The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-01-05
OHIO STATE NEWS.

CONSIDERABLE smallpox throughout the
State. 1
Mrs. REBEccA CLoUsE, of Cardington, has
been adjudged insane.
NELSON PERM & Co.'s malt house, Cincin-
natl, burned. Loss, $40, 1000. ,.-
THOMAS J. PECK, civil engineer, has resusci-
ated the Hudson Enterprise (newspaper) at
Chagrin Falls.
MINER named Everly committed suicide
few miles north of Phillipsburg by lying upon
the railroad track.
NEAR Dell Roy William Sparks, afarmer, was
struck by heavy limb and killed while attempt
ing to dislodge tree.
THE chair and furniture factory of G. A.
Walker, at Bellefontaine, has been completed.
1t will employ 500 hands. a-A
AT ABERDEEN, Grant Hill, colored, aged six
teen years, had his skull fractured by the ex-
plosion of a toy cannon. ~ A-+ 80
HARRISON DREsBACH, a well-to-do farmer
living near Circleville, was crushed to death by
a tree which he cut down. E"sTEI ~
JOHN CROFT, of Dayton, died of strychnine
poisoning, supposed to have been maliciously
administered to him by an enemy. ae-as
JUDGE W. w. WooD, one of Union County's
most wealthy and influential citizens, died OF
paralysis of the lower limbs the past week.
Four prisoners charged with larceny, sPatter-
son, Fuller, Williams and White, dug out OF
the county jail at London and made good their
escape.
THE number of children in the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans Home is over 600. Current
expenses for the last year were above appro-
priations. is-a
AT THE Fayette County monthly stock sales,
December 81, 800 head of cattle sold at $3.50
to "a. 25 per 100 lbs. Prices of horses ranged
from $75 to $175.
VIM. HUFFMAN, young man, was found
dead near Magnolia, Stark County, and foul
play is suspected When last seen he was with
companion. His watch and part of his clothes
are gone.
AHoRsE valued at 90, 900, the property of the
Watkins brothers and Joseph Grow, Marion
County, was shot and killed by some unknown
person in the stable at the Marion Far
Grounds.
HENRY MoNErr, Passenger Agent Of the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad,
and his Cincinnati associates the past week
purchased the Ohao State Journal, at Columbus,
for $50, 900. 4..-.
MICHAEL WILSON, of Crestline, aged seventy
two years, attempted to crawl under . train
that was standing at the crossing. but before
he got through the train pulled up, cutting on
both his legs. He died in short time.
THE forgeries Of Fred Newburg, Assistant
Secretary Of the Ohio Board Of Public Works,
so far as figured out, aggregate about SIS, 600.
Newburg was arraigned in Police Court, at
Columbus, waived examination, and in default
of $12 600 bail, was remanded to prison.
NEWS has reached Madison that Fred French,
son of the late Edwin French, of -Austinburg,
has been executed in q Western State for the
crime of murder, and that before his death he
confessed to some knowledge OF the killing OF
the old Austinburg hermit, Robert Pray, who
was murdered several years ago by unknown
parties. G ,i
The agitation for the location of the Wheel
ing and Lake Erie shops is at last settled, and
Norwalk gets the plum. Commodore Garrison
Ma IL hal
Norwalk would raise $50, 900, give fifteen acres
of land, and certain water privileges, the shops
would be located there. These requirements
have been substantially met, and the citizens
are jubilant.
DAMP. EE1s, of Cleveland, has received the
s117, 900 of railroad bonds stolen from his
office some time since. MFR. Eels paid the agent
Of the thieves thesum Of $27, 500 for the recov-
ery of the property. As is natural, neither he
nor the negotiator for the criminal cares to go
into particulars, hence everything but the bare
statement is mere conjecture. The cost to Mr.
Eels from first to last has been about $50, 600.
Mrs. ADA ILER, of Massillon, was arrested
on the train at Wooster, per instructions from
her father, and returned to the parental roof.
She was charged with running away to join her
lover, boiler-maker in Cincinnati. Miss ller
protested against tho proceeding vigorously,
Claiming that she and the Cincinnati gentleman
dere married clandestinely last fall, and seemed
wetermined to join her alleged husband.
GoREis greatly excited over tragedy enacted
there a few DAYS ago. Morgan Richards, .
young man, went to the house OF his aunt
named Mary Terrill, and shot her down in the
presence Of her two daughters. He claims the
act was one of revenge for property which he
AYERS he was beaten out Of some years ago.
The son of Mrs. Terrill is now serving life
sentence in the Ohio Penitentiury for the muir
der of the weden family, three in number,
four years ago. The husband OF Mrs. Terrill
died three years ago from grief for the crime
of his son.