The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-03
? OHIO STATE NEWS.

THE suicidal mania seems to be looking up.
THE ground was; whitened with snow in 5
Union County on the oath. sf ff....
MISS McALooN, a young lady Of New Straits
vile, was killed by a runaway team. -
= HENRIcK d. LEACH, q young man of Canal
Dover, suicided by shooting himself twice
through the body. 81 ssa ssf5+.
DANIEL MULLEN, aged fifty years, was in !.
stantly killed by passenger train at Youngs-
town. He leaves large family. . d
On SUGAR Run, near Pomeroy, George
Fisher was fatally stabbed by Andrew Ha-
brecht. Habrecht is in jail.
A YOUNG man of Dresden, Homer Bagent,
was perhaps fatally stabbed by some unknown {
person while in a crowd of roughs.
GEORGE VoGEL young man living near
Millersburg, who was sunstruck last summer,
has been declared insane and taken to Columbus.
EATON, West Alexandria, Elkton, Winchester,
Germantown, Miamisburg, Franklin, Middle
town. and Lebanon are all connected by tele-
phone. s. 1sFgs .a
REV. THEODORE CRew1, pastor of the Second
P. esbyterian Church at GAINESVILLE. was married
the past week to Miss Mary g. Hobart, of Grin
nell, Iowa.
MRs. RENNINa, Of Braceville, Trumbul
County, suicided by drowning. Her body
found floating in the river about six milesnorth
of Warren. f Fl. a. af e-e,E
MR.. WESLEY SHANRER, of Green Springs,
committed suicide by shooting himself through
unknown.
GEORGE BALDWIN, Of Benton Ridge, died
from the effects of strychnine administered by
his own hand. but whether with suicidal intent
is not known. StEF f,. ..
TwELvE-YEAR-oLD son of Dr. Landis, at
Oberlin, who few day ago shot himself acci-
dent.lly with toy pistol, has died from the
effects of the wound " zaf hl-@
The Commissioners of Perry County have
purchased forty acres of land just west of New
Lexington. on the Lancaster road, upon which
| to build q. .Children's Home. . fr -.
ADAM KUNTz, o respected farmer living two
miles south of Galloway, suicided by cutting Z
his wrist and throat with q razor. Cause de-
spondency over the death Of afavorite daughter.
The John Mitchell furniture building, on
Second street, between John and Smith st eets,
Cincinnati, burned the past week. entailing .
loss on property and stock of $50, 900, partially
| insured. 7ieliI z tS-'s ians,d cSsci 1i9
MISS LAURA GRAY, Of Hudson, Summit,
County, who was some time ago disappointed
in love aft .ir, has become violently insane. ,
Miss Gray is aged twenty years, is handsome,
and as been popular IN young society. -
AT BELLEFoNTAINE the Grand Jury indicted
Jacob Whitmore for murder in the first degree,
| charged with poisoning his wife. Albert Hoge
was also indicted for murder in the first degree,
| the crime charged being that Of shooting
| Charles Martin to death. ff+. s.-.,l
NEAR Careysville, Champaign County, while
| returning from church concert, three persons
| in buggies driving abreast on the pike, racing
their horses, ran over . Miss Rosa Jenkins q
young lady who was walking in the road, and
severely, if not fatally, injured her. She was
| badly bruised, and at last accounts in q preca-
| rious condition.
| SAYS Mount Vernon correspondent: Great
anxiety prevails among farmers relative to
| wheat planted in September. Heavy rains and
| warm weather have caused it to prematurely
| advance, and it is claimed that fully onc-half
| the amount sown is rotting at the roots or be-
| ing destroyed by the Hessian fly. The abund-
ant clover crop promised has not panned ont,
| and the granger wears an elongated face and
| azure countenance. lf4t ~
J. R. MUzEM, of Barnesville, Belmont County,
| some days ago, started on his way to Milwaukee
to wed an estimable young lady of that city.
While en- route he stopped at Chicago to see the
sights. Drinking was of course o part of the
| programme, and it is stated that when Mr..
| Muzem wound up in the station-house on the
| verge of lunacy from excess OF drink, it was
found his spree had cost him 81, 800. Mr..
| Muzem is well advanced in years, and well to
do. He does not often drink, but when he
does, everybody in his region is apt to find it
ont.
MRS. MARY Fry, the wife of well-to-do
farmer living north of Unionvile, eloped with
bssa left pas nofs w5h sarpr
aware of the enorlaity of his offense, but Mary
| had mashed him, and he powerless to re-
sist the temptation. Mrs. Fry added brief,
business-like postscript, urging her husband to
| procure decree of divorce right away and
marry certain widowed lady of the neighbor-
hood, who, she was quite sure, would be good
| to the seven small Fry she was leaving to his
| care.
A STRANGER on horseback stopped at the
farmhouse of Fred Eaglehoff five miles north
| of Plain City, and, after eating dinner and
smoking with the farmer, made a proposition
| to trade horses, his being an excellent one and
soon after put his saddle on Esglehoff's horse
and rode it off to try its speed, he said. Since
| then Eaglehoff has seen neither stranger nor
horse. On the evening of the same day sec
| ond party, claiming to come from Southern
| Ohio, called and laid claim to the strangers
horse as property stolen from him two nights
before. Eaglehoff looked on the matter as
put-up job and refused to give up the animal.