The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-12-23
OHIO STATE NEWS.

UH1U SIAlE NEWSs
DIPHrHERIA and whooping cough prevail to
an alarming extent at Bellefontaine.
BURoLERs are working effectually at Mans
field, three or four houses being entered per
night.
MICHAEL, the ten-year-old son of Michael
Miller, of Chillicothe, was drowned in the canal
while skating.
The Harror brothers, at Youngstown, con-
victed of murder in the second degree, were
sented to the Penitentiary for life.
OVER seventy citizens of De Graft were sum-
moned to Bellefontaipe last week as witnesses
In the Loher-Carl shooting case.
CHARLES II. LINN, of Warren, aged go years,
while walking on the railroad track, was struck
by passenger train and instantly killed.
SIMEON WRIGHT an old and well known
farmer in the Welsh settlement near Bronson,
was fatally kicked by vicious horse last week.
CHARLES BAILEY, q citizen of Mt. Gilead,
has mysteriously disappeared, leaving a wife
and children in destitute circumstances.
TESTER JONES, of Bronson, while quail
hunting, accidentally discharged his gun, the
charge taking effect in his side, and it is
thought will prove fatal.
The residence of Mrs. Governor Tod, at
Youngstown, was entered during the day, while
the family were at home, and jewelry to the
amount of 5000 stolen.
The heart and stomach Of Simon Kline, of
Canton, who recently died. is to be analyzed,
and it is thought his son, Joseph Kline. will be
found guilty of causing his death by poison.
GEORGE A. WHITE, an inmate of the Sol
diers' Home, Dayton, was struck by switch
engine, knocked down and completely decapi-
tated at the drawbridge of the c., c., G. and 1.
Railroad.
The Changers of Caldwell are in peck of
trouble. They have had to appoint Receiver
for their Grange store, which seems to be short
some how or other to the amount of about
$1,000
GEORGE CREvEsToN, a highly respected and
well-known farmer living near Mingo, Cham
paign County, committed suicide the past week
by hanging. He had been in feeble health for
some time.
CONDUCTOR VIM. HnTAB1DDLE, of Gallon,
who was so badly injured n the collision on the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad last
week, died after q week of intense suffering
He leave a wife and two children.
Two merchant tailoring firms of Marion,
Fogelson & Madison, and Addi Ibling, have
made assignment, the liabilities of each being
| 1000. This looks very suspicious for the
young men Of Marion. They ought to pay
| their tailors.
A FARMER named Cutler, near Millersburg. e.
employed trampto do chores about the house.
| The very first night the tramp collected lot of
clothing, including Mr.. Cutters new suit of
| clothes, a considerable sum of money and other
ValuaDles, anu VdlnOObeQ.
p. B. Conn, editor of the Daily Herald. of
| SteubGnville, was arrested the past week on q
| charge of sending obscene mail matter through
| the mails, the affidavit being filed by John
| Moore, ex-County Auditor whom Conn had
attacked in his paper.
Cook HovEY, charged with falsifying the
records of the City of Urbana, and forging and
| overissuing city bonds while holding the office
| of City Clerk, on being brought into court,
/ pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years
| in the Penitentiary.
| MRS. LUCY ANTHONY, of Oxford, who was in
the act of going out calling, set down in chair
| and requested her daughter to play a niece
| on the piano for her. Her daughter complied
and having finished, turned around to find her
mother sitting in the chair dead.
JAS. W. KINcAID, aged eighteen, of Westville
eloped last week with girl of sixteen, and waf
married to her at Piqua. Shortly after the
ceremony had been performed telegram was
received from the old folks saying, 1--WE for
give you," and the children returned home.
AT Canton tramp attempted to steal silver
spoons at the residence of Mrs. Heingartner
where he had just enjoyed a breakfast, bu
finally concluded to yield up his booty undel
the persuasive influence of a revolver in the
the hands of a daughter of Mrs. Heingartner
A YOUNG girl residing near Tippecanoe saw
fire issuing from the hay NOW of William
SIMPSONS barn, and rushing in with buckle
of water, threw the contents on the flames
and then squatted over them with her dress t.
smother them. She succeeded, but came nea
being burned to death.
LINCOLN GUNTHER, of Chillicothe, last weel
attempted to elope with the step-daughter o
Mr.. ID. Kelley, of that place, but the pair wer
captured before they got away. Gunther go
so mad that he challenged Mr.. Kelley to duel
Mr.. Kelley laid the correspondence before
Justice which necessitated the father of tn
young man putting up $500 to keep hi
chivalrous son out of the bastile.
AT Kent, while adjusting belt in the Ken
Alpaca Mills, Ed Atchison, q workman, wa
caught in the betting and drawn to the uppe
shaft, where he was whirled several times be
fore falling. His arm was torn in two at tn
elbow, the flesh on the shoulder and upper par
of the arm being stripped clean, leaving tn
lone bare, and the flesh on the chest was tel
ribly torn. Every particle of clothing was tori
from his body and his recovery is doubtful.
A TEN year old daughter of Mrs. James Ross
of East Deleware found along the railroa
what she took to be a money box. Mrs. Ros
attempted to open it with an ak by, placing tn
suppose box on the floor and striking it.
loud report followed the first blow, and tn
lady found herself badly injured in the lei
breast, arms and face by the explosion of
railroad torpedo. How the dangerous missil
, came where found is mystery yet unez
planned.
1 MRS BARBARA EwALD nee Schultz, living o
Washington Avenue, near Cincinnati, con
mitted suicide last week, it is thought, by shoo
ing. The act was committed in a stable, an
the fact that the stable burned, it was though
the hay was ignited from the flash of the pii
} tol. Her charred trunk was taken out Of th
ruins, the legs, head and arms being burne
= Off. She had been married but nine weeks an
committed the act as letter she left to he
husband attested, because her mother and th
l mother Of her husband were at such gres
enmity.