The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-23
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


sued pamphlet on the subject Of scarlet
fever, from which the following rules for
prevention are taken:
I. Avoid the contagium Of the disease.
Especially should children be prevented
from going near case of scarlet fever, or
from coming In contact with anything
which has been near one sick with this dis
ease.
O. Be careful Of books, toys, cats and
dogs which may have been handled by a
scarlet fever patient. The disease has
been spread by circulating libraries, pic
ture books having been taken therefrom to
amuse the patient and returned with6t be-
ing disinfected.
g. One recovering from this disease should
not be permitted to mingle with the public
until he and his clothing have been thor.
oughly cleaned and disinfected.
A. No child coming from house contain
ing case Of scarlet fever, should be allow
ed to attend school or other public assem-
bly,, aud should be prevented from playing
with other children.
B. Any one coming from such house
should bathe, disinfect and change his
clothing before going where there are chill
dren.
g. Beware Of any one with sore throat;
do not allow your children to be kissed by
such person, or to drink from the same
cup.
T. When scarlet fever is present in your
community, do not take the children to
crowded assemblies in unventilated rooms
g. See that your house and premises are
perfectly clean. Look to your cellars,
sewers, cess pools, sinks and water closets,
and allow no decaying animal or vegetable
matter to poison the atmosphere Of your
dwelling.
DURING the heavy wind storm which
prevailed throughout that section few
days ago. Union School-house, four miles
southwest of Felicity, was totally destroy
ed Forty odd scholars were engaged in
their studies, when the teacher noticed the
increasing force of the wind, and dismissed
them from the building. Scarcely had the
last ones been taken from the house when
it fell with loud crash into heap of ruins.
THE cornerstone of the intermediate
Penitentiary at Mansfield will be laid No
vember 4. Letters Of acceptance have been
received from Governor j. B. Foraker, At.
torney- General Kohler, Secretary Of State
j. w. Robinson, Elk Governors George
Hoadly, Charles Foster and Bishop, Ex-
President Hayes, Grand Master Mason 8.
Stacker Williams, uHon. 2. r. Brockway,
of the Elmira Reformatory, Hon. Allen o.
Myers and Hon. John G. Covert, who are
expected to be present and participate In
the exercises, and also to address meet.
ing held in the Congregational church in
the evening Of that day, which will be pre-
sided over by Ex-President R. B. Hayes.
All the benevolent and secret organizations
in the State have been invited, and many
have accepted. A large number of the del
egates to the National Prison Congress,
which meets at Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 8, will
stop of. All members of the General As
sembly have been invited. Senator John
Sherman will be Officer of the Day.
LEONARD Cook, an old resident Of
Brownsville, while driving a three-horse
team drawing a wagon-load of pottery
down a steep hill, the wagon overturned,
throwing the load OF pottery on top of him.
Mr.. Cook was horribly crushed, and at last
accounts was not expected to live.
THIEVES effected an entrance to the store
of Donges Bros, merchant tailors, at ALI.
ance, and carried away about two hundred
dollars worth of goods. No clew.
STRIKING miners at Belfont Iron Works,
Lawrence County, have returned to work
at old prices.
JOHN MCBRIDE, of Logan, formerly Su.
perintendent of the Ohio Canal, died from
an overdose of morphine.
A LAKE ERIE and Western train ran over
Timothy Carmody at Fremont and killed
him instantly. Asleep on the track.
HENRY HUGHES, living near jackson,
caught his finger in the rollers of q cider
press. In extricatng it he pulled his finger
entirely from his hand, the palmar tendon,
twelve inches long, coming with it.
The day after the first severe shock Of
earthquake at Charleston, we'll in the
yard of Thomas White, Sandusky, began
to smell bad, the water turned black, and
has been unfit for use. 1t was cleaned out
few days ago. In the bottom deep hole
had been drilled. Into this a long pole was
thrust and churned up and down. Sud-
denly it was forced out aud oil began to
Aow The we'll is nearly full and is ex-
pected to overflow. Mr.. White attributes
it to the earthquake shock.
WoRKMEN, the other morning, dug from
the tunnel under the railroad on Second
street, Newark, the dead body Of man. It
was found in a kind Of leaning position
against the west side Of the tunnel. Coro-
ner Yearly had the body moved. The body
had only been dead few days. and was
recognized as that of Perry Devare, aged
about thirty years, Of Coshocton. He was
a victim to drink, and the other day was
intoxicated, not being at work. The other
men worked until midnight that night, and
it is supposed that he afterward went into
the tunnel and knocked one of the braces
out so the dirt would cave in, and thus give
the men more work, when the top came in
ON him, burying him alive. His chest and
face were badly bruised. Coroner Yearly
held an inquest and returned verdict in
accordance with the above facts.
LEWIS WEBSTER was acquitted of the
murder of Perry Harrington, a
farmer at Geneva, after having been
twice convicted of the murder and once
been sentenced to be hanged.
AT Sandusky the other evening the four
year-old daughter OF Theodore Knoberls
was left alone for a short time, when it
wandered into a cistern and was drowned.
ANDREW Lucas, one of the Pittsburgh
gang employed on the Water Works, at
Massillon, while drunk, bounced freight
east the other night, and his mangled and
dead body was found the next morning
three miles from the city.
AVERY violent wind-storm passed over
Fostoria few days ago, doing consider
able damage to roofs and trees. The mag
nificent new main hall at the
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