire last Friday
!. morning. Loss 500, 600, insured.
Y 10 Boston Mass, there is a family
: consisting of father, mo .her and child
which is trying the experiment of hv.
ing upon fruit and vegetables only.
The little girl is kept at the top of the
house, where the walls and roof of her
: room are of glass Thus giving her a
r perpetual sun bath. She never go s
! out except to take daily airing in the
grounds of her home, and rarely sees
|, other children,
At Toledo, o., on the 9th, Mr.
Hyman Richmond, night depot master
of the L. s s. NJ. s. Railway, while
: preforEiine bis duties, met with an ac-
/ cident which will probably result fa
tally.
a On Thursday evening cf last week,
the Mayor of Springfield having some
work to do in his Office was detained
until about 10 o'clock Feeling
faint and unwell he went to one of the
front windows, raised il and fell TO the
!, pavement below, a distance of 20 feet
One of the small bones of his foot was
broken, and there was a partial dislo-
cation of the ankle. Il will be several
w,r ks before he will be able to attend
to his duties
Professor W. F. Harper, principal of
the Normal School at Danville, Ind,
has been missing since Saturday the
22nd, when he was seen in Indiana
polls. Since then nothing has been
heard of him.
A fight took place between the es-
cort of Major Broadhead, Paymaster
of the q. s.. A. and a number of
gamblers, at Springer's rancho, on
Canadian river, in the panhandle of
Texas, recently, in which Springer,
the keeper o. the rancho and young
man named Leadbetter were killed,
and two soldiers wounded,
At Cincinnati, on the 9th, John NJ.
Mueller, contractor for furnishing
stone for the Chicago Custom House,
was arrested, charged with conspiriog
with others to defraud the Govern
ment. Mueller is charged with de
frduding the Government out of $500,
600. He was held in $4,000 bail to ap
pear at Chicago Dec. 10Th.
! At Ashtabula, non the 9th, Charlie
Ault, fifteen years Of age, was accident
ally shot with pistol in the banda of
a younger brother. The Injury was
not serious. s
William A. Potter formerly Chief
Supervising Architect was arrested at
New York on a warrant issued by
Judge Blogette of the Northern Dis
trict of Illinois, on the 29th, charged
with conspiracy to defraEd the Gov
ernment in connection with the public
building at Chicago. His bail was fix
ed at S5, 000 Congressman Potter,
his brother, became bis bondsman.
At New York, on the 20th, the steam
ship Zealand which sailed for Antwerp,
/ on the 16ih, returned to port with her
cargo on fire. The vessel was freighted
with eight hundred head OF sheep, forty
five Thousand bushels of grain, and
large quantity of lard. The fire was
--xtinguished at the docks, and twelve
h. .u-.nd bushels of damaged grain
landed.
At CoidnLus on the oath, difficulty
occurred between two colored men
named johnson and Wilson. johnson
cut Wilson across the face with razor,
inflicting a dangerous wound. The cut
extends from cheek to cheek, crm-
pletely severiDg the nose.
Capt. C. E. Henry, special United
States Mail Service Defective, has sue
ceeJed in capturing another of the
Mail robbers. Captain Henry sue
ceeded in picking his man ont of a
force of 40 clerks on the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern route east of
Chicago to the New England States
G. d. Kimballis the guilty party, he
was detected by deeoy letters which
Captain Henry put into Kimball's
pouch, and Just beyond Dunkirk the
letters were found to be missing aud
found to be in Kimbalrs possession,
and be confessed that he had been
robbirg the mails for months but to
what extent it is not known. This
case with the arrest of Ross, the night
watcbnan at Chicago. clears up the
difficulty between Chicago and the
east.
Mr.. Lcomis of Watts Falls, acci
dentaily shot bis daughter, aged IL
years, on the morning of the 23d He
was cleanind his gun and bis little girl
was standing by watching him. While
the wiping rod was IN the gun he put
on a cap and snapped il, not suppos
ing it was charged. The gun was dis
cbaged, the wiper rod passing through
her abJoman making ragged eight
inch wound through the chiIds body.
The chil1 lived but a few minutes after
the accident.
Louis A Cooley. publisher of Godey's
Lady's Book and one of the Oldest
American editors. died on the 2Sth,
! at Philadelphia, in the 18th year of his
age. For several years his health had
been failing and last year he retired
from bis editorial associations. He
established the Magazine AZ years ago.
At Navarro O., on the Goth, a |
farmer named John Kaylor sunk
60 feet well on his farm aud had it |
ready for tiling. Several pieces were |
placed in position, but did not work |
as they should, when a man named |
Williams went down in the well, but |
soon gave the signal to be drawn up
representing the well as unsafe. Fred |
SchIeppie. of Sparta. o., then went
down to ascertain the condition of the |
well when it caved in burying him at
the bottom.
At Petersburg, Va, on the 9th, the
tobacco factory of William Cameron,
was destroyed by fire. The buildings
covered nearly whole square 1t was