The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-14
OHIO STATE NEWS.
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NlAhioN AaS u teiepnOne exchange.
BENJAMIN SANFORD, cooper, suicided al
Lima.
REIMENsNYDER, Secretary of the Toledo
Water Works Board, it is estimated, is short
about $4,000.
NoRwALK is about to build new court
house, the Legislature having authorized the
issue of $35, 900 of bonds to pay for it.
The Legislature of Ohio seems to say, peo-
pie must go to church; at all events, they have
got to behave themselves when Sunday comes.
The evil-inclined the inidels, Sunday beer
guzzlers and all such people, are expected to
paste the Stubbs Sunday Observance Law in
their hats.
WIN. BECK, in the employ of Samuel Bell, at
Wooster, stole stallion from him, and when
caught, at DeKalb was in the act of selling the
horse at s 900.
LIVE stock sales of cattle at London last
week prices ranged from two and half to five
cents. -Four hundred and twenty-five head
were sold. The attendance was poor.
D. A. MoFFATT, of Hancock County, who
gave his order to a fruit-tree pedder for ever
green trees to the amount of 1922. CO. seems to
be the latest victim. The order turned up in
bank in the shape of note for $322.6O.
The will of Joseph E. Allonas, who recently
died at Mansfield. has been set aside. This was
very important decision, as the will conveyed
the right to al! the patents of the deceased,
which ere considered very valuable. to the
Aultman-Taylor Manufacturing Company,
thereby cutting off his wife and children.
Two boys at Lima, named Wilson and Colds
berry, aged twelve got into dispute over q
game of marbles, when Goldsberry drew q
knife and inflicted a dangerous cut on Wilson's
neck. The wound was dressed by physician,
who pronounced the escape from death mar
row one. Goldsberry skipped out to avoid ar
rest, just as an older person would do.
Mrs. Cora WOODBURY., of Urbana, has
hrnr1 1nhf
and Cleveland Railroad Company for $4,000
damages, which she alleges she has sustained
by the death of her husband, fireman on the
road, In Q collision last December. Mrs. Wood
bury also asks for o. 600 additional for injuries
sustained by herself by reason of said accident,
she being an injured passenger on the wrecked
train.
Ross j. SINGER, of Caldwell, has in his pos
session a wonderful curiosity. It is pig Or
rather, two pigs closely united together. The
curiosity has one perfectly formed head, two
sets Of tusks, two palates, double tongue,
eight prefect legs, four ears, two tails-in Short
two perfect bodies from the shoulders back.
Mr.. Singer claims to have big offers from Curl
osity hunters for this freak of nature.
AT Circleville, in the Lewis manslaughter
case, the claim for a new trial was abandoned,
and Judge Lincoln, in passing sentence on
Lewis, declared that in his opinion he was
guilty of numbering his mother, notwithstand-
ing the finding of manslaughter by the jury
At the close Of his lecture, he pronounced SEN
sence upon him for the term of twenty years,
the full limit OF the law. Lewis never WINGED
under the charge.
SAYS an Urbana correspondent: sThe bee
keepers of this section have met with great
losses from the severe winter, in some instances
whole apiaries being destroyed. The bees died
leaving an abundance of honey. Death ap-
cases, by large numbers of dead bees falling
over the entrance to the hive, etfectually shut
ting the bees in and smothering them to DEATH
The loss will aggregate many thousands of dol
lars in this immediate section"
ANOTHER man has seen the ghost of Marg
Seneff-Joshua Engler, of Canal Dover, why
publishes over his own signature the following
statement: II was at the Salt Works on Satur.
day evening, and returned home about two
o'clock in the morning, got within about twenty
yards of Sugar-Creek Bridge, where Mary
Senef was thrown into the water, when saw
the shape of a woman about ten feet from the
shore, come out of the water and walk up and
down the creek. I watched it for five minutes.
It started down the Stone Creek road and
turned the bend at Hosea Fishers, then it dis
appeared"
A DESTRUCTIVE fire at Mt. Vernon, on the
9th inst, burned one of the buildings belong
ing to the engine iron-works of C. & G. Cooper
& Co. The building was three numbered feet
long, sixty deep, and two stories high. The
upper-story was used for a store-room for pat
terms, brass fittings, saws, and patents. The
ground floor was occupied by completed trac-
ton farm engines, one hundred and twenty
five being closely packed in the room, and rem
dered it impossible for their removal, except
five, which were saved A great portion of the
walls fell, and from fear of being crushed to
death the firemen could not do much effective
work. The loss is estimated at $50, 600, which
is fully covered by insurance.
CLEVELAND. correspondent states that
ocal combination has just been effected there of
nearly all the Massillon and Mahoning Valley
coal interests. The combination embraces
Rhodes Co., three mines; Brewster & Co.,
the Brewster Mines; Paine, Newton & Co.,
Summit and other mines; Todd, Stambauah &
Co., all the Silver Greek mines and the mines
of the Pennsylvania Iron and Coal Company.
The managing Directors of the pool are Robert
Rhodes, A. Brewster, Isaac Newton, John Todd
and D. McGarray. John NJ. Drake is elected
business manager. The General Manager of
the Pennsylvania Company says that the combi-
nation was formed simply to take the steam
boat and cargo coal trade at Cleveland out of
the hands of a ring of middle-men and dealers
who were practicing frauds on ship-owners
through the connivance of lake captains They
disclaim any intention to advance prices.
JOHN GIEsE, at Lancaster, attempted to put
his son-i -in-law, James Bulger, out of his house,
when the latter seized a rolling-pin and would
have probably made it warm for Giese,
had not younger member Of the family.
Edward Giese about fourteen years of age,
taken q hand in the difficulty. He procured .
ssvolyer and fired at his brother-in-law, but Its
atIn was bad and the bullet severed couple Of
h:s sisters, Mrs. Bulger, fingers as she sprsrs
kHtween the combatants. The boy let him
have q couple more shots, however, which were
rore effective, one entering the right ear ant
coming out of the mouth, and the other mal'
ing dangerous wound in his back underneath
the left shoulder blade. Bulger lies in critical
condition, while his father-in-law and brother
in-law were taken charge of by the authorities.