The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-05-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

stream on the farm OF 7. p Vance, near
Hillsboro, noticed pieco of paper stick
ing up through tho sand. Upon investiga.
tlon they found tho body of an infant
child.
Two cl lildren who were left alone in
house at Canton sot fire to box Of shaw
ings, and one was fatally burned.
TnE Fourth National Bank Of New |
York has been approved as q reserve
agent for the Dayton National Bank of |
Ohio.
Local option carried in Randolph Town.
ship Montgomery County.
ForR tramps were arrested at London |
chine works.
Two.YEAR-oLD child OF Mrs. Frank Stone.
burner was scalded to death at Tffin.
THE Dennisbn council adopted the local |
option ordinance. Saloon-mcn have until |
the 18th to close upin.
The indications are that there will not be |
over half crop of wheat this year in Mad. |
ison County.
AN attempt was made at North Lewis
burg to wreck u passenger train on tho
N. Y, Z. and o. railroad.
THE steam saw-mil of Sherman Huston,
near Urbana, was destroyed by fire.
DAVID S. HAYS got a verdict at Hllsboro
In the suit brought against him by tho
Farmers and Mechanics Union Store Com.
pany.
WIN. BARnIcK, a prominent farmer, was
robbed of $l2O in disreputable house ut
Newark.
FRED and Harry Bates wero arrested at
Oberlin for horse-stealing.
The proprletors OF the Hotel Hamilton, at
Toledo, have made an assignment.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire, involving loss Of
nearly S!25, ,O00, occurred at Milan.
JOHN MARTINDALE was robbed Of 1925,
while intoxicated, in saloon at London.
WIN. Bmrn was convicted of assault and
battery at Cleveland and on his way to Jail
swallowed dose of poison. Physicians
pumped it out OF him.
II. WALLACE, an emigrant, was caught
passing counterfeit money on a B. q o.
train at Nit. Vernon and arrested.
WM. MAPus, u fisherman, residing near
Sandusky, fell from his boat and was
drowned.
JOHN RosT, n teamster, was crushed to
death at Canton by heavy log falling of
q load.
JOHN CREEDoN, q section hand on the
Panhandle railroad, was killed by
freight train at Yellow Springs.
MINNIE FoHsYTnE, an eightccn-year-old
girl attempted to murder her father at
Mt. Vernon.
THE defaulting city clerk of Bucyrus, is
Sl,077.75 short.
BARBEr,-sHoPs will be closed on Sunday
a. Dayton.
AAnoN WEAVER. has brought suit for
5000 damages, at London, against Pearl
j. Burnham, for an alleged fraudulent
s ale Of 81 $50 worth of stock in an insolvent
concern.
DURING the month Of April fifty wells
were completed, and seven abn\ \ldonod in
the Northwestern Ohio oil field Thirty
three were drilling.
ARTHUR BURGESS, a crook, escaped from
Chief of Police Ambrose, OF Springfield,
by jumping from IL train at Hamilton.
THREE boys from Oberiin were arrested
at Norwalk, charged with horse stealing.
AT Bettsville John Ve!tch took lauda.
mum and then cut his throat with rn-
zor. Dead.
TIE NJ. L. Church steeple at Youngstown
was toppled over by a storm. A large num-
ber of small. buildings and young trees
| were blown down.
THE Mansfield Sherman Club will attend
the Chicago Convention.
ELI FAIR, a farmer living near Uniopolis,
has assigned.
GEORGE MCCABE, alias Squabby Moore,
and Charles Pulp, were bound over in the
| sum OF $500 each to appear at the coming
| term OF common pleas court, by Mayor
Jones, of jackson, to answer the charge
| of impersonating United States officers
and robbing Henry Stratton, OF Nelson
vile. Mr.. Stratton was in jackson secur-
| ing some affidavit relative to his pension
| claim, and was on tie way home with a
comrade when tho robbery occurred.
THERE is splendid bass fishing at st.
| MarY's reservoir.
SEVILLE SMITH was killed by a bursting
! grindstone at Canton.
WETHERAL a. BRowN Wire Nail Works
| have started at Findlay.
| LOCAL OPTION carried al Selma t,y an al
| most unanimous vote.
| The new Sunday closing law was very
generally observed in Cleveland.
LEONARD ALLEN. aged fourteen, fell
| from train ut GAINESVILLE, ant. lost an
arm and leg.
DIR. j. 7. EDWARDS president OF Chamber
lain Institute, Randolph. N. Y, accepts
tho presidency OF Mount Union College.
LAST season forty thousand quail valued
at 5000, were shipped out Of Fayette Coun-
ty.
LOCAL option carried in Millwood Town
ship, Guernsey County. and Hanover
Township, Butler County.
DIR. FINCH has retired from the manage.
ment of the Columbus Asylum for Insane,
and DR.. McMillenis is now in charge.
UHRICHsvILLE and Dennison voted to
close saloons.
ANOTHER booming gas we'll was struck
at Findlay.
FREE mail delivery has been inaugurated
at Marietta.
GENERAL SHERIDAN will attend the Ma.
I rietta Centennial.
THE Grand Encampment of Ohio Odd
Follows held their sessions at Cleveland.
DIR. j. \. NIXON, prominent Mason, was
stricken with apoplexy at Mason.
Work has been commenced on branch
of the G., II. & ID. road from Deshler tc
Findlay.
JOHN BRowN, a brakeman in the employ
of the L. Z. IL w. railroad, was crushed to
death at Fremont.
LOGAN County Democrats indorse Cleve-
land and his tariff views.
CHAs. WEISS was seriously injured at
Marietta by being thrown from his car
riage into u hedge fence.