The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-02
OHIO STATE NEWS.

OhlO STATE NEWS.
JOHN Anrxn, . tanner of New Lisbon, has
failed Liabilities, 5000; assets, about the
A FIRE at Kenton destroyed the depot Of the
J., b. and W. Railroad and other property TO
the value Of s75,000.
jackson, was fatally scalded by the overturn-
ing Of pot Of boiling wAter. ->----
JoHs HAr, of Marietta, WIN nurdered his
.at' .aS s.ss sss ss1gmiss.d angs s.s rTS h"'''f
Apsrica, in ssssion 4 stCedsrviie, sdjoprnsd to
meet at Darlington. Penn, the third week in
May, 1881. :
isaiah MACH, . deaf mute living Eve miles
north Of Fredeficktown While 4elking op the
track Of the p. and o. Hoad, WI Srdck BY an
engine and killed.
79e, eo1 and 900 W Sixth street. Cincinnati,
900; insursucs, Gooe i TTh TT
Tn. hrst reunion ever held By the gallant
Seventeenth Ohio Regipsnt viii take place at
Lancaster early In Augu&. The arrangements
being perfected are On srand scale. . y
TEE Fire Department o. London, on q test
trial, made tho run Of eight squares, threw
cos cssr aa1a ,Srsh s Ss % q hSss
pounds o{ steam, in fodf nipfss, Sith tiird-
size Silsbury hre-engfne.
In THE case Of Madden against the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and 81. Louis Railroad, at GAINESVILLE,
the Jury awarded Msdden e925 ldapages-
Efforts were made 70 oonprise the snR, The
fore going to trial, but he refused.
CONTRARY 10 expectation, the New York, st.
Louis and Chicago Railway wiii not go through
Tiffin, but instead will pas about sir miles
north OF that place and via Fostoria. The Tif-
I'm people are Indignant at Governor Foster, as
they say he is 10 blame for it all
THOMAS CoSSELLA, Of Bellefontaine, o brAke-
man on No. 10 through freight on the Bee
Line Road, was instantly killed at Ridgeway.
He was sitting under q car on q spur track
when the local backed In on him. His head
was mashed and both arms ont on. H. q
YnIoHTYuL collision occurred near Upper
Bandu4ky between two freight trains. Seven
motive was so badly shattered that there was
scarcely anything left of IL but the boiler The
hroman, Henry Pleek, had his nose broken In
jumping from the enigma ~ HINI EM
A CHANCE in the editorial management OF
the Wooster Republican has taken place, Con-
gressman A. 8. Mcclure retiring, on acoonnt
Of numerous official duties. He will be sue
cceded by J. @. Sanborn, the present city ed
itor, and II. N. Oensns' win step into the lat
ter's shoes.
Ar CELLsA Coroner Leblond held post
mortem examination on the body of Mrs.
Matilda Jane Moss, supposed to be poisoned.
strycSnine, sdninisisrsd by" her stspmothsr.
No arrest win Be made until the stomach Is
anAlyzed.
J. d. MoCoRxAcx, City Editor Of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, has retired from that position
TO become Genera! Manager OF Frederick
Paulding, an actor Of New York City, and Major
M. L. Hawkins, popular and talented Cincin-
matt Journalists sueceeds him q The City Editor
of the Enquirer.- -
JAMES DURBrs and VIM. Bayes, . farmland,
aged sixteen, living three miles east Of Fred
with revolver The boy was looking under
the barn, when Durbin shot, killed the rat, and
the ball glanced and struck the boy in the eye.
Surgeons failed TO find the ball, and say he
must die. Ts 4Ilr-
CHARLES GoEpIcKE, Of Hazleton, Pennsyl-
vania, and bis companion were making q sur
vey near PalmyrA This State, when . severe
storm came upon lhem, md they took shelter
under tree. doedicke Wa, Instantly killed
by lightning, and his companion badly stunned.
Goedlcko was aged twenty-three, and un-
married.
fHrns is . prospect for smsllpox at olevs-
land. A young girl landed there on an emf
grant train last week, delirious With the dis
ease, and the fact was not known until after
she had freely circulated among the other par
s8hgers. Some twenty-five Of her companisns
who were exposed to the infection are now
scattered throughout the city. The unfortu-
nate girl was to have been married on her ar
rival at Cleveland
O. II. SIMMONS, Of Collinwood, conductor of
Lake Shore freight, No. So, was killed at the
Narrow-gauge crossing, at Psinesville. Sim
mons had got on the train, which was switch
ing. He gave the signM to back, and w6zt be-
tween, tween the b -, esss 70 Ruf p, vhse his f9ot
over and crushing his head. He was killed in
stantly, his features being mangled 80 a. to be
unacceptable.
TIE Cincinnati Enquirer makes some dam
aging charges against the Trustees Of the I'm
becil Asylum at Columbus, Doren has charge
Of the asylum, and the Trustees are Shank, of
Cincinnati, and Holmes and Rukenbrod, Says
the Enquirer: "Doren has not filed bis bond
with the Auditor Of State, as required by law.
There are seven deeds showing the States title
10 several parcels Of land purchased for the In
stitution. Doren has been notified TO file these
with the Auditor Of State, and 90 far has re-
fused. The last defiance agreed on to-day was
the refusal TO elect Q Steward as the law re-
quires, and as Attorney General Nash has de-
cded they must. The bills for the last month
fuse to pay them, and the Board then proposes
TO take the case TO the Supreme Court. Mean
while Doren, buys, sells, doctors, cures,
teaches, farms, alf for the meager salary OF
el, 400, and grows rich at the heavy JOB, and
only growls whom an attempt Is made TO enforce
the Jaw and relieS9 the pour oyerworked man
OF some Of his many labdfs. Governor Foster
says that while the Institution has the appear
ance Of being well managed, many complaints
Chief Executive Of the State, to see that Doren
and his pets comply with thu law"