The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-22
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STATE NEWS ITEMS.

PATRICK ENaLrsH, of Bellefcntnine, aged
| twenty six, while stealing ride on
through freight on the Bee Line cast OF
that place, fell from the train and had his
skull horribly crushed. He can not live.
MICHAEL McFADDEN was sentenced, at
Urbana, to two years. imprisonment in the
penitentiary for burglary.
NICHOLAS LAIR an old gentleman living
at Navarro, Stark County, fell on an Icy
sidewalk and died soon afterward from
conclusion of the brain.
A ROY named Conklin, aged eight years,
was mangled, dsemboweled and killed by
an Erie yard engine at Gallon while pick
ing up coal.
A PosT-oFFI has been established at
Turner, Tuscarawas County, and Joseph
K. Turner commissioned postmaster.
Ar Lancaster Judge Friesner sentenced
Dick Marcus to the penitentiary for life for
killing Howard Moore, and Hugh Cunning
ham to imprisonment for one year for
shooting Charles Seifried. Both are col
| ored men.
THE post-oilic at Stollburg, Pike Coun-
| ty, has been abolished
STATE TREASURER Brown has COM
pleted his annual report, showing the
condition of Ohio's finances. November
16 1887, there was q cash balance of S222,
2TS.73 in the Treasury. The gross receipts
for the year were So, 1856, ,231.52, making
total of So, 121, ,5l0.25; disbursements from
all funds amounted to SC, ,001, Ts4.75, leaving
a cash balance in the treasury November
10, 1888, OF $l19,725 OF this balance
500, 752.71 is to the credit of the General
Revenue Fund; $l,44s.69 to the Sinking
| fo bp Crn1if of the
School Board. The total receipts from the
Dow law for six months (June collection)
was $225,27GsG, an average of $4i0, "
for the year.
EDWARD CARROLL was cut and danger
ously wounded by Harry Bickel, at Glen
dale.
THE jury in the Patrick Hughes murder
case at Lima returned verdict of guilty
Of murder in the second degree against
William Coins, colored, indicted as one of
the accessories.
WINFIELD BOWER of Liberty, Ind, was
struck by cable car at Cincinnati, and
seriously injured.
A DAzzLINGLY brilliant rainbow imme-
diately in the zenith was peculiar mete-
geological phenomenon which attracted
universal interested observation ut Ath-
ems, a few days ago.
AT TCircleville, Mrs. Mary Redman and
Amanda Tam have sued for $1,000 each
against the c. and NJ. V. railroad for the
accidental killing of their daughters,
Alice Redman and Mamie Tam, ON No
vember 10 last, alleging that the accident
was due to the negligence of the railroad
company.
JOE PLYMER, Charles Bowles and Henry
Hurd, jr., all living near Phlothea, Mer-
Ger County, were arraigned before Squire
| May for violation of the game law in hunt
| ing on Sunday. Bowles and Hurd pleaded
| guilty and got s25 and costs. Plymer de-
manded jury, who found him guilty and
he was fined $40 and the costs, about s7Oin
all. The arrests were made by Game
Warden Charles w. Medford.
| CERTAIN portions of Cleveland were
| flooded at an early hour the other morning
| by the bursting of q water main. The
torrent uprooted shade trees, undermined
buildings, tore up pavements, and, in gen.
eral, conducted itself in most reprehen-
| sible manner. No lives were lost, but the
| damage is estimated at $4,000. o.,
| EDWARD L. GIBSON, aged forty-nine, e
saloon keeper at Reading, in Columbana
County, eight miles east of Alliance, sui
| cided by shooting himself through the
brain with a revolver. He leaves wife
and six children. No cause is assigned for
| the act.
HoRsE-THIEvEs the other night stole a
| 1900 mare from Samuel Rudy's barn, in
Summit County, making the fifth horse
| that has been stolen in that vicinity within
The past three weeks.
The Legislature meets on Tuesday, jan
| uary s, 1885,
On farm near Lima, the five-yenr-
son of Andrew Jacobs was killed by the
accidental discharge of Flobert rifle.
MICHAEL DoNNEY got 500 verdict
against the city Of Urbana for injuries
sustained by the giving way of a bridge.
The new Chamber of Commerce build
| ing at Cincinnati is about ready for occu-
pancy.
AT Cincinnati, Christ Meyers, while
walking in his Sleep fell down flight Of
stairs and was seriously injured,
AT Youngstown Mrs. Jacob Henry at
tempted suicide by swallowing quantity
Of opium, but was saved by physicians.
Two men were instantly killed by a
boiler explosion at Trowbridge. Three !
persons were seriously injured. 4
MRS. JOHN MILLER tried to kill her hus-
band with an axe at Toledo.
TIN THOMAS was shot and fatally wound
ed by Harm Hendricks, during O salocn
row, at Dayton.
JOHN b. PRICE, aged forty-fiye, en-
ployed as a miner in the No. mine of
the Wellston Coal Company, was caught
under falling slate and very seriously in
jured.
AUGUST SUMMERFELT, a Cincinnati
blacksmith, attempted to commit suicide
by jumping into the river He was
rescued.
HENRY ii. RUTHENMYER, formerly of
Cincinnati, was shot and instantly killed,
at Dayton, by woman with whom he had
been living.
THREE prisoners escaped from the coun-
ty Jail at GAINESVILLE.
The sixteenth annual session of the Ohio
State Grange met at Lima ON the 11tb
inst.
A CONVICT at the Ohio penitentiary
named Ours fell from the roof of the insti-
tuition and was instantly killed.
AARON SHERMAN, of Wyandot County,
was killed by the accidental discharge Of
his gun while hunting.
THOMAS AxwoRTHY, defaulting city
treasurer OF Cleveland, who Is now in :
London, has made proposition to return