The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-10-13
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

proved successful. Brown, In passing the
turnkey, threw handful of SNUFF in his
face and eyes, binding him. The other
prisoners were then to make rush for lib
erty, but timely assistance baffied them.
Brown made his escape. y
AT Akron, George Wells, a Chicago pick
pocket, was arrested while trying to get a
lady's pocket book, and while going to
Jail, merely to keep his hand in, relieved
the officer who escorted him Of $40.
AT the Hamilton fair, on the 5th, the
handsomest lady on the grounds was
presented with a dog-cart, after which 1t
Is presumed the awarding committee took
to the woods until things quieted down a
little.
MISS Cora RoLLIsroN, Of Cincinnati, was
seriously injured while making para
chute descent at Upper Sandusky by being
drawn through some tree tops.
FIVE workmen were seriously burned by
an explosion Of accumulated gases In the
new water works tunnel which is being
excavated at Cleveland. =
THREE workmen fell from a scaffolding
at Dayton. All Of them were severely in
jured-one fatally.
JOHN DIETRICH tried to kill himself at
Dayton because he was unsuccessful in a
love affair.
A CRAWFORD County farmer was swim
died out of $3.50 by confidence men. e.lA
DELAWARE is to have water-works.
THE undertakers of Northwestern Ohio
met at Lima.
THE Auditor of State is preparing table
for use in his Forthcoming report that will
contain some interesting information rela-
tive to the amount of moneys collected un-
der the Dog Tax law and paid out for the
destruction of sheep The figures are
startling, as they show that the dogs have
not only paid for the damage done, but
have made liberal donations to the school
and other funds and still have n consider
able surplus in the treasury. During the
past year 80, 234 sheep were killed by dogs
in the various counties in the State and
they were valued at $99,94s.52. In
the same time 29,326 sheep were
injured, for which the owners
| asked SAG, ,254.1S. The total killed and in
jured amounts to SO, $50, costing STAG, ,203.33.
The total amount of per capita tax on dogs
collected, including former balances,
reached the snug sum of 1851, ,644.1L The
| amount paid for killing sheep from this
| fund was SOL, 777.35, and for injuring the
same, SAC, ,45S02, making total Of Sl45,-
O29.9 81. The total transferred to the school
and other funds amounts to $63, ,6GO, which
still leaves surplus in the county treas
uries of $149,500. This indicates that the
sheep and the dogs Of Ohio continue to
| contribute to the education of the school
| children of the State
RETURNS received at the Auditor of
| States Office from every county in the
| State, show the number of saloons in Ohio
that have paid the tax under the Dow law
| for the first half of the present year to be
1881. OF this number Hamilton County
returns $3.50; Cuyahoga, 1884; Lucas, 539;
| Franklin, 459, and Montgomery, 416. The
counties of Geauga, Guernsey and Morgan
| have not saloon within their limits,
while Harrison County has but one and
Noble reports only two. The total collec-
tion of taxes for the first six months Of the
present year amounts to 81, 133, 174.47. - /
| A posT.oFFIcE has been established at
Orpheus, jackson County, with j. j. G.
Richards as postmaster.
OWING to a scarcity of funds due to an
insufficient levy, council ordered the elec-
trio lights at Springfield, to be extin-
guished.
| CHARLES E. SMITH, foreman of a stone
quarry near Bloomville, was crushed to
death between two empty cars.
LOUIS HANsoTrEN, Cicinnati painter,
was probably fatally injured by falling
thirty five feet from a scaffold.
MRS. Lucy A. MYERS, living near Find
lay, committed suicide by cutting her
throat with a butcher-knife. Despond-
ency. =
ALFRED BRIcKER, colored pick pocket,
awaiting sentence to the penitentiary, and
Miss Blanche Wilson, colored, were mar
ried the other afternoon at the county Jail
in Portsmouth. The bride came all the
way from Jeffersonville, Ind, to become
his wife. II
THE safe in the office of Harris Theater,
at Cincinnati, was robbed of 1887.
A PAINTER named Bogardus was killed
at Cincinnati by an electric shock. 49,:
FINpLAY has eleven glass factories.
Hoo cholera is prevalent in Preble
County.
CHARLIE HUDDLEsroN had his hand cut
off on the Cd at Drew & Selby's shoe
factory, Portsmouth. He got it too near
the machinery.
MRS. THEODORE MARSHAL, an old resi-
dent of Germantown, dropped dead on
tho ID.
PAraIcK KELLY, of Shawnee, was run
over by b. g. o. train and fatally injured
the other afternoon. He was stealing a
ride and fell from a freight car.
THERE were severe storms at Columbus
| and Newark, few days ago.
Miss JOSIE DURBIN died suddenly OF
hoart disease in street car at Dayton, on
the I'd.
ARROWS first electric street car was set
| in motion on the Cd, and worked satisfnc-
torily.
THE house of Matthew Wagner, Picka,
way County farmer, was burglarized of a
package of money containing $1S7.
WHARTON, Wyandot County, has thirty
three cases of typhoid fever. Four deaths
have occurred.
THE body of Joseph Zentner, supposed
to have committed suicide, was found in
the canal at Cincinnati.
ROBERT JOYCE was fined 500 and costs
at Alliance, for violating prohibitory
ordinance. :
THE other night near Carpenters Corn
ers, Marion County, John Yocom was on I
8 load of fodder, when the team ran ava,
i and upset the load, throwing Mr.. Yocon
under the fodder with the boom pole rest
. ing on his body, and when the pole wa
removed no was found to be dead. Yocon
= had only lived there a few days and leave
wife and three small children.
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