The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Hartford, of Yellow Springs, fell out OF a
hammock at the Yellow Springs House,
breaking his arm in two places,
The Mahoning Natural Gas Company,
composed of Youngstown capitalists has
completed the survey for a pipe line from
its gas territory near Sheffield Pa, to that
city.
AT the Ursuline Convent, Toledo, Miss
Helen Prendregrast, Sister st. Theodore,
received the Black Veil, and Miss Mary
Brown, Sister st. Frene, the White Veil,
Bishop Gilniour officiating.
NEAR Gambler, the other afternoon, two
brothers named Biggs, aged twelve and
fourteen, were shooting at rats with revol-
vers, when one Of the lads was accidentally
shot in the head, producing probably fatal
wound.
The President has vetoed the bill provid-
ing for public building at Dayton.
ARRANGEMENTS are nearly completed for
the Cincinnati Camp-meeting, to begin at
the Loveland Grounds July 90.
A. WEKEL's barn burned near Lewisburg,
destroying nine hundred bushels of wheat
and eleven horses.
Mrs. UDELL, an aged lady, had her pocket
picked at the depot at Kent, Of pocket
book containing notes and checks to the
amount of 5000, $50 in money and rail.
road ticket
JOSEPH WILLIAMS, middle-aged man,
was badly crushed by the caving in of Q
sewer at Akron, the other morning. He
was saved from suffocation by heroic ef-
forts Of his comp anions, but it is feared his
internal injuries will prove fatal. -
THE safe of the Beebe House at Elyria,
was blown open the other night, and $40
stolen.
On has been struck in the second well
bored at Piqua, ut depth of 1900 feet.
GREENE COUNTY has sold $35, 900 in bonds
to replace bridges destroyed by the flood of
May 12.
The Whistleman we'll at Findlay was
shot few days ago. Result, giving Find
lay the largest oil we'll as we'll as the
largest gas well in Ohio.
CLEMENT BoGGs, twenty -one years of age,
was drowned while bathing in the Miami
river near Dayton.
j. X. KEENAN,, of Norwalk, has been
chosen Superintendent of the Medina
schools.
HERMAN KRAuss was seriously burned at
Tiffin, by the explosion of an alcohol lamp.
THE Northwestern Ohio Gas Company has
been formed composed of tho Fostoria
Natural Gas Company and the Standard
Oil Company. Charles Foster will be
President. The pipe line may be extended
to furnish Tiffin and Toledo with natural
gas.
MAYOR FULTON, Of Bucyrus, has issued
proclamation to the effect that in the fu-
ture all saloons shall be closed on Sunday.
OWING to the illness Of Captain Burrows,
counsel for Lewis Webster, Judge Thayer,
of Warren, has postponed the third murder
trial of Webster until September o.
F. M. MARSHAL, freshman in Mount
Union College, near Alliance, was cruelty
hazed in an alleged initiation into a secret
society, being bound hand and foot and
rolled over barrel, kept on a cake of ice
for long time, tossed in blanket and
branded on the back The students
who hazed him will be expelled and prose-
cuted for damages.
SPRINGFIELD Irish Land League sent $500
to Parnell.
ROBERT MoRRow, ex-Treasurer of Pick
away County, is dead.
TOLEDO sent eight crooks to the Ohio
penitentiary the other day for an aggre-
gate of sixteen years.
Ed G. GRANT, aged eighteen, has been
missing several weeks from a good home in
Springfield
Miss JOSIE GRuELICK, Seneca County,
was killed jumping from her buggy behind
a frightened team.
NJ. L. & SANFORD GATES, livery men of
Mansfield, have failed.
Mrs. Jos. RODGERS took an overdose of
morphine at Elyria, the other night and
died from its effects. Cause unknown.
SALooN-KEEPERs of Richland County are
taking steps to enjoin the county treasurer
from collecting the Dow law tax.
BURGLARS raided several houses in Lon
don. few days ago, securing about s4OO
worth of silverware at B. A. Wolff's resi-
dence.
AN attempt was ma de to burn the house
OF Mrs. Byington, at Elyria, by saturating
the cellar with kerosene oil, which failed to
burn.
DAIRY Commissioners Hurst and Talcott
have decided how different brands of cheese
shall be labeled under the Ford law. It
was decided by the Commissioners tlat
cheese made of milk wholly SKINNED must
be labeled skins; but cheese made of milk,
and part of which has not been SKINNED,
need not be branded as skim cheese The
construction Of the law by the Commits
sioners does not require any material
change in the old method Of labelling
among respectable dealers
AT Springfield, Mrs. George Cromble-
holme, an aged lady, got up in her sleep
about two o'clock the other morning and
stumbled cut Of second-story window.
Her moans aroused her grandson, and the
old lady was picked up and taken into the
house. Her left arm was broken in two
places and her spine injured by the fall
The other morning two tank cars con-
tanning oil exploded on the fats at the foot
of Harrison street, Cleveland A half
dozen cars of coal ignited, and the burning
oil running down the river, set fire to the
certral way bridge, which was nearly con-
sumed. A large tank Of gasoline exploded
also, and for a time it looked as If a terri
BILE conflagration was inevitable. The loss
will aggregate about $4,000.
ISAAC ANDREW, farmer near Lima, was
horribly mangled by being caught in a.
moving machine, and lived but short
time thereafter.
WHILE bathing at Ludlow Falls, some
distance north of West Milton, the other
night, Tony Hicks got into whirlpool
and was drowned. He was about twenty,
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