The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-05-20
OHIO STATE NEWS.
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L Compendium of the Weeks Events

VH1U SlAIE NEWS.
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Compendium of the Weeks Events.
James Picking, of Milan, fishing in Huron
River, drowned. a7;s. - sss% @t'' 80 ass9
George Clark, of Martinvillc, went swimming
cold MNater-cramp-corpse. iEe ts1s
4 Afarmer named Stroll, in Defiance County,
was killed by lightning. He leave large family.
train of cars backed onto Joseph Litagar,
millwrisht, At Gslipolis, killing him Instantly.
James Cotterman, of Gore, was cleaning his
gun. 1t was loaded. His one-year-old child is
had. l-ai SIS E@32s'' H9B93ai ssHf g
The Northern Ohio Dental Association held
lite twenty-nnt annual meeting s Akron on the 11th
and 12ta inst. r, d; 5. ~ ,sz--.l-- 90.
William Berry, school teacher, at Logan,
while attempting to ford the Ho king River with
his horse and buggy, was drowned. '- i'' - 80
barn belonging to Joseph Coups, near
Unionyfle, was struck by nghtnins and burned,
two homes and grsin being consumed s,s =
Deputy Warden Porter has rendered his
estimation 10 the Drec of the Pspitentisry, and
Daddy Dean has been elected n his successor.
The Carrollton Valley Narrow Gauge Rail-
road correcting Canton and C&rrollton has bean
6nished and trains are nov running regular.
Sarah McKibbon, of Mt Vernon, who fell
through a bridge and dslocated her shoulder and
sued the city for s2o.oSo damages, has received q
verdict for $1,000. In :o sfsi s"E
At GAINESVILLE Bob Cole asked John Barrett
whore there was certain saloon. Barrett answered
him safcaztically and Cole struck him with brick,
brkinH heasi skuI. ~.
Rev. DR.. W. F. Hughey, prominent
Methodist minister Of Bainbridge Ross County, II
accused Of having performed an abcrtion upon Mrs
F. II. Dunn. young married lady Of that place.
The body of Or. Yost, of Warren, who fell
on boat while intoxicated several days ago, has
been recovered, the finder receiving $40 reverb.
Upon the body was gold watch and $50 in money.
Samuel N. Todd, of Piqua, nominated by
the President for Census Supervisor of the Bee,
District of Ohio, and William A. Hunt, for the
seventh, have had their nominations confrmsd in
the Senate.
At Wooster, John Callahan, convicted seven
weeks ago of the murder Of John Tcrmie, has been
sentenced to be hanged August a. Motion for .
new trial was argued, bat overruled. Callahan IL
deeply Affected being scarcely able to bear DIP.
The Link murder trial is in progress at
Hlsboro and is exciting considerable interest. The
prisoner is man of thirty years, and the son Of
widow. whose husband is one of the men murdered
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A saloon-keeper named VIM. Dolman, who
died at Delphos, few days ago. left nearly all his
money as "conscience money to those who had
patronizsd him. One man, A. J. Blair, of Van
Vert, gets 500. This seems to be encouraging to
meln who drink. 80 .'' 90 -
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The preliminary examination of Thurman
Tweed, at Macarthur, charged with killing Matthew
Sasher, at Macarthur Station resulted in Ills being
bound over In the Of 81 $50 to await the action
of the vinton County Grand Jury, at the September
term of court He Immediately gave bail for his ap-
pearance. +sE
p J. d. Williams, an extensive farmer and
former Justice ofthe Peace In Unioa County, after
prolonged fight In the courts has secured divorce
from his wife, the testimony allowing "the most
lhccking treatment from the wife to her husband
Wemppose that the correspondent means by this
that she has been in the habit Of whipping him.
The country is full of "honest looking
tramps-" At Pain City, IAaac Ward took an inter-
est In one OF these perambulatng bpeds and for the
night treated him as one Of the f1mily During the
night he atsred himself elegantly and elsborately,
appropriated good sum Of money and departed.
leaving his Ward his soiled clothing as a memento.
At Toledo, in this State, is an institution
known as the Babies Home. It il little in the ma
ture OF private enterprise. and now the charge ia
made that the children In it are druaRed and not
given sufficient food. An Investigation il In he b.d
a Mrs. Norton has the management Of the Home
and the charge aganst her is similar to that which
finally sent the Rev. Cowley, Of Shepherd Fald
fame, to Sing Sing. T g-14TsGL
There was the very narrowest escane of n
bloody riot the past week at Silver Creek Mine.
which undoubtedly would have been precipitased
had not the militia been called out to preserve
the peace. The cause was the importation
from Virginia of two car loads Of ne.
groes to take the plaee of striking miner..
The Mssillon Company Of National Guards, under
Captain Warthorst, remains on duty at the n ines.
also Detective Loehere and special police Should
an outbreak occur in any other locality ample nro
vision Is made for sending troops forward instantly
Ohardon correspondence: "One of the
daughters of Lawrence Fsufk, our Gty Mar.h.,
who Is slso Deputy Sheriff, made an unsuccessful
attempt to commit suicide BY cutting her throat
and. upon being questioned what her motives vere
Tor doing %, claimed that she had rather die than
live with her incestuous father. Upon further in
vestigatiou 1t has been charged that he has been
guilty OF the horrible crime of incest with two other
daughters the youngest scarcely twelve years old.
He admits the crime, but has escaped the oficers
and is still at large. $3.50 r
A. Chicago junction, this State, VIM. Oehm.
OF good reputs, under the influence Of whisky and
at late hour in the night knocked .t the door of
Mh~ Charlotte Joiner. She appeared At an upstair,
WINDOW, shotgun in hand, and ordered him to
iMvs Not obeyins after the request being repeated
number OF times, she pulled the trigger, lodging
heay load OF buckshot in the man facs and breast
1zQA which he died few hours after She has
nens arrested and held in $500 bail, which she is
70 furnish, and is now In Jail. She il q grasu
W1cer and Oehm was . man Of family