“Portsmouth, November 9- A third body found in the Ohio river near here today led officials to believe the mystery surrounding the fate of three teenage youths, missing since October 16, was solved.” “Orville Elwood Jarrels, 17. Harold Littleton, 15, and Charles Mead, all of near Portsmouth, started out on October 16 in a rowboat …
“John William Richard Morris, aged 43, proprietor of the Star barber shop, was shot and almost instantly killed in his place of business in the Massie Block, on Market street, by Mrs. Nettie Collison Baker Shumate, aged 41, a comely grass widow, at 7:55 Wednesday evening.” “The murder came as a sequel to repeated clashes …
Brown Agrees To Pay “By agreement Walter Brown will pay his wife, Daisy Brown, of Eleventh street, the sum of $10 a week, according to an approved entry filed in the office of the clerk of court. Wednesday, pending the final hearing on her petition for divorce and alimony.” “Judge Thomas also allowed a temporary …
“After more than a year’s illness of complications death at 11:20 o’clock last night claimed Mrs. George Nagel, the final summons coming at her home, 1217 Grandview avenue.” “Mrs. Clara Nagel was born at South Webster, this county, 38 years ago. Her maiden names was Clara Wesley. She was married 18 years ago to George …
“Miss Ida Kirby, step-daughter of Mr. James Keyes, died of quick consumption last Monday night, after several months of painful illness. She was a member of Sixth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, a kind and affectionate daughter, and much beloved by her acquaintances. Her funeral services were conducted at her late residence last Wednesday afternoon by …
“On Wednesday night a box containing a corpse in a glass-faced, air-tight coffin, arrived by express at this place, from Memphis, Tennessee, addressed to JW Cowne, Portsmouth, Ohio. No one claiming it, on Thursday it was opened. There was a probability of it being the remains of TW Cowne, lately living several miles below the …
“The finding of the badly decomposed body of a man, apparently 70 or 75 years of age, hanging from the limb of a tree in the woods four miles from Stewartsville, Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, leads to the theory that the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Wash Baker, the aged Rosemount citizen, has been …
“The funeral of Nettie Williams, the young girl, who died from her burns sustained at the pistol factory, took place at the family home on East Front street at two o’clock, Thursday afternoon. There was a large attendance at the services which were in charge of Reverend George P Taubman of the Christian church. She …
“Front street, from Court to Chillicothe, which is now almost shoved out of the line of travel, and, when the mill is not running, is a quiet, deserted street, was forty years ago a lively and aristocratic portion of the city. Nearly all the travel up and down town passed along that thoroughfare, and some …
“The remains of the parents of James M. Williams and of eight other departed relatives were successfully removed from below Pond Run to Greenlawn cemetery Wednesday evening. Nothing was found left of three other bodies known to have been buried in the family graveyard. Mr. Williams’ father was married four times and the remains of …