The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-01

JOHN STURER, was run over and killed
by c., H. e. ID. engine at Cincinnati.
MATT BoUGH was killed by the acci-
dental discharge of gun near Bellaire.
MRS. HELENA NASH, of Springfield, be-
came insane on the subject of religion.
MATTHEW BAKER, a farmer, sixty years
of age, hanged himself in barn near Gin
cinnati.
A PIoUA boy named Sweezy had both
feet cut off at Bradford by Pam Handle
passenger train. Sweezy jumped from the
train while it was in motion. He NAV sur
vive
A BRAKEMAN named Edward Hartmann,
was killed while coupling cars at Column
bus.
| JOSEPH A. RAKEsTRAIR, contractor, fell
from the second story Of a building at
Columbus and was fatally injured.
| PROF. JOHN HANCOCK, of Chillicothe,
has been appointed Commissioner of Com
mon Schools in Ohio, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Prof. Eli Tappan.
A POST OFFICE has been established at
| Oakdale, Athens County, and Dow Bates
| commissioned as postmaster.
HARRISON PREDMoRE went wool gather
ing to the extent of corraling fifteen sheep
so alleges the constable Of Newark, who
has him in the municipal fold.
AN interesting case was decided in the
common pleas court at Mt Vernon.
Laura b. McWilliams, domestic en-
ployed by Mrs. Eliza McNaughton, was ar
rested by the latter, charged with stealing
goods from the plaintiff. Afterward Mrs.
McNaughton found the goods where she
haI tIa,, M.yN
thereupon sued her for malicious prosecu-
tion, claiming $1,000 damages. The jury
awarded her $500.
HARRY HANMERssIITH, a thirteen-yearo
boy, had his left hand crushed in rolling
machine at Cincinnati.
A COLUMBUS wedding was declared Off
because Ed. Sullivan, the groom, failed to
show up or send substitute.
THE board of penitentiary managers
filed their report with tho Governor the
other day. The receipts from November
/, 1887, to October 81, 1885, inclusive, were
as follows: From contract labor, $93, ,434 10;
piece-price plan, $l0i, 9l9.23; surplus labor,
S3,056.20; State and miscellaneous, SA,-
s51, 10, making a total of $245, $50 70. The
expenses covering the same period were:
For current expenses, $127, 10; salaries
CT managers, $1,000; salaries of officers,
S22,25O.11; salaries Of guards, $73 944. IL;
total, $3.50, ,3T7.34. This leaves a net rev.
enue to the State of $l5,1s240.
AT Columbus, JudsoR Outcalt died on
the 28d from the effects of wounds re-
ceived the day after election. He was in
a controversy with John Gardner sa-
loon keeper, who struck him over the head,
producing serious brain trouble. Gardner
has been arrested, charged with murder.
II. S. WENNER has sued the city of Tifin
for 81, 900 damages, for injuries received
from fall on defective sidewalk.
THE Ohio club in New York has $50
members.
AT Cleveland Fred and Amelia Dost, a
young German couple, went to bed the
other night in a room in which was q
small soft-coal stove. The damper in the
pipe was turned and next morning Mrs.
Dost was found dead in bed. Her husband
was in convulsions, and may not recover.
AT East Liverpool Charles Heckendorn,
barber, was accidentally shot and killed
by the accidental discharge of compan-
IONS gun. He leaves wife and one
child.
MRS. SCRoGGs, wife of Jas. Scroggs, q
well-to-do farmer living few miles from
East Liverpool, suicided, the other night
The body was found in stream Of water
one foot deep. Said to be demented from
suffering.
THOMAS FRANCIS was struck by train
and killed, at Kent.
DAVID CANNON, a brakeman was killed |
by cars near Greenville.
Hon. JABEz DICKEY, one OF the common |
pleas judges for the Second Subdivision of |
the Sixth judicial District of Ohio, has ten
dered his resignation, to take effect De-
cember 1.
VIM. Young, of Toledo; b. G.. Jacobs, of
Kent, and VIM. Ledon, of Bay City, went |
out in small boat to see the yacht race
in Maumee Bay between the City of the
Straits, of Detroit, and Enright, of Toledo.
The boat capsized and Young and Jacobs
were drowned. Both are unmarried and
glass workers.
JABEz DICKEY, Of the court of common
pleas of the Second Division of the Sixth
Judicial District, rendered his resignation
to the Governor, and the same was accepts
ed. Henry l.. McCray, ofiAshland County,
elected to succeed Judge Dickey,
was appointed to fill out the term.
ALoNzo FLOWERS was arrested at Gin
cinnati for the murder of John Manning,
a Columbus policeman.
The other evening Mrs. John Broadman,
living near Upper Sandusky, left her two
aged two and four years, alone
In the house, and went to the barn-yard
70 do the milking. Shortly after she heard
the children screaming, and, returning to
the house, found them enveloped In flames.
The bodies Of the little ones were burned to
q crisp. Ono lived only an hour. aud the
other fingered until one o'clock. Their
clothes caught fire from the stove.
r. A. DAVIS was sentenced, at Newark,
70 two years. Imprisonment In the peni-
,entiary for embexslement
FRED CRAIG was seriously injured by the
clipping Of beltin . factory, at Mt