The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-02-23
News Notes.


tion will be held at Des Moines on
March 81.
Brooklyn people are greatly alarmed
at the rapid spread of smallpox in
that city.
A double-headed calf was born at
Millersburg, O., but lived only short
time.
Mormon missionaries are working
in Adams, Brown, Clermont and
Highland Counties, O.
President Means, of the Metropoli-
tan Bank, has Cancelled his liabilities
to that institution.
Park Lands, Of Newark, O., desert
ed his wife and child, leaving them in
starving condition.
Republicans of Findlay, o., have
organized Foraker Club.
Geo. B. Cox, of Cincinnati, has
been appointed State Inspector of
Oils.
VIM. Nordheim fell into a stone
quarry at North Amherst, o. and
broke his neck.
Daniel Yant, Of Canton, o. was
knocked down and robbed. His in
iuries are probably fatal.
Reuben Scott was struck in the
head by falling tree at Wabash, Ind.
and instantly killed.
Laura Sevindell had her face burned
to crisp by an explosion of gas in a
furnace at Mt. Vernon, O.
Another gas well, with an estimated
flow of four million cubic feet daily,
has been struck at Findlay, O.
Lots in an imaginary addition to
Duluth, Mimi, have been disposed Of
at high prices in Buffalo. N. Y.
Mrs. Lucretia Munday, on trial at
Lexington, KY. for the murder of her
husband, has been acquitted.
The Cincinnati Base Ball team won
their third consecutive game from the
New Orleans team on Friday.
Mr.. F. D. Mussey was granted a
divorce from Mrs. Anna Mussey in
Judge Evans Court at Columbus
Ohio.
William Germ, an old man, fell on
the icy pavement at Sidney, o.. and
died from the effects Of his injuries
The San Francisco police have
suppressed the American Lottery
Company" a scheme engineered by
Chinese.
G.. D. Howard was arrested by a u
S. Marshal at Madisonville, KY.
charged with the forgery Of pension
checks.
Mrs. F. w. Ambrose, of Urbana, O
committed suicide at San Diego, Cal
by cutting her throat with piece oi
glass.
An explosion of natural gas wrecked
the house Of Joseph Franklin, situated
at the outskirts Of Meadville, Pa. an6
seriously injured Mrs. Franklin.
An underground lake has beer
explored at Morgantown, Ind, which
appears to be almost bottomless, anc
contains many living curiosities.
The Republican members of the
Kentucky General Assembly have
passed resolutions indorsing Hon. W
O. Bradley for the Vice Presidential
nomination.
Deputy Sheriff Bill Thompson, Of
Las Animas County, COL, was shot
and killed by Jack White, horse
thief. Thompson formerly lived in
Dodge City, Kas.
James Davis, Of Greenup County
KY, while on a spree with George
Sheeler, at Ironton, O., was robbed OF
one hundred and twenty-four dollars
Sheeler was arrested.
The mothern of General Phil
Sheridan says he was born in
Somerset, o., March 6, 1881, and was
baptized by the Rev. Dominick
Young on the 17th day Of the same
month.
Mrs. Crosby, Of Wausau, Wis, was
badly bruised about the breast, and
Mr.. Chamberlain, agent Of the Home
Insurance Company, at Chicago, hurt
about the face and head, by the ditch
ing of a passenger coach.
Thomas Waltham found Jim.
Blackeney in his bedroom with his
wife, near St. Louis. Blakeney, in
trying to escape, shot Waltham and
one Of his children. The injured
husband shot and killed Blakeney,
and fell mortally wounded.
Deaf Bull, Grow Chief, among
the Indians captured last fall by
General Ruger, made an assault on
his fellow prisoners with a knife in
the prison at Fort Smelling, fatally
injuring two. He then made an un-
successful attempt on his own life.
The City of Peking has arrived at
San Francisco from China and Japan,
with several cases of smallpox among