The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-08-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

CITIZENS of Findlay are jubiant over the
dscison Of Judge Price, dissolving the in.
jun ,tion against the city to bond for nat
u.al gas works The work of laying the
pipes will begin at once.
A LITTLE son Of James Robinson, near
Newark, fell in we'll twenty feet deep,
with six feet of water in it. Although only
three years Of age, the little fellow clung
tenaciously to the rock wall until his
mother found him and fished him out.
THE Quaker City Oil and Gas Company
has been chartered, with capital stock Of
$5,OtW
CARRIAGE manufacturing In Cincinnati,
leading industry, shows great improve
nent this season. which is Indicative Of i'm
provement in other branches Of business
Ten of the Cleveland rolling mill men
who have been nightly drilling, in antic-
patton of war with Mexico, shouldered
their nuskets on the 9th and started for
the frontier.
The following postmasters were appoint
ed recently: Freeman Yoxsimer, Delight
ful Trumbull County, vice Ellen c. Pain
ter, resigned; jacob Wogonstahle, REM
ington, Hamilton County, vice Jacob Wo
constable, resigned. 'aN4
A Two-YEAR-oLD child of j. w. Brown,
OF Mansfield, took swallow of camphor
from bottle and was thrown into spasms.
After three hours agony it died.
NEAR Cumberland, Jacob Rodgers
stabbed and killed his father, Thomas
Rodgers, because the father interposed to
prevent his son from whipping his wife. A
iynching was in prospect on the 9Th
AT Sharon, Medina County, s. s. Tot,
man, and Thos. E. Briggs, cousins, and
wealthy farmers, had some business deal
1ngs at Totman's house. Totman fired sew
eral shots at Briggs, dangerously wound
ing him, and killed himself with the same
weapon. Briggs is said to have had in
formation rejecting on Totman's charac-
| ter.
Miss Lou ALBApGH, who was reported
| murdered at Chicago, has reached her
home at Utica, safe and well.
DURING a street alteration at Coshocton,
between Robert Jackson and Isaac Moore,
the latter was shot by jackson. The ball
entered Moore's. s.side, but is not. considered
| fatal. Jackson was jailed.
HAMILTON has resumed work on her gas
| we'll.
OIL men are leasing all the land they can
| get around st. Marys.
Ex-pRIsoNERs of war had a happy day at
Kenton. General j. s. Robinson was the
orator.
FIVE days and $50 is what Mt Gilead
saloonist got under the Dow law for SELL
ing liquor too drunk
Posr-oFFIcE has been established at
Rock, Tuscarawas County, with T.
Harding as postmaster.
FIRE after midnight the other morning
In a bui ding on Baker street, Cincinnati,
! occupied by Burkhardt, furs; valkert, cap
manufacturer, and Benjamin. silk hat man.
ufacturer, caused a loss of about $40. 600.
Benjamin loses $1,000, insured; Valkert
5000, insured; Burkhardt 1000, insur-
ance $4,000; Tweed, on building, $4,000.
insured.
LITTLE two-year-old son of Frank
Walkup, editor of the st. Marys Sentinel,
drank cup of concentrated lye the other
evening, and after suffering terribly all
night died from the effects next morning.
PETER THERY attempted suicide a few
days ago at Tifiin by hanging, but was cut
down before life was extinct. Domestic
trouble.
WIN. r. THOMAS, coal miner at the Ma
honing Shaft near Youngstown, was in
stantly killed by premature explosion of
blast he had prepared. He leaves wife
and four children.
THE River and Harbor bill recently sign.
ed by the President, appropriates the fol.
lowing amounts to Ohio waters Ashtabula
harbor, $4,000; Black river harbor, $1,000;
Cleveland. $93,750; Fairport 1850; HUI
ron, $1,000; mouth of Muskingum, s3T,-
500; Sandusky City, 5000; Toledo, sll2,5OO;
Ohio river ut Louisville, sl5O,0OO. For i'm
provement of the Muskingum from the
mouth to GAINESVILLE, $4,000; and
the government also accepts the
Muskingum river improvements. A
total of $685. is appropriated for inn
proving the Ohio. OF this amount, s1s.-
$50 is to be expended in building a leyee on
the banks of the Great Miami, near it's
junction with the Ohio, to lessen the dan.
ger from floods. Five ice piers, costing
$31,5 500, will be built ut Pomeroy, Middle
port, Ironton, Gallipolis, O., and Ashland,
KY; $lS,1 is to be expended in removing
instructions at the mouth of the Licking
river; S1l ,250 for an ice harbor at Four
mile bar, Cincinnati; $4,000 for Davis
Island Dam.
TREASURER PoocK, of Montgomery Conn.
ty, has brought suit against about fifty
liquor dealers to compel them to pay the
taxation under the Dow law The cases of
nineteen came up, the other afternoon, re.
sulting in judgments for the treasurer.
but they all go to u higher court on an ap-
peal, to await the decision of the supreme
court.
A DOZEN colored men became involved
in row of serious proportions at Meyers
Lake, near Canton, the other night, at
colored celebration. Louis Dumont and
John Kline were cut with razors, for which
Chas. Lacy is in jail on a charge of cutting
with intent to kill Others of the partici-
pants We're arrested and fined for disorder
ly conduct.
Miss EMMA BAKER, aged TWENTY-FIVE. a.
domestic in the household of l.. w. Van
Loan, Dayton, was fatally burned by the
explosion of gasoline stove, the tank of
which she attempted to ill while burning.
The Dewey Stove Company has struck
natural gas in paying quantity at Bairds-
town.
EA-PoLIcEMAN JOHN P. EVANS was con-
victed in Cincinnati Court on the 5tb, on
charge Of destroying hundred ballots
cast in Precinct f, Ninth Ward, at the Oc-
tober election.
WESTON voted on local option the other
day. Prohibition won by r4O to 81.