The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-03-25
News Notes.

Neal Dow was eighty-two years old on last satur
day.
Fine declarations of st: Patricks day all the
country.
Milton Fisher, Columbus, Ohio, cremated at Pitts
| burgh.
Talk of institutng measures to remove Dan. Daltol
from office.
Oyster men at Baltimore will discontinue packing
on April 1st.
They have a crematory heated by natural gas, in
Pittsburgh.
Hazers at Buchtel College, Akron Ohio, to b,
prosecuted.
President Cleveland was forty-nine years old or
last Thursday.
George Greene, colored convicted of murder al
Canton, Ohio.
E1-Pre.ident Arthur has been dangerously sick
for some time.
waverly watchman bewafls lack of harmony among
local Democrats.
A. A. Gibson, near Columbus, Ohio killed himself
while cleaning his gun.
Gen. Howard wa. nominated for Major-General, in
place of Pope, retired.
George Q. Cannon, the Mormon, forfeited his bail,
$4,000. and did not appear.
The colored people at Washington, Ohio, endorsed
the Independent ticket.
Gen. Patrick, Superintendent of the Dayton SOL
dfers' Home, is seventy-fYe.
Seven persons fnjured-three fatally-by natural
gas explosion at Pittsburgh.
Admiral Porter has issued book detailing the
work of the Navy during the war;
Still great dissatisfaction in labor ranks. Strikes
and rumors of strikes everywhere.
A woman named Mary Phillips was attacted and
beaten by Sioux Indian, in Boston.
George W. Newton, on trial at Circleville for the
murder of his wife, acquitted.
Governor appointed Gen.H c. Grosvernor Trustee of
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home.
Miss Abigail Bates, heroine of the War of 1872,
died last week at Scitnate, Mass, aged SO.
Number of business failures in this country de-
creased last week, but increased in Canada.
j. B. Ferguson, Guernsey county lawyer was
sent to the Penitentiary for embezzlement.
In Clay county, Tennessee, a child six years old
killed its father while playing with pistol.
Armour, the big pork dealer of Chicago, says pork
is selling there at less than it produce it.
An Ironton paper announced "Hallelujah We'd
Ding" at the barracks of the Salvation Army.
David Strong, Midway, aged sixty, got his false
teeth lodged in his throat. and choked to DEATH
Charles Dalzell, Damascus, Ohio, stepped before
moving train-but he never stepped away again.
Eddie Suitor, Ironton, aged five years, was run
by an Iron Railway train at Ironton, and killed.
JEFF. Davis will lecture at Montgomery Ala, for
he benefit of the Southern Soldiers Monument Fund.
John Pierce, blacksmith at Paterson, N. j., with
hree helpers, shod 135 horses 'all around'' in
lay.
A Massachusetts firm made one hundred and thirty
thousand drums last year. terrible load to answer
or!
The Howard Furnace lands were sold at Ports
mouth few days ago. They will be cut up into farm
ng tracts.
James F. Baker, of Franklin county, Ohio, received
rrears of pension amounting to eleven thousand
loars.
Miss Emma Norman shot and killed the scoundrel
Who seduced her, at Memphis. Good! Let the jury
cquit her.
President Cleveland appointed John H. Oberly, of
Illinois, rabid machine politician, the Civil Ser
7ice Commission.
Edison's system of teegraphy upon moving trains.
las been successfully tried between Chicago and
Milwaukee.
Bill passed the Ohio House legalize liquor traffic
md place upon it uniform tax of two hundred
ollar.
Mass meeting of citizens at Lexington, KY, con-
emned the practice d working convicts outside of
he Penitentiary.
If George W. Newton looks anything like the pic
of him in the Circeville paper, don't see how
he jury failed to convict him.
Four thousand, four hundred inmates of the Dayton
soldiers Home. The number will be increased by
more than two hundred in few days.
Daniel Young, of Meigs county, died suddenly in
diddeport supposed to have been caused by some
hing in the water he drank.
Pat Hickey, of Atlanta, payfulIy snapped pistol
It his friend WILL Pinion. Will. playfulIy received
bullet in his heart, and died.
Thirteen colored men at Grenada, Miss, awaiting
rial, attacked by mob ten of them killed and
hree wounded, in the Court House.
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, widow refused 81 900 insurance
pon her husbands life because she believed he
would not have died if he hadn't insured.
bill is before the Ohio House of Representatives
making it optional with the Courts whether wife
'eaters be punished by Imprisonment or by ogging.
Mr.. Lindsey offered in the Ohio Senate Joint reso
ution requesting Ohio Senators and Representatives
n Congress to endegvor to secure the passage of
measures for putting every honorably discharged
oldier upon the list.
Jake Stair, Orrgille, Ohio, played masked burglar
PRESENTED revolver at his grandfathers head and
obbed him OF forty dollars. Jake has been SEN
enced to the Penitentiary for his fun.
Frank 3. Jones, charged with embezzling funds of
Champion Mal1eable Iron Company, at Springfield is
lccused of having fooled away the money with wo-
nan. That don't make Frank any better.
Lizzie Middendorf jumped into the river at Cincin
lati to drown hessel but her Mother Hubbard dress
caught so much air that she noated lightly as a
cork, until picked up.
Mrs. Corbn of Jersey City, loaned Col. Fred
Grant $4,000, which lost in the Ward banking
business. Recently Mrs. Gen. Grant sent Mrs. Cor
bin check for the amount, part of the proceeds of
the Generals book.
The Knights of Labor had large and orderly
meeting at the Paais Rink, in Portsmouth, on Tues
day evening of last week. Address by j. w. Bloomer,
Toledo. Among other things the speaker said the
Champion Machines, of Springfield, will be Boy
cotted.