The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17

tally injured by the cars at Atwood Sta
tion.
FOUR pickpockets were bound over to
cour at Athens.
Two well-dressed strangers, the names
they gave being nc doubt fictitious, went
into Bill Hoifman's saloon, opposite the
Ft. Wayne depot, at Massillon, between
one and two O'Clock the other morning,
locked the door after entering, pointed
brace Of revolvers at the proprietor and
demanded the contents of the till and any
other money in the house. Hoffman made
at them with huge cheese knife, and the
stand -and-deliver gentlemen retreated.
They were caught next evening and locked
up. 1t is believed they are professional
burglars or thieves, as they were heard
wrangling about the division of booty, and
are we'll supplied with money.
A FREE -FoR-ALL fight, participated in
by at least dozen persons, took place at
McConnellsville.
JERRY HEMMINGER, a thirteen year. old
boy, had his leg cut off by a Bee Line train
at Delaware.
WHILE an old man named Garrett wns
walking on the Pam Handle track fifteen
miles east of Newark, he was struck by
fast limo passenger No. 0 and killed in
stantly, his brains being scattered some
distance and his body horribly mangled.
He leaves wife and two children.
A YOUNG man aged eighteen years,
named Len Wilson, living about four miles
cast of Cambridge, was instantly killed
by the accidental discharge of gun.
The three year r-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Pat Carroll, of Springfield, was play
ing with button hook and in some way
got it caught in an eyelid. Tho mother
did not know it was hooked in the flesh
and grabbed tho child by the arm to take
the hook from it. This act caused the
hook to actually tear off the lower lid of
the eye.
ONE person was killed and several in
jured in a freight collision on the b. & o.
railroad, near GAINESVILLE.
MAJOR F. II. BRAGGINs, prominent cit
zen of Cleveland, was arrested for forgery.
He confessed his guilt.
LEVI and Robert Stevenson. wealthy
farmers of Richland County, have been
sued for slander.
AS George Seese, a laborer in Lyth's
Pottery, Wellsville was walking under
trestle a piece of clay weighing one
crushing his skull in fatal manner.
JAMES NJ. POWELL, who was shot in
Gr0enville, ut the ID. and U. Depot by
Almsley Odell, of Arcanum, during the
riot on the night OF October 81, died of his
wounds November 8. The deceased was
taken to his late home, near Dayton, for
burial. Young Odell is under 50, 900 b~ad
to answer to the next grand jury.
JOHN SMITH, one of the Oldest passenger
engineers ON the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton road, was stricken with paralysis
as he was in the act of boarding his engine
to take out a train, at Lima, and on the
9th was in worry critical condition.
ALBERT BLACK was seriously injured by
the cars at Tfiin.
MICHAEL GRAF, arrested at Cincinnati
for abusing his family, attempted to COM
init suicide by taking laudanum.
JOHN REED was run over by the cars
near Circlevi!le and seriously injured.
FINDLAY is shipping articles of glass.
ware to Europe.
The Fanny Furnace at Shawnee Is again
in blast after an idleness of five months.
Every mine in that locality isrunning full
time. a~
The county commissioners of Clarke
County have offered a reward of 81, 900 for
the perpetrator Of the recent assault upon
General Bushnell.
MRS. ELLEN NEwHALL, aged fifty years.
fell down stairs at Cincinnati while under
the influence of liquor, and sustained Sc
rious injury.
HENRY PERDY died, near Ashland, from
the effects of aconite, taken by mistake for
whisky.
JAS. McCoMBs, of Cincinnati, fell down
stairs while drunk, and fractured his
skull.
JOHN HAcKE fell from scaffold at Gin
cinnati, and sustained serious internal in
juries.
THos. REED, who fell under the wheels
of moving train at Kingston, the other
evening, and had his legs so badly crushed,
died of his injuries at his home, near Elm.
wood, the same night.
EVAN w. THOMAS was found guilty of
forgery at Lima. yi.
THERE was freight wreck on the N. Y,
r. 81 o. II. II. near Ravenna.
ELIJAH THOMAS, colored man who
criminally assaulted his ten-year- -old step
daughter last spring, pleaded guilty be-
fore Judge Norris at Marion, the other
morning, without trial, and was sentenced
to ten years in the Ohio penitentiary.
A STRIKE occurred among the employees
at Bessie Furnace, located one mile west of
New Straitsville on the 9th, owing to the
operators refusing to accede to their de.
mand OF an increase of ten per cent. In
their wages. The furnace has been banked.
and will possibly beblown out. Out of the
eight furnace plants in the valley the
Winona is the only one in operation.
PAT HANNEGAN, Springfield tough, has
been arrested on suspicion of being one of
General Bushnell's assailants.
In an attempt to drive across the rail-
road track at Silver Creek, near Kenton,
Joseph O. Rice, aged 20, was struck by an
engine and instantly killed.
MICHAEL CREIGHTON was killed, the
other night at Ottawa. by falling from a
freight trasu on the d. and NJ. railroad.
His left arm was cut Off and his head and
body mutilated. He lived but few hours
after the accident.
The largest gas well in Ohio was drilled
in at Findlay.
THRPE men were seriously injured by
the fall of scaffold at Tifiin.
The Cincinnati Crematory was dedicated
a few days ago, Mr.Benn Pitman and Rev.
N, Q. Lockwood delivering addresses.