The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-15
NUMBER ii.
ONO STATE NEWS.

At THE London stock sales, the past week,
700 cattle were sold at from 3@7c. per pound
NELSON BRowN. colored, jumped from the
boat Bonanza into the river at Ripley and was
drowned. ...-.g-. III s.-,.
CHILD of Daniel O'Connell, Urbana, pulled
pan OF boiling milk from the stove and was
scalded to death.
JOHN STROKE, Of Mound, after forging notes
and selling them to the amount OF $S, ,00O, has
left the country. tgOl. I'D gGE l
JACOB MEssNEH, farmer sged "a, living
four miles from Warren, shielded by drowning
in pond. Cause unknown. -
The assessors returns in Champaign County
indicate an aggregate increase in personal
property over last year Of 81 ,0OO,O 600.
&. AT MADISON q team driven by Frank G.
Stevens became frightened at locomotive
and ran away throwing stsvsns to the pave
ment and killing him. ,e
On ACCOUNT of domestic trouble Miss Pike,
Of Uhrichsville, aged fourteen years, made two
attempts at drowning, but was rescued on both
occasions by man who happened to be passing.
The name of Raysville, Warren County, has
been changed to Lytle, In honor of the late
General W. b. Lytle, and postoffice estab-
lished there. J. Albert Kelsey is Postmaster.
DANIEL COY, farmer living near Youngs-
town, while reaching down to q shelf in well
where butter had been placed to keep cool, fell
headforemost to the bottom, resulting in his
death. as 1Q
THE Coroner returned q verdict In the
steamer Eagle explosion case, At Sandusky,
finding that the six persons who have died from
injuries received at the explosion met their
death through the carelessneas and recklessness
. of the engineer, James W. johnson, deceased.
THE Tiffin CO., Woolen Mills are said to be in
fair way Of regaining their former financisi
footing. President Ellis, Of the company, has
put $4,000 into the concern, and r. w.
Shawhan, owner of the property at Tifin, $40, :
000 The mills have not lost q day, but arc
running at their full CAPACITY.
FRED. RUSH, young man from Marion,
Ohio, was drowned in the Sanduaky River,
near Wyandot, Wyandot County. He, with
several others, had been engaged in washing
sheep, when he started to cross the river and
got into deep water and WAS unable to swim.
The body was recovered three hours after.
THERE seems to be = general fendish DISPOSE
ton among tramps to carnally assault little
school girls whom they chance to meet on the
road, and parents can not be too watchful OF
the safety of their little daughters. Mob law
may be bad, but its terrors ought to be still
greater. ao1 ls @
The trial at Marietta Of Sarah Jones, charged
with the murderof her husband, John Jones,
aged seventy eight. years, resulted in . verdict
of assault and battery. The killing occurred
last August, at which time they had quarrel
and Sarah beat the old man 10 severely that he
died in q few hours. 1
The spot, eight miles north of Upper San
dusky, where William Crawford WAS burned at
the stake by the Delaware Indians just 100
years ago, was tho scene of grand centennial
celebration the past week. at which president
Hayes, Generals w. H. Gibson and John G..
Lee, and the the Evangelist Moody, we're pres
snt. -- L
ENGINEER DENNIS BARNEY, on the Toledo,
Cincinnati and st. Louis Marrow Gauge, run
his large engine Mogul, No. H., into the canal
at Delphos and played the old Harry with
things generally. The draw bridge was open
and the proper signal was out, but Dennis
failed to see it. The great Mogul, mean
time, lies at the bottom Of the canal and pas
sengers are transferred. ,-.-r
A CoLoRED citizen of Cardington, named
Archer, has long had trouble with his neighbors
because they failed to call him Mister Archer,
and few days ago got 80 angry about it that
he shot three persons. The Sheriff had some
trouble to keep the citizens from lynching
Archer, but finally succeeded in lodging him in
jail at Mount Gilead. The outraged people
burned Archer's farm buildings house,
barn, etc.
Con. SWEENEY, the saloonist whom the
Cedarville people have blown up 10 many times,
has been blown up once more. A charge Of
dynamite was placed on the roof of the south
west corner of his saloon, and that part of the
building was blown into kindling wood, scat
tering timbers, plastering, and whisky dis
tance Of fully forty feet. A bedstead, standing
in the bedroom upstairs, which was unoccu-
pied, was blown to pieces. Sweeney and his
son were sleeping in the rear end Of the build
ing, but escaped uninjured. Sweeney recently
had the saloon repaired and painted, and his
loss will foot up fully $3.50. Sweeney declares
his intention Of continuing the business at the
old stand. ~ ---f-7 -.-~ ~--..-5 j.