The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-25
OHIO STATE NEWS.

MANY horses are dying about West Jefferson
from epizooty. e------
PAssENaER trains on the Ohio and West vir-
ginia Railroad began running from Middleport
on the Goth. ------=-s--- --.--=
WALDO BAssET, at Milan, blowed too much
in q stove in which he had poured coal oil and
lost his eyesight. tE
The epizooty is prevalent all over the State.
Almost every county reports the death OF
ONE hundred and fifty children are kept
from the schools at Ironton, on account Of
measles now prevailing there.
CONRAD VoLLw1LLER, of Findlay, was out
hunting, and his gun was accidentally dis
charged. He will hardly recover. , IG
NEAR Piqua, James Reynolds had his arm
sawed in two with buzz-saw-an unpleasant
thing to happen to q man on cold day.
ARTHUR BURTON, of Norwalk, aged twelve
years, died suddenly, few days ago, as sup
posed, from dog-bite received year ago.
An effort is being made at Steubenville to or.
ganize Tri-State Fair and Exposition. Stock
has already been subscribed for the enterprise.
Francis NJ. STONE, a Marion County farmcr,
while eating hogs-head cheese, got bone in
his throat, and after three days suffering, died
from strangulatlon. ,r. .f, o.
CHRISTIAN Cook, of Taylorsville, Muskingum
County, who was missing for several days, was
found hanging-dead- q deserted slaughter
house, at Corning.
GRANDMOTHER HENRY Of Coshocton,
aged nearly q hundred years, slipped and fell
down fifty-foot embankment, and, strange to
say, will recover. y ~5- r.
CLASS CARR, who works on portable saw
mill at Necomerstown, was caught by circular
saw and had his right arm torn off and the
flesh of his chest and right leg torn from the
bone. az '5--' 81
AT Mapleton, in Stark County, w. II. Walker
and Thomas Fulmer were injured by the
premature explosion of a homemade cannon,
the former, it is feared, fatally. Both his eyes
were burned out.
EDWARD COOPER and Hank Oremain, of
| Rawson, near Lima, both married men, bur-
| glarized Woods d Co.'S drugstore, carrying
| away over q hundred dollars worth of medicine.
The Judge will write their prescription.
FREpERIcK WALTER, editor of the New Phil
! adelphia BeObachter, while out hunting, was
shot in the shoulder and hand by his partner.
| That's what man gets for editing paper
whose name no man can pronounce.
AT Columbus, the past week, William Winters
(colored) was married in the Shiloh Colored
Church on Gay street to Miss Jennie Hardy,
white girl. Winters is divorced from his first
wife, colored. There is no accounting for the
tastes Of some persons.
In the case of Callahan, at Wooster, petit
murdered man and many citizens, has been
sent to Governor Foster, asking that the SEN
tence IF Callahan be commuted from hanging
! to imprisonment for life.
| MOIIIIE COOK, q lew years ago Gne TG6p0CI6O
| wife of Cincinnati butcher, but "gone to the
| Dogs" of late, was found dead the other day
with cat sleeping on her bosom. There were
no marks of Violence and there is the least
probability that the cat sucked her breath.
The pay-car on the G. H. and V. Railroad
near Lancaster, collided with the regular
passenger train on the @. and M. '. Road
going west resulting IN frightful wreck. Tho
engineer on the C. and M. v. train was serious
ly sealded, and one passenger badly cut about
the head.
A SHEEP got onto the track of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad east of GAINESVILLE, in front
of an approaching freight train, and stayed
there until it upset ten cars loaded with corn
and flour. Three of the cars were totally de-
molished: 1t was a pretty big contract for the
sheep, and about used it up before it got
through with it. ---t
Hon. RICHARD J. tanning, Clerk of the Su-
preIne Court, charged with Illegally retaining
fees, BY order of the Court CONSEQUENT upon an
investigation of the affair, has turned into the
State Treasury, $3, ,275. Allen O. Meyers, news
paper correspondent, claims the credit of saving
the State the amount named, by drawing public
attention to the situation. -.-
HENRY LEE, hackman, at Oberlin, charged
with stealing trunk, went through with a five
DAYS trial, during which time over hundred
Witnesses were examined and then the jury
disagreed, standing to 5. The costs are over
a hundred dollars 80 far, and the trunk is good
for smother siege.
Thomas PRYOR, q trusted employe of the
\danls Express Company at Newark, was found
in his room with bullet hole in his head. He
says two men we're in bis room, but does not
know whether he shot himself or whether they
shot him The ball entered the temple and
came out through the right eye.
WIZ. WENhAN, o Western Union Telegraph
operator and repairer, OF Dayton, jumped from
train going forty miles an hour, at North
Twin Creek, south of Dayton, and went flying
down an embankment at q terrific speed. He
hurt his eye and put his thumb all out of joint,
besides making hlm feel very sick in his in'ards.
JOHN PoMERoY, a farmer living eight miles
westlof Van Vert, few nights since was at
tackled by two highwaymen, one of his assail-
ants placing the muZze of pistol in his face.
Pomeroy grabbed the weapon, whereupon it
was discharged badly wounding his hand. He
hen knocked the other fellow down, when they
eth fed. Everybody ought to know how to
htwhen they get cornered.
DESPERATE fight occurred at Ravenna be-
tween John Connolly (white) and Tom Patter-
son {colored), Patterson being the aggressor.
Patterson was jailed, and Connolly paid his fine
upon his promise to let matters drop. Di-
rectly after his release Patterson repaid the gen.
crosby of Connolly by sneaking up behind him
and knocking him down and fearfully stamp
ing him. That sort of conduct is enough to de-
stroy every good impulse in the human heart.
FAnMEns are still suffering from frauds
Some months since Isaac Hedges, residing near
Delaware, was induced by the agent of an In
dianapolis firm to receive for storage wind
mill, for preserving the safety Of which he
signed contract. The mill is still in his pos
session, and one day last week the Sheriff served
him With papers demanding his payment Of .
rendered in Auglaise County Court, in the
name OF John Mitchell. Farmers must quit
writing their names for the benefit of strangers,
or else suffer the consequences.