The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-17
OHIO STATE NEWS.

NOVEMBER swarm of bees was captured
on tree in Tuscarawas County.
HARRY HoYT, Postmaster at Newark, last
week was robbed Of $200 by burglars.
Mr.. P. B. KINNEY, Of Newcomerstown,
states that he has an apple tree in full bloom.
FoRTY-Two cases Of typhoid fever are re-
ported from the Ohio Reform Farm, near Lam
caster.
TWENTY deaths from diphtheria within a few
days are reported from Suffield, Portage
County.
JACOB AusPAUaH, of Napoleon, aged sixty
years, while intoxicated, was struck by train
near Antwerp and killed.
JAMES E. HEBARD, proprietor Of the CALI
opolis Ledger, has sold that concern to s. H.
Olmstead, of Gurnsey County, who will con-
tinue it as Republican paper.
SON Of Norris ellison, in Rich Township,
Sandusky County, who is aged seven years,
playfully pointed a loaded revolver at his amt,
Minnie Russell, aged fifteen years, and shot her
in the forehead. She can not live.
Mrs. ]. H. RE1s1NaER and Mrs. J. ".
Iowner, sisters, living at Gallon, have fallen
heir to $800,000 through the death of rich
uncle in ireland named Bleek. The entire
estate is valued at 81, 400, 900.
A SOLDIERS MONUMENT, tho magnificent gift
of M. d. Harter, Esq, to the people of Rich
land County, was unveiled at Mansfield last
week with appropriate ceremonies. Fifteen
thousand people witnessed the exercises.
SOMEBODY placed quantity of cough candy
on the steps of the Catholic school at Findlay,
nd when the children came to school they all
ate Of it. Every one was taken violently i'll
and yomited profusely. It is thought the
candy was poisoned.
AT NEW CALIFORNIA Mrs. Henry Brice, an
old lady, was found dead kneelng by the side
of her bed, her hands clasp and head bowed
down as if in the act Of prayer. She had re-
manned in that position all night. Heart
disease.
AGNES HUDSON, who had Just returned homo
to Circleville from visit to Chillicothe, was
hit in the head by q chunk of coal thrown by
her father, and it is feared, is fatally injured.
She remains in an unconscious condition. The
father was under the influence of liquor.
MRS. Cora WOODBURY., of Urbana, has re-
covered q judgment of $4,000 against the
Cleveland, Sandusky and Cincinnati Railroad
Company, for damages sustained by the killing
of her husband in collision last winter.
$5, 600 was the amount sued for. Another
case, involving $4,000 for the death Of her
husband, is yet pending.
The jury in the CAT of the State of Ohio us.
j. II. Fisher, at Napoleon, charged with the
murder of Francis Talbot, May 10, last, found
a verdict for assault and battery. The evidence
in his language, and Talbot resented by kick
ing him, when he struck Talbot with putty
knife. Talbot died from the wound.
WHILE crossing the New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio Railroad track near Pixies Station, .
few miles north of Wooster, Mrs. Benjamin
Eby was caught up by the cow-catcher of the
west-bound fast express and carried a distance
of about four miles to the Wheeling and Lake
Erie crossing, where she was found on her per-
ilous perch in an unconscious state, badly cut
and bruised. She may recover.
GEORGE STAFFEY, q mason living in Jackson
Township, Noble County, has frequently been
arrested for wife-beating, but last week his
fendishness toward his spouse assumed . more
decisive turn. He assaulted her with troweI,
with which he penetrated her abdomen, and it
is feared, injured her fatally. He was arrested
and taken to Cambridge for safe-keeping,
Noble County being without jail.
SAYS Bellefontaine correspondent "Ida
Holman went to the house of Irwin Jackson
and got into pitched battle with his three
Oldest daughters over some trivial matter.
The Holman woman is a stout, masculine fe-
male, and beat one of the young ladiss-Eva
jackson knocking her down,
jumping on her breast and stamping her in .
frightful manner. Hemorrhage has supervened,
and it is feared that she may die. Her asBailant
was arrested and Jailed, but is out on bail
awaiting the outcome of her injuries"
HORACE Brooks, a convict In the Ohio Peni-
tentiary, celebrated his thirty-frs anniversary
in that institution the 10th of the present
month. In 1850 he owned farm, which b
now portion of Cleveland. railroad crossed
| it, and one day train ran into flock OF his
| sheep and killed number of them. In re-
| v, ppe he placed an obstruction on the track,
| threw of a train and killed five people. He
| was convicted of murder In the second degree
| and sent to the Penitentiary for life He was
| forty-thr years old when he received his sem
| tence and is now seventy-four, hale and hearty,
| He was good manager, and would to-day
probably be q millionaire had it not been for
| that one act. He is the Oldest convict the
| Oldest man-in the Penitentiary.