The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-02-17
OHIO STATE NEWS.

| VAAAU OAA1G NE w De
/ GHLIpoLIs is to have q new hotel company,
/ A SMALL cabinet organ and clock were stolen
! from the Congregational Church at Hudson
| Ar Logan an aged lady named Foraker, while
| crossing Salt Greek, broke through the ice and
| was drowned.
| DEATHS from scarlet fever at Carey average
| more than one q day, and the people are
| alarmed about it.
| TIE infant child of George Anderson, at
/ Vienna function, fell into tub of hot water
| and was fatally scalded.
The Tiffin Woolen Mills corporation have
made an assignment. Liabilities, $40,000 esti-
| mated assets, $50, ,000. -
| fatally kicked in the bowels BY Mexican pony
I which he was trying to work. 80
| GEORGE EGENBETT, at Marysville, got four
years in the Penitentiary for burning the bridge
! Of the Panhandle Railroad. -. -,
The ten-year-old girl Of widow Brownstetter
was fatally burned at London, by her clothing
| ignlting from an open crate fire.
THE body of Daniel Smalley, who was found
| dead near Kimbalton, q few days ago. has fallen
| into the hands of body snatchers.
| ISAAC SPRINGER, of GAINESVILLE committed
suicide by shooting in the neck. Had been
| drinking. Leaves wife and five children.
| No effort has been made at Warren to arrest
buc PARTICIPANTS III Gl6 CaHray-MCCOy DrlZG
| fight, which came Off almost in sight of that
| city.
PATRICK KAvANAUGH, aged sixty-five, of Ur-
bana, was drowned in Dugan Creek 1t is
| supposed he wandered off the bridge in the
night. s
TIE daughter of William Noble, in steuben
| County, was smoking pipe, and by some
means her dress caught fire and she was burned
| to death.
| FRANK TOLIvER, the murderer of Pat Carr, at
Carbondale, Athens County, was arrested last
week in the mountains of johnson County,
Kentucky.
THE overhowing of the Mahomina River,
prevented the running of trains on the n Y,
P. and o. Railroad for several days. Many
bridges were carried away.
The case of Julius Radtke of Dayton,
charged with killing his two-year-old child, has
been continued until March "a ON account of
| the illness of his attorney.
Mrs. PARKS woman living in Newark, took
dose OF sulphate of zinc for salts. After she
| had taken it she smoked pipe, which acted as
| an emetic and saved her life.
MANY families along the Tuscarawas had to
| be rescued in boats during the high water.
Thousands of acres were submerged along this
stream, and trains were stopped by the washing
away of bridges. -
MRS. EMEILA JETZ while cleaning window
| in the second Estory of the house of Charles
Leighle, corner Plum and Liberty streets, Gin
| cinnati, lost her balance and fell to the pave
| ment. Her skull was fractured, and she died
| in few moments. t tf-7
| DAVID DELAUaHTNR and wife, living about
| five miles northwest of West Alexandria,
4 while out sleighing, smothered their infant
| aged about six months. They did not find it
out until they got home, when the mother went
| to warm the child and found it dead.
NEAR Granville Frank Henthorn, aged Is
4 years, was felling a tree. The tree fell in
| contrary direction from what he expected it to,
and in his effort to save team Of horses, a
| limb of the falling tree struck him on the head
and instantly killed him. The team escaped
injury. -.
| HENRY GILBERT, owner of the saw mill four
miles north of Clyde, while walking upon log
| that was being sawed, fell, and the saw cut
| through the top of his head as far as his ears,
instantly killing him. The saw was covered
to have been married the following week.
THIEVES attempted to steal the corpse of
Abner G. Shafer from the family residence on
George street, near Baymiller, Cincinnati, last
| week. A Mr.. Garrison, who was sitting in an ad-
| joining room, heard noise, and on opening
| the door, observed q man standing over the
corpse with lighted match in his hand. He
| bounded out the window and was off in an in
stant. l
THREE miles south of sandusky, Mr.. Manley,
! wealthy farmer, one son and daughter and
Miss Huber, daughter of neighbor, were
| poisoned by arsenic which some one admin
| istered in the coffee. The Manleys will prob
| ably recover, but the condition of Miss Huber
the correspondent gave as hopeless. Exner, a
nephew of Mr.. Manley, who was suspected, has
fled, but why he administered the poison is not
| known. -
| IT would be almost impossible to convey an
intelligent idea of the extent of the damage
done throughout the State by the late high
waters. All the streams without exception,
| even including the most insignificant creeks,
| overfowed their banks, particularly where they
pass through bottom lands !; and the extent Of
the injury to wheat, outbuildings, stock and
fences generally cannot be estimated. Suffice
it to say there has been nothing equal to it for
the past thirty years. l.. -. -. -..
/ FRANK HARPER, about nineteen years of age,
was employed about Coshocton for several
months. Bad company had the usual influence
upon him, and he was arrested for q theft from
| his employer last fall and confined in Jail.
After his release he left, and was heard no more
| of until last week, when he was again arrested
for theft in Uhricsvllle, and search being
made it was discovered that Frank was a woman
in mans dress. No explanation is given. She
is now in Jail awaiting the action of the Grand
| Jury. c, 20 -.-.
| A CASE Of domestic infelicity took a peculiar
| turn at Marysville the past week. For some
| time the wife of William Bancroft has been
suing for divorce, and having some means
I Of her own, and her husband being inclined to
| tipple more or less, and hence having, as
usual thing, no money wherewith to buy his
whisky, she offered him 5000 to let her get
the divorce, which he accepted, and while she
4 was getting the divorce, he was enjoying q
huge drunk. No sooner had the divorce been
| granted and her recreant lord sobered up how
ever, than she requested that they again be
married; she couldn't think Of being alone in
the world; and they went forthwith and were