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Lima Daily News
Mar 7, 1906

Portsmouth, O., Mar 7-

While carrying his father's dinner, Carl Wolfe, 11, was hit by a B & O train and so badly mangled that his death soon resulted.

Mansfield News

Mansfield, Oh
Jan 4, 1900

Portsmouth -

William Long, of Lucasville, was shot in the abdomen while drawing a shotgun from a buggy muzzle first. He died from the wounds

Marion Daily News
Aug 14, 1878

Portsmouth, O., Aug 12-

A rape was attempted to-day upon the person of a little nine-year-old girl by the name of Jenny Howell, by a brute named Thomas J. Morford. He was charged with a similar offence about two years ago.

Lima Times Democrat
July 13, 1909

Special to the Daily News-

Portsmouth, O., July 13- Ralph Stokely, 10, died today after a day's illness with lockjaw, making the second juvenile victim of the deadly Fourth of July toy pistol to die here within twenty-four hours.

News Gleanings for Greenup , OH :

Roy Virgil, age two months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Salyers of near Greenup, died Tuesday of intestinal trouble. Burial was Wednesday in the Bays cemetery.

Mesdames Robert Wilson Jr. and George Corum are chaperoning a group of boys and girls on a camping trip this week near Diederich's on Little Sandy.

Mrs. Max Kholer and daughter and Miss Richardson of Huntington , were Sunday guests of Dr. and Mrs. S.L. Lkine

James Greenstait is spending the week with relatives at Lynn

Billie McCoy, one of the Times carriers, is ill with tonsilitis.

Mrs. Otto VanHoose Long of Detroit and two children, Orville and Katherine VanHoose, are visiting Mrs. Longs parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Stewart and her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Coffee.

Little miss Jessie Coffee has as her guests her cousins, Katherine and Orville VanHoose of Detroit , Luelle and Harold Stratton of Portsmouth , Earl had Hansford Coffee of Kayford , W.Va.

Miss Lois Leslie is in Lexington for a two weeks' vacation with relatives.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kotcamp and children, Earl Jr. and Mary L? spent Wednesday and Thursday in Cincinnati .

Nat Collins and Miss Leota May motored to Camp Kinnikonick Saturday for over the weekend with a party of campers from here.

Miss Katherine Diederich is a guest of her aunt and family, Mrs. Lewis Hardin of West Huntington .

Submitted by Kim Torp

Mansfield News
Jan 8, 1908

Portsmouth, O., Jan 8 - Jesse and John Thompson, brothers, were instantly killed and several others injured by a boiler explosion in a sawmill at Sedan, 20 miles west of here. The sawmill was totally demolished. The dead were sons of William J. Thompson, owner of the mill.

(Submitted by Linda Dietz)