The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-05-26
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

WIN. HIsER, convicted OF burglarzing
freight car at Newark, was sentenced to
tho penitentiary for seven years
MARY ANN DoNNELLY was arrested at
London for pockct-piciing. N
Two young girls were arrested at Akron
for horse-stealing.
LOCAL option carried second time by
majority of six votes, at Mt Gilead.
LOCAL option was defeated at New Mad
ison. rf-rt 7EtIttl ts5 tsL.
COLONEL w. j. WHITE, Of Springfield,
il to be superintendent of the Dayton
schools. afN
AT East Palestine, Colpmbiann County,
while AL Spaite, a well-kn bwn farmer.was
ou. hunting, his gun exploded, almost
tearing his head to pieces. Spaitc leaves
a wife and family, and at the time OF the
accident was hunting squirrels for his
mother, who was at the point OF death.
THE Uhrichsville council passed the local
option ordinance the other evening, clos
ing the saloons on June 2. Dennison and
Uhrichsville will be practically dry after
that date. The township has not yet voted
on the question.
I. A. BucKINs was seriously injured at
London, by rebounding bullet from q
target-sun. t,s1.t.
THE wheat crop in Holmes County will
not average over 80 per cent. OF full crop.
The fruit gives promise of an obNndant
yield.
A. j. MARTIN, n brakeman on the c., Ii.
e. d. road, fell from the top of a freight
car at Lima, and broke his leg.
JOSEPH SMITH attempted to cut his throat
with a razor at Newark t.
SALOON KEEPERS OF Millersburg are boy
cotting business men.
THE next session of the Grand Lodge, !.
o. o. f., will be held in Toledo.
Rev. w. A. LEONARD, ID. D., rector OF st.
Johns Church, Washington, d. c., has
been elected Assistant Bishop of Southern
Ohio Diocese Protestant Episcopal
Church.
DRs. M. E. WILSON and Fl. G. Blaine, were
charged with grave robbery, and when
the trial came on at Tiffin, Wilson changed
his plea of not guilty to guilty, and Blaine
was discharged.
DAVID DEUTERow, aged sixty years,
prominent and wealthy farmer of Adams
Township, near Tiffin, was kicked by
horse, the other evening, and sustained in
ternal injuries which caused his death in
twenty minutes.
Mrs. CLARA Ice got SO, 800 verdict. at
Tiffin, against the B. & o. r. R., for the
killing of her husband in the Republic
wreck. . fRC g}g3tH
AT Bucyrus Willie Gillis aged seven
years, had q hand terribly mangled by
the discharge of gun with which he was
playing.
TWELVE years ago, A. G. Norman, C.
wealthy farmer living near London, was
operated on for tumor in the ear. Cotton
was put in the ear ut the time, and he was
told to return and have it taken out. He
| failed to do so and lost his hearing. The
cotton has just now been removed and his
hearing has been resta-ed.
DUNCAN SHAW. experimenting the con-
struction of the Panhandle track between
Newark aid Columbus, had foot crushed
between bumpers near Pataslsala.
FRANK DUNCAN, of Bellbrook, swore
that Squire Truman fshed with a
"gig" Tho Squire says that he hasn't
done any fishing for years. Duncan was
arrested for perjury. IJ
HENRY URBAN, well-to.do farmer, COM
mitted suicide at his home, about two
miles south OF Cambridge, the other morn
ing. His wife died about year ago, and
| he has been low-spirited. He was about
seventy years of age.
| AT Lima John Snyder complained to the
police that he had been beat out OF twenty
five dollars and watch by shaking dice
| with a fellow by the name of Carpenter in
Grau's saloon. Carpenter was arrested
and fined fifty dollars and costs and sent
to Jail
Hoo cholera has broken out in partic-
ularly vrulcnt form in Marion and Union
Townships, Hancock County, and farmers
in these localities estimate that not less
than one Thousand hogs have succumbe&
to the disease since the 1st Of May. In
many instances whole herds have been
swept away.
LEE G. PuRDY, formerly city editor Of
the Cleveland Press, died at Denver, Col.
The bill for public building at Zanes-
vile was favorably reported to the Sem
ate
MILLERsfcnG wants tho c., A. and q. re-
pair shops. StVstthls 4jt9
MARSHAL W. E. Bowen, of Carthage,
shot and killed c. D. Phillips, in the coun.
Gil chamber at that place. 1t is claimed
the shooting was in self-defense.
l.. BERAIN, a miner in the West Massillon
Coal COmpany's No. mine, while stand.
ing at the bottom of the shaft was caught
by the descending cage and crushed to tho
ground. His skull wus fractured and no
can not live.
NATURAL gas has been found in large
quantities at Chickasaw.
DEMOCRATS of the Third District nomi-
mated Hon. Geo. w. Houk for Congress.
Two boys, aged twelve and seventeen
years, were arrested at Lima for breaking
open packages in a c., II. and d. freight
| car.
PATRICK WARD was cut about the head
and had three RIBS broken in a row about
o dog a. Marietta. ei
In order to procure a marriage license,
Louis Fuller swore at Bellefontaine that
Mrs. VIM. Kerns was single. He was az
rested.
COLONEL ELIAS ELLIS, pioneer, died at
GAINESVILLE, aged eighty three.
Lulu LENnART, domestic at GAINESVILLE,
suicided by taking "Rough ON Rats"
THOMAS q Co.'s brewery, Dayton, burned
the other afternoon with u loss of 800, 900.
The little four-year-old son of Manville
West, of Allentown, was shot through the
head with ramrod by playmate and ia
tally wounded. The boy saw an old rifle,
loaded it with a charge of powder, left the
ramrod in the gun, put a cap on the tube
and. taking deliberate aim, fred, with the
above result.
The Dark County Bar gave BANQUET