The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-06-02
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


by divers
JouS l.. HAr, undertaken, assigned at
Akron.
ROBERT GIBsoy, negro who outraged
little white girl at BarnesvilIe, was taken
from jail by mob and whipped without
mercy.
Tan Cambridge gas field is being rapidly
developed.
HESRY MARspEN was sentenced at Ur-
bana to one year in the penitentiary for
pocket picking.
BARNEY Powers fell into broken cul-
vert at Norwalk and sued the city for slO,-
000 damages.
AT Urbana, on the 25th, Judge Warnock
sentenced Tracy Penney to five years,
Mary Penney, his wife, and John Reilly,
one year each for burglary and larceny.
This makes ten prisoners sentenced to the
penitentiary at this term OF court, the
greatest number ever sent from Cham
paign County at one time.
A SINGULAR and probably fatal accident
occurred the other evening in the family OF
David Yokum, living near Toronto, Jeffer-
son County. A little girl OF the family
walked to an open bureau drawer and
picked up q loaded revolver. The piece was
discharged, the ball striking the child's
BrHuuUOtneT IN uHe leIbsiucs OWhB w NV
vanced age the old lady will die
The other afternoon as the workmen
were mounting the scaffold to renew their
work on the front wall Of the opera houc-
ut Circleville, part of the scaffolding gave
way. John Lust was partially buried uh-
der the falling wall, and received severe
bruises and serious injury to his hip. Al
most the entire front of the building will
have to be rebuilt.
A FATAL accident occurred at XXX mine
at Shawnee, the other afternoon by cave
In, resulting In the death of Reeee' JONES' q
young man nineteen years OF age, engaged
in the mine.
JOSEPH ROBINSON and wife, aged seventy
seven and seventy-tnree years, respec-
lively, celebrated their golden wedding AZ
| Sabna.
THERE was another continuance in the
| forgery trials at Columbus.
SAM PEARSON was cut with razor dur
| ing jollification over an auti-local-option
victory at Somerville.
AN attempt was made to wreck passen-
ger train on the B. Il o. road half way be-
| tween Quaker City and Salesville.
BUSINESS men of London, have organ
| lied Merchants Protective Association.
Hon. T. z. CUNNINGHAM has resigned as
| member of the State board of pardons.
| Henry Kahlo, of Toledo, was appointed to
| fill the vacancy.
AT Minerva, q miner, name unknown.
| was found under mass of fallen slate in
the coal mine where he had laid all night
unconscious. The man was terribly cut
and will die. He lay in pool OF water
that just reached his chin.
| CITIZENS of Clermont County are dissat-
isfied with the removal to Cincinnati, for
exhibition during the Centennial, of the
house in which General Grant was born.
JUDGE TIMOTHY A. O'CoNNoR, u promi-
nent jurist of Cincinnati, and the nominee
of the Union Labor party for Supreme
Judge, died suddenly few days ago, from
organic disease of the heart.
THE Ohio Prohibitionsts assembled in
State convention at Toledo on the 25th,
and adopted platform. In its preamble
it recognizes God as the Supreme Ruler Of
all nations, to whose law all human law
should conform. The resolutions declare
the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors a crime, supported by enormous
organic izations which can only be over
thrown by political party; demands en-
tire prohibition of their manufacture, sale,
import, export and inter State traffic; de.
clares legislation for taxing or licensing
the traffic as .corrupting, and that local op-
tion is not solution of the problem; that
suffrage inheres in citizenship, and should
be restricted only to protect the country
from the incompetent or ignorant, and IA
voring a constitutional amendment en-
bodying this; favors the enforcement Of
Sunday laws; declares that the statesman
ship required to deal with the liquor traffic
can be trusted to deal with the tariff and
all other subjects, and favors just pen
sions to honorably discharged soldiers.
Delegates to the National Convention We're
selected.
| JUDGE ROBERTSON, Of the Hamilton
County common pleas court, announced
his decision few days ago in the matter
! of the petition in error of Henry Munze-
brock, convicted and sentenced in the Gin
: cinnati police court for keeping his sa-
loon, at Central avenue and George street,
open on Sunday, April g. Three princi-
J pal grounds of error were alleged by coun-
sci for the petitioner: l. The court erred
in not quashing the information. 1t is
. under this allegation of error that Judge
Robertson reverses the judgment. No
warrant was served on the accused, nor
was ever any issued for his arrest Judge
4tOucteoOh Az opAh4oh ooyS' AuOf q
can be no legal arrest without due process
of law. An arrest without warrant has
never been lawful except in such cases as
is expressly authorized by statute, on the
ground that public security required it
under certain circumstances" A war
rant was issued on the 22d for the arrest
1 of Munzebrock and he will be again tried
for the same offense.
LOCAL option was defeated in Plain
Township, Stark County.
. THE iron manufacturers Of the Mahon-
= ing Valley have formed combination to
advance their mutual interests. The asso-
citation has enrolled in its membership
every manufacturer Of iron aud steel in
: the Mahoning Valley.
The natural gas franchise carried at
Newark.
. SPRINGFIELD manufactures will be well
!, represented at the Cincinnati Centennial.
LOCAL option carried in Harlan and
Washington Townships, Warren County.
WEBB WEST, young man residing near
= 2 Hillsboro, predicted that he would die at a
certain time, and death followed the pre-.
diction.
q The Deputy Fish Warden is after the
n violators of the fishing law along the banks
!, of the Little Miami river. V
r JASPER MIDDAU6H had two Of his ribi
broken at Montexums, while assisting in
: removing an old engine which had beer