The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-24
OHIO STATE NEWS.

A new Greenback-Labor paper has been
started at Bowling Green.
A PoRr CLINTON correspondent reports o
plethora Of highwaymen in that vicinity.
Patrick CLARK, at wellston, while drunk,
was sunocated by escaping gas at the Milton
Furnace.
WASHINGTON BURDEN, q farmer aged fifty
SIX years, living near Westminster, Allen
County, suicidcd by hanging Ia his garret.
AT PLANF1ELD, while floating logs down the
creek to Bahner's saw-mill, John Bah ner and
VIM. Leslie were washed over the dam In . skiff
and were both drowned.
wM. A. woRLEY, Marshal OF Jacksonville, is
In jail at Athens, charged with taking . watch
ard money to the value Of s206 from a saloon
keeper In Nelsonville, while the latter was
drunk.
AT THE Girls Industrial Home, at Delaware,
during the past year, ending November Is,
1881, there have been an average Of 225 girls
cared for at an expense of S1.64 per capita per
week.
FRANZ MELVIN, aged twenty-seyen years and
son Of Joseph Melvin, an old resident Of Madi-
son County, suicided by throwing himself in
front Of passenger train three miles from
London.
RICHARD HAMMOND, wife, and one child, Of
New California, ate toadstools, thinking they
were mushrooms, and while the parents re-
covered, the child Is reported In q precarious
condition.
DoY aged sixteen years, OF Cadiz, Ohio,
named Hamilton, while stealing q ride on
freight with two others, fell on, the cars cutting
both legs on above the knees. He died from
the effect Of the injury.
A GERMAN girl at Tiffin, named Regina Foos,
aged nineteen, who landed in this country
few weeks ago, became evidently insane last
week rs q result of homesickness, and had to
sent to the Insane Asylum at Columbus.
YOUNG man Of South Kenton, named Ed
ward Somers, while out hunting, went dragging
the brccch Of his gun along over the ground,
and from some cause 1t was discharged, the load
entering his side and thigh, from the effects Of
which he died In short time.
MRs DoRcAs CHATTER, north Of Unionyille.
has given birth 10 triplets-three boys-with
an aggregate weight Of sixteen pounds, the
smallest bringing the scales down at four and q
half pounds. This was the lady's first effort,
and she may do better next time. All doing
well.
JoHN EYRA, Of Rocheater, this State. was
one OF those men who would risk life for the
sake Of seeing his lady love. He visited the
family OF DIR. Jolly, at New Philadelphia, to
see his girl, while there was smallpox in the
family, and taking the disease, he died from
the effects.
The operations of the Graveyard Insurance
Companies Of Pennsylvania, in this State, are
upon The most extensive scale, and while the
processes are known to be fraudulent
there seems to be no law by which they can
be checked. The State Superintendent Of In
surance has refused to license them, but
they have continued their operations in spite Of
this fact.
FIRK broke out last week in the Imbecile
Asylum, situated three miles west of Columbus,
Ohio, which entirely destroyed the main build
ing and part Of one dormitory. The loss to
the State will bo nearly S150,000. No lives
were lost, although the institution contained
fia and u.rl-- M
effects Of the officers and teachers and other
employees were consumed. fireman OF the
city department fell through the floor and
bruised his leg. The London (Ohio) Fire De-
partment was autographed for and arrived at
1880, but the fire was under control
AGENTS OF tho graveyard" or death
rattle" Insurance Companies Of Pennsylvania
are now operating In Coshocton County, and
are meeting with immense success. Their plan
Is to secure policies on the most aged, decrepit
and infirm subjects, the nearer dead the better
No medical examination Is required, and the
plrty taking out the policy pays 80 for each
s1,000 insured, and fs subject to mortality
assessment OF S1.25. Hardly day passes but
he must pay three or four assessments, and il
costs great deal while 1t lasts but as the
aged subject on whose life the policy Is taken
soon dies, the policy-holder soon realizes very
largely on his Investment. Mr.. William Huff,
farmer near Barksdale, recently took out
policy on his wife, who had been lying at the
point OF death for several weeks and almost
every day he receives notice that three or four
deaths have occurred among the members of
the Association, and hence every day his wife
lives costs him several dollars insurance
These companies, though chartered by Penn
sylvania, should not be allowed to carry on
their ghastly and ghoulish work In Ohio
where they could get no charter.
JESSIE BALDWIN, living at Boardman Center
near Youngstown, was formerly member Of
teh Ohio Legislature. He is wealthy, owning
houses and lands In great quantity. Some time
ago he went to Washington and received some
eli, 900 in gold, refusing 10 take anything else
In exchange for Government bonds. The papers
made q good deal OF noise about the transaction
at the time. Well, Baldwin says the advertising
the papers then gave him has been answered.
The other night, or rather morning, at the
hour OF three, the Baldwin family thought an
earthquake had occurred, and that the house
In which they lived narrowly. escaped going
into the hole or some great crevice. Shortly
after the deafening noise 1t was suddenly dis
covered that the house was full of burglars.
A son-in-law OF Baldwin, named Geo. T. Lewis,
raised his window Just in time TO see three men
leaving at side door, carrying, IN all, ESQ., 900 in
gold and silver, and, as an investigation
proved, about $4,000 In registered bonds.
They jumped into carriage, the property also
OF Baldwin, which they had hitched and was
waiting, and drove rapidly away. Lewis
shot three shots at them, and they returned the
volley with Ave shots, doing no harm, however.
They had effected an entrance into the house
by forcing window, and drilling the safe, which
stood below In the hall, blew Ii open. Blow
ing the safe omen yas the earthauaka