Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger  June 20 1889
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June 20, 1889  
Athens Messenger 
Athens Ohio 

NEIGHBORING COUNTIES 
Meigs  

John Bailey, aged over 70 years, a farmer of the Nease settlement, died,  
recently, from the effect of a tumor. 

Dr. C. W. Coe, of Columbia  township, was recently made alarmingly sick by 
eating a piece of candy that his  wife had dosed to kill files. 

Maggie, the six-year-old daughter of  Edward Joseph and wife, died, recently, 
at their home in Second Ward, of  Pomeroy, of peritonitis. 

Mrs. H. S. Smith, of Tupper's Plains recently  sustained painful injuries, 
including the dislocation of her right shoulder by  the upsetting of her buggy. 

L. H. Reeves, whose home is near the  Woodyard meeting house in Scipio 
township, is in the Meigs county jail for  threatening to shoot Silyus Reeves 
and 
certain of his stock. 

Isabella  Wines, of Middleport was recently bound over to Court by Justice 
Bradfield in  the sum $100 on the charge of Slandering one Miss Jennie Compson 
sometime last  March. In default of bail she was committed. 

The Pomeroy Telegraph says  that George Eiselstein, a Meigs county farmer, 
recently sold five thoroughbred  Poland China pigs, aged three months and 
twenty-four days, the average weight of  which was just 100 pounds. 

Luther Ogden, who was charged with breaking  into the Racine postoffice last 
December, had his trial in the United State  Court at Columbus last week, and 
was acquitted, there not being sufficient  evidence to sustain the charge. 

Neander Ailer, a Pomeroy colored youth,  was lately convicted in the U. S. 
Court at Columbus of taking a letter from the  Pomeroy postoffice addressed to 
another person and destroying it. He was  sentenced to thirty days hard labor 
in the Meigs county jail. 

The father  of Sheriff Titus, of this county, is credited by the Pomeroy 
Telegraph with  having brought the first threshing machine and the first buggy 
to this county  and the son brought the first Norman horse to the county and 
put up the first  barbed wire fence within its limits. 

The Meigs County Republican  Convention last Saturday nominated the following 
ticket: Captain J. C. McElroy,  of Racine, for the Legislature; Lewis O. 
Cooper, of Middleport, for Auditor;  Lieutenant E. D. Robinson, of Chester, for 
Sheriff; Abel Chase of Rutland, for  Commissioner; James R. Hawley, of Olive 
township, for Infirmary Director, and J.  B. Scott, of Pomeroy, for Coroner. 
Hon. Alban Davies, of Pomeroy and Hon. J. L.  Carpenter, of Columbia township 
made a fight for the delegates to the Senatorial  Convention but the delegates 
were left to vote as they shall elect.

[The  above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making 
changes to  spelling or grammar.]

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