Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — OHIO. [ARTICLE]

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Thomas McFellow was drowned Mi the reservoir at Huntsville, by falling out of .William Bragg, « Ross county fhrmer, was. killed fag Mis team running aWWf with him. T .nbtjpn i m » In a row at or hear Findlay, Frank SnycUtr dangerously wounded Stephen A*W)i4 cotter, hooisteb 1 Her. Dr. Hayden, pastor of the’ First Presbyterian Church, Cleveland, preached hu farewell sermon Sunday. ~.. . Miss Augusta Wells, of Norwalk; cam* mitted suicide Saturday night, by taking arsenic. No cause is assigned. Hie Moskingnm County Fair was the moet successful since 1859. The raceMfs, the last day were very close and exciting. The residence of editor Harper, at Mt Vernon, was burglarized ana the burglar left the house as poor aa he entered it ■

Major Peter Stamats, of Bellefontalne, was thrown from a buggy, Saturday night, his injuries resulting fatally Bnnday morning. saj A little daughter ol Philip Kanagy, ot New Philadelphia, yraa choked to death by a bean the other day. She suffered terribly. . , In a row among a lot of railroad bands near Canton, Sunday evening; 4n Italian named Julien Barbericco wi» fatally wounded- . ;.»/i-an Mid Dr. Talbott, assassinated near Marysrilli, Missouri,- the other night; was formerly a citizens of Hocking county; this atom. Mr. A. Minor Griswold (Gris), <of the Cincinnati Saturday Night, is lying dangerously ill at liis residence on Smith St., Cincinnati. J. McMaster, living near Norwalk, was fatally injured in a runaway, Saturday; afternoon, being dragged'quite a distance by one foot.

In a Sort of political drunk at Toledo, Saturday night, John King was shot and killed by Jacob Hokias. The latter pleads self-defense. **' "mi Matthias Dister, a saloon keeper committed BUicide at Cleveland, by hangings Drink and unhappy domestic relations was the cause. nie' The strike at Coal ton is over, but the outlook at Coming is stiH -serious, and there ia a collision between -the strikers and the negroes. w a d l, * ’

Mrs. Foil, the oldest woman In Hancock county, died on Sunday, aged ninetytwo years. She had been a resident of the' county for forty years. A : t 'I A report of the receipts and. expenditures of the state fair, just submitted, shows a net balance in the fund of the State Board of Agriculture of $10,300. John Bams, an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton died Saturday, ot hemorrhage of the lungs, caused by a gunshot woui-d received at Humboldt Station in 1862. E. G. Houck, a iailor of Medina, committed suicide Saturday, by shooting himself with a revolver. He attempted self-destruction one before, but made a failur of it. Simeon Rinaker, of Champaign county, a well-to-do farmer, died suddenly on Tuesday and was buried. Now there is talk of foul play, and the Coroner has ta ken the matter in hand. t A man named Qaackenbnsh, while attempting to cross a race track at Warren, daring the races, was struck by a sulkey, one of tho shafts running through his body, Thfe wound is considered fatal. Hicksville, 0., was vipited by a fire which burned the carriage factory owned by John Faust, with a put of its contents,' end a small shop which stood in the rear, which contained several articles of small value. Loss, $1,000; insured. At Lancaster, 0., Mr. Belinda Walters, an aged citizen, fell into her cellar, breaking both lower limbs, dislocating an arm, and otherwise injured herself. About the same time Isaac Gross, being jostled on the sidewalk, fell, and broke one ankle. *1

At Kenton, Thomas Hightower and William Newland, both colored, had a difficulty about a girl, when the former stabbed the latter, producing death in about three minutes. Hightower was arrested and is in jail. , . In an assault and battery trial at Mas sillon, after the case had been concluded, lawyer McMillan and lawyer Ulman engaged in a little muscular contest, rough and tumble fashion, until the court demanded peace in the name of the state of Ohio. c 5. Thomas Whitcrcft, aged eighty-four years, of Gibsonville, Hocking county, was found, dead in bed, Monday morning/ Ho was bora *in*Caven ©dtmty; 1 Ireland, December 17, 1795, and came to the, United States in 1801, and removed-to the plaoe of hie death in 1880 t, / <il< Mrs. W. A. Weltcher, of'Cincinnati, is endeavoring to discover the u present whereabouts of her son, P. Weltcher, who was stolen from Newark, New Jersey, in 1858, by her dissolute husband, from whom she had been divorced. If living Charles must be a man aged 84.

The safe of Kline Brothers’ store, of Martinsburg, Knox county, was blown open by burgiars and robbed of, $1,825. The Kline Brothers being leading merchants, had oh deposit various moneys belonging to neighbors and others.' Pour hundred dollars was townahjp funds. -But SSOO belonged to Kline Brothers..ii w . The Ninth Presbyterian chureh, it Qovington, caught fire on the roof.from sparks of .a mill-chimney near by, wnd .jras totally destroyed,"nothing but the walls being left. The loss is probably $6,000, insured ak fallows: MiUrdle, N.CJ.,lnsuranee company, $1,250; Milwaukee MeBh -Nicholas, es New York, $1,250; Coopers’, of Dayton O.; $1,250. Total,ss,ooo, of which *I,OOO is on the organ and furniture. 1