The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-02-20
News Items.


On the 21st of January the Oath Reg
iment of British troops was defeated and
almost utterly destroyed in South Africa,
by the Zulus, Kafir tribe.
Capt. John H. Putnam, who was pri-
vate secretary to Gov. Allen, has been
appointed by Gov. Bishop State Libra
rian.
The notorious Bob McKimie plead
guilty at Hillsborough last week, in two
of his robbery cases, and was sentenced
to the penitentiary eight years.
Mrs. Finley, a widow so years of age,
at Delaware, Ohio, fell from her chair
into the fire, and was burned to death.
Hon. NJ. S. Creamer, member of the
Ohio Legislature from Fayette county,
died at his home, in Washington, of con-
sumption, on Sunday afternoon.
"A man from Kentucky named R. j.
Rice was put into the station house in
Cincinnati because he was very drunk.
Next morning he was found dead
"A man named Smith, at Wheeling,
attempted to cross a railroad when a
train was coming. His daughter jumped
out of the wagon and was killed by the
train
A drunk man named Mart Baker was
rudely thrown out of the doggery of Flick
Reedman, at Frankfort Ross county, on
last Saturday, and his skull was broken.
He will probably die.
David Davis, who killed John Davis
in drunken row at Shawnee, has been
sent to the Penitentiary by Judge
Wright for five years. Pretty dear whis-
ky, for both men.
Near Shelbyville, Tennessee, a colored
man named Alex. McGill was lynched,
and the Coroner who held the inquest
could learn no cause for the murder,
only that McGill had said that he would
shoot any Ku-Klux who would molest
him.
Alden Webb, of Ironton, was arrested
for peddling tobacco without license, and
taken to Cincinnati, where he plead
guilty, and was fined 800, and sent to
the Jail of Lawrence county for six
months
AS train was passing on the Scioto
Valley road, when near Higby's Station,
a young man named Silver threw stones
into one of the cars, 'just to have little
fun, you know He was fined 800, and
sent to Jail three months.
The New York Herald has a cores
pondent in Brazil, South America, who
writes that famine and pestilence have
carried off half a million people in one of
the provinces The famine was caused
by lack of rain. The account is appall-
ing.
"A woman named Mollie Meyer had
her throat cut in Cincinnati q few nights
ago. supposed to have been done by Will
liam Meyer, her husband, or at least the
man with whom she has been living. She
may get well.
An old German named Gotlieb
Brandt who resided at Macarthur Sta
ton, left Hamden about dark, walking
on the track towards home, when a
freight train knocked him off the track
and killed him.
A man named Mark Kane, who
worked in stone quarry at South Beth
lehem, Pa, was paid off, and then got
drunk, staggered in front of train, and
was killed, his body being horribly mutt
lated
"A man named VIM. Butler, from West
Virginia, resided in a miserable cabin in
Ross county. He and his wife went Wis
iting, leaving two small children in the
cabin. When they got back the cabin
was burnt down, and the children dead.
There was cock fight last Saturday
week between Ironton and Pinegrove.
About 200 persons were present, half of
them from Ironton. About $1,000 was
lost by the Irontonians, roughs from
Maysville and Wheeling getting the
money. The sport lasted from o'clock
P. M. until IL P. M.
AT No. SO Gold street, New York,
Jacob Slaight, while drunk, went into
the saloon of Martin Gross, and made
furious attack upon Gross, threatening
to kill him. Gross struck him with a
beer mallet, fracturing his skull, causing
death in few hours.
james Malone is only about seven
teen years of age. His parents reside
across the Scioto, near Portsmouth.
Young Malone ran off on account of
bastardy scrape, and went to the resi-
dence of his grandmother, in Ross coun-
ty, and one night stole the old lady's
pocket book. and again lit out 1t is
said that he was afterwards arrested, and
that the affair was settled.
Some time ago we mentioned that
two Welshmen named Davis got into
drunken quarrel at Shawnee, and one of
them killed the other. The murderer
has been convicted of manslaughter, and
when brought into court stated that
John Davis would now be living if both
had not been drinking on the day that
he was killed.
The Waverly Republican tells of a
robbery committed in Ross county, near
Summit Station, on the S. J. & P. R. R.
Two men rode up to the residence of
a German named John Klotz, and blind
folded Mrs. Klotz and her son, and COM
pelled Mrs. Klotz to get them all the