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J OHIO STATE NEWS.’ .1 t ] — 'i, —Tw ■ men were crushed to dea'h by thecaving in of a - and-bank at Akron. | ^I; —The- posttna-tersaf Middletown, Hamilton,lt;1 and Franklin have been victimised by f,.rgc-rsof postal notes, j. 1 —Jume Grizzle w; s crushed to dea h be-q twecu the cogs of an engine In Anderson’s y br ckyar ! at A derson’s Landing. j ^j —Over 2 H) hog- have di d tiom cholera near Bri ’ge; ort in the last flt; w days It isus pi earwig iromt.e Wheeling side of the river.| —The Cleveland Rolling mi 1 Company has 3* | (■hut down live of the depar meats of it | works throwing seveial hundreds of men out of employment.0t-l-in—At B idgeport John Conoway, a miner at the .'Etna Mid, was fatally hu.t. H ■ place! a charge of powder under a fall of coal, and was ramming it. when it exploded.ithemeheie-cO!to 1ac«ViUrofdewould not disturb it. In a similar case againstJohn K. IluehteU of Buchtel, wh le stand- j 3f insr o:i a coa’-hopper, at Nelson vile, was wed pushed off by a coal car, f dling thirteen f et, j Th■sustaining serious but n ;t fat il injuri s.i —At Sidney an 8-Jrear-old ; on J, C. Kovch-rnan while playing near the 1). . M. railroad I ret was run over 1 y a lr ight train and had his j Kl righ arm terribly mar glcd, requiring ampu-LJ tat ion of the arm near the shoulder. Seven i le ears pa sed ever the boy before h • was re-I Clu* leas d lrotn his perilous positi n. His escape j •«from a 1 brribie death was a lint st miraculous, til —At Youngstown, in the case of William (*1 Fitzsimmons against the Pennsylvania cim- [lS. pan j*, in which judg ment was rendered in mi■ - —. favor of the plain'iff for §27,559, Judge Arreloverruled a motion fora new trial filed by the defendant,: tating that two juri s had ren- i gbdered substantially the same verdict and he j Hith0} fthe same company, Charles Palmer secured a j (jt verdict of S 5,000 which was paid.—The a] plication of 1,000 destitute people to the in firm-try aut orities at Cleve-C land, for aid during the past week hasto prompted an investigation, and it is now l-H stated that at least 8,GOO workmen are idle in [ 1*the city, and it is thought that the authorities.will have to provide 1,5C0 people with the necessities of life during the re3t of the winter. There is more destit tion in the city row than duiing the panic, or —'Ihe Fir t National Bank, if Cincinnati,i-; shipped a package of money to the Citizens’ne National Bank, of Piqua, and when the ( a k-m atio reached the latter bank it was $500 s-hort. of The two banks selected one man ea h, they a, chose a t ird, and the three took te-tamony, h .• which was equally p sitive s to putting the at mo :ey In t e packuge ar.d not gitling it out.he T. e a: bltra ors decided that nether was r -he sponsible for ihe los-, so each bank is to suf-ho lor a lo; s of $250.n.hevenhetoMasngmmsatvW(winUWthmriAMnlt;luMmECbib(JoreUl-lltf*tl—A strange wild animal has been creating consternation in the vicini y of Glenford.lt;,f The beast ha- b en calle 1 a panther, a lynx, a ,ji. hyena, a bear, and d ar knows wrliat other names. Several tffors have been made to in L-r.ng it dow n with a gun, but without effect*j What it is or where it came from are toth|10 alike unknown. The beast is not a pleasant looking customer. A combined effort v ill 1 probably be made to di-pat li the roving animal.rlsIie —At Defiance, the other evening, wag w itnessed a vary strange phenomenon, which, as yet, can not be explained. At the time snow aj | was lalli g, when in a Hash th ■ earth wasbri liantly lighted up with a pale blue lighttinted with red. 'Jhis was instantly l'o'lowed ^ by a second illumination, the two asting I uta lew seconds. In appearance the light resembled that made by the explosion of a Homan candle ba i or a sudden flicker of electric£Vtli-heatsheme\lierk-oflight. The general opinion prevails tha it was a meteor, but owing to the c ou le! condition of the sky it coul I not be -een. Superstitious people were badly frightened.lietoaVw-»ergo,k’sHo—Mine Inspector Thoma? B. Banc oft, sub-. mitted the tent i annual report of his depart-l0S i^ ment to the Governor. A supplementary it- J port c ntaining the statistics of t o mineral produi tions lt;f the Slate for the year i nding December 31, 1884,will be issue d. T. e effort to : procure statistics of 1 he production of lime-; stone other th n t at