The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-02
OHIO STATE NEWS

A FARMER named sheitsenhelnn, in Portage
County, was killed by falling tree.
DR.. OHAs. W. TRAsx, q resident dentist oi
Mantua, shielded with morphine. III health.
The One Hundredth o. Y. /. held pleasant
annual reunion at Napoleon on the 26th OF Au-
gust. At FF@a Sat4te
The wife of q farmer named Steffe, near
Johnsonville, Morrow County, suicided by
jumping in well.
GEORGE BATHRELL, of Defiance, aged twenty
five years, while intoxicated, fell into the canal
and drowned.
JOHN SMILEY, wealthy bachelor of Ashland
County, aged eighty years, committed suicide
by shooting.
TIE temperance people of Licking County
are prosecuting saloon-keepers in the rural VII
lagos most ruthlessly.
NEAR Marion Simon Huggins fell from the
roof of his brcther's (Jacob Huggins) barn,
and was fatally injured.
ATwo-YEAR-oLD child of Frederick Nichols,
at Port Clinton, was scalded to death by falling
into boiler of hot water.
JOHN HEoKER, the son Of o farmer living
near Covington, fel from a freight train upon
which he was stealing ride, and was killed.
w. o. UPFoLD, formerly of Mount Vernon,
committed suicide at Plain City, by cutting his
throat with razor. He was sixty-fve years Of
age. i
FOUR YEAR-oLD daughter of VIM. Cruise,
residing four miles south of College Corner,
last week fell from horse on her head, killing
her instantly.
WHILE Patrick Eagan, saloon-keeper, Of
Wilmington, was at mass, thieves broke into
his house and stole 81, $50 in currency and $500
IN silver.
MISS KATE MART1NDALE, of Clinton County,
has entered an action in the Common Plese
Court of that county against DR.. A. G. Dry and
for $1,000 damages, in the nature OF suit for
slander.
THE twelye-year-old son of Dave Van Pelt,
farmer living four miles north of Carrollton,
while playing with smaller brother, ran across
. shotgun in an clubhouse, with whi,h he acci-
dentally killed himself.
3 REV. G. L. CRowTHER, pastor Of the Evan
gelical Church, at Findlay, has decamped, tax
ing his family with him. He departed at mid
night, and leaves behind him creditors to whom
he owes, in the ""~-egate, $2,500.
AT Malver in Tasc .rawas County, a family
named Or, mbec are sadly afflicted, three
brothers, young men, dying within three days,
and two daughters, grown, lying at the point of
d ,ath. The malady is typhoid fever.
CRAWFORD, Morrow and Marion counties have
united in perfecting Pioneer Association, with
the following officers: Major James Robinson,
President; John D. Wisterman, Secretary Jas.
P. Reisinger, Corresponding Secretary; Aaron
Park, Treasurer. M
TwENTY-sEvEN acres Of wheat, on the farm
of Mrs. Elizabeth Cassidy, three miles from
Canton; in Stark County, yielded !, 270 bushels,
or o little over forty-seven bushels to the acre.
This is said to be the largest yield ever pro-
duced in the State.
DuR1Sa circus performances at Newark.
Henry Iobnaon- On Loci fa-,nar wert to ths
C;t;Zers, Nat;onal T3anf and drew ont sEon With
a view To beatine some sharners traveline in
the tented wake, but reports say he got "beau-
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ooaS A!NNE1, Mur'ny laInor MusA
noe from storm in a harm was instantiv
killed by lightning They had beeu threading
and ali his comna 6;ons were severely shocLe5'
He leaves a wife and FIVE ch;ldren
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MaiLk q, iArInel 1aIneo 1 oonn ~ Mag0ner We
crossing Cne f1,lroa4 IacA ~ rHe nun, TWO
maes west OF New fniadeipMa, ne was run
into Dy car ioaded with coal, klihng Doth
horses instantly ana completeiy demohshlng
MS wagon. MI. Wagoner WAS also seriously IN
;, MISS NELLIE MoDoNAD, respectaple young
laoy o! MaynesDnrg, Iuscarawas county, Is
!nysteriousiy missing from 1er nome, ana ner
1i1enas are greatiy concerned as 70 ner wnere-
aDouts. one ieIt her nome week ago witn
picnic party, M since t wnicn time sne mas not Deen
seen OF hearo irom.
In runaway accident at Sidney, Chas. Kig
gins was jerked from the vehicle and dragged
some distance by the lines, injuring him fatally.
Two young iadies VINO were Win n1m, Dy great
presence OF mind, after he had become disen-
tangled from the lines, hshed them up with
parasoi ana eventually stopped the horses, thus
saving themselves
JOSEPHINE EDWARDS, of Steubenville, has sued
Joseph Woods for BIC, ,O00 alleging that on the
5th Of August, Woods took her to Washington
County, Pennsylvania, before what purported
to be minister of the gospel, who performed
marriage ceremony for them. and gave her a
certificate. Since then she learned that no such
minister lived there, and that the signature to