Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-12
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.

was taken before the Mayor of that
burg and bound over to court. In de-
fault of bail he was lodged in jail at
| Urbana, on the 28th ult.
UNKNOWN burglars entered the resi-
dence of G.. Stuber, at Sidney, on the
night of the 29th ult., and succeeded in
getting $50 in money and two valuable
watches, besides few other articles of
minor value William Shines saloon
was also broken into and small
amount of liquor taken, for which bur-
| glary tramp was arrested and put in
| Jail.
G. A. BIRE, baggage-master on Cogs-
wells train, was caught between the
bumpers and badly bruised while coup
ling cars at Yellow Springs on the 2Sth
ult.
A FARMER named Samuel Smith, sew
enty-two years old, living seven miles
north of Washington g. H., was found
hanging TO tree in an orchard near
his house suspended by his suspenders
on the 30th ult He has been insane
for over six years and had lately re-
turned home from an asylum.
THE two-year-old child of James
Morton, farmer living four miles
north of Sidney, was run over by
south-bound passenger train on the
Dayton g. Michigan Railroad on the
29th ult., and so badly injured that it
can hardly recover. 1t was danger
ously cut and bruised up.
JAMES EDWARDS was arrested in
GAINESVILLE on the 28th ult., charged
with stealing a horse and buggy at
Newark few days ago. He was left
in the vestibule of the City Prison till
the police authorities could be informed
of his arrest, and while thus alone made
his exit through side door, scaled the
wall, about twelve feet high, and es-
capped, and has not as yet been recap
tured. He has spent three years in the
Penitentiary, and has been out only a
few weeks.
JOHN r.. NORRIS, the detective, ar
rested man at Lima, on the goth ult.,
called John w. Warwood, alias John
w. Price, charged with the murder of
his brother in Monroe County, Mich,
last fall He was in Lima for the pur-
pose of enjoying the races when Norris
took him in.
A HORSE attached to the delivery
wagon of F. E. Hayward & Co.,
grocers of IrontOn, ran away on the
29th ult., throwing Mr.. Hallaron, the
clerk, out, breaking his leg in two
places below the knee, also bruising his
face horribly.
MICHAEL KINNEY, boss of an iron
ore gang at the harbor at Ashtabula,
fell into the hold of the barge P. Cham
berlain, on the 1st inst. 1t is thought
he cannot live.
In Toledo, on the 29th ult., Jew
named Lobenstein was sun struck and
on the 1st inst. a man named Brutts,
in the post Office employ, fell to the
ground unconscious. Fortunately,
: neither case proved fatal
j. Nj. THOMPSON, of East Trumbull,
has been arrested, charged with receiv-
ing money from unlicensed liquor sell
. ers as a consideration not to inform on
: them.
EDWARD HAGENY, aged seventy
years, well-known stone-quarry man,
who lived seven miles from Sandusky,
fell from a tifteen-foot embankment al
: his quarry, on the evening of the 29th
S ult., and was instantly killed. He
leaves wife and five children.
t In a saloon affray at Piqua on the 1st
|
, times in the back. His hurts are seri.
4 to who did the cutting.
Two MINERS named johnson and
l Jones, employed at the Central Min
D., ing Company, New Straitsville, were
! severely injured on the 1st inst, John
son by being run over by a car ant
y ! Jones by fall of coal.
! A BOY named Murray Swisher, nint
= years of age, was drowned at Defiance
n on the 1st inst, while swimming in thu
! canal. 1t is unknown how the ac
: cident occurred, as he was alone at thu
time. The body has been recovered.
a Mr.. DIXON, express agent on tn,
d Painesville & Youngstown Railroad, a
h Painesville, was robbed on the 1st inst
e of S21, 900 in currency, at the depot il
0 that town. He is unable to give an,
account of the robbery.
y AHEAvY gale and rain storm swep
Is through Marion, Crawford and Rich
e land Counties on the I'd inst, complete
8. ly leveling thousands of acres of whea
n and oats as with roller, infiicting Sc
y rious loss in some townships.
70 The Teachers State Association
II opened its annual session at Put-in-Ba
10 on the I'd inst. There is large bod
= of teachers present, representing a.
,e the best schools in the State. The al
II tendance is thought to be larger tina
IL that of last year.
II EX-CoUNTY AUDITOR GEORGE b. KEN
nedy, of Warren, pleaded, on the 3
inst, guilty to two indictments for OF
IL tanning money under false pretenses
I'd and was sentenced to imprisonment i
the Penitentiary for three years upo
one and two years upon the other.
mt THE Northern Ohio Fair, at ClevC
.e 70 land, will be held this year on Sep
re 9th, 10th, 11th, 18th and 18th. Th
ne Association are offering unusually larg
ut premiums this year.
If A DISTRESSING casualty occurred {
IS. Perry on the 4th. Mr.. II. A. Minch,
10 merchant, whose store has been visite
OF several times recently by burglar
rS fixed his money drawer with pistol !
lily placed that it would explode on tf
Is, door being opened. Going to I'll
,n drawer, and forgetting his devise,
ed ed drew it open, and the pistol exploded
he the ball entering the abdomen an
go coming out at the back, inflicting
Ie' dangerous, if not fatal wound.
In AN old gentleman named PEBBLE
IN. long resident of Morgan Count.
dropped dead in the harvest-tield net
!, McConnellsville on the I'd inst, fro
he the effects of sunstroke.
lie Miss Ida HUTTON, while sitting {
'ty the porch of her home in AvOndal
Coshocton County, on the 4th, sudden
fell dead, as was first supposed fro
Ike apoplexy, but examination of her boo
ms disclosed the fact that bullet had e
.rd tered her breast and passed out at h
ith back, killing her instantly. 1t is n
ali known where the shot came from.
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