The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-21
OHIO STATE NEWS.


FREDERICK HEITMAN an inmate of the Sol
diers' Home, hanged himself last week.
SOPHIA BRANsTADT, of Thornville, was ar
rested at Lancaster few days since, charged
with infanticide.
URBANA, perhaps one Of the quietest little
cities in the State, for its population, has or
ganized telephone exchange company.
THE Ohio Legislature has decided that $15,-
600 will be the proper amount for this State to
contribute to the Yorktown celebration.
The Cleveland molders, about 400 in num-
Der, are on strike. They want an advance of
Is per cent, and refuse to take 10, as offered.
ARNA FULTON, aged eleven years, of CALI
polls, and younger brother cut down a tree,
which fell upon Arna and killed him.
JOHN C. CRICK, aged twenty-five years, of
Brookvllle, was instantly killed by falling un-
der a moving freight, from which he attempted
to jump.
AT Marietta, number of boys were looking
at a revolver in the hands of Willie Schramm.
The weapon went off, killing Elmer McGirr,
aged fourteen years.
LAURA Lucas, wife of Henry Lucas, of Pike
ton, drowned herself in Big Bear Creek, two
miles from her home, the past week. She leaves
a family of three children.
MRS. SARAH WILLIAMS, wife of farmer
living east of Bronson, fell from the porch of
her residence and 80 injured herself that her
recovery is doubtful.
FRANCES LOCKWOOD, aged twelve years, near
Port Clinton, caused the arrest of George Bru-
ner on q charge of bastardy. Frances, who is
Canadian, is quite juvenile to be a mother.
LAWRENCE MAE, of Youngstown, was found
on the railroad track at midnight, beaten in a
horrible condition, and placed there to be run
over by passing train. He said Thomas Con-
roy whipped him because he refused to marry
his sister.
JONATHAN THATCHER, a resident of De Graft,
and former editor of the De Graft Banner, in
an alteration with Jacob Rowley about house
rent, was stabbed twice, once in the neck and
once in the abdomen. The wounds may not
prove fatal.
ZERos MAY, son of John May, of Niles, who
recently has made Des Moines, Iowa, his home,
is missing, and it is thought he has been foully
dealt with. He had in his possession, when he
left Des Moines, a large sum of money, with
which he expected to purchase farm.
JESSE DULABAUM, a worthless fellow of Mas
sillon, was sentenced to five days ON bread and
water for knocking his wife down and brutallv
beating her. Men guilty of such acts, in addi-
sively published. The world ought to know
who they are.
MAYOR MEANS, of Cincinnati, on the 18th, is
sued instructions to Colonel Carsen, Chief Of
Police, to enforce the various provisions of the
Stnbbs Sunday Law, which requires that all
places of amusement shall be closed and pro-
hibits the sale or giving away Of spirituous
liquor on Sunday.
An attempt was made the past week at Plain
City to resnrrect the body Of the daughter Of
Russell o. 'Harrel, in the cemetery at that place.
The explosion Of large Howell torpedo al
or demoralized the snatchers SO that they
abandoned the work without the body.
DURING a rain-storm last week, at Bradford,
house occupied by family named Harper
was struck by lightning, tearing away weather.
boarding from the house, demolishing the
stove, knocking the casters out from under
meath the bed, and scorching the bedding on
which some of the family were sleeping.
Strange to say, no one was hurt.
Ar Navarro, five miles south of Massillon,
Andrew McCasky, coal digger at Warming
ton mine, while slightly intoxicated, jumped
into a canoe in Tuscarawas River and pushed
out from shore. The canoe was carried rap
idly down stream, greatly frightening its occu-
pant. Passing under an overhanging branch,
McCasky caught the limbs, to which he clung
tightly, the boat passing from under him in
the swift stream, leaving him suspended over
the water. Thus he remained until complete
ly exhausted, when he relinquished his hold
and went to his death.
JUDGE JOHN CHANEY, of Canal Winchester,
is dead, in the ninety-second year of his age.
He was born in Maryland, January IL, 1890.
He was jackson Presidential Elector in 1882,
was elected to Congress in 1886, and served
three terms. He was q member of both
branches of the Ohio Legislature, serving five
terms in the House and one in the Senate. He
was also an Associate Justice of the Circuit
Court under the old Constitution of the State.
The first Office he held WAS that of Justice of
the Peace His third wife survives him. Judge
CLANCY was probably the Oldest ex-member OF
Congress in the United States.
A swINDLINa operation on a large scale has
Just come to light in Hardin County. A young
man named Fred. Beman, making his head
quarters at Dunkirk, q village ten miles north
Of Kenton, has just left for parts unknown,
and it is now ascertained that he leaves a num-
ber of the best farmers in Hancock and Hardin
counties to mourn his loss to the tune of about
$4,000. Beman has been engaged in the sale
of fruit trees in the two counties for some time
past, and in taking the order the farmer who
bought of him signed an ironclad note instead
of an order, as he supposed, and by raising
the amounts of the notes thus received Beman
has secured about $4,000. The officers are now
on his track, and it is thought he will be cap.
tured.
A STRIKE among the street car employees at
Cincinnati the past week created the greatest
excitement. Cars on all lines were stopped,
and the few scattering cars that did attempt to
run, upon each Of which two policemen were
placed to protect the 'svolunteer' drivers and
conductors, were lifted from the tracks and run
into the cutters by the strikers. The boys were
Justify cheered by the lookers-on whenever an
incident of this nature occurred. The citizens
seemed to recognize that these employees were
inadequately paid for the labor they performed
They are required to work Is hours day, an6
their pay is, driver 1.75per day, and conductor
| %. Their demand is 90 for driver and $2.2s
| for conductor. Eighty merchants of Pearl street
sent petition to the Consolidated Company
| sympathizing with the strikers and requesting
| . compliance with their demands. There is Lit
tie question as to how the strike will terminate