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

HORSE thieves are operating pretty heavily
in Holmes County. 55a
THE Athey-Seneff murder trial is in progress
at New Philadelphia. v.
DIEsKIA GREENAwAIIr, the young son of
Widow Greenawalt, of De Graf, drowned in
mill-race.
JOSEPH CuLLEsoN. of Guernsey County, is in
the hands of the law for having married too
many women.
the st. Charles Hotel, Norwalk, the past week
by the laudanum route.
A SON Of John Anthony, living near Union
Furnace, Hooking County, was kicked in the
face by a horse and killed. -. =.
CHAREEs RIcHARDsoN, of Dresden, Muskin-
gum County, aged only eleven years, has been
committed to Jail for burglary. - lE
ROBERT WRIGHT, of Gambler, had his arm
torn Off by machinery, from the effects of
which he died three days after. -ear fs
DURING one night the past week dogs killed
sixty head of sheep for Samuel Smith, near
Marion. The sheep were valued at $3.50.
THIEVES entered the residence of William
Hudson, SEN, in the northern part of Holmes;
County, and stole $450 in money and 81, 400 in
notes. t-l5 a-sres.sg .t - -
WILLIAM WHANNA, for over thirty years q
prominent carriage manufacturer at Wooster,
laborin8 under financial embarrassments,
hanged himself. -'' -. -
IHE leadlnG men OF Cieveianu ana founSs-
town will organize company, with capital OF
S1,00o,0 900, for the purpose of building steel
works in the latter place. -z-s - tri
CoNKLIN,, the young man of Norwalk who
eoped with $500 of his father -in-Iaw's money,
is reported as safe in Canada. His father-in-
law, however, is after him. g Is = "a 3 L-
Gov. FOSTER has appointed Hylas Sabin, of
Union County, Commissioner of Railroads and
Telegraphs for the term of two years, uice
Gen. j. 5. Robinson, resigned. .re.l .e,
J. w. TWICE, of Navarro Village, five miles
south of Massillon, has suddenly disappeared,
to the regret of a number Of creditors He
dealt in horses, furs and other articles 9Si
AT THE mills of Hills Paper Company, q mile
south of. Delaware, Henry. Breyfogle,. aged
fourteen years, stepped backward into a vat of
boiling alkiG, and was completely cooked.
HARRY MARTIN, of Mount Blanchard, Han
cock County, while showing new revolver to
friend, accidentally discharged the weapon, the
ball lodging in his stomach. He cannot re-
cover. 49, ~ VS. LEk
MRS GEORGE DAVIS, of Youngstown, died
last week from the effects of abortion, and an
investigation, it is stated, will give one of
Youngstown's most prominent physicians some
trouble. tc-t -s--i-lS -ist e ~ 81 49, 8 30 g.
AT OXFORD, Robert Hill picked up an old pis-
tol, which he thought Was not loaded, and
pointing it at his friend, l.. G. Bel, "a student
In the Miami University, discharged it, the ball
taking fatal effect in the young mans neck.
MRS GEoAaE DAVIS, of youngstown, died
few DAYS ago from the effects OF abortion, and
Dr. A. Kelfy is under arrest, charged with the
crime. Kelly has already been in the Peniten-
tiary for rape, and was pardoned by Hayes
when he was Governor. -.
HENRY DEAN, formerly guard at the Peni-
tentiary tried to shoot his wife and child in Co
lumbus the past week He was only prevented
by the heroic action of q neighbor named Mrs.
Schofeld, who received scalp wound from q
stray bullet. o.. 3 ;4HGs G-l at akeEf
DURING the trial Of the case of Elias Bran
denberg against Earhart Banman, in the Com
mon Pleas Court at Dayton, while Brandenberg
was testifying, the defendant, Banman, assault
ed him, knocking him into the jury-box. Judge
Elliott ordered Banman under arrest. and ad-
journed the Court until the afternoon.
THREK weeks ago Arthur earlier, physician,
went to sandusky from Wellington, Ohio, to
look for =, business opening. He was in
Strengthened circumstance, and, being stran-
ger, obtained no employment Finally in ft
Of despondency, he committed suicide by taking
poison. Deceased had praeticed at medicine at
Mansfield with DR.. Craig and at Erie, Penn.
He was forty years of age and leaves q wife and
two children at Wellington in abject poverty.
He and bis wife had had trouble and had been
separated for some weeks. She telegraphed to
Sandusky, upon the same day he committed
suicide, that she had no home, no money, and
could make no provision for disposition Of re-
maius f-st's- = s= - .