The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-05-15
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Jonathan Whitaker, of Clermont
county, shot and killed his father.
"A man named John Davis was cross
ing the Ohio river at Marietta in a skiff
and fell into the river and was drowned
He was drunk.
Cox, who murdered Aston in Atlanta,
Georgia, had his trial last week, was
found guilty and goes to the Penitentia-
ry for life.
The trial of Rev. Talmage before the
Presbytery of Brooklyn. for falsehood,
and other offenses, has ended, and he is
acquitted, but only by the.vote of 25 to 20.
A convention in California made a
new constitution for that State, which
was submitted to a vote of the people
last week, and adopted by large major
ity.
The Reform School, on the farm near
Lancaster, has gone the way of all the
public institutions in Ohio under Demo
cratic reform. There is serious trouble
there, and the Board of Commissioners
held two days session last week The
proceedings were secret, but it has come
out that the superintendent, HIite, must
get out, as he is utterly incompetent.
DIR. Gates, of Proc torsville, Lawrence
county, who poisoned his wife, and then
tried to kill her brother, and the officer
who attempted to arrest him, has been
sent to Jail. The chemist who analyzed
the contents of the stomach of the dead
woman, found strychnine.
Secretary Sherman was in Ohio last
week. Hevisited his home, at Mansfield,
and made short speech. He stopped
over night in Columbus, and made
short speech, and called few minutes in
both houses of the Legislature. There
was great excitement over the State, and
many desire that he shall be candidate
for Governor.
Highland county is becoming as no.
torious for crime as Kentucky. Link
murdered his step-father and his step
brother, and now there is another MUIR
der. Ezekiel Ruse, when drunk, went
into the saloon of his brother-in law, s..
Q. Schwartz, interfered with two men
who were playing cards, then took up a
stool and struck Schwartz breaking his
skull. Schwartz is dead.
ri Mrs. Yates, of Ironton, mixed arse
mic with corn meal to kill rats. Her
daughter took the meal and made it int
cakes, and the family ate of the cakes
and commenced vomiting A doctor was
sent for. He encouraged the vomiting,
and for while the case was doubtful,
but the family were finally all pulled
through
Two editors in Indianapolis, Indiana,
had newspaper quarrel. Their names
are George c. Harding and Calvin A.
Light. Harding made two attempts to
kill Light, but he only succeeded in
shooting two harmless printers One of
the printers was dangerously wounded
by shot in the side. The other jumped
out of window and dislocated his ank.
les
The murders and suicides in this
country during the past four weeks have
averaged about twenty per week. We
have no space even to mention each case
but the following deserve notice AT
New Preston Hill. Connecticut, Egberi
Cogswell, farmer, became a drunkard
He had twenty barrels of cider rolled in
to his cellar last fall, and before he drank
it all he shot and killed his wife, and
then killed himself with knife.
At Terre Haute, Indiana, a man nam
ed John Harrington, shot and killed
Henry Thomas, and when an attempt wa,
made to arrest him he killed one of the
officers.
In Philadelphia man sixty-one years
of aged, named Edward Parr, forced hi
own daughter to submit to his desires
and she had child by him. She after
wards got married, and the father at
tempted to force her to leave her hus
band and live with him. She refused
and he murdered her with knife.