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jn»iK4-f*i-OHIO STjTIE if E'W'S'h■yijii; oa0y%LT—Two men we£e crukheclt;5v,lng in of a Pand-bank am - j-—At Sidney ani8-year-old eon J* G. Kov^iy! inan while playing near the X). . M. railroad was run over by a freight train and had bis right arm terribly margled, requiring amputation of the arm near the shoulder. Seven cars pa s^d over Ihebov before 1*3 was xjc-ldasud from his perilous position, fiis escape rom a horrible death was almost miraculous. —The ' arplication of 1,000 d.-stitutepeople to the infirmary aut'orities at Cleveland, for aid during the past week has prompted an investigation, and it is now S tted that at least 8,100 workmen are idle !n»: the city, and it is thought that the i.uthorities-will have to provide 1,500 people with • henecessities of life during the rest of the winter. There is mbre destitution in the cityrOw than durlng the panic.Ihe Fir t National Bank, of Cincinnati,, shipped a package of money to the Citizens'National Bank, of Piqua, and when the j a (k~ age reached the latter bank it was $500 short.The two banks selected one man each, they, chose a t ird, and the three took te.-tamony,.?■ whicfywas equally positive ^s to putting themoney in the package and not getting it out. Tne arbitra ors decided that ne.t|er was v('~sponsible for the loss, so eabh bank is to'suffer a loss of $250. «lPTtr1,*»■10m3t' itiiiiistnddAteitisnirel.disitini—A strange .wild animal has been creating-eonsternation in the vicinity of Glenford. The beast has been called a panther, a lynx, a hyena, a bear, and dear knows what other names. Several efforls have been made tobring it down with a gun, but w.tbout effect-What it is or where it came from are bot^alike unknown. The beast is not a pleas an^ looking customer. A combined effort will probably be ianimal.ado to dispat h the rovingAt Defiance, the other evening, was wit^id•enessed a very strange phenomenon, which,teLrPnLtn3SclLriigyet, can not be explained. At the timewas falling, when in a flash the earth wa£ brilliantly lighted up with a pale blue light tinted with red. This was instantly followed by a second illumination, the twq astinga few seconds. In appearance tbe light resembled that made by the explosion of a Reiman candle bail or a sudden flicker of electriclight. The general opinion prevails that it was a meteor, but owing to the clouded condition of the sky it could not be sejsn. Superstitious people were badly frightehed.n•ty'0:ed,eeitsaI.eeait7ln0itah• •eees■I.1st3—Mine Inspector Thomas B. Banc, oft, submitted the tenth annual report of his department to the Governor. A supplementary report containing the statistics of tne mineral productions of the State for the year ending December 31,1884,will be issued. Tte effort to procure statistics of the production of limestone other than that consumed in the manufacture of iron has been abandoned, as no correct statem3nts of the amount used in making lime or for building purposes coull be gathered, Between February 16 an! April16 the iq nes in Medina, Portage, and a majority of those in Jeff rson, Stark, and Columbian, Cbunties, flfty-flve in all, were visited by Austin King, Assistant Inspector. He alsagave kis attention to a number pf mines in Wayne, Tuscarawas, Belmont, and Carroll Counties, while the Inspector gave jsuch time as he could tpare from his office duties to those mine 8 that demanded immediate attention in the counties of Athens,} Hocking, Jackson, Perry, and Meigs. There are 332mines in this state coming under the mininglaw, and 167 others not employing the requisite number of men; any one of tbe latter,however, being required to be inspected at the request of the miners employed therein, and the work of inspection was therefore found to be.very onerous until the passage of the law providing for the appointment of District Inspectors. In consequence of the increase in the force of the department :the Inspectors have been enabled to visit all the mines in, the state once, and those needi g it have been visited three, four, and in somecases even five times, and in less than six months there have been erected forty-t ree ventilating furnaces and ten fans, where nomeans of artificial ventilation previously existed- There is given a complete list of ail accidents and their results,whether fatal or otherwise, afld a full description of the differentmines of the state. The report is very volum-i inous.1I3fcI133II1raiii33ttIrrLt1From time to time occasional streak of gold have been discovered in the streams and valleys of Clermont County. Some knew their value, the majority of the people did not. Geologists accounted for it by saying it was not a native production, but came ' rom the Canadas during the glacial period, when vastglaciers came down from the North, grindingahd tearing their way through the irregularvalleys, and, disintegrating as they calne, deposited or left behind on the surface great masses of earth containing the precious metals. In the beginning of last m mth a few Cincinnati men, accpmpanied by Prof. Dudley, eminent as a mineralogist, went to Clermont County and visited a farm whqre gold was said to be found. The farmer todk themto a small hill, in which he had sunk a shaft, and from which he occasionally took dust and washed it. From the bottom of this shaft the Professor took three bucketfuls of earth, and with such appliances as he had brought along made a test of it, and produced go'd enough to show that soil of the kind examined would yield $1,000 to the ton. Suspicious that theplace might have been “salted,” he took new samples of earth from other portions of the shaft against the advice of the farmer, and while this yielded gold, it was ; not in the quantity obtained before. This settled the question of purchase. 1 he men went back to the city wi hout buying the farm, as they or iginally intended. From the three bucketfuls, however, had been taken gold enongh to pay the party’s trip expenses. On Thanksgiving day Prof. Wetherby, of the Cincinnati University, taking a gun and dog, went up to Clermont in the capacity of a hunter, and hus privileged roamed atVill aver the new Eldorado. When he returned to the oily he was laden with specimens Of rock and earth each in separate, packages, taken from theistreams, gul ies and hills of the various farms and woods adjacent to the one first explored.The result astounded him, as he had not believed in the stories he had heard. Nearly every sample produced a yield equalt^ $1,000, A syndicate of Cincinnati business nien has since been formed that has secured an option on all these farnjS, and with the advice and unde r the direction of an old California miner they are going to make their everlasting for tune. . 'A %
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Wayne County Herald
Wooster, Ohio, US
Sat, Jan 03, 1885
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