The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-06-09
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

to build several hundred houses for labor.
ing mon.
THERE was freight smash.up on the T.
a. q. G. railroad at McCutchensvills.
PORTION of the tunnel on the q. S5 p
branch, near New Philadelphia, caved in,
burying workman named Cayser in the
debris. His body was found in the
evening. He had been dead several
hours.
Two BOYS at the Children's Home, near
Newark, fell from a swing and were seri
ously injured.
HENRIETTA TlDD young unmarried
woman, was arrested at Bellare, charged
with drowning her newborn babe. AT
ter being locked up she confessed her
guilt.
CTS WmTnwINE, well-known Cincin.
natl politician, committed suicide the 9th.
er day by firing bullet through his brain.
Grief over the death of his mother seems
to be the cause of the rash act.
A. S. HEIR was arrested at Tiflin on a
charge of sending obscene literature
through the mail.
ASSESSORS returns show that Crawford
County has eighty-nine saloons. Last year
they numbered one hundred and nine.
Two little girls endeavoring to cross
the Saudusky river on a plank, fell into
the water at Bucyrus and narrowly es-
capped drowning.
AN assault and battery case was tried by
telephone at Lancaster
WALTER ScorT was seriously injured by
a carriage shaft at Bucyrus.
Rev. G. S. EVANS, president of tn, Ohio
Methodist Protestant Con ference, died at
Sprn gfcld.
A ATEN-THoUsAND-DoLLAR damage suit for
breach of promise has been entered against
Frank Piero, of Canton, by Dora Schicbel,
II domestic.
WILLIAM LAyGpoN was sentenced at Ra.
VIENNA to ten years in the penitentiary.
j. W. PAXTON, a b. a. o., brakeman, fell
between cars near Newark, and was cut to
pieces
SIDNEY had six burglaries in four days.
BURGLARS attempted to enter Hall &
Becser's dry goods store at Lancaster.
THE dead body of an infant was found in
the water at London.
WIN. L. BEAM, aged ffty-five, merchant
at Avondalc, Coshocton County, suicided
by hanging. Cause, financial trouble.
This makes the seventh suicide in that
county in the past sixth months.
A LITTLE child of Ad Maddox, of Clarks-
burg, who has been visiting at her grand
fathers, Clawson Maddox, in Chillcothe,
got possession of bottle of aconite, the
other morning, and rubbed some of the
contents OF the bottle upon her face. In
few hours she died from the effects of the
poison.
IDA DRUMMoND, aged seven years, an in
mate of the Hancock County Infirmary,
fell down stairs, striking squarely on her
head and received injuries which will
prove fatal.
MR. AND Mrs. BARNHARD LoosER retired
the other night as usual, and got up about
five o'clock, leaving their oldest child in
bed. An hour or so later the mother went
to look after her child and found it was
dead. No explanation can be given of the
sad affair.
ATT saloon in Hudson, ten miles north
of Akron, n brakeman on the Cleveland,
Akron and Columbus railroad, named
Conklin, jumped upon Thomas Hines, of
Hudson, and cut him over the face and
| neck several times in a shocking manner
and then fed.
GALLIPoLIs is preparing to entertain
| veterans at their reunion, in August
| THE city council of Coshocton decided to
permit a vote on local option, July l2.
| AT a local option election in Hopewell
Township, Seneca County, 800 votes were
cast, and the "wets" won by 26 majority.
A YOUNG lady of GAINESVILLE, returning
from river excursion, walked off
steamer into ten feet of water.
| TIE next meeting of the United Presby-
terian Assembly will be held at SPRING
| field.
THE old cabin in which General Grant
| l.
will be exhibited during the Centennial
Exposition. 1t was toated down the Ohio
river on barge.
| SIMON WEIsENBARTH, aged seventy an
inmate of the county intirmary, at Car
thage, was killed by passenger train.
He was returning from church. He was
very deaf and was walking on the track.
SAMUEL WILSON was killed by a hand
car near GAINESVILLE. -,
| CHARLES E. GEHRING, JR., son of a we'll
known brewer in Cleveland, suicded at
| New York.
SAM HERMAN, Wholesale commission mer-
| chant, assigned at Akron.
A MINER named Geo. Weaver was fatally
crushed in the Excelsior Coal Company's
| new mine near Akron.
THE Columbus Barracks Band will be
one of the attractions at the Marietta Gen.
tennial.
THE telephone Office at Newark was
struck by lightning. a few days ago, and
the entire apparatus ruined.
THE new Dueber watch and watch case
works, at Canton, were damaged by a
wind-storm.
GEO. WELKER drowned himself in q cis-
tern at Fremont.
THE Holy Trinity Catholic Church was
dedicated at Bucyrus, a few days ago.
DURING terrible thunderstorm, BENZ.
F. Jackson, who resides on farm near
Sharonville, reports that four of his finest
bred Jersey cows were killed by the light
ming. They were grazing in field around
which was Il wire fence, and on the other
side of which was II fine meadow. They
had contracted the habit of putting theii
heads through this fence to get the tall,
tender blades of grass. Sunday, when the
storm came up the lightning struck a
hickory tree, and running to the wire
fence scorched the posts the entire length,
and afterward all tho cows were found
dead with their heads through the fence,
showing that they had met their death by
coming into contact with the wire while it
was filled with electricity.
JOHN CONWAY, an employe Of the Lima
Car Works, was instantly killed by the
bursting of an emery wheel.
A sEvEN-YEAR-oLD boy at New Bremen,
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