The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-12-30
OHIO STATE NEWS.

TEE porkpacking season at Piqua has closed.
% GODFREY SMALI.EY, tried at GAINESVILLE for
perjury, has been found guilty. 80 5fs =
SOME of the public schools of Kenton are
closed in consequence of scarlet fever. zfs5i2
3JosEPH slime, near West Salem, suffering
from an injury received last summer, suicided
by hanging. Hsse-, ~ z-s ~-4s- q II sff
SAMUEL THoRNLY, of Urbana, while hunting
in Cedar swamps, in Champaign County, killed
large wildcat
The Orphans Home, at Newark, was last
week formally opened. It contains eighteen
boys and seven girls. zlsc --T lsb - = aI. 2
Francis BARTON, aged seventy-two years,
OF Ravenna; was struck by the engine of a pas
senger train and instantly killed. e-sr saJ 70
MATTHIAS SCHMIDT, at the Dover Furnace,
Newcomers town, upset a kerosene lamp and
spilled the oil over himself, which took fire and
burned him to death. ss>- q sF's
JOHN C. MAaER, living near West Cairo,
Scioto County, laid down on tho railroad track
in an intoxicated condition and was fearfully
mangled by passing train. e--a. & oas.
AT Berea. Martin Taydish was killed in q.
stone quarry by falling rock. Thomas Gal
win, while stepping from a stationary to NOV
ing freight car, fell between the cars and WAS
fatally injured. r' 81 1851 -
Rev. JOHN A. POWELL of Findlay, minis
ter in the United Brethren Church for thirty
years. has been pronounced insane. The cause
was his failure to dispose of q book ON the his
tory OF the Powell family.
OWING to the death Of a sister and excite
ment over religious subjects, VIM. Mckee, a
worthy and highly respected young man OF
Mechanicsburg has become insane and sent to
the asylum at Columbus. s -5 .
The miners at New Straitsvne have notified
the operators that after January 1, 1881, they
must be paid their wages every two weeks.
If they are not they intend to strike, and
correspondent says the demand will not be ac-
ceded to. Vr-sJ tais z-.sl-.. .s.IE E--H
SOMEBODY left waif on the steps of the resi-
dence of that Cincinnati philanthrophist, Mr..
Reuben Springer, as Christmas present. Mr..
Springer did not want it, however. and the lit
tie fellow ultimately found home at the Chill
drens' Home. ggsG g fah s's-a55@a
In twelve pages of manuscript, J. G.. Rob-
erts, of Vanlue Hancock County, charged G.
W. Brown, of the same place, with purloining
toothsome turkey, and now mark the result:
Brown sues Roberts for So, 900 damages, which
he AYERS his charactar has sustained.
Cook HovEY, convicted of issuing forged
bonds on the city of Urbana, was last week
taken to the Penitentiary to serve out his SEN
tence-two years. He stated that she was
alone in the crookedness." He said also the
prison wall had no terror for him; that all his
pride left him the hour he was forced to make
his fight from Urbana. ~. ~
ALLEN WISELY, who was swinded by the
travelling sharper Cole, has recovered the forged
note calling for $500. Cole left horse and
/ buggy and other yaluables at Nevada in his
flight from the officers. Wisely attached the
articles and brought suit against the parties
who had purchased the note. They gave up
the note and took the horse and buggy.
Miss BERTHE HARTMAN, a good-looking
blonde Of eighteen, disappeared from her home
near Bronson, the past week, and is supposed
to have been temporarily insane. She was last
seen walking east on the railroad, when she re-
marked to a person she met that she was 1''go-
ing to meet john" young man who some
months since broke an engagement of marriage
with her by leaving home and remaining
away. w " ID. -.
SYLVIA G. HuRD, aged sixty-three years, of
Urbana, has filed a petition in the Common
Pleas Court for divorce from her husband,
John H. Hurd, who is aged forty-three. The
petitioner was left a widow twenty years ago
by the death of A. B. Winslow, a prominent
and influential citizen of Urbana. A few years
after, she married a man named Barber, from
whom she afterward sought and obtained a
divorce, upon what grounds is not known. She
was married to Hurd in 1877. She now again
asks for decree of divorce, for 81, 900 which
she lent her husband, and $4,000 alimony.