The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-09
OHIO STATE NEWS.

At GORE Henry Heff's two small children
were poisoned by eating poke-root.
SEVERAL dogs were reported last week to be
afflicted with hydrophobia at GAINESVILLE.
HENRY ATKINSON, aged twenty, fatally shot
himself at Perrysville while shooting fish.
Two freight locomotives on the Ohio Gem
tral Railroad were totally wrecked near Lam
caster by collision.
DAVID HORN, for thirty-seven years Post
master at Uniontown, died last week, aged
seyenty-seven years. r-.--.----
LICE TuRRoY, of Leesburg, was killed by the
cars while in an intoxicated condition. He
leaves a wife and two children in . helpless
condition.
YOUNG man named Josiah Price, living
near Circleville, fell dead from heart disease
while making q call on a young lady named
Miss Tilton. l=~tt gs
CALF ran against Mrs. T. G. Porter, an
estimable old lady of Belle Center, and knocked
her down. She fell on a wooden bucket and
sustained internal injuries which may prove
fatal.
/ LAST fall 81, ,030 was stolen from the store Of
Sunderman Bros, at Amanda, village near
Lancaster. Last week the entire amount was
found concealed in jar on the premises of A.
NJ. Clark.
ISAAC BRADBURN, farmer residing at
Adams Mills, aged about fifty years, while
hauling saw logs was instantly killed by the
wagon upsetting and the log rolling upon him.
He leaves large family.
| A TRAMP was arrested at London last week,
| for attempting to violate the eight-year-old
| daughter of Matt. Smith. Fortunately tho
| child's mother was in the house, heard her
| cries, and ran the rascal down.
FARMERS along the the Scioto Valley are ex-
| periencing considerable difficulty with their
| seed-corn. Many fields had to be replanted.
This, with the lateness of the season, will cause
the yield to be below the average.
OSCAR TRAPPAGAN, at Massillon, who has
| just completed q six months term in the
county jail for throwing vitriol in his wife's
face, has again been sent to jail for using OBJ
scene and profane language to J. M. McEwen
and wife on the street. He is a sweet pickle
YOUNG man named Owen Kaiser, about
sixteen years old, was seriously injured 1t
Hinkle's handle factory at Kenton, by being
caught in a large cutoff saw. His right thigh
| was torn off, his right arm fearfully lacerated,
and his left heel badly torn. He has been
patched up, but is thought can not live.
THERE is little telling what men will do
sometimes. Frank keck, wealthy farmer
| living at Wilkesville, seventeen miles from Nc
Arthur, has abandoned his wife, family and
| home for an abandoned woman named Lilly
| Vale. Mr.. Keck had been considered one OF
the best citizens of that entire section.
| CHRISTIAN STRAIN, of Canton, having served
out sentence in jail for drunkenness, was dis
| charged, and being refused admission to his
| own house by his wife, went to the house of q
| neigbor named Sommers and attempted to out
| rage Mrs. Sommers. The husband happened
| upon the scene just in time to save his wife,
but Strain managed to get away and is stil1 at
| large. ,..-.
| The drouth is having serious effect. Says
| Mount Vernon correspondent: "Sixty-fve
employees of c. & G. Cooper & Co.'s iron-Works
have been discharged. Agents Of the firm
have been sending in reports from all parts Of
the country Of the failure of the crops, caused
by the drouth, which will decrease the de-
| mand for farm engines and agricultural ma
chinery." g..
| BooK-AaENT named Haas, wrote note to
married lady in Dayton, requesting an inter
| view, appointing a time and place. The lady
was eminently respectable, and of course
| handed the note to her husband. Her husband
kept the appointment for her, accompanied by
cowhide. When the smiling agent came
forth rugged in manner 70 be recognized, the
husband gave him terrific whipping.
WITHIN week an epidemic disease, COM
mencing with the symptoms noticeable in cases
| of distemper, and finally going to the brain
and causing very sudden death, has begun to
the eastern part of Morrow County. The
worth of the horses so far killed by the dis
ease will not fall short of 81 800. The expert
ence and skill of veterinary surgeons in these
cases seem to be almost worthless.
EDWIN F. DUNN, travelling salesman for
Jeffras, Seeley & Co., Cincinnati, suicided by
jumping from the fifth story Of the Emery
Hotel, on Vine street. He struck the avn
ing in his descent and was badly mangled.
Death was instantaneous. He had for several
weeks been afflicted with dependency, and had
gone to the hotel at noon, at the request of his
employers, to take needed rest. He was forty
two years old and unmarried.
AT MARION divorce has been granted in q
very peculiar case. In the Court of Common
Pleas, Judge Beer granted divorce to Thomas
Sunderland from his wife, Druzilla, on the
ground of desertion, incompatibility, grosl
neglect of household duties, Indifference to the
wants Of Thomas, and conduct generally un-
becoming spouse Sunderland is an eccentric
man about fifty years old, totally blind, and q
broom-maker by occupation; Druzilla is about
ten years his senior, and from the testimony
elected from the plaintiff and several Witnesses
is not only shiftless and careless, but exhibits
decidedly uncleanly exterior. Neither the do.
fendant nor attorney appeared, and the old
man left the Courtroom with his decre&
declaring that he was in a hurry to get homs
and ''bounce the old gal from the premises,
where the latter, it seems, recently turned NJ
on one of her periodical visits.