The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-30
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

hay and grain, six hundred bushels OF
wheat, seven hundred bushels oats, twenty
tons hay, and all his farm implements and
machinery, and three horses and two colts.
Loss $8,000 with no insurance except on
horses and hay, in the Ohio Farmers.
DIpHTnERfA Is raging in the northern
part OF Fayette County. At Jeffersonville
and West Lancaster the schools have been
closed on account Of IL.
Gro. Z. voaEL, a deputy sheriff in the
Probate Court, Cincinnati, cut his throat
with pen-knife at his SISTERS house on
Cutter street and will probably die.
OCTOBER crop reports for the Ohio Valley
show Kentucky in the lead with Ohio and
Indiana close after
THRoUoH the efforts Of the Pension Office
an insane man known as Colonel Gra-
ham" in the Dayton Soldiers Home has
been restored to his friends. The "Col-
onel's" name was Chas. Cawlan. He was
at one time in the secret service ard was
Union spy.
THE Rodgers murder trial at Caldwell
ended in a verdict Of manslaughter
THE famous fat Heeter baby died at its
home near Trenton, Tuscarawas county, q
few nights ago. 1t was twenty months old
and weighed eighty-fv pounds. The child
measured thirty-three inches around the
chest, forty at the waist and twenty-five
inches around the thigh. Up to the fatal
night it had enjoyed perfect health and
was always exceedingly good-natured. A
fatty substance had grown around the
heart, which is supposed to have caused its
death. 1t had always been an object of
fz.. tlnr
around to see the fat Heeter baby.
AT Toledo John Bennett and Michael
Sweeney, who were arrested by the police
and turned over to the U. 8. authorities,
were examined by U. s. Commissioner
Hall, and bound over to the next term Of
court in the sum of 81, 600 each. They could
not put up bail and went to jail. In their
possession were n complete set Of counter
feiter's tools and material and several
spurious coins
THE residence of John Brenner, in West
Township, Columbiana County, was en-
tered by four masked men Mt an early hour
the other morning, and notes and cash and
valuables to the extent of $500 stolen
Brenner was then bound and gagged, wher
the burglars N ade their escape.
WHILE blasting rock in stone-quarry al
Industry, near Wellsville, James Horgan
was fatally injured by prema ure explo
sion. Both legs and one arm were broken
and his head terribly cut by flying frag
ments.
FIRE broke out in one of the shops inside
the pen tentiary walls at an early hour the
other morning, and did considerable dam
age. 1t was first discovered in the shop of
tIxn6 6<.l., .l,,,u -oI D-
pany, three-story brick structure The
fire was discovered near the boiler-house,
from which it spread rapidly among the
combustible material contained in the
building. The prison fire department was
at once put to work, but for time the
stand-pipe proved failure and the city
fire department took charge. The interior
OF the wheel-shop was entirely consumed.
One Of the walls fell with terrific crash.
Consider ng that the fire was in about the
worst part Of the inclosure, the loss was
small. The owners of the destroyed shop
are Eberly, Killaire q Co., most Of the
firm being residents Of Pennsylvania. The
loss to the State will not exceed $4,000.
The loss of the firm of Eberly, Killaire &
Co. is about $4,000; insured for s26,5OJ.
There are other small losses, mostly dam.
age to machinery.
II. L. AUSTIN and A. P. Rich, two New
ark Salvat onists, were arrested few DAYS
ago for throwing a boy down stairs and
breaking his collar-bone.
SPITzER & Co., of Toledo, take $4,000
worth of Wabash, Ind, County bonds, pay
ing S42l premium.
NATURAL gas is to be piped from Fostoria
30 L- m
mont at $50 feet.
A THIEF, conscience-stricken returns
Prof. Links violin, stolen nine years ago at
Springfield.
The largest oil we'll in Ohio was struck
at Lima, u few days ago. Lima lies in the
richest oil belt in the world.
The Grand Lodge of Ohio Master Masons
met at Cleveland on the 10Th. These sta
tistics were presented: Number of Master
Masons who have died during the past
year 392, against 365 last year; total men,
bership this year, 29,SOO Master Masons,
against q, ,345 for 1885,
A HORRIBLE and fatal accident is report
ed from Ripley, Huron County, resulting
in the death of five-year-old son of Dwight
Bare, a farmer living near there. A kettle
of boiling cider was turned into a tub and
placed on the floor to cool. The child was
playing about it, and in some means
tripped backward and fell into it, fearfully
scalding his entire body, with the excep-
tion of his head and feet. He fingered in
intense suffering for several hours before
he died.
DIpHTHERIA of malignant type is caus-
ing great uneasiness at Springfield, and
measures are being taken to prevent its
spread
CLINTON JAMES. a nine-year-old lad, was
struck by locomotive at Brighton Sta
tion, Cincinnati, and received injuries from
VIII ch he died.
DIPHTHERIA is raging to an alarming ex-
tent in Clinton, and schools are dismissed.
Four deaths occurred the other day and
many are sick.
THE veterans of the One Hundred and
Twenty-third Ohio Regiment b Id a re-
union at Crestline few days since. They
meet next year at Chicago junction.
WHEEL MILL No. 2, of the Ohio Powder
Works, near Youngstown, blew up the
other morning instantly killing James Pol
ley, workman.
THE Masonic Temple, that cost the men,
bers of the Order in Cleveland SO, 900 to
build, was dedicated on the 10Th by the
Grand Lodge OF Ohio. Several thousand
people attended the services.
THE building at Pearl and Plum streets,
Cincinnati, occupied by the I. ]. Noting
ham Manufacturing and Supply Co., and q