These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other persons or organizations. They are for individual research ONLY. They will remain the property of the OHGALLIA list serve and may NOT be FORWARDED on to any second party or group. Persons or organizations desiring to forward or use this material must obtain written consent from me or my legal representative and contact the archivist of the OHGALLIA list serve with proof of consent. I have given permission for these files to be stored permanently for free access in the archives of the OHGALLIA list serve. [This article was transcribed without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Athens Messenger July 28, 1887 GALLIA Matthew W. Williams, of Gallipolis, who attempted suicide by shooting, three weeks ago, died last Friday, from the effects of the pistol shot. Andrew Tuck, the colored man shot by his son-in-law, James Henderson Love, on the morning of July 4, since died at his home in Addison township, Gallia county, of his injuries. The mammoth Rink Building at Gallipolis a very large structure, 65 by 165 feet, occupied since June last by the A.L. Russell & Son Publishing Company, until a week ago, when it assigned to A. J. Green, was entirely destroyed, it is supposed, by an incencendiary (sic) fire, at two o'clock last Sunday morning, together with all the machinery and printing material in the hands of the assignee. Judge D. B. Heberd, of Gallipolis, is the owner of the head of a cane that once belonged to the celebrated Herman Blennerhassett, that fine old Irish gentleman and patriot who fled from the thralldom of England and built himself a princely mansion on a beautiful island in the Ohio River that yet bears his name, and who was ruined in fortune and in name, by Aaron Burr, the history of which is familar (sic) to all readers of U. S. History. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson