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

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TwO-THIRDS of the horses of Steubenville
have the epizooty.
VIM. B. SMITH, a Cincinnati broker, won
S17 900 on the late election.
HUGH SAVAGE, grocer, Chi1licothe, assign
ment; liabilities, $4,000; assets, $4,000.
THERE are thirty-two applications for divorce
before the Court now in session in Washington
County.
VIM. CULLEN, an old and esteemed engineer,
was run over and killed at Wellsville, the past
week.
HE threatened general strike in the Tusca-
rawas Valley among the miners has fallen
through with.
VIM. L. HAMoN, residing near Mt Vernon,
went out hunting. The doctors regard his re-
covery improbable.
JAMES w. SWIFT, a. contractor of Caldwell.
fell from building a few days since and was
dangerously injured.
JONATHAN McDANIELs, farmer in Hancock
County, was thrown from his wagon and SO
injured that his life is dispared of.
THE safe of Dent Il Powleson, at Newcom.
erstown, was blown open the other night and
S3O0 In cash and $500 in notes extracted.
The body of John Mcclure, a young man of
Plain City, was found on the railroad track
near that place, few days ago, horribly man
gled.
DAVID MUM, of Kent, aged sixty years,
whose wife is visiting in Iowa, has been ar
rested charged with an unnatural crime with
his ten-year-old daughter.
EDWARD H. BuLLARD, aged fifty-ive, of
Dorset Township, Ashtabula County, hanged
himself from beam in his barn. The verdict
Is, that he must have been crazy.
RILEY BAIRD, an old resident near Piqua, was
found drowned in the hydraulic near town a
few days ago. 1t is supposed he fell off a
bridge while on his way home at night.
i IL
, went into effect October l, makes rather good
,, showing. During the month there were IS, 900
letters delivered and q, 900 collected.
ROBERT PHIBBs, Street Commissioner of
Niles, having been on spree for several days,
wound up by swallowing quantity of Paris
green and his recovery is dispaired of.
JOHN BALL, wealthy farmer near Log an
and aged 60 years, has encountered a bastardy
suit at the hands of Miss Pontius, and the
case is naturally attracting considerable atten-
| ton.
Miss CARRIE MILLER, of Steubenville, stood
| too close to crate fire, her clothing became
ignited, and screaming, she ran frantiaally into
| the street, where she fell exhausted and was
almost consumed by the flames.
| ROBERT HUGHES, aged fourteen, of Ironton,
| was jollfying over the election of Garfield by
the aid of cannon improvised from gas-pipe.
| The pipe exploded, piece of the metal enter
| ing the lads head and producing fatal injury.
|
Sandusky, beautiful and accomplished young
| lady, suicided by hanging. She was soon to
| have been married to George Wills, now in the
West with view to purchasing farm.
PETER BURNEs (coloroD aged 80 years, OF
| Gallipolis, Ohio, was taken out of his house
| by others of his color and horribly beaten.
| Burns is reported to be Democrat and it is
| averred that that was the cause of his NAL
| treatment.
AT Unionville huckster named John Smell
attempted to drive his wagon into the house OF
| Henry Simmons, who, naturally enough OBJ
! jected, whereupon Smell drew 32-caliber re.
| volver and discharged in zee shots at the hired
| man, without effect. Hired men are not kept
| to be shot at and Smell must have been crazy to
think SO.
DR.. WYLEs, assisted by three other phys
clans, at Ripley, performed the operation Of
of Louis Stephenson. The stone removed
from the bladder measured one and hall
inches in diameter from which the boy had fol
| q long time been sufferer. The patient il
| getting along finely, with excellent prospects
for his final recovery.
lost from her home in Chicago 10 years age
(aged years at that time) and picked up by al
Urbana lady, taken home and reared, has JUS
discovered her parents, after repeated and Ions
correspondence, and gone to pay them visit
They gave her up at the time as having eithe
been killed OF kidnapped, and were only too joy
fully surprised to meet her again, grown ant
married woman.
! AT South Charleston fire broke out in Leo1
Houston Bro. g large store building and ele
vators, and destroyed the entire building, ma
chinery and the contents, amounting to abou
$60,000, principally wool and grain, with an in
surance of less than half that amount Th
fire spread rapidly, and destroyed some half o
the best business houses in town, among then
C. H. Wentz, saddlery; A. McIntire, grocery
| paferS stoves
dry goods; A. Bradford, groceries, and tw
dwellings, belonging to Mrs. c. Ackley, VIII
owned two of the stores that were completed
destroyed. Wentz, Wilson and Ackley were in
sured.
FRED KARscH, a Cincinnati policeman. wa
shot and killed the past week by Charles Mar
shall, a colored desperadO. Karsch had ordere
gang who were engaged in a noisy dispute, t
move along, when some of them took exceptio
to his order, and almost instantly Marshal
produced a revolver, and placing it against tn
officer, began shooting. Another officer, il
company with Karsch, witnessing the shooting
knocked Marshall down with his mace, an
made heroic effort to break the mans sku
afterward by continuing the pounding, but
seems without much success. Marshall stoo
the pounding pretty well and afterward wake
to the station-house, when he became insensibl
and fell to the floor.
RESPECTING the Saddler murder trial at Woot
ter, correspondent says: At last the finale Q
the Saddler murder trial has been reached, an
James Saddler has been sentenced to ninetee
years in the Penitentiary. He has been cor
fined in jail for one year, which makes twent
in all, the full limit of punishment for mar
slaughter. When Judge Parsons pronounce
sentence the prisoners mother uttered a viii
shrek of agony, but Saddler merely locke
scornfully at her and laughed. He has dis
played stolid indifference and sullen obstinac
during the entire trial, and receives now littl
if any sympathy. Judge Parsons says had nc
Tor1nie received the blow from Saddler b
would have been alive to-day.