The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-02-18
News Notes.

great flood In Massachusetts.
Hon. Horatio Seymour, of New York, is dead,
Middleport is getting ready bore for oil and
Henry waterson, of Louisville Courier-Journal,
seriously i'll.
Capt. Sam. h. Smithers, formerly of Gallipolis,
died at Detroit.
The grounding is Catching thunder from our
country exchanges.
William Harrison Sly, aged lawyer of Adams
county, dropped dead.
fine county building in Chicago is tumbling
down into the streets.
Miners at Mineral Ridge, Mahoning county, Ohio,
get an advance of ten per cent.
John Sullivan threatens to brand Paddy Ryan as a
coward. Don't take 1t, Paddy.
CT Raynor a jeweler, of Buffalo, NY, with his
wife, perished in their burning house.
George Driscon, carriage manufacturer of SPRING
field, Ohio, was murdered by burglars.
The Ross County Silver Mine craze seems to have
originated in a search for a coal mine.
Charles Jenick, near Akron Ohio, tried to murder
two girls because they would not kiss him.
Mutterings of another strike in the Hooking Valley,
owing to alleged dicharge of Union miners.
Front wall of brewery Pittsburgh fell in, killing
= workman. Pity 1t wasn't the proprietor.
Hancock,s pall-bearers: Secretary Bayard, Gems.
Sherman, Sheridan, schofeld. Buel and Wilcox.
Francis Murphy is getting about all the people
around Mansfield to sign the pledge, it seems.
Ettie Jones, Portsmouth woman, shot by her
colored lover, Al. Williams. at Charleston W. Va.
Boiling was found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree, at Newark, Ohio, for the murder of Douglass
Rebecca Kirby, of Chardon, Ohio, confined to bed
for forty years. recently cured by faith cure"
Fact!
Bucyrus Ohio doggery-keeper is in jail for SELL
ing liquor Sunday. That's the place for such
cattle.
Thomas Witten, a young farmer near Findlay, Ohio,
killed an old neighbor named JEFF. Adams. about a
line fence.
Luther Allen, a lunatic sent from Washington
county Athens Asylum, is six feet and eleven
inches high.
John O'Nelil, of Fulton county, Ca, was seized
with hydrophobia, from mule bite, and at last ac
counts was dying.
Murphy held his temperance meetings in the Rink,
at Mansfield, and disciple of the doggery inter-
est burned the building.
MIR. Tomlinson, of Lawrence. introduced bill
allowing County Commissioners to employ convict
labor on the county roads.
John G. Thompson, of Ohio, died at Seattle, WASH
ington Territory, of dropsy of the heart. For many
years a prominent politician.
Martin o. Van Fleet charged with embezzling fifty
thousand dollars Treasurer of Huron county. Ohio
was arrested at Brantford, Canada.
Charles Richardson and wife, of Chicago, put their
children out to work, and spent all they made for
whisky. The parents are now in prison.
The CIermont Courier says the management of the
Infrmary thrust an old man into an clubhouse and
made i'm stay there until his feet were frozen.
Patrick Nash Springfield, Ohio, butcher. stabbed
himself in the throat with knife in attempt at
suicide. But they caught iim and sewed him up.
1t is asserted that within radius of one hundred
miles from Dodge City, Kansas, one hundred thou
cattle and hundred persons perished during
the recent cold spell.
Dan. Dalton was ordered to jail by the Ohio House
of Representatives, for contempt. He was released
habeas corpus, and hearing set for next Satur-
day.
Sergeant of Police in Cincinnati is said TO have
dragged and his wife to the station-house for
speaking in terms of contempt of John Mclean and
the Doodle police.
1t has been discovered that the late Brigham
Young did big business in pre-empting land, by
means OF q mouse mounted on WneelS-Wnlcu As
moved about from section to section.
There is effort to have Gen. A. McCook appointed
of the -Generalships made vacant by the
death Of Hancock and the prospective retirement OF
Pope.
Lucy Matson Grimes, beautiful belle, of Paducah,
KY, eloped with Rhey Boyd, drunken lawyer. AT
St. Louis he deserted and she her throat and
died.
The mother of George w. Driscoll, of Springfield,
distinctly heard him calling her at the instant
he murdered in another part of the CITY, 1t was
. case of presentiment.
d. W. Evans, wealthy Welshman in Van Vert
county, left his house unlocked and burglars entered
ransackng the building taking gold watch and $500
in money, also robbing a couple of Mr.. Evans en-
ployes.
The Loyal Legion had splendid meeting in Gin
cinnati Wednesday of last week. Addresses by
Generals Sherman, Hayes, Kennedy, Grosvenor, and
others. Gen. II. C. King, of New York paid fine
tribute to the memory of Gen. Hancock.
Hancock's Adjutant-General, William D. Whipple,
will be remembered by the boys who served under
Pap Thomas during the war, Whfpple having been
Thomas chief-of-staff during the war.
"a drunken Cincinnati policeman, in uniform,
called at the residence of citizen and nsulted him.
Perhaps he thought that the proper thing for uni
formed policeman in Cincinnati to do.