consumed in the manu-I facture of iron hasbeeu aban loned, as nocor-*cr root statem nts of the amount used in mak-inglimeor for building purposes coul i be• i,u* j gathered, Be.ween Feb uary 16 anl April| 16 the in re s in Medina, Portage, and a majority of those in J 11 r-son, htark, and Colum-he bian, Counties, fifty-five in all, were visited rk, j by Austin King, Assistant Inspector. He alsoxxl gave his attention to a number of mines in [u-i- Wayne, Tuscarawas, Berne nt, a; d Carroll ic- Counties, while the Inspector rave such tim t she could tpare from his oilice duties to those in in s that demanded immediate a ten-tion in the counties of Athens, Hocking, Jackson, Ferry, and M igs. There are 332 mines in this state eomi g under the mining led law, and 167 others not lt;mploying the requi-5 a site number of men; any one of the latter, however, being required to be inspected at |;y_ the request of the miners employed therein, 10(j and the work of inspection was therefore I found lo be very onerous until the passage of ,]la i the law providing for the app ini ment ofDis-(jie diet Inspectors. Jn cons quence of the in-ike ^ crease in the force of the department the In-^ed sP ^*tors have been enabled to visit all the !e3 mines in the state once, and those needi g it have been visited three, four, and in some cases even five tim s, anl in less than six months there have been erected forty-t ree ; ventilating furnaces and ten fans, where no 1^ means of artificial vent laiio i previously ex-( istcd. There i- given acoa plete list of all ac-lre cidents and th.eir results,whether fatal or otl erwise, anil a full description of the different1 Q j _oje i mines ol the state. The re poit is very volum-the ino:,s-ivas Fr in time to time occasional streak of gold rri. have been discovered in the tieam« anil val- i ary leys of Clermont County. Fome knew iheir I value, th ‘ majority of the people did i ot. ' a^. | Geologi-t; acc unted for it by saying it was i.ot a native production, but came * rom the j Can’Vlas during the glacial pt*riod, when vast glaciers came down from the North, grin ling and tearing the r way thiough the irregul rrm.soI ByeraIithvail ys, and, disintegrating as they eame.de posited or 1 ft behind cn the sur aee gieut t,1L^ ; masses of earth lontuiuing the p eeious met-iehwoan-theire-ilt;•r j■iat-. In the beginu ng of lalt;t m nth a f w 8 Ciuci nati nn n, accoinpani d by Prof. l»ud-I le j-, eminent i s a mineralogist, went t tier-j mont County and visite I a farm where g » dwas : aid to Ik/ found. Th* fainter took them to a small hill, in which ho ha 1 sunk a shaft, and from which he occasionally took dust an 1washed it. F om th • lK*tt*m of this shaft the Ftofos or took three huebct uls of earth, and with such appliances as he had hr.u »lit along mad;* a test of tt, and produc d go d enough j to ^how that soil of the kind examined wouldli i yl Id ?l.tlOO to the ton. Suspic ou; that the2 ! p acc might have teen “sailed, he took 11 w*H ; samples ol earth from other portions of thet* hal I .against the advice of the tanner, and 0 | whil; this yieldel gold, it was notin thequantity obtained before. This sett eJ Ihe 75 qiiestii n lt;f purchase. #i he men went ba k torf j the city wi hunt btiying the farm, ns they originully intended. From flio thre*e bueki-t. 71 luD, howevi r. had iK.en taken gold en mgh topay the party’s trip expense-. On Thanks-, t j giving da* Preif. We-tberby, of the Cincinnati’** Fniversity. taking a gun and dog, went rp tot lei moot in the capacity of u hunter, and H li is p I vileged roamed at will ovar the n wK dorado. When be returned to the ci y hej, ,wa* lalen with specimens of rock and earth0“ each in separate packagi-s. taken from th 11 ■streams, gul ies and hills of the various farms 71^ j and wo ds adjae *nt to ihe one first explortA.*1 The r»*'iilt aitour.ded him. i s he had not bo-•W Jlievelin the stories he hal he rd. Nearly71 every -aaipl* |r» ducvd a yi«*ld equ l:ofl(k«i.A syndicate of Cincinnati busini'ss men hi- -,nw l**cn fornietl that has ecu red a » opkmon all ib -e farm-*, and with the advice and und r the direction of an old California minersi t ey are g ing to make their everi-isding for- - •?! ! tuno-__»*p* iiO•*» • -n2yfC12'2S52i«5
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Delphos Weekly Herald
Delphos, Ohio, US
Thu, Jan 01, 1885
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