The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-09-23
OHIO STATE NEWS.

Mrs. JOSEPH WILLIAMS, of Youngstown,
committed suicide by drowning.
MISS AGNES HIaa1Ns, young lady Of Urbana,
suicided with arsenic. Unrequited love.
FIFTEEN freight cars ran over Johnny Best,
aged ten years, at GAINESVILLE. It killed him.
An effort is being made to establish q swim
ming school in Washington Park, Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, in
point of attendance, is something of q failure.
MRs. MoRpEC1A OWEN, an aged lAdy of New
California, was fatally injured in runaway ac-
cident
CAMpn1DeE's new ss5,0Oo ECourt-house will
be built of rock, faced with trimmings OF
dressed stone.
VIM. MOORE was fatally, and David Denig
seriously injured, while removing stone from
culvert at Mansfield,
The value of cattle exhibited at the Southern
Ohio Fair this year is estimated to have been
between $50, 900 and $50, ,000.
VIM. BRAGG q farmer residing in Twin Town
ship, Ross County, was killed by runaway
team, near Burneville.
J. r. SoHENCK, a Piqua hermit, lost $220 in
gold and two gold watches by thieves entering
his cabin during his absence.
The eighteen-months old child of John J.
Race, of Canton, died from injuries received by
falling from the arms of an older brother.
A new postofice has been established one
mile south of Enon, in Clarke County, to be
known as the Mad River Postofice.
| IT is stated that there were over 10000 peo-
| pie in attendance at the Tri-State Fair, at To
! ledo on the 18th inst, the largest ever known.
| CHARLES AyLIFF, farmer aged forty-fve,
residing near Ravenna, committed suicide by
| cutting his throat. Alleged domestic troubles.
| PATRICK GETENs, of Ravenna, was struck by
| the Cleveland and Pittsburg express and in
| stantly killed. He leaves q wife and three
| children.
SHERIFF Rowland, of Licking County, whom
| q hing ohor hniVD
defaulter, correspondent says, is q creditor in
| the sum of 25 cents.
| EDWARD SHRoFE young man residing near
Waynesville, while hauling tobacco, was in
stantly killed by his team running away and
hurting him from the wagon.
| The 99th and 118th Regiments o. v. /. held
a reunion at Wapakoneta on the 10th inst.
| About a hundred more veterans of each
| regiments were in attendance. @
| ITALIANS working on the Copotton Northern
/ Railroad, near Canton after drinking consider
able hard cider, got into general fight, result
! ing In several serious injuries and one death.
AT Channel Crossing, near Newark, an old
] gentleman and his wife, named Winters, who
| were hauling load Of apples to town, were
struck by a locomotive and both instantly
| killed. 2
| KENT has bad lot of youngsters. Last
| week not less than a dozen boys, between eight
and twelve years, were arrested for tapping
tills. 1t is related that within aweek they stole
over a hundred dollars in this manner.
| A VALUABLE team of horses belonging to
Abram Mast, near Millersburg, ran away with
of them instantly and injuring the other SO
badly that it was necessary to kill it.
A CoLoRED camp meeting held in a grove q.
Caldwell, last week, charged ten cents admist
sion, with which to pay preachers, etc
After the meeting the treasurer left for parts
unknown, taking the funds with him.
OSCAR TRAPHAeEN, of Canton, is on trial for
| having, a month ago, thrown vitriol into his
wife's face. The vitriol has badly disfgured
her. She says he knocked at the door after
| dark, and when she opened it he committed the
| act -t 81
AT Dresden George Sauntman and jones
Kerr, personating officers of the law, stopped,
arrested and extorted money from Thomas Sal
linger, while on his way home. Sauntman and
Kerr are now impersonating the character of q
culprit, behind the bars.
THOMAS ADLEsPEnGER, of Morrow County,
for trying to get the best of his wife by the aid
of q shotgun, is languishing. Thomas is the
father of the girl who, about q year ago, was
burned to death while camping out in the
woods near the Columbus Barracks.
GEORGE MITCHELL, the Eife murderer. was
finally hanged at Troy on the 18th inst The
victim was woman with whom Mitchell had
been living in the relation of husband His
own wife was living, as was his paramour's 8
husband. He became suspicious of her chastity
-
ing for her to pass by corn-feld, in which he
had secreted himself to await her coming
The estate of the miser and millionaire, jerry
c. TIlllis, of Cincinnati, who died two years ago,
is still in the courts and promises to stay there
for some time to come. The latest DEVELOPMENT
is the arrest Of A. ]. Tullis, nephew Of the
late Jerry G. Tullis, upon charge of having
forged deeds conveying six thousand acres Of
land III Tennessee to one Jacob Nine with a
view to defraud the rightful heirs The arrest
was made on the warrant of VIM B. Ludlow.
husband of Mrs. Reed, one of the Tullis heirs
and in default of So, 90 bail, A. J. was remanded
to jail.
E. B. HALL, late Treasurer of Lucas County.
and defaulter in the sum of $46 OOO has re-
turned home from Canada, and quietly resumed
work at his brickyard, as if nothing had hap
that he would not be arrested. He has agreed
to secure his bondsn,en by turning over to
them his real estate, which, it is said, will more
than cover the deficiency.
AT Massillon, last week, an assault and bat
terry case in which two women were the parties
concerned, was just closing when VIM McMii-
Ian, for the plaintiff, called Captain Isaac
Ulman, per contra, a liar. Both men are six
footers. Ulman backed up to Mcmillan and
kicked like acow, whereupon Mcmillan snatched
him by the nape of the neck and fioored him.
desperate fight ensued. The women tainted.
the Judge commanded the peace in the name Of
the State, and constable attempted to make
an arrest, but the belligerents fought on
Excitement ran high. And when the attorneys
had finished, it was found that no one was
hurt.