The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-07-08
OHIO STATE NEWS.
1snhAr has a population Of 4.ea1. according

OHIO STATE NEWS.
FrsDhAr has population of 4,621, according
The Van Vert Hotel, at Van Vert, was par
italy destroyed by fire last week.
ACCORDING to the recent census: Chillicothe,
10, 792 population; Crcleville, 5000; Lancaster,
FANNIE HINES, of Akron, who sued Dr. John
Weimer 6 for breach of promise, got judgment
for 81, 500 damages.
A COPPER foundry belonging to VIM. Barnett,
at Mansfield, was destroyed by fire the past
week. Loss, $4,000. s,ss9s =.
URBANA is alarmed over a number Of cases Of
scarlet fever now prevailing there. Several
have already proved fatal. Sc
THE Thomas Iron-works, at Gore, have shut
down, and the mines will remain closed after
the LIST inst. Trouble-wages.s s4s k.s4ss
AMONG other notables to be present, Garfield,
Hancock, English and Arthur will attend the
Soldiers National Reunion at Columbus!
A REDUCTION of 25 per cent. in wages at the
Helen Furnace at Orbiston, Hooking County,
has resulted in that institution shutting down.
LINCOLN GRANT SHERMAN WRENN, the ma
nipulator OF the Tin,es-Star at Mount Gilead,
fooled with q cow-catcher. His left hand is
gone.
THERE is trouble in the Hooking Valley The
furnaces as a rule will be compelled to stop. It
il said the price paid for mining coal will not
justify further operations. s!
JOHN Holt of Newsitaville Str, who has .
wife and six children, went to sleep on the G.
II. and v. Railroad. The remains were not
recognizable after the train passed. Sal
HERE'S g chance for some young man to
marry rich. The hired girl of Mr.. Banks, Of
Woodland, Darke County, skipped out with her
employers pocket-book containing $685.. .s,s
THOMAS ADAIR, of Carrolton, brother of Hon.
Inn accidentally
shot himself in the side, producing wound
from which it is feared he will not recover,
THE miners employed by Rend & Co., at New
Lexington, are on strike Negroes went front
saw the condition of things, concluded not to.
Dr.. W. H. ELY, a physician aged about
thirty years, living at Down, Darke County,
committed suicide by taking poison. Financial
troubles and girl are supposed to be the
causes. He formerly lived near Dayton, O. @'
A SPECIAL grand jury in Belmont County has
found q bill Of Indictment against Mrs. Warren,
who murdered her husband near Powhattan
Point, that county, a few weeks ago, She is
indicted for murder in the second degree.
1 Mrs. KEMP, of Unionville, hired a neat, good
looking tramp to cut wood, in consideration of
q square meal. She went to neighbours on an
errand, and while gone the tramp broke into
the house, got $12 in money and suit of Sum
day clothes. +s"f sf
WILLIAM HARRtEaToN, aged seventy-fve
years. and a resident of Crescentyille, in the
southeastern portion of Butler County, is under
arrest charged with the horrible crtme Of out
raging the person of John Seafer's thirteen
year-old daughter. ..s
At Lancaster, the last of the Graft murder
ers, William Perry, has been sentenced to five
years in the Penitentiary. Perry's two accom-
plices, Heist and Rouch, got twenty years each,
for murder in the second degree. Perry
pleaded guilty of assault with intent to rob.
Mrs. THOMPSON, of Georgesville, Madison
County, who died recently of an illness that
bafled the skill of physicians, upon post
paortem examination, was found to have been
afflicted with gravel In the bladder were
found 337 grains of gravel, the smallest Of
which were as large as peas.
THE body of Jacob ]. Lischy, who died sud.
denly at Clear Springs the 9Th of March last,
has been exhumed and the stomach sent to an
analytical chemist at Columbus for analysis.
Iischy was insured in the Mutual Protection
Association of Norwalk, and it was at the in
stance Of the agent of this corporation that the
investigation was begun. The eminent respect
ability of the family has tendency to increase
the excitement. af-sss -a ss.4.s =, - il,
JACOB SMITH, one of the alleged murderers
of Jacob Baughman, confined in Jail at Zanes-
vile, came nearly being drowned the other day
by two de1ea-7aOsade who are confined in an ad-
joining cell. They turned the hose on him and
played on him an hour or more before the mat
ter was detected. This pleasure being denied
them, they denuded themselves, destroyed their
clothing, and devoted themselves to card
playing. 4 aL'z r.s4 81 ,-sssss.,s sss{ss
A YOUNG man of Columbus, named Harry
Williams, became very much interested in the
services of the Broad Street Congregational
Church, and consequently always occupied a
front seat. Money was constantly being missed
out of the contribution box, and a watch being
set up by Deacon, during prayer he saw the
hand of Williams glide into the box and extract
a handful. Williams saw that he was detected
and tried to get away, but after an exciting
chase was caught.
The roaming idiot, Henry Ritter, who has
been mentioned heretofore as living in the
woods near Longview Asylum, Hamilton Coun-
ty, is still unprovided for. Governor Foster
has been appealed to, but as yet nothing has
come of it. He is still refused admission to
Longview, on the ground that he is not resi-
dent. It does look strange that a man in his
condition should be compelled to starve in q
thickly populated Christian land.
DR.. W. C. SAMPLE, physician of Dayton,
who some years ago figured in the Cox-Sample
scandal case, committed suicide in the Work
house at Cincinnati on the 29th of June by
hanging. The Doctor was at one time prom
inent physician, but since his Dayton trouble,
he began drinking and "went from bad to
worse" He attended the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, and was arrested the second time for
drunkness, the last time committed to the
Workhouse for ten days, which resulted as
above stated.