Cheer up; it could be worse

Palladium Item, 1884

Tough day all around

A fire at Pomeroy, O., destroyed 42 buildings, covering an area of 2 acres; loss $60,000.

Charles Wegman of Cincinnati, while drunk, shot and killed himself because his girl would not marry him.

The dead body of an unknown man with a hole in his skull was found hanging in the woods near Newark, O.

James Thomas of Laurel, Ind., was arrested and is held to answer the charge of having sent obscene letters to ladies.

Tramps set fire to and burned the barn of Dr. Alford at Walton, Ind., together with horses, wagons, hay and grain. Loss $2,000.

Accident

As Mrs. Mary E. Melle, who resides on South Fifth Street, was driving to the funeral of Henry Bowing yesterday, accompanied by several of her children, the tire came off the carriage in which she was driving and the wheel broke down. The jolt caused by the let-down of the bed in consequence threw her out of the vehicle backward, and broke her left forearm near the wrist. She was taken to a surgeon, but being aged, it is probable that it will be several months before she fully recovers. 

Dead

Yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock at No. 200, North Sixteenth Street of congestion of the bowels, Ella M., wife of Charles A. Clark, aged 35 years. Funeral will leave the house at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning for Centerville where religious services and interment will take place at 9:30.