The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-12-30
COLUMBUS NOTES.
THE State Bar Association met at Columbus

SVhCMDUS NVA LSs
THE State Bar Association met at Columbus
on the 2Sth.
GOVERNOR FOSTER has pardoned Thomas
Mcmahon, sentenced for three years in Geauga
County for attempt to rape.
/. JAMES M. DUNCAN, of London, charged with
violating the postal laws, has been acquitted
after trial in the United States Courts. ~
GOVERNOR CHARLES FOSTER, in a letter to
Hon. Thomas A. Cowgirl, announces his with
drawal from the contest for United States Sem
ator. ~.4..~F z. e.. wr.ts hersAe
The Trustees of the Soldiers and Sailors
Orphans Home have submitted their annual
report to the Governor. The institution is said
to be in excellent condition. # .SEgl
The Board of State Charities has made its
annual report to the Governor. 1t recommends
that the pay of Secretary Byers be raised from
81, 200 to 81, 600 year. "cGs 4la q 81
The Duckworth Club, of Cincinnati, haI
been incorporated with capital of $4,000
Its object is mutual Improvement and the per-
petuation of Democratic principles. e.
THE Scottish Union and National Fire Insnr-
ance Company of Edinburgh, has been admit
! ted to do business in Ohio, having deposited
300, 900 in United States bonds to secure
policy holders. f.r,,.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
has so far failed to make its annual report to
General Robinson, Railroad Commissioner, and
steps are to be taken to compel them to do SO
through the Supreme Court.
gaJoHN SHORT, of Columbus, loses $4,000 by
the burning Of the Milburn Hotel at Toledo.
He had sold it, and was on his way home to
get the transfer made, when he got the tele-
gram giving the news of the fire. ~zs dcl
THE current expenses for running the Ohio
Reform School for Boys, including ysslaries
during the last year were S74, 531. The aver
age number of boys IN attendance was 545, and
the cost Of maintaining each boy, $136.
v. NJ BREvoRT, on Ills way home with Christ
mas presents, was assaulted by highwaymen,
who robbed him of all his money, presents,
watch, and other valuables. Several other rob-
berries of similar nature ware attempted, but
unsuccessfully.
THE State Mutual Aid Association has served
notice on the Columbus Sunday Morning Ne,ns
of second suit for libel, laying its damages at
st, ,000 The suit is because of criticisms on
the methods used by the officers of the Associa-
ton. i
REPRESENTATIVES CHHAPMAN, Sawyer and
Davis, of the House Cooperative Insurance In
vestigating Committee, have met to prepare
their report for the Legislature, as to the result
of the work of themselves and their colleagues
during the summer. - 2 u &,
The State Grange last week adopted by q
vote of Sc to memorial to the Legislature,
asking for local option law. A memorial was
also adopted asking for an appropriation suf-
ficient to establish an experimental Agricul-
CHRISTMAS was made pleasant for the States
unfortunate wards. There were concerts at
the Blind, Insane, and Imbecile asylums,
pantomime at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum and
balls in one or two of the institutions. Proper
observauces were had in the penal and reforma-
tory institutions, and in ALL good dinners were
special feature. 4s,4e.7 N gr scfr-sri %
WALTER THOMAS and other Columbus capital
lists, who have investments in the northeastern
part of the city, have offered the Hagerstown
Agricultural Improvement Company seven
acres of land, near the Panhandle Round
house, and SIC, 900, as an inducement to locate
their works i'll the city. The company has been
negotiating with parties at Columbus and at
Tifin for some time.
THE coming session OF the Legislature
promises to be lively one, and of longer dura-
tion than the last. Local option legislation will
be persistently pressed forward by the temper
ance people who now have the support of the
| State Grange. Many bills are pending, most
of them in q forward state, and these added to
| new bills, indicates that the next volume of
| laws will be larger than th g volume for 1880.
The State Board of Equalization having un-
der consideration the appraisement of railroads
for taxation, last spring increased the valuation
of the trans Ohio lines of the Baltimore aud
Ohio in this State some 100000 over the sum
| total returned to them by the County Auditors.
The Company mas resisted the payment, and it
| is understood that an Injunction is to be ap-
| piled for by the Company in order to settle the
| question. i ~ 4--F 13ii' 1897
JOSEPH SM1THERs, resident of Franklin
| knew him, but few, if anybody, knew any
| thing good about him. During one of
his evil spells he set fire to the barn Of
| Andrew Fix, neighbor, and it burned to the
| ground. Smithers was arrested, tried, and
| found guilty, and was placed in the County
| of fellow prisoner to shave himself, and with
| that severed both juglar veins. The old man
| died. He had no friends, and the old mans
body was carted off to the medical college to
do service to the science of surgery. ggS 80
WHILE the co1yicts at the Penitentiary the
| other day, we're in file to march to dinner John
| Brown, a eolored convict from Xenia, sent up
| for three years for burglary and larceny, drew
sharp tool something like a razor and began
sashing right and left with it. The first slash
1 he made hecut through the right cheek of a
| fellow-convict named Charles Mclaughlin, a
| ten-year burglar from Eric County. The guard,
| E. B. Taylor, and a convict jumped upon and
| disarmed HIM, accidentally cutting his hand so
| as to disable him, and took him to his cell.
| Brown claimed that ''they were making faces
| at him." --a-= , zy- sssLE5s q
B. J. LOOMS, Secretary of the State Board of
| Equalization, in answer to numerous inquiries,
| has made a statement, from which we quote the
| following: i''The Auditor of State and myself
have been crowding the State Printer with sta
| tistical matter from the day of your adjourn
ment- There is quite mass of figures, as you
can readily judge. The table of county, town.
| ship and city valuations will of itself make
| eleven signatures of sixteen pages each, solid
figure work. We fortunate if we can get
one of these signatures for proof-reading per
day. There is faint hope of getting
| this part of the work done in time for distribu-
| ton before the return of members in January.
condensed table, prepared by the Auditor OF
| State, showing the aggregates of valuations Of
1870 and duplicates of 1880, will be ready in .
! few days"