The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-08-26
OHIO STATE NEWS

NEAa Batesville lightning destroyed eighteen
acres Of wheat In stack for Mr.. Brown.
TOBIAS sr1IIpx, Morrow County fszmsr, hss
da nad Ned and made e IN Asasts
A BARN and all its contents, belonging b
Adam Dupes, In Hardin County, was consumed
by fire the other day. Loss, q, 200; insurance.
$500. -
DAVID COOP, prominent citizen Of RogsEs-
injured while attempting t. get OF moving
train. efzaL 81 .-i5sslsEkIf II Il
NEAR Wellston passenger train scattered
the body of Patrick Hickey along the track for
several hundred feet. Hickey had gone TO
sleep on the track while drunk.
& JAMES WADLow, the keeper Of 3 house Of III.
repute at Beardstown, was shot and instantly
killed on the street by Louis Bedault. Gauss
not assigned. Bedault surrendered himself.
EIGHTEEN months ago, Mrs. Dennis HennesY,
at Oak Harbor, in Ottawa County, gave birth
to twins Last week she gave birth TO triplets,
sGs:I Ss.Iis making total of five boys in year ''d
ADAM SKATER, of March Run, Washington
County, while feeding q khreshing- machine,
stepped in such manner rs to run one leg
into the machine, and had his foot torn on IN
. horrible manner tuuafY sycT "a 4. r,-, L.,
STORM which swept over Canfield, Board
man and Beaver townships, Mahoning County,
last week, done almost incalculable damage.
Barns we're unroofed, sugar camps destroyed,
and many cattle killed.
DURING fit of temporary insanity, WIN.
Wharton, an old and respected citizen of North
Benton, Mahoning County, assaulted hts
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Emma Wharton, with An
ak, mangling her in a frightful manner. 1t j.
thought she will recover. ~ -rvs7.7sr
THIEVES entered the residence Of Mrs. Sands,
at Orrville, and bound and gagged Mrs. Sands,
Miss Sands and a Mrs. Kent, and then ran
sacked the house, carrying away what money
they could find and two silver watches: 1t M
| intimated that other indignities were heaped
upon the unfortunate women. p d"
Mrs. LEvINA MCCORMICK, a well-respected
person of Plymouth, aged fifty years, COM
initted suicide by cutting her throat from ear
| to ear with shoe-knife. Her husband OBJ
tanned divorce from her about two years ago
and married another woman-supposed cause
of the act.
On the morning of the 14th, q large portion
| of the business part of Ada was totally de-
stroyed by fire, involving total loss OF nearly
| $4,000, $16, 900 of which is covered by insur-
| anc. The fire is supposed TO. have originated
| by spontaneous combustion in huge bin OF
| rags in the rear of Cunninghams store.
| Or the guests attending the, wedding Of Miss
| Louisa Porter, at Painsville, last week, fifty
were taken violently i'll a half hour after having
partaken Of supper. It is Thought that eope
4 food, but by whom OF for what purpose is
/ mystery. The quantity Of poison taken was
not sufficient to produce death in any case, And
all have recovered.
AN elevator upon which were sixteen nlen,
| fell from the fourth story Of the Sa414eky
| Wheel-works, at Sandusky, one day last week.
! onto the heads of Frederick Zimmerman, kged
| FORTY and Jacob Volmer, aged fourteen, clJnsh-
| ing them into o horrible mass. Their ,skulls
| were broken, arms fractured, legs crushed and
| the bones driven into their body. Two persons
4 on the elevator sustained broken legs. "
THE T., d. and b. Railroad gave . compile
| mentary excursion to citizens of Canal avenue
Toledo, and unfortunately got q lot of roughs
| aboard, who got to fighting. They were put
of, whereupon they began stonmg the tram:
The train men--six in number, to eight of the
roughs- attempted to capture them, and ter
rible fight ensued, in which all were more or
less bruised up. a sn;n3qoa ss.,,J e.,iy~
HENRY WADE, a farmer near Chillicothe, en-
countered some tramps in one Of his fields,
lying in the shade drinking whisky. He ordered
| them away, and upon their refusal to obey, re-
peated bis order, whereupon they set upon him
4 with clubs. He retreated warning them sway,
but theystin pursued him., Drawing revolver
from his pocket he shot four times, bringing
down q man every time. They are all under
arrest, four of them being wounded, but none
fatally.
A YOUNG man named Heathsrington, for
placing a railroad tie in front Of an excursion
4 train near Black Lick Station, IN Franklin
/ County, and pulling it of again at the approach
of the train, has been thrown in jail. His OBJ
ject was to wreck the train for having been put
| off a train that had gone In advance, for not
paving his fare but bis heart failed him. The
train stopped and took him aboard, and just
about the time he thought he was to bereward-
ed for preventing a disaster the facts in the
s case had developed and he was handed over to
the authorities. tg..s, Al. g..
LOOKOUT for swindlers. Highland and adjoin-
ing counties have just suffered from the pres
ence Of so-called agents who claim to sell nos
trums for chronic or special diseases. The
nsodus operandi is as follows: The agents gct
the farmers order for the medicine. The or
der has to be signed in order to insure recogni.
| ton from the house, and, as q matter of course,
turns out to be promissory note. Clnii
Cameron, q big-kidneyed farmer of Cynthiana,
was taken in for $500. Richard Nelson, CON
sumptive, took 5000 worth of the relief, and
other invalids were relieved in proportion to
their gullibility. It is believed that the sharp
ers came in possession of several thousand dol
lars during the few days they spent doctorins
in that vicinity. e--e------
Il AT Cincinnati q Miss Anderson went into the
D. house Of neighbor, named Shappell, and dur
ing the course Of the conversation, stated to
Mrs Shappell that on the evening before she
had seen her (Mrs. Shappell's) husband with
another woman. Mrs. Shappel was so shocked
by the revelation, that Immediately after the
z departure of Miss Anderson, she swallowed =
Of Mrs Shappell's reported that her mother
was sick. physician was called, but it was
too late and Mrs. Shappell died. She wa
aged thirty-five years and the mother Of seven
children and never before during all hel
married life had she had occasion to suspecl
her husband of infidelity: The saddsst part Of
the matter is, Miss Anderson's statement wss
i untrue, and told by her out Of pure malicious