The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-09-18
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

tnTeSneu nlS gFaln IN OrOer 10 nave
variety of meats he telegraphed to Canton
for $l.50 worth Of bologna sausage and
pudding to the amount of fifty cents. It
seems there was an extra operator on duty
at Baltic when the message was sent. I'm
agine the surprise of Mr.. Alpter when he
received by express 100 pounds of sausage
and fifty pounds of pudding. The operator
had made ludicrous blunder II will be
cold day when Farmer Alpter gets away
with all that bologna and pudding
A PRACTICAL joke that is likely to result
fatally, was perpetrated at the Cleveland
Theater the other night. While the play,
Lights o. London" was in progress
young woman handed note to the mana.
ger of the theater, with the request that it
be read from the stage. The billet con-
tanned the intelligence that the mother Of
one of the auditors Nathan Stark, was
lying at the point of death, and that the
young man would have to make hnste IL
he would see his parent alive. STARK i'm
mediately started for home, and on arriv-
ing there found his mother alive and we'll.
The reaction Of the shock was SO great that
the young man was prostrated and on the
llth was in precarious condition. 1t is
supposed the perpetrator OF the trick was
prompted by jealousy. Detectives are at
work upon the case.
FIFTY wedding guests at Mt. Vernon be-
| came deathly sick and were seized with
vomiting. All, however, recovered. The
trouble is attributable to ice cream.
A CONVENTION Of machinists and black
smiths will be held in Cincinnati on the
9th of November next, for the organization
n "a nj -.at..
Association.
THE Bellairc, GAINESVILLE and Cincinnati
Railroad Co. are building quite extensive
machine shops at Mill Run Station, near
GAINESVILLE.
CHAs KEssLER leaped from an express
train under full speed at Allentown, Allen
County, and was instantly killed.
A sAw-MILL boiler exploded near Enon.
injuring three brothers, John, George and
Charies johnson, two of them dangerously.
Mrs. COOPER, wife of c. G. Cooper, lead
ing proprietor of the Mt. Vernon Iron
works, fatally shot herself few days ago.
She has been an invalid for some time.
The Department of Agriculture Septem-
Der crop report shows that the threshing
! of winter wheat in the Ohio Valley gives
better return than was expected at har.
vest.
A FIRE in an Elm street (Cincinnati) horse
car, the other evening, caused by lamp ex-
plosion, resulted in quite a panic. Two
passengers were severely burned.
JAMES CROOKS team was struck by an
engine while crossing the railroad near
Mansfield. One of his horses was killed
and Mr.. Crooks himself was badly injured.
ROBERT SANDS went into the Pan Handle
telegraph office at Piqua, and drank some
muriatic acid from a bottle which he
thought contained whisky. A prompt
emetic saved his life, but his mouth and in
ternal arrangements were badly burned.
john FIELD, of Logan, was caught be-
tween the cars at New Straitsville and
fatally crushed; aged twenty-one.
The south end of Hooking County, in the
vicinity OF Laurelville, was visited by a
heavy wind-storm the other afternoon,
during which a child was killed and q wo-
man had a cOllarbone broken.
SPENCER, son of James F. Joy, residing
near Germantown, was kicked BY horse
and very seriously injured, his jaw beina
fractured and arm broken.
ERAsTUs SuTTLEs, a stone-mason, living
at Uniontown, near GAINESVILLE, had occa-
sion to use dynamite recently. He kept it
in jug in his smoke-house. The other day
his nine-year old son got hold of it, and in
changing it from one jug to another caused
an explosion. The building was blown to
pieces, and the child hurled into the air
and blown several rods away. His injuries
are thought to be fatal
JOHN AND JACOB GEu1Ro, slate roofers
fell thirty-five feet, near Tifin, by the foot
scafold on a building on which they were
working giving way. John received fatal
injuries.
iIFFIN has new three hundred barrel
oil well. The we'll is $40 feet deep.
JOHN M. WISE, an aged cartman, was
found drowned ia Wolf creek, Dayton, q
few days since. It is supposed the old man
suicided.
ANDREW JAMESON and his son Clyde,
with horse and buggy, endeavored to cross
the track OF the New York, Psnnsylvania
ana Ohio railroad, near Ontario, ahead of
passenger train. The engine struck the
buggy. Mr.. Jameson received internal in
1uries, and his recovery Is doubtful Clyde
escape with few bruises.
The immense rain-water tanks in the
roof Of the State House are being cleaned
the first time, it is said, since the State
House was built. There are two of them,
one over each of the entrances, east and
west. They will hold 1900 gallons each,
and the workmen say the mud on the
bottom measured twelve inches deep.
CINCINNATI has an earthquake house. 1t
stands on the east side of Pike street, and
now shelters David Sinton, the venerable
millionaire, and Charles Taft, his son-in-
law, and their family. Report has it that
the house was built in 1915, by Martin
Baum, who still retained vivid recollec-
tion Of the arthquakes of 1911 and 1919.
He believed that there would be future de-
! velopments Of the same dread and myste-
rious subterranean influences, and he built
in that belief. The house is q one-story
structure of great superficial dimensions {;
the walls are of cubic dimensions sufficient
to sustain at least hundred times their
present weight and iron girders and stout
iron braces in every corner, render the
building proof against the lateral move
ments, which We're the most destructive
feature of the earthquake of 1911.
| JOHN FAINT, employed at the saw-mill of
Newhouse, Sprout Il Co., in the western
part of Fostoria, was instantly killed the
other morning He was assisting to move
a heavy log from a wagon to the saw-mill
car, when it slipped and rolled completely
over his body, crushing out his life in a
second. His head was badly mangled.
The deceased was thirty-two years old, and
the only support of his widowed mother
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