The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

was buried O few days since. She had
one request to make on her dying bed, and
that was that her remains should be
drawn to the cemetery with four horses.
In accordance with her wish Undertakes
Gintz and Coroner Downcy harnessed four
OF his best horses 10 the hearss to attend
Che funeral, thus complying with the old
lady's strange request.
THREE prisoners escaped from the Scioto
County jail.
REV. l.. II. D. HAROLD was terribly
burned with gasoline at Coshocton.
HERMAN PRArER, of West Liberty,
dropped dead on the street in Urbnns.
Mrs. JOHN EMERISr died near Fostoria
OF typhoid fever, making the fourth mem-
Der Of the family to die in rs many weeks
from the same disease, the father and two
sons having preceded her. Two more sons
are lying at the point Of death. ~s
TON HouK was taken to Millersburg from
Mansfield and lodged in Jail, charged with
stealing horse from Louis Watts, near
Black Creek, Holmes County. Houk has
been about that community for some time
engaged in selling patent fence, but, as
tho sequel shows, was after good horses.
Eek TUDOR was thrown from mustang
pony at Hillsboro and seriously injured.
AN interesting item of information just
| now is the fact that Samuel Hamilton, the
| first male child born where Cincinnati now
stands, is still alive and now resides in
| Hamilton County. He is the son OF Ed
ward Hamilton, and was born the l1th day
| of December, 1893. He says that at the
| time of his birth there were only three
houses at Cubbins, where Cincinnati now
stands, and that he does not knoY whether
| thsrc was any child born befofV him, but
| that his parents claimed always that he
was the first male child born. Some OF his
| friends claim that the County OF Hamilton
| was named for his father, but the old man
says that he thinks that the county was
named for General Hamilton WHO. was q
near relative of his father.
JOHN DEAL, brakeman on the c. and M.
! V. railroad, was killed by the cars at Nell
vim. q
THREE mon attacked Michael McCaffry,
near Youngstown, beat him until he was
insensibla and robbed him of $40. "'-S
A HORRIBLE suicide occurred at VIM
field, a small town in Tuscarawns County,
near the Stark County line. Richard Jones,
u married man, was sick with typhoid fever.
He asked to see his children, but his wife
would not allow them to go near their
their father. Jones then asked his mother
to give him knife, when he deliberately
cut his throat in the presence of his wife
and mother. He lived only an hour after
committing the deed.
| A LOT of Italians, discharged by the
company, set fire to the freight depot of
the c. g. P. railroad at Steubenville. 1t
was totally destroyed.
A HORSE, driven by Mrs. Shifliett, Of
Lima, frightened at band, and, upsetting
the vehicle, threw her out on the sidewalk.
She fell on her head and sustained fatal
injuries. .:sas'i
DELLA B. GIvENs, so horribly injured in
the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio rail-
road wreck, at Rittman, on the 10th, died on
the 18th, at Rttman, she being unable to
be moved, Us was proposed q few days
ago. Her left leg was broken and the calf
was torn from the bone of the other. She
made brave fight for life. She was a
teacher in the Garfield Normal School.
This is the fifth death as result of that
wreck.
AS Sheriff Burns was alighting from the
cars, at Steubcnville, with n prisoner,
John d. Kinney, for embezzlement, ar
rested ut Fort Wayne, Ind, Kinney gave
him the slip and is still at large. Fifty
dollars is offered for his capture.
Mrs. JACOB MARTIN was found drowned
in cistern Mt the residence of her son in
, law, George Mckee, in Plain Township
i. Wayne County, on the 18th. 1t is sup.
posed she jumped into the cistern with
suicidal intent some time during the night
Her age was about sixty. She had lived
apart from her husband for several years
! and the cause of the suicide is ascribed to
1 this estrangement.
CHRISTIAN BEGNINGHOFER, of Hamil-
ton, was very seriously injured by being
thrown from his carriage by runaway
i horse.
] THREE men were jailed at Tiflin for as
! saultng man who refused to drink beel
i, with them.
. CHAs FRY, Tiffin saloon-keeper, was
fined twenty five dollars and costs and
sent to Jail for ten days for violating the
5 Owen law.
THE residence of Joseph Flynn, u hid'
dealer of Toledo, was entered, the othe
= night, and his trousers, in the pocket O
Il which We're $40, We're stolen. The gar
, ments were found in the barn next morn
| ing, minus inc iuoueys iuSre 10 uo Ciuo "
y the thieves.
= d. r. BAKER, editor Of the Cincinnati
Ecening Post, has gone to Jacksonville
! Fla, to aid the people of that city.
3 THE largest tree in Ohio is near Clyde
e Seneca County. 1t was planted by Oliver
% Comstock in 1928, and now measures
y twelve feet and seven inches in circumfer
" ence, and covers space of ground severa
e feet in diameter.
y THOMAS HoUX, was arrested at Mans
If field, charged with horse-stealing.
; THE Comptroller Of the Currency has up
. proved the Ohio National Bank of Cleve
~ land as reserve agent for the Second Ma
y tional Bank of Akron.
!. DANIEL CARSON, OF Lima, contractor
has filed suit for 5000 damages agains
!. that city for injuries sustained by falling
on a defective sidewalk last winter.
REV. MAXWELL Z. GADpIs, sR., one O
the oldest and best known Methodist min
istcrs in Ohio, died at his home near Day
ton, n few days ago.
THE first glass factory in Tiflin starte
on the 10th with eighty men, which nun
ber will be doubled in n few weeks. Tw
other glass factories are building, whic
will employ seven hundred hands.
The pioneers of Summit and Medin
Counties on the 11th, celebrated the sew
enty fifth anniversary of Commodore PEI
ry's victory on Lake Erie by their thirtiet
ANNUAL y,icnic twelye miles UaSt Of AL