The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-10-14
CITY COUNCIL
IN SESSION
SPECIALS.

Robert J. Wynne. acting Postmaster
General, Is announced to succeed the
late Postmaster General Payne.
Quincy, Ohio. October 10.-Lester
Persinger. farmer, residing three miles
south of this village. scratched his
left knee several weeks ago with the
steel tooth of harrow. He thought
nothing of the scratch but recently
the limb began to swell to alarming
proportions and blood poisoning set in.
Two physicians have been working
with Persinger and it is feared that
the limb may have to be amputated TO
save his life.
Kirk CHM will open a pool room
and soft drink resort IN the village in
the neal future.
Wapakonets, o. Oct. 9.-The work
of exterminatIng the carp in the big
St Msry's reservoir has begun. Will
liam Decker. of Cleveland. whose fame
as a carp catcher has spread through
out the state, arrived in Celina last
week with a carload of paraphernalia.
Mr.. Decker will at once establish his
feeding pens and lower large seine
nets to capturs the csip when they
co.ne ~ L..if feeding p.ices. 1hsy
will then be prepared for packing
and shipped to New York.
All other carp catchers. by taking
their fish to Mr.. Decker, can find a
ready market for the fish that hitherto
no one has wanted.
Columbus, o., October 1O.-Willism
Howard, colored, was arrested at Mil.
ford Center. Sunday charged with hav.
ing attempted to criminally assault
Mrs Charles Fisher. Saturday. at Maj
BILE Cliff. a suburb of Columbus. How.
ard is now in the prison here. He ad
mits having stopped at the Fisher
home, but denies that he attempted al
assault.
Sidney, o., Oct. 1O.-The Bime
Manufacturing Carriage company
which made an assignment to ex-Con
gresham Robert Gordon, of st. Marys
after the German-American bank fail
ure, went into bankruptcy Saturda,
morning.
Bucyrus. O.. Oct. 11.-An effort il
being made by o. L. Hays and tn
Flickinger Wheel Company. Ms well a
by E. Flickinger. to settle the claim
of those who have filed the petitions II
bankruptcy against each separately
and to have the petitions withdrawn
Negotiations of this kind have been o.
for some time but have not as We
reached elimination
Portland, Ind, October 10.-Rey
Joseph E Dietrich. who came here re
Gently from DeGraff, Ohio, in quest O
a wife. says that he can recall yer
little that happened after he entere
the country home Of Miss Mary Cas-
yesterday morning. DIETRICH called o
Miss Cash. he says. at her invitation
She desired. he declares. to .deliberai
before deciding whether or not sh
would accept him as a husband. 1t al
pears. however. she had n brother wh
was not satisfied to trust the matter I
her judgment. Miss Cash receive
DIETRICH. but the big brother sppeare
on the scene. DIETRICH says he is III
able to tell just what happened sfts
the arrival of the brother except tha
he remembers some fierce epithets an
his contact with something that cr'
ated terrific physical shock. Til
Ohio minister intImates. nevertheless
that he and Miss Cash are to me,
again.
Portland, Ind. October Ire,
Joseph E. Dietrich, of DeGraff. Obi,
whose search for q suitable wife hs
, been heralded far and wide, has r
ceived over 40 letters from Hoosier an
Buckeye bellies who stand ready to o
fer him their hands and hearts Il
life. He says it will he one of II
. number. but it is difficult to choo'
from such a varied collection.
Dietrich offers the following uniqI
affidavit of character to prospecti'
beauties who will consider him:
Estate of Indiana, Jay County, S.
Joseph E. Dietrich. being duly swol
upon my oath. say that l am not Il
. Joseph E. Dietrich who was recent
3 arrested for intoxication at Ft. Reco
/, cry, Ohio; that not single drop
liquor has ever passed my lips; that
have but one vice. and that is the
bscco habit, but chew fine cut {
most altogether; that l am in scare
. of q wife. and do not want..-any foI
= slanderous reports TO besmirch my re
:, utation that / am 81 years of ag
that / am not afraid to let any wom
who seriously considers me eligible
marriage to search my past recor
that / am preacher, but can tn
my hand to anything to make a hvin
!. "JOSEPH Z. DIETRICH.
Subscribed and sworn to before u
this 10th day of October, 1904.
~. l.. Grove,
"ClerK of Jay Circuit Coul
n Per Hardy, Deputy"
ID Editor William BInkley was seiz
l. with n faintinp smell in front of 1