The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-05-05
OHIO STATE NEWS.
HonsE-TmxvEs are at work about Milan.


HoRsE-TnEvEs are at work about Milan.
TEE corner stone Of the First Baptist Church
at Mount Vernon, was laid April 2S
MARSHAL HoRS, Of Wooster, last week, shot
Q mad dog after ii had bitten little child
LOUIS GRIpIEY, OF Kent, brakeman, fell
between cars and was killed at Shenango.
Jous NORTON, OF Bellefontaine, was fined
e37 and sent 10 Jail for violating o Sunday
ordinance.
ZExAs NAY, Of Miles, reported murdered at
Dcs Moines, Ia, recently, has turned up safe
and well In Illinois.
LEONARD KIso, bookkeeper in Cases tobacco
and his friends fear foul play.
JosEPH DREsBAcH, at Lancaster, charged
with poisoning his wife in 1873, has been i'll
dicted for murder in the FIRST degree.
OK the 26th Of April the Public Schools Of
Cincinnati celebrated the anniversary OF the
birth Of Alice and Phoebe Cary, the sweetest Of
American female poets.
The dead body OF George Stone, Of Akron,
who had been missing several days, was found
in the canal at North-street bridge on the 25th.
II 10 thought his drowning was accidental.
ELIAS STAN, aged sixty-fvs years, residing
ten miles east Of Wooster, committed suicide
by hanging In his brothers barn. He had
been sick for some time, and said he was tired
Of life.
The administrator Of the estate o; James Pat
ton, at Cadiz, has been awarded verdict OF
s2, 500 against the Panhandle Railroad for
the killing Of Patton at scio the 25th of last
September.
EDWARD BocKINs, q young man Of Canton,
drank chloral to produce sleep. He partook
of the medicine lightly at first, but becoming
impatient, drank so much that he went TO his
long, last sleep.
THE family of Richard Neighbor, near New
AZ "a fur dIsl A
the entire family were poisoned. The prompt
administering Of emetics, however, brought
them out all right
JOHN CORNELL, aged seventy years, well
known aud respected citizen Of Jefferson
Township, Guernsey County, was kicked in tho
body by . horse from the effects OF which he
died In few hours.
WILL LITTLE and Nathan Lynn, both young
men employed in the VIM. Anson Wood Mower
and Reaper Works, at Youngstown, were both
crushed 10 death by car which was thrown
from track by mishap.
GRAvE-RoBBISo, Of late, has been prevailing
TO considerable extent at Millersburg and sur
rounding towns, and TO stop the ghoulish work,
last week torpedoes were placed in the graves
Of all bodies recently inferred.
BRAD HULL, near Mount Gilead, had war
rant sworn out for his sons arrest, charging
him with stealing horse and buggy. Before
tho authorities started In search, however, the
been out for an afternoon ride.
AT Piqua IL is proposed to observe the Sab
bath day to keep Il holy. A rousing meeting
was held the psJt week by the relig-
ionists, ut which II was determined to prose
cute severely all the violators OF the Stubbs
aud other Sunday laws. Livery men and cigar
dealers are to suffer with the rest.
A LOGAN COUNTY correspondent says Of
10000 acres Of wheat In that section, about
two-thirds Of IL shows up excellently, while the
remainder will be about half crop. He adds:
''This report includes about five counties, ill.,
cluding Marion, shelby, and Logan, with an
average acreage Of $4,000 each"
NEAR st. Louisville, in Licking County,
while Daniel spicer was trying to put out the
FIRE which had caught in his fences from O
clearing, he was horriiiod to see the clothing OF
his daughter, who was assisting him, all in
flames. The girl ran toward the house, and
before her father could overtake her her cloth.
ing was literally burned from her body, and
she died in n few hours. She was the second
daughter, and was seventeen years Of age.
TnE blast furnaces of the Glasgow Port
Washington Iron and Coal Company, at New.
comerstown, which resumed last November
have shut down, and will probably never bt
put in operation again. These furnaces wer,
constructed in 1874, aud have been operated Al
irregular intervals since that time. The stock
holders reside in Glasgow, Scotland, and have
sunk every dollar of the original capital stock
&l,600,000, in their unsuccessful attempt Il
run the furnaces.
NEwcoMERsTowN furnishes some remarkably
strange Incidents. young man in the adjoin
ing county Of Holmes, who was married few
months ago, Is now almost insane on the sub
ject Of matrimony, and, strange to say, he fall
In love with those OF his own sex, and forth
with makes proposals Of marriage to them.
few days ago he became infatuated with
young man and, like the apostles Of old, lef
ALL including his wife, and followed him. tn.
case Is certainly sad and singular one, and at
tracts wide attention.
SAYS Belle Center correspondent: "Twenty
two years ago Mrs. Ned Wilcox moved to thii
place from Iowa. A part Of her possessions
copsisting Of bedding, wearing apparel, dishe
and gun, were packed in large box ant
directed 10 her. She waited in vain for iii
arrival, and after many years gave it up as lost
Yesterday she was notified that box Of good
had arrived at Bellefontaine. where she wen
and claimed the property. The box contained
the clothing Of q two-year-old child, who is nov
q stalwart young man, and gazes upon tn
resurrected articles with unusual interest"
THERE Is q curious case Of Irish Boycottin,
at Soldiers Home, Dayton. Because Governo
Patrick, Of the Home, refused James Redpatl
permission to lecture, the following notice ha
been circulated among the Irish: ''In conse
quence Of the tyranical and un-American actor
OF Governor Patrick in refusing TO permit Mr.
Rcdpath 10 address the Irish citizen-soldiers o
the Home on the wrongs and grievances o
their countrymen In Ireland, IL Is heyeL
ordered, That Governor Patrick be declarel
Boycotted, and all Irishmen are forbidden h
have any dealings with the Home store, restau
rant or theater until further notice."
SECRET GRAND COUNCIL.
"Sic Semper TVronnis." President.