The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-07-07

MucH OF the wheat throughout the State was
injured by the storm on the 29th ult.
MRs. FRAxx sPRAauE, at Garrettsville, sui
cdded by hanging. No cause assigned
MRs. DAVID srRoUP, pioneer lady Of South
Charleston, died suddenly from q paralytic
stroke.
JOSEPH ID. BoaGs and Nancy Z. Boggs, Of
Bellefontaine, want e5, 900 of A. G. Smith for
alleged slander.
MANUEL wALrxRs, aged 90 years, living four
miles back OF Pomeroy, was killed by falling
tree during storm
CHARLEs SxsrH, Mt Alliance, aged twenty
one years, was drowned In Mahoning River
while bathing. Cramps-
Ex-GovERSoR BrsHoP writes O letter TO
Cleveland Democrat declining TO be . candidate
for the Gubernatorial plum.
FRANK McGaorRE, of Plain City, while clean
ing twenty-five foot well, fell to the bottom
and was fatally injured.
ALEX. HERAr, aged seventy years, living at
Clyde, attempted suicide by shooting through
the face, but was not successful
CHARLES McMAHoN, miner, was killed In
Carbon Hill mine by falling coal. He leaves
IN invalid wife and i've children.
A HORSE driven by Scott Eden, In East Della
ware, struck a daughter OF John Scully with
ts hoof, almost instantly killing her.
A nvE-YEAR-oID boys had both legs cut on
by o reaper ON the farm of Sol. Spangler, near
Lancaster, and survived the injury only two
days.
VIM. HEsKEr, who keeps a hotel ut Jacobs
port Coshocton County, was killed during
violent storm by falling tree under which he
had taken shelter.
ALEXANDER WILSON, n large-landed proprie-
tor and extensively known as n cattle king,
Of Madison County, died last week at his home
at West Jefferson.
RoBEKr JEFFRKYs, q brakeman on train AS,
on the PennsylvaDia and Ohio Railroad, while
running along side his train ut State Line, fell
under the wheels and was killed
STATE SCHOOL COMMISSIONER DE WoLF has
discharged his~chief clerk, Captain Albritton,
and will appoint J. 4. Slater, Of Wauseon, I'm
his place, with Mr.. Borden, Of Milan, as as
sstant.
SUSAN FOWLER, aged nineteen years, OF For
est, fell In fit ON the railroad track and mo-
ment later freight train came tearing along.
Tho engineer saw the girl, but ten cars passed
over her, mangling her terribly, before he
could stop the engine.
VIM. l.. KING, formerly q deputy i'm the
Clerks Office in Fairfield County, charges gross
irregularities in the official conduct Of J. W.
Graybill, the present Clerk, and an investiga-
ton by committee appointed by the County
Commissioners is now in progress.
The trial of Joseph Kline, charged with
numbering his father by poison, is in progress
Mt Canton Mrs. Martha Boyle, housekeeper
In the family, testifes that Joseph made tea
and coffee on two different occasions while
Mr.. Kline was sick, and that she and Mr.. Kline
drank of the tea, but Joseph did not. They
were both shortly taken with fits Of vomiting.
MISS MARY ATTENTION, o miss of fourteen
years and daughter Of Hon. Gibson Atherton,
Of Newark, rescued two Of her companions who
had gone in bathing beyond their depths.
Neither of the girls could swim, nor could Miss
Atherton, and how she got them out she does
not know. Stranger still, she had her ordinary
clothing on, having remained sitting. in the
buggy, In which they had been riding, while
her companions attempted to enjoy the limpid
waters.
A YOUNG man by the name of Frank Harper,
living about seven miles southeast of Wooster,
shot and killed q monster snake near his home.
1t was Of the blue racer species, and measured
eleven feet one inch. 1t is said the young man
had a lively time of 1t before he succeeded in
capturing the reptile, and barely escaped his
poisonous fangs and deathly coil. This snake
has now become a curiosity in the neighbor-
hood where IL was killed, and will probably be
stuffed for some museum.
The Urbana Camp-meeting will commence
August 5th and close August 18th, thus holding
over two sabbaths-a departure from the GUS
tom OF former years. Rev. A. ID. Leonard, ID.
D., will have general direction of the religious
exercises of the meetings, assisted by Rev.
Thomas Harrison, Rev. A. Lowry, ID. D., Rev.
Geo. Watson, ID. D., Of Kentucky; Rev. s.
Baker, ID. D., and Rev. VIM Runyan, with
unusual interest and attendance Is anticipated
THE steel water tank on Prices Hill, Cincn-
matt, containing 2, 24S, 900 gallons of water, at
midnight Of June 2Sth, burst with q terrific re-
port and was swept away in almost an instant
Several houses in the vicinity were flooded and
two OF them moved from their foundations.
The tank itself, which cost something over $50,
600, was hurled distance of two hundred feet.
1t had been in use not quite two weeks. 1t was
forty-eight feet high and one hundred feet in
diameter.
SAYS Steubenville correspondent: "Sherif
Smith, Of this county, has returned from st.
Louis, having in custody Robert l.. Lindsay
and John It. Morris, who charged with ut
tering and publishing forged deeds to large
tracts Of land located in Missouri. The plan
under which they worked was to gain informa-
tion of parties owning land, aud then forge
their name to deeds, conveying said land to
fictitious persons, from whom it was trans
ferred to them, after which the sale took place.
The reason they were brought to this county
for trial was because James Turnbull and DIR.
Thomas Stanton, Of this city, held deeds from
Lindsay and Morris, which were considered
better evidence against them than any yet dis
covered. The operation Of these worthless has
been very extended, thousands Of acres having
been fraudulently disposed Of. The trial will
be one Of the most interesting that ever tool
place In Jefferson County, as B. Gratz Brown
and Ex-Governor Fletcher, OF Missouri, and
General Thomas Ewing, Of Ohio, have beer
retained to defend Lindsay and Morris, and
United States District Attorney Bliss will con-