The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-03-16
OHIO STATE NEWS.

DR.. J. W. 8. GouDY, Postmaster at Newcom-
erstown, has resigned.
L. H. SwE1aART, German printer, GAINESVILLE,
suicided by drowning.
MAN named Hogan, aged forty-fve years,
was killed by the cars at Kent.
The Commissioners of Hancock paid, last
week, 1926 for sheep killed by dogs.
R. E. FoUTs, Clerk of the Court at Carroll
ton. has been missing since February 8.
Ex-SHERIFF F. C. THOMPSON, prominent
grocer at Caldwell, has made an assignment.
MYRIADs of grasshoppers are reported to
have appeared in the vicinity of New California.
GENUINE coal vein has been discovered on
the farm of James McCurdy, near Marysville.
i JOHN BUSH, for the killing of Joseph Burbic,
at Youngstown, has been bound over in the
sum of So, 600.
MRS SARAH STELLwELL, a resident of FIRE.
dercktown, celebrated her Tooth birthday on
the 7th of March.
THE Commissioners of Logan County, last
week, allowed bills aggregating 81, 937. 81 for
sheep killed by dogs during the past year.
Mrs. FLORA j. SILLINaER was divorced from
her husband at Celina last week, and within
twenty minutes thereafter was married to John
Wilson.
| FERDINAND SCHUMACHER will erect o fine
hotel at Akron. He will also shortly erect his
fourth oatmeal mill, eight stories high, and
the finest in the State.
| CATTLE brought from So to $5 per hundred
| pounds at the monthly stock sales at London.
| One hundred head of horses found buyers at
an average of $40 per head.
SUIT has been brought against Henry Sever
! ling, of Dayton, for $4,000 damages by
| Johanna Madden, wife of John Madden, for
selling liquor to her husband contrary to her
/ warning.
A LADY named Ross, living in Scioto Town
ship, Pickaway County, took what she supposed
/ k,I Ioo larr of nnIr huf vvn ffar-
ward proved to be strychnine, resulting in her
| death.
| CHARLES MURPHY, . young cabinet-maker,
| Cincinnati, became insane over Harrieon's re-
vivals and suicided by cutting his throat. A
week prior to the act he spent his time reading
the Bible.
JOHN W. DEFREEs, senior editor of the
Miami Union, published at Troy, died March
10, in his seventy y-third year. He had been con-
nected with the newspapers Of Miami County
for over thirty years.
JOSEPH CLARK, freight conductor on the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad,
was run over and killed at North Main street
crossing, Urbana, the past week. His home
was Gallon. He leaves wife and two children.
SAMUEL N. SHAFFER, of Akron, has brought
suit against the Board of Education for 81, 00(
damages by reason of the exclusion of his
children from the Public Schools for non.
compliance with the Board OF Healths com.
|
OBERLIN had disastrous fire the past week
Goodrich, book store; Gardner, druggist
Bronson the historic druggist; Carter Wood
hardware; Tobin, harness maker; the Ellis
building Herrick's building, the Skating Rink
and three dwellings were entirely consumed.
JAS. HERRIorT, aged fifty-two years, and ,
prominent politician of Union County, sulcideC
by hanging in his barn, two miles north Of th'
village of Frankfort. One murder and severa
suicides, and series of financial disasters havt
occurred in the family to which he belonged.
AS AN accompaniment to the use of bas
ball bat as rod for tine punishment of unrul,
school children, at Mt. Gilead, reported in thi
column Mt. Gllead now announces that on
John Mossman, school teacher, has takel
"French leave' after assaulting fourteen
year-old boy named Cox with his fist and beat
ing him terribly. Sheriff Mode is looking TO
| Mossman.
AN ALARMING statement co1hes from Morga
Center, Morgan Township, Gallia County. Th
only physician in the community has been con
fined to his bed with typhoid. fever, and mean
neighborhood, which the inhabitants, in thei
ignorance, supposed to be chicken-pox an
treated it accordingly. 1t is stated that owe
| tive hundred persons have been exposed to tn
. scourge, and that not less than twenty-five ar
afflicted with the contagion.
A CRUEL case of wife desertion is reporte
from Chillicothe. Lawrence Holtzderberg,
tailor, whose wife is an invalid, deserted hel
leaving for Cincinnati with q widow name
Summerset, who was employed at the house q
domestic. They took away with them th
greater portion of Mrs. Holtzderberg' clothing
even the bed clothing with which she had bee
covered, leaving her, with her children, in de-
titute circumstances. The Infrmary Director
will send her to the Infirmary.