The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-01
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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nominated in the Second District.
DR.. Works, veterinary surgeon and
horse dealer Of Somerset, was wayiaid and
robbed of $1,000 while driving home in
buggy from Columbus.
| The Mcleod Railroad Signal Company,
Of South Boston, Mass, will soon remove
to Canton, where the town has given the
company 100 acres Of land and voted $i0,-
900 to the enterprise. The new works are
nearly completed.
WEST SMITH, lineman employed by the
Western Union Telegraph Company, fell
from the top Of a forty-foot telegraph
pole at Steubenville, and was seriously in
iured.
AT Fostoria, the Republicans Of the
Fifth District nominated Wilson j. Vance
for Congress.
URIAH TOWNSEND, conductor on n con-
struction train on the NJ. c. and N. rail-
way, near Kilvert, Athens County, saw a
little three-year-old child sitting on the
track. As it was impossible to stop or
hardly check the engine, he spranC from
the tender ut the risk of his life and saved
| the child. 1t was very narrow escape
| for him, as the tender brushed his CLOTH
| ing.
PETER MCDONALD dropped dead in a
faro bank at Columbus.
| REPRESENTATIVES, from the Divisions of
| Uniformed Rank, Knights of Pythias, of
Steubenville, Akron, Mansfield, Canton,
Niles and Massillon partially organized
the Eighth Regiment at Massllon the other
day by eecting l.. Holloway of Niles,
Lieutenant-Colonel, and A. j. Criss, of
Canton, Major. A Colonel can not be
elected until there are eight Divisions in
the regiment, the number now being seven.
DISASTROUS wreck occurred the other
afternoon at Moxahala Tunnel, on the To-
| ledo and Ohio Central road. James Brad
| ford, the fireman, was killed.
MRS CLINT HARRIS took morphine with
suicidal intent at Springfield. Her life
was saved by prompt medical attention.
JAS. MORGAN, proprietor of a shooting
gallery at Alliance, was fined 800 and
costs for violating tn prohibitory ordi-
| nance at that place.
| AT Wooster, Daniel Myers, aged about
sixty, molder from Mansfield, stepped in
front of passenger train to get out of the
| road of a freight. The passenger knocked
him under the freight. and his body was
| horribly mangled, death occurring in
| stantly.
EDWARD LAB was fined one dollar and
costs at Mansfield, for wearing female ap-
parel.
A. c.. s. G. c. TRAIN was derailed near
Springfield, and number of persons were
seriously injured.
MRS. JAS. STEVENSON committed suicide
at Columbus, because her son married con-
trary to her wishes.
Two men were each fined fifty dollars
atCoshocton, for killing fish with dynamite
in the Walhonding river.
DENNIS MAILMAN, B. g. o. brakeman,
was assaulted and seriously injured by
tramp whom he tried to put from train at
Shelby.
TWENTY German saloon keepers were
arrested at Cleveland, for violating the
Sunday closing law. Each one asked for
jury trial.
PHILIP EEcKE was robbed Of $50 at Sa-
bina.
AT LIMA, the other morning, John Nc
Clelland, teamster, was thrown from his
wagon, and the wheels passing over his
body inflicted internal injuries which will
| prove fatal.
THE other night, the saloon of John Hin
kle, at Cairo, Allen County, was stoned
by unknown persons and the windows
| knocked out and the fixtures demolished.
Three tramps We're arrested on suspicion.
JAS. HAUK, a brakeman on the Toledo
and Ohio Central road, fell from the train
near Centerburg and was fatally injured.
JACOB MAYHEM was instantly killed by
the premature discharge of a blast at a
quarry near Bellaire.
JOHN MEYERS was terribly mangled by
an electric car at Lima.
GEO. w. GLAzIER was arrested near Mil
lersburg for hunting on Sunday. He was
fined twenty-five dollars and COSTS and
sent to Jail for thirty days.
THOMAS FARRELL was found dead at
the foot of fight of stairs at GAINESVILLE,
his skull being crushed. 1t is supposed
that he fell from the top of the stairway.
JEREMIAH ALTER, respected farmer of
Wyandot County, was drowned in a p.nd.
The bids for the State printing for the
exttwoyears were opened by the Commits
soners of Public Printing on the 2lst. The
Westbote Company, of Columbus, was
awarded the contract for all classes of
printing except the journals of the Senate
and House, which work was awarded to
the Werner Printing Company, of Akron
A FERoCIous bull attacked Daniel Shaw,
n prosperous farmer Of Madison Town.
ship, near Newark, while he was trying to
get it into pasture, and mangled him
about the body in a frightful manner, in
fiicting such injuries as will probably
prove fatal.
ANunknown man was killed by the cars
near Uhrichsville.
JOHN MCKITTRIQE was arrested at
GAINESVILLE for horsestealing.
A FAMILY which can furnish a suicide
and a wedding all within three hours is
entitled to the palm for sensationalism.
Such case transpired in Cincinnati the
other morning. At five O'Clock Kate Will
lem, thirty-one years of age, cut her
throat at her home on Race street, anr
three hours later her sister Rosa was led tc
the altar by the man of her choice. A
strange coincidence in connection with the
affair is related by brother of the deac.
girl. When he was married, some years
ago, he left his room-mate at home in
health and good spirits, and on returning
from church with his bride he found him
cold in death, having died suddenly Of
heart disease.
THE 2lst was a gala day for Fort Recov-
cry. The town was beautifully decorated.
The citizens are working industriously to
secure monument there by appropriation
fIom Congress to commemorate the death
of the fallen heroes Of 1901 and 1913, under
command OF Generals Stellar and Wayne.
General w. Fl. Gibson, of Tiffin, addressed
q large audience Mt the grove south ~