Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-01-31
news Isems.

In1s time C1nclnnaLl Claims Iae HoHOT'
Fin Grindle, of yellow Springs, was ia
tally burned by lamp explosion on the
22d.
Frank DiIbine, of Troy, while out hunt
ing on the 18th, accidentally shot his head
off.
The case of NcKenna, the stage rObber,
at Hillsboro, is to be carried to the Su-
preme Court.
Eden B. Reeder, an old resident of Gin
cinnati, died on the morning of the goth,
aged 20.
c. RUSSELL & Co., manufactures of
reapers and mowers, of Canton, have
made an assignment.
There is talk in some parts of Perry
county of a project to remove the county
seat to Shawnee.
The hog-kilIing season closed at Circle
Wills on the 18th. Fifteen thousand head
were slaughtered.
Mary Finck, wife of Hon. w. E. Finck, +
of Somerset, died the other day, aged sew
enty-five years.
A child belonging to a man named
Cross, living at Unionville, was burned to
death on the 18th.
A man named Bart Evans, of Pike
county, is under arrest charged with
burning school house.
A large body of mineral land near
Bessemer, has been purchased by Pendle- |
ton & Means, of Cincinnati.
Mrs. Cavanaugh, of Martins Ferry,
was burned to death on the 18th, by her
dress catching fire from the CRATE.
Piatt HubbeH & Co., the largest mer-
camille firm in Monticello, Illinois, has
failed. Liabilities $50, 900.
E. R. Gillett, postmaster at LIE Bout,
Erie county, Pennsylvania, has been ar
rested on charge of Irregularities in his
affairs.
! j. j. Jones, a wealthy farmer and stock
raiser of Western Missouri, has failed.
Indebtedness $50, 900. Assets less than
one-third of that amount.
Captain Crapo and his wife, who went
to Europe in the smallest boat that ever
crossed the Atlantic, have very sensibly
returned in a first class steamer.
Clara Bach, thirteen years old, of Bloom
ington, Illinois, died on the 18th inst,
from the effects of eating poisonous candy
taken from Christmas tree.
Aman named W. K. Coan has been ar
rested at Lancaster on charge of land
swindling in Missouri, where. he is want
ed badly.
At Fostoria, on the 10Th, two brothers
named Gwinner, had an alteration, in
which one of them was, it is thought, IA
, tally stabbed.
John Stevens, tramp, has been con-
victed at Defiance, of attempting to out
rage a little girl, and sentenced to four
years in the Penitentiary.
At Marion, on the 18th inst, young
man named Frank Weaver attempted sui
eide by shooting himself in the temple
He is not expected to recover.
Three children of Mr.. Dixon, living
near Portsmouth, were drowned on the
= 10Th by the breaking of the ice on mill
pond where they were skating.
It Barney Kentz, of Seneca county, in {
d drunken row the other day, struck his
+ wife over the head with poker, produc
o Ii 10 ILIOllSAI3 ASt1shA AAJuA
e Two negroes named Chester jackson
1t and David MCGEE have been arrested a
If Boroesville on charge of outraging
J. quadroon only sixteen years old.
A DR.. Martin has been arrested at To
ledo, charged with body-snatching. H
W was formerly from Columbus, and ha
ot only lived in Toledo short time.
Is Sfas Kellogg, of Madison, Lake county
= was killed on the 10Th by being caugh
y by pitman in saw-mill. He was badl,
mutilated, and died almost instantly.
- A man named George Weeks is unde
% arrest at Macarthur, charged with forg
,f ing an order for goods on farmer. H
n is held in the sum of $500 to answer
1s court.
III Miss Belle Andrews, of Maryland, Wis
n. iting friends at Cardington, tried to SUI
d, eide on the 18th by taking laudanum
w The proper remedies saved her. A diss
i pated lover was the cause.
ch The City Council of fToledo has resolve
c- to furnish no more free transportation
rtt tramps. Hereafter he will be given a
opportunity to earn his passage by worl
ing in the workhouse; otherwise he wi
ut walk out of town.
or At Wheeling, West Virginia, Monda
re morning, notorious rough named Bi
TIC Harris, was sentenced to the wOrkhou
IRIS for sixty days. On being taken to th
raj Institution he melted mutiny, in whic
ee he and sixteen others escaped.
- The Senate committee on Pensions
ne considering the proposition of payir
nd pensions directly from Washington al
o+o abolishing the Pension Agencies. 1t
For claimed that 100000 year can be saw
,o,. to the Government by this arrangemer
by 1t is limited that the President, in /
on forthcoming civil service message, W
'ds recommend that the selection of postm'
of ters in smaller towns be made by pop
aaI. lar vote, and that the Postmaster Ge
eral shall merely confirm the select
the made.
IN ~ DR.. Morton, the Toledo body-snatcht
'lio is down with the smallpox, and now
~ ledoans have the biggest scare on recol
-, During the DOCTORS stay in jail he
W. been visited by hundreds of persons,
,ras Guiding the different professions, and t
ear question is to how many has the disea
,ers been transferred.
The rev: Q. O. Fletcher, Baptist preacf
the at Alllegan, Mich, married while v
han man, named Hattie Wineberger, to
half gro named Charles Collier. The eve
but causes mnch mitigation there aud Flet.
ears er will be prosecuted. He claims to hs
Ga done the deed unthinkingly. The aft
may be made a test in the state courts.