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Gallipolis Gets The Asylum

Columbus, O., August 9. -- The commissoin to locate a site for the proposed assylum for the epileptic insane resumed its labors to-day and on the eleventh ballot Gallipolis was selected by the vote of Messrs Vance and Waite, Mr. Brunelle holding out for Sidney. Vance and Brunelle stuck to Gallipolis and Sidney respectively during the entire balloting, while Mr. Waite voted for Canal Dover, Marietta, Chillicothe, Springfield, Newark and Portsmouth, voting with Colonel Vance on the eleventh ballot.

 

 


SOURCE: Wheeling Sunday Register; West Virginia; 1890-08-10