“Sarah L Washington, who resides in Richmond, Missouri; Margaret R. Shelby, who resides in Richmond, Missouri; and Margaret M. Campbell, who resides in Monnett, Missouri, will take notice that on the seventh day of September, 1894, Maria V. Morris files her petition in the Common Pleas Court of Scioto county, Continue Reading
1894
The Obituary of Miss Sallie Lutz
“Miss Sallie J. Lutz, eldest daughter of Mrs. JN Lutz, died at her mother’s residence Sunday evening at 5 o’clock, after a short illness. She has been a patient sufferer almost all her life, but only recently has the disease assumed an acute form. When a small child, only four Continue Reading
Consumption’s Victim
“Miss Lulu Hutsenpiller, aged 18 years, died at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Rebecca Evans, at Pond Run, Monday, after an illness of several weeks from consumption. She was a working member of the M.E. church, and was well and favorably known by many friends in this city. She Continue Reading
A Fisherman’s Find
“Charlie Price, a fisherman, living near Wheelersburg, found the body of a colored man floating in the Ohio River yesterday afternoon, a few miles this side of Wheelersburg. The body had evidently been in the water for some time and was badly decomposed. The remains were hauled out on the Continue Reading
George Dever Crushed Beneath a Freight Train
George Dever, from the eastern part of the county, met a shocking death at South Portsmouth Tuesday afternoon. He boarded the FFV at Ashland and came to South Portsmouth, and for some reason left the vestibule train at that station, intending to continue his journey on a freight train. The Continue Reading
George Davis: A City’s Sorrow
“The funeral of Mr. George Davis last Sunday was one of the largest, if not the largest, that ever occurred in the city. Mr. Davis belonged to no secret societies, and the only organization that turned out in a body was the board of trade, which was there two hundred Continue Reading
An Adams County Man: Obscene Letters
“Deputy US Marshall LH Williams, came over to Portsmouth from Cincinnati Friday evening. Mr. Williams arrested one, Joe Simpson, who resides near Cedar Mills, Adams county, Thursday and took him to Cincinnati Friday. Simpson was charged with writing obscene letters to young girls in his neighborhood and of sending them Continue Reading
The Death of Infirmary Superintendent Otho Davis Foster
“The many friends of Superintendent OD Foster, of the county infirmary, were grieved and saddened yesterday morning to hear of his death, which took place at the superintendent’s residence at the infirmary Sunday morning at half-past 1 o’clock.” “His death was the result of an illness of some three weeks’ Continue Reading