The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-10-13
OHIO STATE NEWS.

BuLErosTArSz is infested with thieves and
pickpockets.
KENT thinks of putting in water-works at q
cost Of $1,000.
TWENTY-FIVE divorce suits are on the dockets
OF the Common Pleas Court, at Urbana.
CARL ToPLrFF, a German farmer residing
near New California, was killed by kick from
horse.
THIEVES entered the house of T. Z. Pomeroy.
stole t2OO in money.
FRANK FUNK, q butcher living near Seville.
was struck by passing train about eight miles
north OF wooster and instantly killed
bosH GRErn, farmer living near Circleville,
returning home from town in a wagon in an
intoxicated condition, fell out and broke his
neck. ''
A GANG OF highwaymen are infesting Fre-
mont and vicinity. Several persons have been
assaulted, and one, Andrew Cunningham,
nearly killed.
JEFFERSON ADAMS, who three weeks ago at
Mansfield attempted rape upon the person OF
Mrs. Moorhead, has been sentenced to the PEN
tentiary for seven years.
GEoRoE FREEHErMER, Q young farmer liv-
ing .nree miles east Of Independence, suicided
BY drowning in o mill-race There seems 10
nave been no cause for the rash act.
VIM. UPHOLD, resident of GAINESVILLE. yas
mangled beyond recognition by q train in the
deep cut Just east OF GAINESVILLE A suspicion
exists that Uphold was murdered and his BODY
placed on the track.
The Grand Jury has returned indictments
asainss tne hydraulic Company and Straw
Board Company, Of Akron, for maintaining A
nuisance In the form Of filthy mill-race rtin-
ming through the business center of the CITY.
Inis Is decisive step In one Of the biggest and
Ditterest local disputes on record at that place.
QUARREL between Chas. wilkinson, white.
and Granville Nixon, colored, at New straita.
Ule, resulted in the colored man biting the
white mans entire under lip off, After be bit
the lip on he spit II out ON the ground. II il
enough to make one feel sick to think about il.
Iho colored man has been bound over 10 Court
In the sum Of $500.
A MAN named Winters, living at Magnolia, a
few miles north Of New Philadelphia COM
menced building house q few weeks ago,
when ne was taken suddenly i'll and died The
widow, being left In Strengthened circumstances
and unable to hire help to finish the house.
has undertaken the JOB with her own hands,
she s now at work lathing ii, and is doing
good work. All honor TO the plucky little
widow. ''''o
A rERRIBLE accident occurred at the fair
GROUNDS, at Ilftn, last week. span of fine
horses belonging TO Jacob Rickenbaugh took
Irisnt and ran away around the race-track, and
when passing the first quarter-stretch one OF
tnem ran against scantling AMI drove it COM
Rletely through its body from the shoulder to
the hip. The horse ran two hundred Yards in
that condition before Il dropped dead. The
animal was valued at $25O.
Two scoundrels called at the house of Mrs.
Abraham Fry, in the suburbs Of Mount Vernon.
and finding her alone, demanded money. Al
though over sixty years old, she refused and
deied them, whereupon they knocked her
Was unconscious. They then ransacked the
premises and secured s250 in cash and made
good their escape. Her husband returned in
about an hour after the robbery, and learning
the facts, reported them to the authorities.
GENERAL ORDER No. 1, in the Wooster Uni
yersity, has created general CONSERVATION.
Young ladies are to receive gentlemen callers
but one night in the week, and neither the Ia
dy nor gentlemen students are permitted to
attend any kind Of theatrical amusement The
young ladies are circulating o petition which
prays the Faculty to state at what hour they
. good idea. Some Of the young ladies' might
let the fellow stay all week, and claim that he
had made but one call.
A FARMER named Raphael Durbin. residing
near Mt. Vernon, attempted, q few days ago, TO
cross swollen stream with o wagon. Accom-
panying him were his wife, q sister-in-law
named Miss Martha Buck, his daughter Mary,
aged nineteen, and three small children. In
the middle Of the stream the horses were
swept from their feet and the wagon, with its
human freight, overturned. The three small
children were carried by the current to food
gate, 10 which they clung until rescued. Mr..
Durbin himself succeeded in swimming to shore
His wife, daughter and Miss Buck were
drowned.
The October crop report Of the Ohio State
Board Of Agriculture gives the following
figures: Wheat, 1873 bushels per acre, total
number Of bushels, 37,2l5,24S oats, 26.7
bushels per acre, total number Of bushels, d.
690, 225 barley (per cent. of 1880, 81 rye (per
cent. Of 1880, IS corn, 60 hay, 90; apples,
IS pears, So peaches, so grapes, Sc tobacco,
78 potatoes, 50; number OF swine for market
69 condition Of pastures, SO. The drought
has injured the crops more in the Southern
than in the Northern half of the State.
Abundant rains have at last revived the pas
lures nearly all over the State. Wheat figures
20 per cent Of last years heavy crop (52, ,5O0,-
900 bushels), and oats 1O3 per cent