The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-05-04
OHIO STATE NEWS.

A woMAN named Martha Sullivan is in jail
1t Mount Vernon charged with horse stealing.
JOHN D. BoYERs, of Rome, Ashtabula Coun-
ty, suicided by shooting. Financial troubles.
YOUNG girl named Drees, at Lima, was
fatally burned while trying to light fre with
kerosene.
A MINER named VIM. Schemelin, was killed
bv falling slate in the Peacock coal mines, near
Pomeroy.
FINES aggregating $500 have been assessed
twelve saloonists in Bellefontaine, for selling
liquor illegally. usl5
w. s1ILIoK, Township Treasurer 1T Findlay,
was robbed by burglars Of $1,000, $1,4OO OF
which was township funds. ~
AMOS CARVER, aged thirty years, OF Deers-
Vile, Harrison County, suicided by hanging.
Unrequited love was the cause.
JOIN NrrFLrN, near New California, scratched
his hand ON = thorn-bush while grabbing, ano
died two days after Of acute Inflammation OF
the hand. III gus
A LITTLE girl named Wilson, in Harrison
County, was attacked by ferocious dog and
horribly lacerated. The dogs teeth penetrAted
the stomach in several places.
JAMES LoNa, Of Lebanon, brakeman on tho
Cincinnati Northern Railroad, was fatally IN
jured near Cincinnati by lumber falling from
tho car ON him while switching the car.
RoBEAT ERNswIrEl, mail-carrier between
Utica and Centerburg, has been arrested by
Special Agent Brown and taken TO Columbus
on the charge Of robbing the mail. He con-
fessed the deed. ea g
ACxnARy1L1x correspondent says Mr.. Robert
Kendall, . farmer living Eve miles west OF thae
place, has . monstrosity in the shape OF .
woolly calf, now i've weeks old and attracting
considerable attention. 4s-i
DANIEL KEILER, living four miles west OF
Cslina, died from An injury he received on the
right temple . week previous, while practacing
boxing with boxing-gloves. Keller Was large,
muscular man. He leaves wife and TWO cnlt-
dren. -e tsr-c
THx body of Thomas Ford killed near Niles
by \ falling tree-was stolen from the box In
which it was placed for burial before the under
taker had time to get it 10 the ground. He had
no relatives and no effort was made TO recover
the body.
Tnx Sheriff Of Cuyahoga County and six
Marshal odell, Of Cleveland, for breaking into
tho mill of the Falls River Company and re.
moving goods and machinery in the custody OF
United States Marshal Goodspeed. b91sd
Rev. +. J.. GATHER, Of Wooster, sued the
New York, Psnnsylvanis and Ohio Railway
Company for damages sustained in the loss OF
q trunk while in their charge, which he averred
contained several valuable sermons. He was
awarded e21o damages in the Common Pleas
Court. ef
WHITE BxAR, An Indian Chief Of the Chey-
enns tribe Wyoming Territory, u at Uhricks-
vile, and wiz remain until the 24tn OF NAY, q
which time he viii attend the Gnadenhutten
celebration Of the Moravian Indian massacre.
He is just the advance guard, and says many
others viii come soon. -
WILLIE EWING, Of Dunkirk, fifteen years Of
age, was fooling with pistol, which he thought
was mot loaded, but which proved to be heavily
loaded with fine shot, and In his careleesness u
went Of, sending the entire charge into the
face of his sister, Miss Florence Ewing, infiict-
ing serious, and pcrhaps fatal, injuries some
thirty shot struck her in the face.
Miss Nora LAWRENCE, Of Mentor, while
cleaning out closet, found package labeled
"msdicine" which she threw into tho stove
Instead Of medicine the package continued gun
powder, or some other explosive. The result
was an explosion which shattered the stove.
wrecked the furniture in the room, and badly
burned Miss Lawrence. Her injuries, 1t u
thought, will prove fatal.
SAYs Mount Vernon correspondent: Mrs.
Jacob Myers, wife Of . well-known citizen OF
the First Ward, has become insane on account
Of religious excitement and during the past
week, has made several attempts on her life.
An inquest d. htn0tico will be held and the un-
fortunate woman taken to an asylum for treat
ment. The cause Of her trouble was female
evangelist named Mrs. Robinson, who held
forth at the Methodist Church during tho past
winter. She told Mrs. Myers that she was not
doing her duty; that she should 80 among ner
acquaintances and use every persuasion to in
Guce them to "give their bearts to Jesus."
Mrs. Myers was Of retiring disposition, but
highly sentative nature, and the importunings
Of the "femals evangelist" 90 preyed upon
her mind that she threatened 10 kill her hus-
band IL he did not "join tho church." So
in the hearts Of hsr congregation that on her
departure, . few weeks since, . band Of women
followed her to the depot shouting and sing
ing gospel hymns. 7e0iaa