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Erie County, Ohio

Newspaper Excerpts

Source: Daily Ohio Statesman
Dated:  Nov. 1, 1851
SANDUSKY, Oct. 30.  An affray occurred between Capt. Alonzo D. Ladd and the cook of the Exchange Hotel, today.  The latter stabbed Ladd, is feared mortally.
(Found at Genealogy Bank, transcribed by Sharon Wick)
Source: The Sun - Maryland
Date: Mar. 28, 1855
FRANCIS OTTO, a soldier of the American Revolution, died in Huron, Erie county, Ohio, on the 4th inst., at the age of ninety-nine years.  Mr. Otto was a German by birth, came to this country before the war of the revolution, embarked in the cause, and fought through the terrible contest under the command of Gen. Washington.
(Found at Genealogy Bank, transcribed by Sharon Wick)
Source: Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Dated: Aug. 4, 1869
OHIO NEWS:
     Kate Robert
, about fourteen years old, was recently missed from her house in Sandusky.  Two days after her body was found in the bay,  How she lost her life is not known.
Source: Duluth News - Tribune
Date: Sept. 2, 1911
COUPLE SPENDING THEIR HONEYMOON IN PRISON
SANDUSKY, Ohio, Sept. 1 -
Married here yesterday, arrested last night and bound over to the grand jury today to await a hearing on charges of perjury in swearing falsely as to her age in obtaining a marriage license.  That is the 24 hour story of Mary Storck, formerly Mary Mischky, and her new husband George Storck.  Unable to obtain bail, they are now spending their honeymoon in the county jail, where they may have to remain until the grand jury convenes on Sept. 13.  Otto Mischky, the girls father filed the affidavits.
(Found at Genealogy Bank, transcribed by Sharon Wick)
Source: Wilkes-Barre Times - Luzerne Co., Pa
Dated: January 25, 1916
SANDUSKY, Ohio. Jan. 25 - After a week's practice Ellsworth McCURE, 15 and Violet MONTECUE, 16, eloped on a bicycle, a girl riding the handle bars.  The love-bike skidded and pursuers overtook them.
 

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