The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-23
News Items.

The ice in the Ohio river broke sup
last week.
A woman named Burns at Eagle
Furnace, Vinton county, committed sui
eide by taking strychnine.
The Chillicothe Gazette and Athens
Messenger are now printed on new type,
and present beautiful appearance.
Alex. Fl. Kicker. of Ironton, was at
the point of death day or two ago. He
is well known by many men in this coun-
ty, who were in the army with him.
A young man aged 10 years. named
James Stewart, at Flushing, Long Island,
died from the effects of swallowing
bent pin. 1t lacerated the intestines,
causing acute Inflammation.
Martin Bergan was hung at Potts
vile, Pennsylvania, last week. for the
murder of Patrick Burns. He is the
nineteenth of the Molly Maguires who
has been hung for murder in Pennsyl-
vania.
Isaac Rowe and man named Wood
came to Chillicothe and got drunk, then
started home On the way Rowe fell
off his horse, and wood took both horses
home Next morning the body of Rowe
was found. He had frozen to death.
The Democratic Sheriff of Hamilton
county, one Wallace, went out of office
last week, and he admits that he is de-
faulter to the amount of $23, 1000. His
sureties will pay the amount.
james Tophanes resides on Storms
Creek, three miles from Ironton. His
family consisted of wife and two chill
dren, and his wife's sister, Mrs. Windle,
and her two children. They appear to
be miserably poor, living in some kind OF
poor cabin or shanty. A child of Mrs.
Windle, two months old, was frozen to
death, in the arms of its mother, in their
miserable bed.
Two more of the Mollie Mcguire
murderers were hanged at Mauch Chunk,
Pennsylvania, on Monday of last week.
Their names were Dowd and Sharpe.
Gov. Hartranft sent by telegraph re-
prieve for one week, but the men had
been hanged about minute before the
dispatch was received. This caused in
tense excitement on the part of the rela-
tives and friends of the doomed men.
- Mrs Neal and her four small chill
dren, came from Aid township, Law
renee county, to the Infrmary of that
county Soon after her arrival she Wis
tied the privy, and took her three year
old child with her. 1t fell into the vault,
a distance of thirty feet, and remained
in the filth for two hours, when it was
drawn up with hooks, and was still alive.
Kate Cobb has been found guilty of
poisoning her husband, at Norwich.
Connecticut, and sentenced to imprison-
ment for life. A man named Bishop tes-
titled that he and Mrs Cobb gave Charles
Cobb arsenic, so that they could get mar
ried, Bishop having poisoned his wife.
Many doubt the correctness of the ver-
dict. Bishop will also be tried for the
murder.
Tom Lewis was found frozen to death
to death in Albemarle county, Virginia.
He was 80 years of age, and is said to be
the last of the celebrated Lewis and
Clark expedition, which crossed the
Rocky Mountains and reached the Pa
ciic Ocean, in the years 1S045-6 Lewis
was a negro, and the slave of Captain
Lewis, the superior officer of the expedi-
tion. It is said that this negro saved the
life of his master, Captain Lewis, when
he was attacked by three Indians. during
the expedition.
There was a serious accident al
Kings Switch, ten miles west of Athens
on last Saturday week. One freight train
ran into another. There were three
passengers in the caboose of the foremost
train, and they jumped off. falling upon
the ice thirty feet below. Washington
Reifsnyder, of Gallipolis, was killed, John
Betz, of the same place, was hurt, an6
VIM. King, of Vinton county, was fatally
injured. The body of Mr.. Reifsnydel
was taken to the residence of his son-in
law, Thomas B. Bancroft, at Vinton Fur
mace.
There has been a bloody and terrible
affair at Camp Robinson, Nebraska
About 100 Cheyenne Indians were helc
as prisoners, to be sent to the Indiar
Territory. They said they would die
before they would 60 there,a they woulc
starve in that Territory. The authori
ties undertook to freeze and starve then
into submission, but after five day.
starvation they broke out, and had arm
which had been concealed. Five soldiers
were killed, and some thirty Indians
men, women and children were killed
several wounded, and some escaped
Soldiers are in pursuit. A general Indi
an war is feared as the result.
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