The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-27
OHIO STATE NEWS.

Vice.
MARTIN HARMON, of Kingsville, suicided by
! shooting. Financial troubles.
J. L. AYERS, sidney's School Fund forger,
has been held in $1,000 bail on four indiot-
ments.
MARTIN BRUMBAcK, a wealthy farmer near
Lancaster, has made an assignment; been deal
ing in stocks and patent rights.
BELLE THOMAS, at Alliance disappointed in
love, attempted suicide by shooting in the
breast Her recovery is doubtful.
ALoNzo BOND, engineer on the Wabash Road,
| was thrown from his engine and killed at Jewel
Station, four miles east of Defiance, last week.
JAMES E. Owens, of GAINESVILLE, while de-
| scending ladder with basket of hickorynuts,
fell and SO injured himself that he died shortly
after.
Coal has been discovered two miles north of
| Wooster, asplendid eight-foot vein having been
struck on the farms of R. P. Reddick and John
| McFeran.
HENRY KICKER, young man aged twenty
years, OF Urbana, while passing through the
! icy door-yard Of q nelghbor, fell and broke his
neck, death ensuing almost instantly.
| WHILE lowering the roof of an ice-house be-
longing to DIR. s. s. Gray, at Piqua, the jack
screws gave way and the entire roof fell, crush
| ing and instantly killing Oliver Bunshell. Bum
shell leaves wife and two children.
THREE men, Wesley Altman, John Cussic and
John Stafford were put out of Larertys sa-
| to be Wesley Altman, burst in the door, and
with scantling, killed Lafferty. All are un-
| der arrest.
The body of John L. Roll, who recently died
at Gallon and was buried at New Philadelphia,
it has been discovered, has fallen into the hands
, of body-snatchers. The coffin had been
smashed in with rail and the grave only part
i ly filed.
, A FARMER named George Hayman, in run
away near Minerva, WAS thrown from his sleigh
| against tree, severely injuring his head,
breaking his jaw-bone, fracturing his shoulder
covery is extremely doubtful.
| NEAH Piqua, one section of Panhandle
! freight II ain ran into the rear of one ahead of
it, while entering town from the west Three
cars were pitched down the embankment, and
| the caboose WAS set on fire and destroyed. The
engine had all its head-gear smashed away.
Train men escaped injury by jumping.
NEAR Piqua, Panhandle freight train was
| coming down heavy grade a mile east Of
town, when it broke in two. The forward part
was stopped and run back short distance,
when it collided with the rear part, mashing
| five freight cars to pieces and destroying
large lot Of freight. One of the cars burned.
Nobody hurt.
| A swITCHMAN named Watson, at Kent,
| got onto an engine and attempted to run it.
He did. The lever slipped ont of his hand,
| knocked him from the cab, and the engine
| dashed madly into some freight cars, doing con-
siderable damage. Watson lost his position ON
| the engine and road both.
AT Point au Pelee Island. twenty miles from
Sandusly, in Lake Erie, Henry Rienheimer
Canadian and United States Governments, and
| then blew his own brains out. He had gone to
the island on foot over the ice to pay Hender-
son visit, the two having always been warm
| friends, and was sitting at the fire warming
| and chatting when he committed the deed.
Henderson will probably recover.
AN explosion in the friedrich works of Jas
per F. Ball, at Elliotsville, Jefferson County,
completely demolished the entire building
50x108 feet. William Pagan, aged seventeen
years, had his right leg blown OF above the
knee, and sustained internal injuries and
severe cuts about the head and body. He can
not recover. Cooper Stinwell, the engineer,
Frank Stewart, VIM. Dunlaney and John Lay
ton, employees, were severely injured.
Rev. EDWARD PURCELL, Ex-Vicar- General Of
| the Archdiocese Of Cincinnati, died suddenly
Thursday night at his refuge, the Ursuline
| Convent, near Fayetteville, in Brown County.
Father Purcell was born in Mallow, County
Cork, Ireland, in 1S08 and came to this coun-
try when but lad of fourteen. For over a
| year Father Purcell made his home in the soli-
| tude of the ursulne Convent, where he gave
| up his life. His fatal illness was but Of four
days duration.
Mr.. MCGUIRE, a farmer living near Canal
| Lewisville, Coshocton County, has an animal
| on DIS 1arm WHICH lS CURIOUS mOnSIrOSlty. IL
| is the body of a calf, the head OF O bulldog;
has no legs below the knee-joints, is minus a
tail, and its sex is indistinguishable. This ap-
| parent cross between the bovine and the canine
specie was calved few days ago, is as lively as
| could be expected and bids fair to live its
| natural lifetime. Still, it seems to us that we
have heard Of this monstrosity before, else one
very much like it.
AVERY singular case of hydrophobia oc-
Cured on Mr.. H. A. Grim's farm near New
premises was bitten by bulldog, and in a
short time it showed very marked symptoms of
rabies, frothing at the mouth raving around in
frightful manner, and swapping and biting
at every object that came in its way. 1t finally
attacked Mr. Grim's little boy, who narrowly
escaped being torn to pieces by the ferocious
brute whereupon Mr.. Grim ended his mad ca
reer by putting bullet-hole through its head.
The following is the population of cities
and towns in Ohio having not less than ten
| thousand ranking in the order given: