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


Of Ohio, at Toledo, tho other day, elected
the following officers. j. w. O'Neall, of
Lebanon, Commander, and j. w. Chaplin,
Senior Vice. Commander. The Womcn's
Relief Corps was addressed by Mrs. r.. B.
Hayes. Mrs. Mary Il. Bancroft, of Colum-
bus, was elected Department President for
the ensuing year.
WILLIAM GEORGE, about TO suffer the
death penalty, was granted n suspension
| OF sentence by the Supreme Court at
Columbus, pending a hearing on error.
STEWART KESNoN, a seventeen y ear-old
boy was fatally injured by colt near
Barnesville.
BuRoLARIEs are becoming numerous at
Bucyrus. Local parties suspected.
A CHILD was injured by the accidental
discharge OF a revolver at Uhrichsville.
DAYTON will be the meeting place next
year Of the Ohio @. A. r.
GEORGE WIcKBAM, prominent farmer of
Benton, Is mysteriously missing.
THE Adjutant- General received from the
War Department the other day q full
roster Of Ohio troops who served In the
war OF 1919.
MISS JULIA BUCK, we'll known young
lady Of Fostoria, had tumor removed
from her the other afternoon. The opera.
ton proved too much for her constitution,
and she died within an hour The father
has been quito unfortunate, his wife hav-
ing been taken to the asylum few days
before by reason Of insanity.
At Portsmouth William w. Williams
was killed by damp air, while digging
vault at the residence of Judge Calvert.
OSCAR Trout, section hand, was killed
by the cars near Summit.
The next annual meeting of the jewel
ers' Convention will be held in Cincinnati.
Mr.. ALEXANDER BoLEN and Mrs. Anna
Z. Sharp were married at Bellefontaine,
the other day Descendants to the fourth
generation were present. The groom is
seventy-one and the| bride seventy .one
years old
THE warden Of the Ohio Penitentiary is
sued an order prohibiting interviews with
Harper and Hopkins, by reporters for
newspapers, on the subject of Cincinnati
banks and banking.
A GIANT poplar tree, eleven feet and
eight inches in diameter at the base and
240 feet high, was felled near Taylorsville.
1t willo yield from 1900 to 20, 900 ieet OF
lumber.
HENRY WAGNER secretary of the North
western Ohio Normal School, at Ada,
became insane from over-work.
JAMES BROWNING, Scioto County con-
vict, attempted to commit suicide in the
Ohio penitentiary.
THERE are nearly four thousand GRIP
pied and disabled veterans in the Dayton
Soldiers Home -Four hundred and eight
of them are in the hospital
ARBoR Day (the 27th) was pretty gcner-
ally observed throughout the State.
SAMUEL THOMAS, one of the Lima riot
ers, was arrested in Indiana.
The death rate at the Dayton Soldiers
Homo is two for every three days
NELSON TAYLOR fell while cleaning a
ceiling at Hillsboro, and was seriously in
jured.
THB First National Bank of Cleveland
made an increase of slOOOO0 to it's capital
stock.
Two saloon-keepers at Plain City were
arrested and fined for keeping open on
Sunday.
JOHN LINKER, wealthy farmer, near San
dusky, was killed by falling under the
cars.
THE 81, 900 SANDER suit of Enoch Myers
against Noah Allen, at Newark, resulted
in verdict for the defendant.
MRS. CURTIS HIXsoE, committed suicide
near Shanesvllle, with n clothes line, be-
cause of sickness and despondency.
FRED DUENIN, an aged hermit Of Stras-
burg, east of Canton, was found dead in
his bed.
WV. BuRGHARDT, employe Of brewery
at Delphos, suicided by shooting.
The post-office at Selig was burglarized
the other night. Loss $500. No clew.
j. E. RICHIE was nominated by the Demo-
Gratis at Lima, for common pleas judge.
G. A. r. ENCAMPMENT, at Toledo, adopt
ed aresolution favoring tho servics pen
sion bill.
ALLEN County comm 'ssioners offer re.
ward for the arrest of the Lima rioters.
FRUIT prospects are good in the vicinity
Of Marietta.
LIMA will have q new oil refinery.
FRANK HIGHLAND Was caught in the
shafting at Palmer's stave.works, near
FOstoria, and miraculously es ,aped death.
MILLERsBURa has the first Democratic
| postmaster in twenty-six years.
LAFAYETTE Township, Coshocton County,
voted for local option.
CMAs EDGAR was cut in two by saw ut
Burbank.
THOMAS DuaAN and G. A. Bird, promi-
nent hotel proprietors at Springfield, were
punished for using bogus butter.
MAYOR BABCoCK has begun crusade
against Italians at Cleveland. Fruit
stands have been removed, and organ
grinders must 60.
DANIEL I. OsToTT was arrested at Spring
field for embezzling 81, 600 from his sister.
The sister went insane, and the mother
dic3 of grief because of her sons crime.
FURTHER investigation shows that James
Cummins, who suicidod at Dayton, was
over s4 600 short in his accounts.
Hon. s. S. YoDER, of Lima, was renomi-
| mated by acclamation for Congress by the
Democracy of the Fourth District
The Cincinnati oil fuel company was in
corporated at Columbus.
THREE townships in Madison County
voted for local option,
EDWARD COLvIN wa, wound around o
line shaft at Findlay and horribly multi
lated.
CHAs. q. MINER gets o $1,000 verdict, at
GAINESVILLE, for the seduction OF his daugh-
| ter by Chas A. Long.
RoBr B. LANDFAIR, OF the Godfrey
Guards, Celina, has been appointed SER
geant-major of the Second Infantry, o.
N. G., Colonel James G. Howe command
ing.
APowERruL gas we'll was struck near
| New Bremen.
| Penny TowSsUIp Morrov Countv and