Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-06-05
ASHTAB UL4 co UNITY.
The News of the Week, Hunted, !,
Collected and Boiled Down by the
JOURNALS Corps of Young Men.

Potato bugs continue to occupy the
attention of the farmers.
Henry Hathaway. of Pierpont, is re
ported as seriously ill.
The Conneaut Musical Society is re-
ported to be in fiourishing condition.
-Kingsville has lately been trimming
and otherwise improving the village park.
"A barn belonging to Henry Murphy,
of East Conneaut was burned on Tuesday
last.
"A Mrs. Sheppard Grated to Geneva
spirItuaIists on Wednesday and Thurs
day evenings of last week.
-Harperstield's new grist mill will be
completed and in running order by har-
vest time.
--Diphtheria is said to be prevailing
still, to considerable extent, in and
around Jefferson.
"A few days since the Jefferson base
ball club scooped COnneaut nine by
score OF Al to 3.
There is to be an Union Temperance
Meeting at the NJ. r. Church, in Conneaut
on Sunday evening next.
-Twenty-three passenger trains arrive
and depart from Ashtabula, daily, ac-
cording to the Telegraph of that place.
Ed. Morse of klngsville, who was
taken to Newburgh, last fall, has rec over
ed his mental health and returned home.
The Christian Church, of Conneaut
holds its regular Fellowship Meeting on
Saturday afternoon OF this week at two
O'Clock.
-Conneaut is without ice and the Re
porter says that the good people there
will consequently have to do without soda
water and ice cream.
On Tuesday morning of last week, w.
E. Lamrose, of COllinwood. was run over
by the cars and received injuries from
which he died within a few hours.
HORSE racing, ball playing, boating
and fire works In the evening will amuse
such OF the COnneauters as do not go to
Painesville on the coming Fourth OF July.
Prof A. w. Viets, for the past four
years joint principal of the jefferson Ed
ucational Institute has been engaged as
principal of the East Bloomfield High
School.
"A Centennial concert of Robert
Ralkes, including a vesper service, was
held at the Christian Church IN Amboy
on last Sunday evening by the Union
Sunday School.
The telegram, of that place, says
that the AshtabuIa Light Guards are to
present the play of the 'Union Spy on
June Sth. 9th ana 10th, under the manage
ment of Messrs. Howard. Witmar and
Russell.
"A few days since, as DIR. Foster, of
Geneva, was unhitching his horse the
animal became frightened and jumping
to one side struck the DR.. with sufficient
force to break two of the medical gentle
mans ribs.
Philip Numainville, of Ashtabula, was
arrested on Tuesday last charged with
having set fire to his store which was re-
CSHIiy BuFneU. u. w. chamberlain,
whose family occupied a portion of the
block, sw0re out the warrant.
The Neacs says that the contract for
improving the Gulf road on the south, or
Plymouth, side has been let to one of the
Blakeslee brothers, in Plymouth. The
letting for this side, according to the
same authority, has been postponed for
fifteen days.
On Tuesday last Sheriff Stiles passed
through AShtabula, with four prisoners,
Thomas Burke sentenced for one year for
burglary; Banjo Smith, sentenced to
eighteen months for the same crime;
Andrew Loveridge, who did the same
thing and goes to serve two and one half
years for it; and Byron Baker who will
toll three years for the State for having
too many wives.