The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-08-15
The ''Eat Contributor" on Acct
dent Insurance.

contributor not long since, TO Work
up a column or so inducements for
people to take out policies. This
is the way he did it:
Everybody should get insured
against accidents. No matter if you
belong to one of the best families,
accidents will happen in them,
Get policy. The old proverb
says, ''honesty is the best policy"
but that was all before the Accident
Insurance system started. Now the
best policy is a policy in the Break
neck
The other day man in Chicago
fell out fourth story window He
had no insurance and consequently
was killed. Another man on the
same day fell out with his wife. He
was Insured in the Breakneck, and
is ready-to fall out again.
A woman driving spirited horse
in st. Louis was run away with
Being insured against accidents, she
wasn't alarmed a bit, stopped the
horse and came back safe. Her pol
icy running out, she neglected to
renew it. Shortly after she was run
away with again. Her husband s
partner run away with her this time,
and she hasn't come back yet. Do
not fail to renew your policy, par
ticularly if it is in the Breakneck.
At Dubuque, Iowa, a man was
kicked by a. horse. The horse was
not insured and he got kicked back
again.
Near Paris, rKy.,a a man while en-
gagged in running. circular saw.had
his arms taken Off They consisted
of a cavalry sabre and double bar
relied shotgun. The man who car
ried them off had an accident insur-
ance, and he hasn't been caught yet.
At Philadelphia, a man fell from
the scaffold and broke his neck. If
| he had been insured in the Break
neck, his sentence might have been
eommuted to Imprisonment for life.
! Why will men neglect these things ?
Our agent at Pen Van, New York,
writes, "One of our neighbors who
I,had solicited to take policy, act
ually laughed at me for thinking he
could not take care of himself. The
very next day he fell from the roof
of his house, and wasn't hurt a bit. y
In Utica, New York man, acci
dentally got married. Being insured
in the Breakneck, he. will receive $15
a week till he RECEIVERS.
A man was sentenced to solitary
confinement for life in the Michigan
State Prison. Policy in the Break
neck, $15 week as long as he is
confined to his room
A greY-headed old man was in the
Breakneck The very next day he
bought a bottle of hair-dye, and
tdyed. His family received a hand
some sum on the blackboard
Two cattle-drovers started with g
drove Of cattle to New York. One
had q, policy and the other had none.
! There was a collision, and the one
who had a policy wasn't hurt bit
and the other wasn't either. Insure
in. the Breakneck
Near Portland, Maine, a poor mar
fell from loft and broke his neck
He received his insurance $4,000
/ from the Breakneck, with which he
was, enabled to set himself up il
. business, and is now doing well.
Our agent at Cleveland, O., writes
"a lumber horse ran away with 6
bobt tailed wagon, and tipped the
street over on to small woman anG
six elderly children. The horse be
gan to cry, and the wagon bled free
ly at the nose, but otherwise tht
street is doing we'll. No insurance
A boiler exploded at Memphis
blowing the engineer into the al
quite out of sight. He will receiv,
$15 a week until he comes down.
A hog-drover. in Mt. Sterling, Ky
was very much hurt by fall-fal
in pork
A man ran away from Litchfeld
Ills, to avoid paying his debts. H
left a family, not being able to talk
them with him. No insurance.
A man accidently fell from
steamer at New Orleans into tn
river. AS he was sinking the thir'
time he. suddenly recollected tina
his policy in the Breakneck had ex
pired He then swan ashore, wen
!. for the agent and renewed his pol
! icy, and Immediately returned to tn
: river and sank the third time in Sc
). rene and tranquil manner Insur
before you are in surely.
: A fellow took a drink of whisky
: at a saloon in CINCINNATI. SuddeI
: ly recollecting that he had no insul
ance, he Immediately took an emeti
: and then he took out a policy in th
: Breakneck He now takes his sry,
), with impunity, if impunity treats.
A letter from Long Branch, whe1
General Grant has been staying, say
: a long conversation was held a fe,
: days since between the General an
y Governor Marcns L. Ward. of Ne
= Jersey. The writer says:
: "Not long ago the Governor ha
? ? an interview with Grant of W ashine
. tom Now, it is well known that th
: Governor is chairman Of the Repul
= = llcan National Executive Committe
= and in that capacity is, of cours
= more than any other man the off
= - ial representative ofthe Republics
= party While we are confident tn;