The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-03-27
News Items.
Chairman Rep. State Ex. Cor

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The New Orleans banks suspended
payments last week.
DIR. Blackstone, physician nearly
83 years of age, died suddenly at Athens
last weelz.
"A young man named Samson was
killed in coal bank near California,
Pike county.
AT Bond Hill, near Cincinnati, W.
w. Sherwood went to milk cow, when
SIZE kicked him, breaking his neck.
Mr.. Sextro has introduced another
local option bill in the House of Repre-
sentatives 1t differs materially from
that of Mr.. Quinby, lately voted down.
A proposed amendment of the Con-
stitution of Ohio, to fix the fees of county
officers, has passed the Senate. 1t ought
to pass the House. 1t was introduced
by Senator DUNCAN.
Tie Sidney Journal says that Gen.
VIM. Fl. Gibson is about to enter the
Methodist ministry. He is one of the
most eloquent and effective speakers in
the State.
AT Van Vert, Ohio, Mike Murphy
and Martin Ross, lads of fifteen years of
age, were examining loaded revolver
when it was discharged, killing Murphy
The Republicans of Cincinnati have
nominated for Mayor a Bavarian named
Jacob, and the Democrats have nominal
ed Len A. Harris. This is not the Ler
A. Harris who figured around Mag Sny
der's rancho as detective.
The wife of William Ferguson, o
Kansas City, Missouri, cut her throa
with case knife, and bled to death, tn
blood covering her children. Her hus
band was a drunkard, and she could no
endure life any longer.
AT Red Rock, Pennsylvania, drunk
en- man was seen staggering along with {
bag on his shoulder containing eight on
quart cans of nitro glycerine. Soon
terrific explosion shook the town. Tn
man slipped and fell. A few fragment
of him were scattered around.
Judge Trip sentenced McKimie t
FIVE years in the penitentiary for robbin
the Eubanks women. This makes in a.
Is years, being five in one case and thre
in another, in Highland county, tw
years in Ross, and FIVE in Pike.
There is once more a great scands
at the Soldiers and Sailors Orphan
Home at Xenia. The Superintendent
one DR.. Keifer, and his son Asa, haV
been accused of most unbecoming col
duct among the girls and young wome
at the Home.
A drunken man named Lamb, 6
Clyde, Ohio, has been in the habit {
beating his children. He was whippin
his son with leather strap, with bucl
le on the end of it. The buckle struc
the boy in the eye. The father ws
arrested, fined $50 and sent to Jail.
When Boyton, the swimmer, arrive
at Cincinnati, one hundred and fft
thousand people were on the bank OF th
river. He was near being run over
several boats On Sunday week he CAV
an exhibition in Cincinnati. He ws
nearly killed by boats at Louisville, an
went over the falls.
There are about forty Democrat
papers in Ohio opposing the nominatio
of Gov. Bishop. The editors of all thes
papers expected to be appointed Supe
visor of Public Printing or State Libr'
rian. "And that's what's the matte
with Hammer"
1t is now thought that the shot fire
by the drunken man Schaller, in Cincil
natl, was not the shot that killed Balt
win. The entire detective force has bee
at work for more than week, but n
trace of the murderer has been fount
All sorts of theories have been broachet
only to be abandoned.
"A man named William Baldwin, i
Adams county, bought revolver an
while the family were at supper, tw
grand children, named Pratt got the re
yolyer, and in a scufHe for its possession
one of them, only seven years of age, wa
shot tbrough the breast,