The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-08
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

WHILE ASST sting in loading a huge iron
pump at the Standard Refinery at Lima,
David Schultz was fatally crushed by the
pump falling on him.
F. BARNES was instantly killed by the
cars at Tallmage.
A LODGE of German Knights OF Pythias
was Instituted at Newark.
DENNIS HARVEY was shot and killed at
Avondale by Lincoln Noland. An old
grudge caused the murder.
THERE was another wreck at Lima, on
the Dayton and Michigan railroad. A
section foreman was seriously injured.
NEWARK is threatened with water
famine.
THE drug store of DR.. Sharp, at Wood
stock, Champaign County, was robbed the
other night. The burglars were heard ana
pursued by parties. Michael McFadden
was arrested as being implicated In the
robbery.
AT New Libson q woman named Thomp-
son recently gave birth to child, and her
husband celebrated the event by getting
drunk. His conduct prayed upon her
mind, and she went to a small brook near
the house and lay down in the water.
Mother and child were drowned.
A COLLISION between two freight trains
on the c., A. e. G. road occurred near
Howard. An engineer and brakeman were
seriously injured. ev.s
WHILE building a barb-wire fence Uriah
Danfort, carpenter, at Poland, Mahoning
County, slipped on board through which
several rusty nails protruded. One OF
the nails pierced the sole Of his boot and
ran into his foot, making wound from
which lockjaw developed. It is thought
he can not recover
DAVID SIMPSON, q coal miner of Barton
Station, was run over the other night by
the st. Clairsville train and instantly
killed. His head was cut OFF and found
twenty feet from his body. He leaves
family in Scotland.
AN accident attended by great loss OF
property and the life of Edward Shepherd
occurred at Newark, the other morning.
The four-story brick building owned by
George r. Scott, was completed to the
fourth story, and it was discov.
cred that the masonry that held the center
pier in front OF the building was beginning
to give way. Workmen came to attend to
the matter, and Edward Shepherd and an
other carpenter named w. L. Willy went
to the front of the building on the fourth
story to remove some lumber in order that
the weight in that part of the building
might be lessened. just after they climbed
to the top Willy felt the building giving
way, and called to his comrade to run to-
ward the rear. Although the building fell
in an instant afterward, he managed to
save himself by quick action. Shepherd,
however, fell with the front part of the
building to the ground, and was picked up
shortly after in an almost unrecognizable
mass.
NEW swindle is being worked in Han
cock County on the treasurers of town.
ships, by two slick individuals, who, on
the pretense that they can restore school,
house black boards at trifling cost, secure
contract with the township to do this
work, which contract turns up few hours
afterward at the treasurer's office as a
regular township order and is cashed.
The treasury of Van Buren, Township was
relieved of forty-two dollars the other
morning by this process, and other town.
ships are expected to bring in similar re-
ports In day or two.
FRED DIEBoLT, the first Of the twenty
four saloon-keepers arrested at Cleveland,
for violating the Owen law, was convicted.
DURING the quarter ending June 8, 1883,
2,1s9 pensions were paid in Hamilton
County, the amount being $40, ,S12.
HANLY and Needham fought thirty-on
rounds in q prize-fght, near Dayton.
Hanly won on a foul.
OSCAR DAVIS, the convict who escaped
from the Ohio penitentiary, has been found
and returned to prison.
The administrator of VIM. Magner, who
was killed by the cars near Youngstown,
has commenced proceedings against the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company for $10,-
600 damages.
GEORGE MILLER, received at the peni-
/ tentiary from Tuscarawas County in 1887,
on a ten.year sentence for counterfeiting,
died suddenly on the 30th from heart dis
ease He had $4G0 in the hands of the
clerk of the prison.
| A sIxTEEN.YEAR-oLD boy in the employ
of D. E. Child, Findlay, drayman, was
kicked In the face by O sharp shod horse,
cutting his face and neck in frightful
manner His right shoulder was also badly
lacerated, and the shock to his system was
30 great that he can hardly recover.
The sixteenth annual reunion and Picnic
of the Sandusky County Historical and
Pioneer Association was held in Fremont,
on the Both. Governor Foster, General
Gibson and w. w. Armstrong sent letters
regretting inability to attend. Hon.
Wildman, of Norfolk, delivered a fine ad.
dress.
FREEMAN g. CARY, brother of General
Samuel F. Cary, died at his home, near
Pleasant Run, Hamilton County, a few
days ago.
TwELvE horses were killed by cars at
Columbus. They got on the railroad
through an open gate in the o. N. g.
camp grounds.
HENRY LUFL, farmer Of Mifiin Town
ship, Franklin County, was gored to death
by a bull.
NINE of the eleven furnaces in the Hook.
ing Valley have shut down as result Of
the tariff agitation.
MICHAEL SCHLERET, while attempting to
throw belt from a wheel at Lewis' paper.
mill, Dayton, was caught with his head
between the belt and wheel and whirled
until he fell mangled and dead from the
machine.
The post-ofice at Vidal Ross County,
| has been abolished.
JAMES STIcE, of Cincinnati, and G, 81.
Franklin, Of Cleveland, were arrested at
Springfield for working the gold brick
scheme.
LARGE numbers Of potato bugs have
gathered in the neighborhood Of West