The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-31
OHIO STATE NEWS.
THERE is smallpox at Ironton.


THERE is smallpox at Ironton.
WARREN has Board of improvements.
CHAMPAIGN County will hold no fair this
year.
NEAR Perry, Edward Marvin was killed by a
falling limb.
THERE are 800 miles of free turnpikes in
Logan County.
ANTHONY CLINE, living near Alliance, was
Killed by falling tree.
THOMAS E. DOUGLAS has been reappointed
Postmaster at Mansfield.
THERE is vaccination boom at London, in
consequence Of reported smallpox.
A CORRESPONDENT at London says the small
po1 In that place is nothing but measles.
The Army of the Tennessee will hold their
reunion at Music Hall, Cincinnati. April 6.
MARION KENT, of Plain City, who recently
went to New Mexico, has been murdered by In
dians.
The practice of cutting harness, buggy tops,
saddles etc., is being extensively INDUCED in
in Marion County.
AT Norwalk William Rattigan, charged with
forging notes to the amount of 81, 200, has
pleaded guilty.
JOHN WHINL1N, slater fell from roof at
Lorraine distance of sixty feet, and was per-
haps fatally injured.
JOSEPH BENNETT, engineer, was killed at De-
fance, by falling under moving train. His
home was Fort Wayne, Indiana.
r. COLLINS, of Toledo, brakeman on the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, was crushed
to death between bumpers at Clyde.
The furniture factory of Adam Wooten, and
leased by s. Bishop & Co., at Gallipolis, was
destroyed by incendiaries. Loss, 81, 1000.
MCKENDREE NJ. E. CHAPEL, on Eastern ave-
nue., Cincinnati, built in 1874, under the direc-
ton of Rev. Granville Moody, burned the past
week.
LOGAN COUNTY has come into possession of
180 acres of land heretofore held by Auglaize
County, and recovered from swamp lands 800
acres more.
JAMES CoNN, young blacksmith of Wells
vile, while cleaning a revolver, accidentally
shot himself in the temple producing fatal
wound.
GREASY old tramp arrested in Cincinnati
for vagrancy, was found to have upon his per-
son over 800 in money. The money was as
greasy and nasty as he.
A PROTEST has been filed by nine members of
the Legislature, with Auditor of State Ogelvee,
against the payment to the Athens University
Of $40, 900 for repairs.
The dead body of Ebenezer Prosser was
found at the bottom of the trestle-work bridge,
q mile west of Youngstown, he presumably
having fallen from the bridge the night before.
CANNED meats, fish, oysters, etc., should be
partakeu Of very cautiously. Reports of poison
ing from this source comes from every direc-
tion. In France the law prohibits soldering
cans containing meats.
JOHN C. MOORE, aged thirty-nine years, an
officer of the Cavalry Recruiting Office, ut 219
West Fourth street, Cincinnati, fell dead while
waltzing with a young lady named Miss Lizzie
Manler, at ball given by the Rosette Club in
that city.
CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
at Marion, says that by inquiry from farmers
and others posted, he discovers that there is
| scarcely any corn that will germinate this
spring. This is owing to the fact that the hard
freezing weather the past winter froze the corn.
ALLEN WAsHBURN, aged forty-eight years, of
Milan, suicided by taking morphine. He had
his coffin made to order some three months
| ago, and since that time has repeatedly threat
| ened to kill himself. His mind had become
| weakened from the effect of stroke Of paral-
| ysis.
'OLD MAN GALES" of Urbana, q colored
| man, has died, and correspondent AYERS he
| was one hundred and twenty-five years old.
| He makes the statement from papers unearthed
| when the census enumerator was making his
| rounds. Gales neighbors, aged seventy-ive
| and eighty years, say he was an old man when
| they we're boys.
THERE is great excitement in portions of
| Belmont County over a new and fatal disease
which has recently attacked the horses Of that
| community. The disease is an affection of the
blood, and may linger in the system six months
before it shows itself or its presence is known.
body, which finally break and discharge a yel-
lowish matter. 1t is pronounced incurable.
| WHILE burying an old lady at Hammonds-
| vile, Jefferson County, two young men who
scarcely had the grave dug when the funeral
| cortege arrived, struck the grave of . man who
| died with smallpox few years ago, and SO ter
rible was the stencil (and scare) that q panic
ensued, every one deserting except the two
| young men who, though themselves badly
scared, finished their work.
NEAR Unionville farmer-like looking indi-
| vidual called at the house of Aseph Brown, and
asked Mrs. Brown to give him small bills for q
$40 note, as he needed the change to pay .
| neighbor for some corn. Mrs. Brown changed
the note, taking her money from a bureau
drawer. She then went to the well and brought
him a glass of water, at his request,
after which he went away: The next
drawer, discovered that It had been robbed Of
about $50 in bank bills. She has no doubt %
to when the robbery took place.
THEADoRE KELLER, a observation-disclosures
old son of George Keller, residing at 241 Race
street. Cincinnati, was recently abducted and
80 well secreted that the efforts of the police
and detectives to discover bis whereabouts were
of no avail. The parents Of the little fellow
up finding him, when lady named Mrs. J. II.
Gray, residing at 1893 Mound street, from the
description she had read of the boy, discovered
him being led by middle-aged woman named
Kate Fitzgerald. She pursued the woman at
once, who, in fright abandoned the child, and
knowledged to the abduction, and said she had
taken it to keep. She had been keeping il in a
den in a basement. The parents were over
joyed to receive back their child, and the ab-
1uctress will 60 to the Penitentiary. She has
heretofore served q term in the Work-house.