The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-17
OHIO STATE NEWS.

dead.
WILLIAM ODAY, of McCuneville, was fatally
injured by railroad car.
J. F. HoUcK, aged eighty-one, living near
Findlay, was fatally injured in q saw-mill.
The Commissioners of Hancock County last
week paid out S470 for skeep killed by dogs.
The Commissioners of Marion County last
week paid for sixty-nine sheep, killed by dogs.
CARRIE INaLE, young lady Of De Graif was
disfgured for life by using coal oil to start
fire.
VIM. HOPKINS was killed and Morgan Davis
fatally injured in the Upson coal mines, near
Shawnee.
MATTE COLBY, young girl in Toledo, had
quarrel with her lover and took arsenic, from
which she died.
A rHREE-YEAR-oLp child of Jaspar Converse,
ut New Philadelphia, was scalded to death by
falling into kettle of water.
The trial of William Thieson, who deliberately
killed his wife in Columbus for obtaining
divorce from him. is in progress.
CONRAD RENTABAcH, convicted at Sidney OF
the murder of Joseph M. Lehman, last fail,
will be hanged on the 25th inst.
Michael Cahi1l, baggage-master at Tiffn,
fell distance of ten feet, striking on bis head,
and died two hours after the injury.
j. A. FAY Il Co.'S machine works. Cincinnati,
were destroyed by fire the past week, entailing
loss Of $l5O,000. Insurance, $97, ,500
Miss ELLA SHAW, of Findlay, has recovered
$500 damages from Ira Mackey ct al, who rode
over her on horseback while she was returning
from church.
The Grand Jury at Millersburg have indicted
John Deyore for murder in the first degree, tho
crime being that of killing his father near Mil
lersburg about six weeks ago.
CHARLES J. N. KELLY employed as manager
in the flour and feed establishment Of Merrick
7. johnson, on Pearl street, Cleveland, com-
mitted suicide by shooting.
T5.... AT~ D. - H. Ana
retired its circulation and surrendered its
charter. 1t has reorganized as a private bank,
and will be known hereafter as the CONNER
cial Bank.
EDWARD CANNON, an insane man, was ar
rested near Steubenyile, for tagging Pam
Handle train. He was formerly fagman on
the railroad, and now imagines it his duty to
flag all passing trains ~
The Commissioners of Auglaize County met
the Logan County officials at Bellefontaine,
last week. to settle disputed boundary line.
One hundred and forty acres belonging to Lo-
gan has been taxed in Auglaize for twenty
years.
MARY LANTz of Mt. Vernon, has brought
suit in the Knox County Common Pleas, under
the Adair Law, against Washington Hyatt, ct
al, in the sum Of $4,000, for selling intoxi-
eating liquors to her husband, and thereby de-
priying her of support
The grandfather of Rev. W. H. Singley, pas
tor of the Lutheran English Church Of Belle
fontaine, recently died, aged one hundred and
nine years. He was born in 1772. Mr.. Sing
ley's great-grandfather lived to be one hundred
and ten and his grandmother one hundred and
five years old.
TOMMY RICHARDSON, an eleven-year-old boy
of Dresden, recently arrested and committed
to jail for theft was released by his father
furnishing bail, but no sooner was he free than
he committed another theft-stealing the works
of clock from the residence of Robert Tyhurst
and has again been arrested and committed
to jail. -
SAMUEL MARaERAT, son and daughter, Of
Napoleon, were poisoned by eating wild pars-
nips. The old gentleman and daughter were
saved by the prompt and vigorous action of
neighbors, but the son, Elmer, healthy, ro-
bust young man of eighteen years, died in hor-
rible agony four hours after eating the fatal
root.
MRS ATHEY, who has been sentenced to the
Penitentiary for life for the murder in May,
1880, of Mary Seneff, in Tuscarawas County,
is only twenty-seven years DID, and has killed
two women in her lifetime The first woman
she killed lived near Dover Salt-works, and the
quarrel leading to the crime had its origin in
damages done to Mrs. Athey by chicken
scratching in her garden.
GEORGE w. WARE, of Dayton, has been
granted divorce from his wife Martha j. Ware,
on the ground Of adultery committed with Lee
Brumbaush on the Goth day of September,
1880, the day on which Ware shot and killed
Brunlbaugh. The defendant, Mrs. Ware, was
allowed alimony to the amount of $5 per
week for two years, and all the furniture, SD
verware, etc., and Warewas given the custody
of the two children.
WILLIAM TRorTER and wife, residing at Old
town, Mahoning County, have been arrested
and lodged in jail on q charge of numbering
their son William a few days ago. It seems
that the son had been arrested for fighting and
was fined five dollars. This so angered his
father that he beat him cruelty and struck him
a blow that knocked him down flight OF stairs.
The mother is arrested as accessory, but the
evidence against her is not made public.
On the morning of the 18th of last October
the body of David Spears was found near his
home in Buffalo Creek, in the eastern part of
Lawrance County, sweltering in his blood. As
to who the perpetrators of the horrible crime
were it has remained an entire mystery until
last Saturday, when the Grand Jury reported
bill against Litburn Pritchard, who lives in
the same neighborhood, charging him with
murder in the first degree. He was arrested
Saturday night, and placed in Jail. The trial
will be called in few days
Some months ago we mentioned the fact that
John Sells, prominent farmer near Mount
Vernon eloped with the wife of his neighbor,
Jacob Carpenter, leaving behind his own better
half and an interesting family Of children.
Mrs. Sells sought Carpenter, and so successful
ly did he solace her that she ensconced herself
beneath his roof and assumed the management
Of his household duties. Carpenter, although
heroically, and became the protector and pro-
wider for the several Juvenile Sells. A few days
ago old man Sells and Mrs. Carpenter returned
in quiet manner to the neighborhood from
whence they so unceremoniously departed, and
q caucus was held by the heads Of the Soils
Carpenter families, the result of which was the
return of each wife to her lawful spouse.