The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-30
OHIO STATE NEWS.

Work on the water-works at Painesville has
begun.
THOMAS HAUK, . young man, suicided at
Lisbon, by shooting.
HENRY TIrENsUnoH, German, suicided by
drowning at Carlinville. -- s.
TIE Akron Malleabls Iron Works COMPANY
has made an assignment. ec-s
DRs. BRowN and Aldrich, two physicians of
Defiance. are down with smallpox.
A TEN-CENT subscription List for Sergeant
Msson's family has been started at Fremont.
SAMUEL G. TERRY, an old citizen of Steuben.
vile, suicided by cutting his throat with pen.
knife. a. 70 -
GEonaE Cole, Of Gallon, brakeman, died
from injuries received from falling under q
train. -.
on the grounds that, "as luxury it was too
expensive"
LAWRENCE FINLEY, . young carpenter Of
Ashtabula, was killed while working ON tres
tie near Niles. 81.
JACOB L1rzENBERaER, of Van Lue, Hancock
County, aged seventy years, was last woek mar.
ried to his fourth wife. --
A YOUNG man named Champman, living near
South Charleston, while fooling with revolver,
accidentally shot his brother in the knee.
WOOSTER correspondent says the farmers
IN that section are complaining of the appear
ance of grasshoppers, fully one-third grown.
ALBERT HoaE, who was tried at Bellefon-
taine for the killing of Charley Martin, has
been sent to the Penitentiary for term Of
fifteen years. ...l ~ ...,-,-..---. :.
The storm did more or less damage all over
the State. Land slides, fallen trees, trestles
washed away, wrecked buildings, etc., are re-
ported from many quarters.
ALBrRT KELLER, farmer living north of
MassiliOn was gored by an enraged bull in the
groin of the right leg, the horn tearing OF the
femoral artery. His condition is critical.
THEoBoLD KHATz, German, suicided at
Mansfield BY hanging. He left . note. which
IN Germany. The reason why NO one needs to
know" - lz l-.sl
TEE body Of Joseph Taylor, the young man
who fell from New Bridge, near Hamilton,
four weeks ago, while engaged in repairing the
same and was drowned, has been found. 1t
was in an advanced state Of decomposition.
BENZ. SHAUvER, . wen known farmer living
near Rushsylvafia, three weeks ago started on
= visit to relatives, and has not since been
heard from. He was man of excellent habits
and it is feared he has met foul play.
G. B. Berry and Frank Wilson, Of Lorain,
were capsized by their row5oat striking q snag,
and Berry swan ashore with great difficulty,
but Wilson was drowned. He was aged twenty
three years and recently from New York.
JOHN p. FoRRz, young married man OF
Bellefontaine, suicided by taking morphia.
He was . man Of good family, in good circum-
stances and with pleasant domestic relations,
but was despondent, and committed suicide
because he had sold his homestead farm, had
| sickened Of his bargain, and could not induce
the purchaser to resell to him. He leaves .
wife and two children.
ANOTHER confession by George Ellis, Of Ash
land (Ky.) murder fame, is now in the hands
Of Governor Blackburn, in whieh Ellis retracts
all the testimony to which he swore At the trial
Of Neil and Craft, and upon which testimony
chiefly they were convicted and sentenced to
| be hanged. The confession is attested ty
| County Judge W. B. Kinkead, Of Lexington,
and sworn to before Watts Parker, one of the
firm of Morton d Parker, attorneys. Mr.. Nor
| ton WAS Captain Of the Lexington Guards at
| Ashland. The confession was made to L. b.
Brown, of Catlettsburg, counsel for Neal. He
| exonerates Neal and Craft and does not ac-
| count for the murder and outrage. He also
pleads innocence for himself.
A SPRING VALLEY correspondent says: :" Our
| citiEens were awakened At midnight by cries Of
distress, and by the light Of the street-lamps
| could see mule dashing through town, drag.
| eing man by the saddle stirrups. Persons
followed on horseback and afoot, and by the
| lanterns were enable to follow the trail made
| by the man in the road, and by fragments OF
| quarter miles west Of town they fotlnd him at
| the house Of Mr.. Lucas, near which he had ex-
tricated himself and was still able to get to the
house. He proved to be Charles Allen, an es-
timable young man who lived at P. A., Alexan-
| der's, near where hs was found. The flesh was
I torn from his arms and body, e1hibiting bones
| and tendons, but his head was not injured. He
| WAS thrown from the mule one and . Quarter
miles north of town, and dragged two and =
| half miles on q graveled road, over bridges,
railroad tracks, hills and gnllies, wearing .
| great part Of the clothes from his person, ~
| we'll as the flesh from his body; yet he is
thought to be in fair way to recover"
AT ANNAPOLIS, a small village in the West
| ern portion of Jefferson County, lived one L.
| D. Speck, his wife and hired girl named Mary
| johnson. Mrs. Speck complained to her htis.
| band that his conduct toward the hired girl was
| not of q becoming character, and in fact; she
attempted to ohlige Miss johnson to leave the
place, but johnson would not, and supon her
complaint to speck, speck set upon his wife
and gave her = fogging, after which he put her
| night was very cold, and having no place to 70,
Mrs. Speck, with her child, took refuge in the
| loft of stable on the premises. By some
means the neighbors learned Of the affair,
| turned out to search for the wife, and found
i her and the child in tho loft, nearly frozen.
1 They were very indignant at the treatment she
had received, but did not do anything that
| night further than to compel the husband TO
| admit her to the house. A few nights afterward,
however, five men disguised as negroes ap-
| peared at tho Speck mansion, took tho brute
| and the johnson girl out into the yard, and
| not being able to procure any tar, smeared
them all over with syrup molasses, then threw
| on feathers, and the couple soon locked like
| two mammoth fowls. The people arc making
| so hot for Speck that we understand ho in
tends to shortly leave the neighberhood.