The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-08
NEWS ITEMS.

The banking house of Cowan, Sheets
s. Co., at Bellaire, has made an assign
ment, but it is thought depositors will
be paid in full.
Sam Holmes, an inoffensive colored
man who unfortunately had an un-
faithful wife, WAS brutally beaten by a
mob of men who had called his wife
out of the house. Holmes had gone
out to induce her to go in the house.
His injuries are considered fatal The
guilty parties have not been arrested.
Erie County, this State appears to
lead in the matter of divorces. There
were twenty two cases tried at the
| October term. And worse still not an
indictment was found against the
mobocrats who murdered the wretch
Taylor.
At Chetopa, Kansas, on the I'd,
Theodor Munsterman, farmer, was
arrested charged with having murdered
a farmer named Hunt, and mortally
wounded his wife. The wife recovered
sufficiently to fix the crime upon Nuns
terman.
The Lord Advocate has accepted
SIS, 900 bail for John Stewart, one of
the directors of the Glasgow Bank, and
the sum of $3.50, 900 has been subscrib
ed, at private meeting, for the relief
of the stockholders. Five firms gave
each SIS, 900.
At St.Louis, on the Sd, Thomas
CoehreD, nephew of United States
Senator Cochrell, was found murdered
in the store of NJ F. Stalts, at Ridge
Prairie. The supposition is that he
was murdered by tramps, as the store
had been rified.
At Cleveland, on the 29th, Thomas
Degan, an employe of the Standard
Oil Company, while saving piece of
board in the Dowell pin factory, was
caught end carried several times around
the shaft receiving injuries which
caused his death.
At Pottstown on the 30th, while
bucket containing four men was being
drawn up through shaft, the pulley
broke, letting the four men fall a dis
tance of $50 feet. One OF the men,
when found, was dead. The others
received injuries from which they died.
AT Chicago, on the I'd. the jury in
case of Jeremiah Kennedy, for killing
his wife, rendered verdict of guilty,
but also found that since the murder
he has become insane The court was
ina quandary what to do, but finally
sent him to an asylum, to recovered
his reason. When he is discharged
from the asylum cured, he will be hang
ol
continue insane.
At New York, on the 30th, the Gov.
ernment brought suit against Lehmiere
Bros, importers, to recover S75. 900
fer undcrvaluation of goods. An offer
was made by a prominent banker to
compromise the suit for 25, 900.
So far, the counsel for the United
States in the suit against Sam J. Tilden
has succeeded in ferreting out several
hundred thousand dollars the old rascal
received as income on which be never
paid any tax. Dispositions have been
taken in Chicago, Lake Superior. Pitts
burgh, and other points where he had
money paid over to him, all showir g
payments that have been made him as
high as fifty thousand dollars at a
time. The cost of prosecuting him
and taking dispositions all over the
country has been very heavy, but
fortunately when verdict is found
against him it will include the cost, SO
the Government will lose nothing. He
will have to pay over a hundred
thousand dollars at least.
Cold, piercing winds and driving
rains seldom fail to bring on a cough,
cold or hoarseness at this season, and
Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup shonld be kept
in every house. For sale by all drug
gists.
On the night OF the LIST, the coach
containing the Two stage robbers.
Mansfield and Mclaughlin, under
guard of two officers, enroute for
Deadwood, was stopped and the prison
ers were taken from the coech by five
masked men and hung to tree on the
banks of the Platte river.
At Reynoldsburg, on the I'd, q negro
named VIM. Stefont, went to the
woods where three women and a man
were encamped,' : and attempted to out
rage one of the women. The male
companion interfered and was struck
on the head with fence rail and fatally |
injured. The negro was arrested.
A convict, in the States prison at |
jackson. Michigan. named Samuel
Sackner, attempted to commit suicide
last week by cutting his throat with a
razor. The wound is not necessarily
fatal, SO he refuses nourishment and
declares his intention to starve him
self to death.
at t.Paul Mimi, on the 3Otb. a
drunken man jumped from a bridge in
70 the Mississippi river. The bridge
was sixty feet high. but the man was
only slightly injured. A sober man
would have drowned.
AT Columbus, on the LIST, Charles
Butter, son of DIR. Butler, demanded |
some notes from his mother, which she
refused to give him, when he knocked
ner down and then drove his father
rom the house. He was aftervard
arrested and notes to the amount of
A'soo were found upon him.