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Ohio and national news wrap from the week
The Ohio census reports 3 1 197 794 residents, while local incidents include deaths from exposure and a man who froze near his Barnesville home. A mammoth Crestline whale sighting en route to Chicago, and multiple accidents, arrests, and fires are noted along with rail and railroad developments in Cincinnati and Meigs County.
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John Copstack
Barnesville
Crestline
Chicago
George Smith
Columbus
Ohio Teachers’ Association
Put-in-Bay
Maxim
Cincinnati
John Schmidt
Dover Furnace
Tuscarawas County
Harrison
Hays
Common Pleas Court
J. A. Thacker
Royal Microscopical Society of London
Charles L. Matthews
Cincinnati Gas Works
Isaac Shane
Shane
Springfield
Jefferson County
Edwin Bonnett
Crawford County
Fox
Pennsylvania
Bennett
J. A. Cooley
Buffalo Gap
Texas
Wesley Peters
Fairfield County
Fairfield County Bank
Lancaster
Abe Rothschilds
Jefferson
Cincinnati Gazette
City
Welsh
Fremont
Clyde
Wm. Woodbury
Kentucky Central Railroad
Seaboard
Louisville and Nashville
Washington
Daniel C. Crain
Mina A. Arnold
Watertown
C. E. Ames
Rockland
M. V. B. Evans
Athens
Annat E. Simmons
B. M. Simmons
N. H. Shaw, Esq
Marietta
Sarah Thorniley
Beliore
Perry County
J. D. Cotton
Marietta Register
Washington County
Register