The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-29
NEWS ITEMS.

the 221. He was the first man in this
country to walk 1000 miles in !, 900
consecutive hours.
Near Port Washington. early last
week, the body of Mrs Belts, a wild
ow. was found near a fence, with two
rails resting across it. Her neck was
broken On her person a letter was
found. signed by John Stull, but eYi-
IDENTIFY written by his wife, who was
there upon arrested. She deGied all
knowledge OF the deed, but at the iu-
quest weak ned and made full con
lesion. She had had her suspicious
aroused as to the relations existing be-
tween her husband and Mrs. Be's,
and keeping watch of her husband
covered the place where he depo,i d
letters for his paramC r. She plal ID
O. letter there invitin Mrs. Belts to
meet her near u certain straw stack,
AMI signed her husbands name to the
note. They met, they quarreled; !;
there was a struggle and Mrs. Stull
proving the strongest. straDgled Mrs.
Belts. threw her body over a fence,
two rails of which fell on it. The mur
deress then hastened from the scene.
There is much sympathy In the com.
munity for Mrs. Stull, as the liason
between her husband and Mrs. Belts,
was generally kobwn and condemned.
Charleston, Maryland. has been the
center of great excitement the past
week. Two daughters of Mrs. Dod-
SOD, (who is in good circumstances,)
were recently delivered of iIlegitimate
children which they murdered and had
buried by colored man named Jones,
threatening him with death if he re-
vealed the secret. He told the story.
Two cousins of the girl kidnapped him
and together with Mrs. Dodson con-
veyed him to Vsn6 ae station. He
had oeen promised his life if he would
leave the State forever, bat the wo-
man was bent upon his death. The
men fred two bullets into his head,
dragged him into the wvods and left
him for dead. Hs recovered, dragged
himself to farm house and related
his story. The cousins and Mrs. Dod-
son are under arrest.
To PARENTS. often does a
slight cough or cold lead to the most
serious usconsequences Keep DIR. Bulls
Cough Syrup at home. Ply siciaus
perscribe it. Thousands take it.
Price, 25 'nts.
At Sullivan, Ind, on the 21st, a
terrible coal mine explosion occurred,
killing thirteen aud wounding eight
or ten more The cause of tho expIo
sion was the igniting of mine gas from
u lighted lamp. Eight or ten kegs of
powder stored in the mine were explo
ded at the time.
At Chicago, ILL.,, on the 2iss, Geo.
Ii. Pullman received word FROM the
American consul at Lisbon, Portugal,
that Charles w. Angel, the Pullman
Palace Car defaulter had been arrested
there, and that $50. 600 of the money
taken by him was found on his person.
The government has offered to deliver
him up, although no extradition treaty
exists.
United States Commissioner Virgins
Sno has been making election arrests
III Barnwell county 8. c., was arrest
ed on the goth, charged with having
accepted bribr to compromise casa
when State Solicitor in 1879 He was
released on bsil. -f
At indianapolis; Ind. on the 18th,
Warren Tate shot and killed William
Love, in line corridor o. the court
house. Love had been a witness in a
case wherein Tate was the plaintiff,
and after leaving the stand they III Z,
Love calling Tate G liar and stris g
him. Tate shot him t:7ice. Love IS
a prominent real estat dealer of Chica
go. Tate was OF a fine family, but is
best known as the husband of a former
notorious courtesan, of Indianapolis,
but now of Chicago. .s
The mail coach which left Fort Nc
Kinney, on the Goth was stopped by
two masked men when about 20 miles
from there. Two passengers who were
in the coach were robbed of all their
valuables. the mail bags were cut
open, the letters ransacked and the
money which they contained all taken.
At Bridgewater, Mass, on the 22i,
Gooege B. Stetson former president of
the Bridgewater Iron Company was
ulcCoNCtco " tC q uc1dultcI W bue
amount of $4,000. His father, who
is treasurer of the company has secured
it against loss, by attaching his prop
erty. -si. te-i .-...
At Navarro, o.. on the Goth, two
men. Patrick McKinna aud John Bry-
nire, were digging a well. When
about twenty feet d6en the cribbing
gave way, burying 10th men at the
bottom. When dug out they wers
found to be alive aud not seriously in
jured.
At Bellaire, O.. on the Goth, a des-
perado named Eustace Knight, was
shot and dangerously wounded by the |
marshal who had undertaken to ar |
rest him for shooting a policeman |
about two weeks before. He first fired |
at the marshal but missed, then started !
to run, when the marshal fred the
shot taking effect in Knight back.
E. C. Hayden who is sentenced to
hanged at Montpelier. VT. in January,
1880, for the murder of his wife. makes /
a statement and charges the crime TO !
the treachery of his wife'e relatives
who brou. ht about feeling of despair
and jealousy.
At Boston, Mass, on the 21st, Frank
Paige who was arrested, charged with
conspiring with his partner TO defraud
his Creditors, was requirsd to give
$40, 600 bail bond
The stables of the Hors. Railway
Company, at Peoria, Ill, were de
stroyed by 6re oe-the 21st, and thirty
horses we're burned up.
At Akron, O., on the Goth, Arthur
a boy fourteen years of
age, who was tried on the charge of
stabbiDg a schoolmate, was bound
over in the sum of $500.
At Cory, Pa, on the 22nd. the depot
platform gave way. while large crowd
was upon it, percipiratinz the people
about 50 feet into stream of water
two feet deep. No one was seriously
hurt, but there was considerable
mixing up of planks, timbers, men,
women and children. The crowd had
assembled to witness the embarkation
of the body of Sister Celestin, a Cath
olic School teacher, who had died Of
typhoid fever and whose body was o
be forwarded 20 Erie for burial
The air of New Orl ans is now fee
from fever poison. {
The charge Of cruelty made against
the keepers of the insane hospital at
st. Peters, MINI. have been sustained
by the report of the investigating com
mittee. One patient was strangled by :
having food forced down his throat,
and anotha, v.s 70 badly scaIded In a