The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-28
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


trains occurred near Newark.
A coLoRRp boy named Steward, alias
Watson, was arrested at Marion for steal
Ing two watches.
Ar Springfield, the son Of WIN. Thalls,
three years old, while playing about an
outhouse, fell into the vault and died be-
fore the mother could rescue him.
ROYAL J. WrNpER, q well-known busi-
ness man Of Urbana, was seized with AZ
OF apoplexy the other morning, and died
In less than an hour. gss-~-
BY a collision Of trains at Lima, the
other day, Geo. Strohm, jr., eight years
old, was badly hurt and rolling stock dam.
aged to the amount Of $4,000.
THREE-YEAR-oLD boy was seriously
injured by the explosion Of dynamite
cartridge at Portsmouth.
N. g. Ross, station agent, and postmas-
ter at Tamah, six miles north Of Celina,
while bathing with a companion named
Henry Meyer in Brookhart's gravel-pit,
was taken with cramps and drowned.
ANDY REED, aged about thirty years,
while attempting to board the NJ, c. and
N. train on the bridge at Marietta, was
knocked into the Muskingum river and
drowned.
A GANG of professional thieves is work.
ing Hillsboro, the residences of DR.. II. 8.
Fullerton, G. M. Overmann, Rev. Jacob
Hawk and H. w. Spargur having been
visited and relieved of clothing, silver.
ware and other valuables.
TIrFIN Is to have All immense window.
glass factory.
THE terrible flood the other evening
made complete ruin of the Bellaire and st.
Clairsville road, and swept away stock
and crops along McMahons creek to the
amount Of many thousands of dollars.
Alex. Neff lost nineteen hogs, John Craig
two cows and several farmers lost whole
flocks Of sheep.
IRA PETTY, aged fourteen years, son of
Lawrence Petty, residing in Torch, was
instantly killed by lightning while walk
ing on the street the other evening. Sc
we're rain and thunderstorm had just
passed. His hat was torn in two, the hair
on one side of his head burned, and his
neck broken.
EMERSON OWENS, a six-year- son Of
Ark Owens, living near Marion, while
playing with a cat-tail dipped in gasoline
and lighted, a companion carelessly dipped
one in the can Of gasoline and then kicked
the can over, which set the whole thing
ablaze. The gasoline flew on the Owens
child and terribly burned him over the
stomach and legs. In his agonies he rolled
over and over in the dust and thus put out
the flames.
AS Anthony Sills,wife and sister in law,
who live three miles from Coshocton, were
going to that city, the wagon wheel caught
on board, turning the wagon upside
nd tb<,<, 70
Sills had both bones in her right leg below
the knee broken and was otherwise injured.
The others escaped any injury.
The Ohio Canal Commission is making
survey of the Miami and Erie Canal from
Toledo to Cincinnati, distance of three
hundred and forty-six miles, for the pur-
pose of getting plat of all the land that
has been ceded to the State for canal pur-
poses.
MRS. HENRY LENHART, the wife Of a
farmer living near GAINESVILLE, is mysteri
ously missing. Foul play is suspected.
THOMAS MILLER, aged about twenty
years, son of Absolom Miller, prominent
farmer Of jackson Township, Van Vert
County, was drowned in Dog creek, near
Delphos, while swimming.
NEAL BARRETT, of KOssuth, was arrested
for stealing quantity of wool.
AN unknown ruffian attempted to rob
the residence of Mr.. Henry Harmon, near
Kyle's, but was driven off by his niece,
Miss Lizzie Flynn, who was alone in the
house at the time.
WHILE workmen were repairing the
Catholic school-house near Leetonia, the
foundation gave way, killing John Ma
guire instantly and fatally injuring James
McKenna.
NATURAL gas was struck at Bethel.
NATURAL gas will be piped to Spring.
field.
Two men were asphyxiated by gas in an
oil tank near Findlay.
MASKED burglars entered residence
Uhrichsville and secured silver watch, a
coat and vest.
The price of gas is to be reduced at Ur-
bana, from y to $1.50 per thousand cubic
feet.
FRED. BoEHN was arrested for forgery at
Norwalk.
A PRoHIBIToRY ordinance was adopted
by the council of Cambridge.
Two boys, aged eleven and fourteen
years, were sent to the Reform Farm by
Judge Warnock, ut Urbana.
THE post-ofIice at Lucerne, Knox Coun-
ty, has been abolished.
PORTSMOUTH is down in the sundry civil
appropriation bill for $4,000 for a public
building.
MRS. SAMUEL WALLACE of near Cassville,
Harrison County, in company with Miss
Mary Hayes, Of near the same place, were
driving along the road the other morning,
when their horse became frightened at a
passing train and plunged down a steep
hill, upsetting the buggy and throwing the
occupants out Mrs. Wallace struck on her
head with terrible force, breaking her neck
and dying instantly. Miss Hayes escaped
with slight injuries.
For more than a year parties had been
examining the mari beds around Rush
Greek Lake, several miles northeast Of
Bellefontaine, testing the material found
there with view to manufacturing ce-
msnt therefrom. During last winter the
mari was subjected to chemical tests Of
the most trying nature, and it was found
that better cement can be made from
this mari than any Portland cement The
tests made have shown that the Bellefon-
taine cement will stand a test Of 847 to l.
200 pounds to the cubic inch, while the Lou
isville cement will stand strain Of only
20 to 100 pounds.
The chief Of police Of Columbus, says
that no more brutal prize fights shall take
place in that city.
In the mandamus case at Columbus
against the chief Of police of that city rels-