The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18
OHIO STATE NEWS.

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switch engine.
The wheat crop in Logan County is in splelr
did condition, and the acreage larger than ever
before.
MR.. 'BURwELL WHALEY and Miss Maggie
Bell, of Grant County, loving each other very
fondly, last week eloped for better or worse.
Mrs. JACOB WELLS, Of Steubenville, while
passing through the street was attacked by
vicious COW and horribly gored about the breast
and neck. s.
The farmers of Union County are complain
ing of the invasion of an army Of rats. They
burrow in potato hills and are devastating the
corn in shock.
MICHAEL BELT, q slater of Marshville, Wayne
County, while employed on Mrs. storms ne"
house fell and was instantly killed. The de-
ceased was thirty five years old and leaves .
wife and one child.
AGILE mules are as plentiful'a as ever. James
Drum, residing near Belialre' was h killed rev bs
one. James was the son Of Jacob Drum, one
Of Monroe County's officials.
AT Unionville, Christian Taylor, q twelve,
year-old boy pointed gun at his sister Minnie
young lady, threatening to kill her, which SO
frightened her that she lost her power of
speech and was paralyzed in one arm.
F. P SMILEY, of Five-Mile-Furnace, Hooking
County, was run over by passenger train and
killed, near Hamden. The engineer saw the
man sitting on the track just before the engine
about it. .t.s--.' 's
Hon. RICHARD ]. tanning, Clerk Of the Su-
preme Court of Ohio and late candidate on the
Democratic State Ticket for reelection, devel-
opments go to snow, has appropriated funds in
the discharge of his duties that should have
been turned over to the court.
PERsLEY CoNDRAY, young man aged twenty
years, residing in Washington Township, Mus
kngum County, while coon hunting at night,
climbed q tree in pursuit Of his game, and when
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fell to the ground. The fan killed him instant
ly, breaking his neck and leg.
The total acreage Of wheatin Ohio in 1879,
according to reports received at the State
Agricultural Department, was ISIS, $40, and
the total number of bushels raised was 40, ,052,-
119. Average yield per acre, II 2-10. This is
the largest average in the State since 1850,
when the average was 18 bushels per acre.
PETER Sort, late Republican candidate fo1
Sheriff of Hancock County, has filed his pa
pers Of contest against Charles d. Hall, sue
cessful Democratic candidate for the same Of
flee. Hall received three votes less than Soft,
but WAS given his certificate of election owing
to some technical Irregularities.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY T. H. DoLsoN, OF
Lancaster, and Bowman Reinmund, went out
quail hunting. While Doson was sitting on the
fence Reinmund scared up a covey of quails,
and, in bringing down one of the BIRDS shot
Dolson in the face. With proper care, Dolson
will recover. --.- .-.- ..-- '.-f -a.s.
AT Barnesville, William Dement,, jun., a boy
sixteen years of age, was instantly killed
by q freight train, upon which he had
jumped to take ride through town, and
in trying to jump off, he fell beneath the wheels
and was torn to pieces. His body was cut in
two, and both legs torn of, while pieces Of flesh
were carried distance of twenty yards.
The citizens Of Logan are decidedly interested
| in the revelations of a Miss Pontius, q young
lady Of that burg. She has proven herself to
| have been an extensive reveler in the best
| society, the details concerning which, cor
respondent says, has created more excitement
| than did the Terrell murder trial. Well, there
| is no telling in what community serious mishapa
| will occur. nj ff.r frHt--
| MRS. SNYDER, of Canton, has made five un-
| successful attempts at self-destruction. She
| tried three times to drown herself, then tried
| stabbng, and afterward was found suspended
| by rope, but was cut down in time to save her
| life. Perhaps Mrs. Snyder is not aware that
playing with an ''unloaded' pistol would accom-
| plish the end she desires. Unloaded pistols ara
invariably fatal
| WE do not take much stock in claims SO ex-
tensive that they promise to sell out whole
| city or State by reason of prior ownership BY
| some fossiferous ancestor. Still the country-
| like the woods-is full of 'em. D. A. Arter.
| of Canton, is on of the heirs to the estate
| of William Richardson, friend OF
| VIM. Penn, the Quaker, consisting Of seven
hundred and fifty acres Of land in Baltimore,
Md. The heirs have instituted proceedings
looking to the establishment of their right to
the property, which they claim was leased, but
never sold. The land is said to be worth $50
| 600, 600.