The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-05-11
OHIO STATE NEWS.

LANCASTER has established . telephone ex-
change.
THOSE who go on saloon-keepers' bonds at
Uhricksville are to be boycotted.
SMALLPOX in Cincinnati is worse than it has
been for the past four months.
A DESTRUCTIVE rain and hail storm prevailed
throughout the State on the 9th inst.
TH1RTY-FIvE saloons in Columbus have quit
business on account of the saloon tax law.
VIM HADlER, of Painesville, . c.othier, sui
cided by the morphine route. Business re-
verses.
One hundred italians arrived at Youngstown
last week to take the place of the striking
miners.
The barn of Henry oyler, near Harveysburg,
was last week struck by lightning and with its
contents destroyed.
MANSFIELD is endeavoring to raise sufficient
money to secure the removal of Wittenberg
College from Springfield to that place. .g
The Pittsburg, Cleveland and Toledo Rail-
road Company, principal Office at Youngstown,
has been incorporated capital %, SOC, 900.
6THE postoffice at Oberlin was robbed by bur-
glars of $3.50 cash and 81. 800 in stamps. The
safe, which cost $500, was completely wrecked.
WEsTLEY LANasTAFF, Of Salem, aged twenty
five years, deliberately threw himself in front
of q train of cars at Columbiana and was terri
bly, mangled. a-tr dteaf
AT THE London stock sales last week 500 head
@61Sc. Twenty-six head Of horses brought an
average of $125.
The internal revenue collections for April
in the Fourth District aggregate $4S 6S4. 68. OF
this $12, 16103 is for special taxes, the balance
being for tobacco, cigars, spirits, beer and
stamps.
LITTLE girl, seven years old, daughter Of
Joseph Helfenbein, Of near Fulda, Noble
County, was crushed to death by log rolling
over her that her father had sawed OF on .
hillside.
FRIpoLIN ScHuMMAN, manager OF Cincin-
natl free concert beer garden, has been con-
victed in police court Of violating the Smith
Sunday closing law. This is test case, and
will be appealed.
A BOILER belonging to portable saw-mill
exploded at Mayesville, Wayne County, injur-
ing John d. Evers, young man, fatally, and
slightly injuring several others. Too much
steam was the cause.
AT LEIPsIa, Putnam County, Louis Corfman is
in Jail charged with incest on his ffteen-year-
old daughter, which practice he has continued
for o period Of two years. Excitement ran high
and fears of lynching were entertained.
The ''legacy lawyer" or church swindler,
who has been rowing about over the State, and
by representing that lcgacies had been left GER
tain churches by rich men in some other part
Of the country, and thereby obtaining small.
sums to have the matter audited, has at last
como to grief. He was arrested while attempt
ing to play his trick on st. Francis De Sales
Church, Walnut Hills, and looked up in the
Station-housc. He gave his name % w. H.
Bangleman. He duped the German Church,
at Lebanon, out Of q small amount.
HERMAN AMLINaMEIRER, aged three years,
who was so brutally beaten BY his parents at
Cincinnati three weeks ago, has since died.
While tho child, at the time Of its death, still
bore marks Of cruelty, its death did not result
directly from that cause, as it had almost reoov-
cred from the severe treatment. The parents,
Who ware both seut to the wOrkhOu for two
months and 800 fine each, did not even 80
much as make q reply whom they we're informed
of the little fellows death. He was buried at
the expense of the Childrsn's Home, whore he
was taken 10 when rescued from his brutal
parents. @9, a'asH