The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-02-03
OHIO STATE NEWS,


JAMES Oo1EB1E was killed at Chillicothe,
while coupling cars.
A LEaIsLATIvE COMMITTEE is investigating
ihe affairs of the State Reform Farm.
SARA BERNHARET played an engagement Of
four nights at Cincinnati commencing on the
31st ult.
HUGH McGowEN, of New Hagerstown,
slipped, fell and broke his neck, from which he
HE'D instantly.
THE Grand Jury of Carroll County returned
sixty-one indictments. They are mostly against
liquor dealers.
THE trial of Thomas Hightower, for the kill
ing of VIM. Newland, last September, is in
progress at Kenton.
IDA BR1DwELL, young girl of good family,
who has been living a fast life, suicided at
GAINESVILLE last week.
ORMANp BLISS, living ten miles east of Lon
don, shot himself in the head with suicidal in
tent. The wound was not fatal.
AT Canton, the Grand Jury indicted Joseph
Kline for murder in the first degree. Kline is
charged with poisoning his father.
The citizens of Bellefontaine, a few days
ago, held a mass-meeting to devise means for
the better observance of the Sabbath.
WILLIAM WILCOX, of New California, is in
Jail for cutting his wife's hand off at the wrist
with an AK. The account says he was drunk.
FRANKLIN Houston. well known and high
ly esteemed young bachelor of thirty-two years,
Of Urbana, has been adjudged insane and COM
mitted to the Columbus Asylum.
BELLEFoNTAINE people are good feeders.
correspondent says the combined weight of five
landlords is 1894 pounds, and the combined
weight of three of them is 800 pounds.
Miss SARAH MITCHELL, a daughter of Hon.
judged insane. When girl Miss Mitchell fell
into q cstern, since which time epilepsy has
gra dually developed.
VIM. HosEwoRTH, indicted for murder in
Marion County, has been granted change of
venue to Hardin County, and his trial set for
April 18th, at which time special term will be
called. Bail was refused.
A CORRESPONDENT relates that Dora Sever,
servant in the family of J. G. Bloker, at San
dusky, has slept eighty hours without waking.
The physicians say the cause is the suffusion of
the brain with blood, producing congestion.
MAN at Newark whose name is not given,
attempted to shoot himself, and failing that,
tried to hang himself. He was discovered be-
fore he departed this life however; and he is
now an inmate CT the insane asylum.
The Free Press of Lancaster has been in
dicted on three counts for criminal libel. The
Free Press published a series of articles about
the Court and the Court officers, and the Grand
Jury says that the matter SO published was
ibelous.
REV. A. LEHMAN, Presbyterian pastor at
Dresden, while attempting to stop runaway
horse attached to sleigh, WAS thrown down
and stepped upon by the horse. His face was
badly mutilated, and part of his right ear cut
off by the horses hsof.
AT Marysville special Grand Jury was i'm
paneled to investigate the charges against
Gaines, for the triple murder of Ophelia Clark,
her niece, Maria Scott, and an adopted son OF
Mrs. Clark, and returned three indictments
against him for murder in the first degree.
H. -,
after night, and going at high rate of speed
could not, therefore, tell exactly where he was
going to land. Well, he had his feet spread
apart, and in that way ranpright astraddle of
tree, and it hurt him terribly. He is laid up i'll
consequence.
TWENTY FOUR young and middle-aged men of
Williamsburg, Noble County, were arrested and
thrown in jail at Caldwell, by the Sheriff, for
playing five-cent-ante, whatever that is. They
confessed their guilt to the Grand Jury was
what led to their arrest. A fine of S2 and costs
was imposed on each man.
Rev. W. s. BARTON, recently teacher in
Hooking County, has sued the Board of s. ,ol
Examiners for damages in the sum of $15, 900.
for revoking his certificate on the alleg, d
ground of immortality. He claims no immoral
ity was proved against him. The Board say
they are in possession of facts that will sus stain
their course.
JOHN CUMM1Ns, the farmer in Licking County,
says he does not understand why people should
make q fuss over the manner III which hepun-
ishes his boy. He confesses that he took the
boy to the barn and split sapling, and placed
it on the boys tongue, and drove tack through
the sapling, tongue and ali, to keep it in place;
he then tied him fast to the nlanger and 3D.
ministered most severe beating. He is out
on bail.
An accident on the Cincinnati Mount Vernon
and Chicago Railroad near Millersburg last
week resulted in the injury of fifteen persons.
ding ba q
broken rail, resulting in it being thrown down
a twenty-five foot enbankment, the other cars
having passed over safely. DR.. L. Firestone,
of Columbus, Louis Garnes, conductor, and
Mrs. Lydia Wolf, of Canton, an aged lady,
were dangerously injured.
JOHN BELrz of Steubenville, attempted to
horsewhip E. A. Elliott, newspaper cores
pondent, for having published that he (Beltz)
had horsewhipped his daughter Matte, for
keeping company with one William Ferguson,
who subsequently eloped with Matte. Elliott,
however, was too feet-footed for Beltz and es-
capped punishment. The correspondent states
that Beltz also classified his wife and sister for
interfering in the match in Mattie's behalf
A CORRESPONDENT at Newcomerstown writes
ga gentleman from Montana arrived here a
few days ago who is now on the hunt of young
man named Millburn, whose life has touch Of
romance about it. He was born near Newcom-
erstown, and when quite young his parents
died. He was then adopted by an uncle Chs
fathers brother) who shortly afterward died,
whereupon young Millburn was adopted by q
family named Howell, which family shortly
afterward removed to Indiana. This was about
nine years ago, and since that time no trace Of
the Howell family or young Millburn can be
found. The aforesaid gentleman from Mon
tana has been endeavoring to find young Mill
burn for several years, as he Cthe boy) is the
only surviving heir to a large and rich estate in
Montana. He has already spent thousands Of
dollars in the 30 far fruitless search, and offers
a reward of o. 600 to any person furnishing in.
formation as to his whereabouts"