The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-25
OHIO STATE NEWS.
Z Compendium Of the Weeks Events.

7 Compendium Of the Weeks Events.
The jury in the Millisor murder case at
Marion returned q verdict of not guilty"
At Hudson, James White, aged seventy-six,
committed suicide by cutting his throat.
A disease resembling diphtheria has broken
out among the horses at Z'nesviIe.
The wooden mills of Jacob Lorenz were dis
/ oy ed by fire at M.rietta.
Medina reports ten case. of scarlet fever and
two deaths.
Van Vert claims triplets named Miss Dolly,
Mr.. Elmer and Alfred Young, healthy and twenty
three years old in May. 54iAa
Cad Seeley, residing some distance south
west tf Delaware, committed suicide by shooting,
leaving wife and several chi dr,n.
A general reunion Of the elders of the
State will occur at COLUMBIA l0tn, 11th and
18th OF .au
The oil nil of Gebhart, Pape & Co., at Day
WI WI, uainaset by fire to the extent of s12 900.
The body of Mr.. Steiner, of Mt. 0leb, who
has ben missing for some time. was founi in the
water.
Wellington Mills, of Elyria, has been arrested
charged with obtaining two thousand dollar note
from a farmer on false pretenses.
John Sammet, the murderer cf Christian
spuhler, was sentenced, in Canton, to bs hanged
June Is. ..r
In the Welsh murder trial, at Fremont, the
jury, after being out six hours brought in verdict
of mui der in the first degree" Notice of motion
for a new trial was fl ed.
II. R. Cline, of Casstown, went to the woods
with his team to cut t.ee and hitched his horses
short dista oe away, cut tie tree, but it fell the
wrong way, falling upon the horses and killing
them.
The negro George Price, under sentence Of
death at Cincinnati for the murder of Vile ack is
trribly afflicted with nervous ekcitems snt He con
stantly imagines he sees visions of the murdered
man, and during night time livesin state of tr-
ror, keeping other prisoners awke with his shrek.
an1 cries. t
The trial of Geo. Bauch, at Lancaster.
charged with the murder of the old German wine
grower John Graf, is in progress. Tue embezzle
nent case against ex-Assistint Treasurer Thornton
Baker, who, in connection with his father and
others robbed the county of $4,000 in 1873, will be
up iu a few days in the came court.
There is rather peculiar case in the court
at Be lefontaine. James H. Shafer and George NJ
Saafer are brothers. Some time in the year 1876
James charged George with car1alIy knoaing hi:
wife, which. from evidence pr, duced to compro.
mise the matter, George ex cuted three morga.e
notes OF $500 each in James favor. These he has
f.iled to NEE, and now suit to recover the amount
Is brou hit in court which has resulted in exposing
the scandal. .a..
Miss Jessie Mckee, of Seven Mile, a student
at the Gle ldale Female College, delayed With ck-
ages which she carried, got of the train at Glendale
in m iii ind thrown
coach against the trucks As the fore trucks passed.
she rolled under the coach ana across the track.
Conductor VIM. Harrison lickly sprang to her as
sitance and dragged her out just the hind rucks
reached her, to whose presence Of mind Miss Mckee
owes her life.
William Scott, a we'll to do farmer aged fifty
i've years, and residing near Delaware was sko in
the back of the head by his sixteen-year-old boy
whom he has had arrested and bound over in the
sum of $500. The bullet had almost spent lis force
and fattened itself on tAe skull. The boy made
affidavit that the father had threatened to murder
| him when he got him home, which threat he ac-
companied with the declaration that, he had MUIR
der in his heart and he was "going to fix lots Of
| 'em"-meaning his wife,
| Rev. J. II. McDade is the minister of col
ored church at Cleveland. As before stated he has
been arrested at the Instance of of his fl ,ck
known as Lucy Jane Chumblin, who charges hi M
with being too intimately acquainted with her. The
tstimony in the has developed horrible state
of AFFAIRS Lucy swore that the reverend gentleman
persuaded her in his study last July that the VIC
men of the Lord doing the proper thing to per-
nit the servant of the Lord to do any thing he saw
| fit, provided he did it in proper manner. McDade
was bound over.
W. H. Peckham, jun, and Angie Queen, Of
Columbus, eloped together, settling in a private
boarding house at Cambridge. After weeks search