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Joseph Collins was arrested at Dennison today and brought to Columbus. He was arrested upon a warrant Issued by Squire Smith, at the instance of a young girl named Belie Cummins. Collins is in the employ ot one of the railways— the P. C. St. L., it is believed. He lives here, but went to Dennison, it is said, to avoid arrest. The charge is bastardy. He is a fine looking man, about thirty years of agi. The report is that he left in j Baltimore, Md., to avoid arrest for | two similar cases, and that two members of the same family, at Dennison, were unfortunate in their friendly relations with him—[Co-iambus Dispatch. IThe Wellsburgh Herald has a correspondent on the Pan Handle rosd, who furnishes that paper with the following. “We have con I stir here just now In regard to the coal business. Some Pensyl-vania company has T. C. Fowler employed in working up the matter. He has considerable coal land engaged, some articled for and more promised, provided it succeeds. Mr, Fowler was at Pittsburgh last week and reports everything favorable in regard to it. If it succeeds, then Colliers will have a boom worth talking about, for here will be the1 outlet for all the coal for a considerable distance from here.The prisoners confined in theGuernsey County jail almost effected an eeyape Sunday afternoon. There were four of them, three being from Noble County. They had been given the freedom of the corridor for awhiie, when they began oper-ttons to regain their liberty by digging through the wall with a poker, and soon succeeded in * fleeting an opening almost large enough to admit the body of, a man, three bricks being the only barrier, when they were discovered by a little girl residiag opposite the building, who gave the alarm. An old gentleman named Jeremiah Woodford ran to where they were working, armed with a brick-bat, and barred their passage. Thus they were held in check until the Sheriff was notified, who came and locked them in their cells.
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Steubenville Weekly Herald
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 23, 1880
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