The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-05-06
OHIO STATE NEWS.
A Compendium of the Weeks Events.

A Compendium of the Weeks Events.
The Chillicothe daily Ne,Os, after -four
weeks struggle, 'ha. suspended publication.
A young man of Cotumbiana named Tirzah
Greensmsyer, commi. ted suicide by shooting.
A heavy landslide occurred On the Valley
Railroad near Akron, delaying trains several hours.
The three-ye old son of Henry seigler,
near UnionviIle, wa. kicked by horse aud killed.
The wife of Joel Stilcy, prominent farmer
residing near Mt. Vernon, has been adju1ged in
sane.
son, aged ten years, of Phillip Piper, Oh
Mansfield, was aecidently drowned aby falling of
log into tie water.
Later reports from Nelsonville say that
policeman James FewelI, the murderer of young
Cooley, has died of his wounds.
Ellsworth Who'll, of Millersburg, was run
by the and had both legs 50 badly crushed
that amputation was necessary.
A ten. year-old son Of George Patrick, resid-
ing at Irving starion, near Mechanicsbu g, was
drowned while attempting to cross swollen stream.
G.. N. Luttgerding, of Cambridge, is under
arrest for burning down his own house, his object
being to come into possession CT the insurance
money.
Tom Swisher, of Versailles, son of conductor
john swisher, of the Bee Line, aged twenty-five, in
fit of temporary insarity, committed suicide by
shooting. sF ~.
Samuel Shoemaked, employed on the farm of
S. H. Cruthers, near Kenton, while hauling rails
overturned the load, which fell upon him and
crushed him to death.
&c
Reynolds, of Columbus wasfound dead in the street
at early hour in the morning, and it is thought
that she was murdered.
At Youngstown, boiler in the upper fur
mace of the Briarhill Iron Company exploded kill
ing the engineer and of the laborers and seri-
ously iniuring several Others
The Ripley Bee has been purchased by the
the proprietor of the Ripley Times and Mr.. Tomlin-
SOD, former editor of the Bee has made arrange
ments to start paper at Ironton.
SamuelS WHEREBY, farmer, residing three
miles west of West Alexandria, fell from hay ,ft,
riking his head against the corner of granery,
from which ne died in a few moments.
John Godfrey Smaliey, arrested for the mur-
der, seventeen years ago, of Jacob Baughman at
GAINESVILLE after preliminary hearing, wss bound
over to await the sction of the grand jury.
Andrew Dempy and his stepdaughter, Mary
Berry, of Wilmington, under arrest charged
with shooting George Bruden. Dempy's shot
missed but not SO with Mary's. Hers took effect
in the left cheek.
The Sunday law, requiring saloons and cigar
stores to be closed Sunday, has been enforced in
the city of Dayton In sp to Of this it Is said that
tie hack doors are not Kept heavily ironed and
barred.
While two brothers named Yarning were
plowing in a field on the farm OF John Valgamore,
near Portsmouth, bolt of lightning struck them
and their teams, killing one of the brothers, the
four horses and seriously nuring the other brother.
Gov. Foster has decided to reprieve Man n
and Ohr, the young murderers sentenced to be
hanged May 7h at Canton for the murder of the old
man Watmough near that place. The reprieve will
extend until June 25th, on which day Shannon is
to be hanged.
The Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis,
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton and Kankakee
Line Railroads have arranged for low round TRIP
rates of fare to the Cincinnati and Chicago Conven-
ticns The fare from Cincinnati to Chicago and re-
turn or from Chicago to Cincinnati and return will
be nine dollars.
Philip Kaderly, residing near New Philadel-
phia arrested some time ago for beating his wife
has finally been adjudged insane. He had been
whipping her considerably of late, claiming, upon
each occasion, that the spirit moved him to do So
She said it the spirit of the divil, and in al
probability she was somewhere near right.
Tullie and Gillie Runkle, of Mad River
Township, Champaign County, each working on
their gIandmothers farm, have had decidedly un.
| bro,herly time OF it. They are both married men
| Tulie nailed the gate shut Gillie to keep him
out of fell, and when the latter attempted to oper
1t Tullie drew knife. Gilie banter ed Tule to nit
him, at the same time hitting Tullis with a bean
pole. Tule got rail and pounded Gillie until he
unconscious. and until hir (Tullie's) wife tooA
| him off, The matter is now in the courts. .
| A buck lamb was born on the farm of A. W
jones, living about two and half miles east of Ur
bana, with two perfect bodies, eight legs two Der
| feet necks and but one head The lamb was killed
shortly after its birth, the farmer fearing it would
die and wishing to have it preserved as a curiosity
Physicians who examined ii, however, state that il
would undoubtedly have lived and grown to tn,
| usual size.
correspondent at GAINESVILLE tells thi,
| horrible tale: A man named Alexander Phillips
was arrested in Somerset Township for threatening
1 to kill woman. His daughter. Agnes Phillips wa
arrested at the time charged with threatenin,
| TO burn q neighbor's house. They resisted tn,
officers, and each knocked down a constable befor,
beng arrested, and when brought here by Office
Ksdel he had put Hippers each as precautionary
measure. These prisoners, it is claimed, have beer
living in incesuous relations for several years. ani
the woman has had eight children by her father
and is enccinte by him. It lis also alleged tha
one of his own children by his own daughter-ir
other words, his daughter and his grand -daughie
at once-is about to give birth to child, sired b,
her own father and grandfather. He debauched hi
daughter, and when the fruit of the unnatura
union reached maturity he in turn ruined her.