The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Ax1xN HrATr, q well known farmer of
Clinton County, committed suicide IN
barn.
THE wife OF E. J. Hall committed suicide
at Youngstown by taking poison Do'ass-
| tic trouble.
THE indications are that the New York,
Mahoning and Western railroad Will go
through Tiffin.
AT New Bremen Fred Bernholt, while
picking up bunch Of weeds thas haa
fallen from his wagon, struck his six-yeur-
| old girl in the eye with his fork. olinost
totally destroying that member.
WIN. Hayes attempted to hang himself
| in prison cell at GAINESVILLE.
| SERAPH1NE HErDELsPERGER committed
suicded at Chillicothe by cutting his
throat with pruning knife.
SOME of the late "Blinky" Morgan's
] GAINESVILLE friends propose to erecb
monument to his memory.
| WHILE several hundred people weret
watching diver at Silver Lake, hearT
Bellefontaine, searching for the body OF u
drowned man, Martin Burke, aged sixty,
walked into the lake, and, getting beyond
his depth, was drowned Two of his sons
and a daughter saw him sink. 1t is thought
that he committed suicide.
| COLLISION occurred on the b. & @. Il.
R., at Hunts Station, between fre'Gat
and passenger train, because of ilis-
placed switch. Several persons were in
jured.
JOSEPH BRYToN, farmer, was robtcd
by highwaymen near Dayton.
THERE is an epidemic of typhoid fever at
Marietta.
WHILE at work at n planning mill at
Wellsville, a steel bit from planer, in
front of which Emerson Keyser was work.
ing, suddenly flew out of place and struck
him in the stomach, producing frigh,ful
cash and lodging in the intestines. The
man died instantly.
FRANK MCGRAw, operator of m6'or
on the Lima electric street railway, was ia
tally injured the other night The travellers,
which convey the electric current from he
wires to the motor. came off, and as Mc-
Graw was in the act Of adjusting them he
caught hold of both wires, forming n
complete circuit. He was knocked from
the top of the car, distance of about t'2
feet, and seriously injured. He was rex-
dered insensible, and was with great
difficulty resuscitated. His hands were
badly burned, and he was injured Intern
ally, SO much so that his recovery is Doubt
full.
WEST UNITY, small town near Toledo,
was almost swept out of existence by fire
the night of the 3D.. Thirteen stores were
totally destroyed, involving a loss o. from
$T5, 900 to 100000. The heaviest losers are
Ely & Smith, dry goods; Adam Gosbec,
clothing; Lee e. Charter, hardware, and
the proprietors of the Hergon House. the
best hotel in the place. The origin of he
| l., f,1ru uain out
en- masse, and worked hard to control the
flames.
]. NJ. RICE, highly respected citizen of
Buchtel, was instantly killed by fall Of
slate in the new Pittsburgh Coal Com
pany's mine. The slate struck his head,
pressing it against the top of the car,
mashing it beyond recognition. He leaves
a wife and four grown step-children. Mrs.
Rice was formerly the wife of James Rus
sell, who, singular to relate, was killed
in q mine at that place in similar man
ner about five years ago.
AS Lewis Snyder, of Payne, accompan-
led by his wife, son, daughter and infant
child, was driving into Defiance, few
days since, his team ran away, throwiyS
the entire family into pile of broken tile.
Every one of them was terribly cut up,
. and Mr.. Snyder sustained q broken arm
and collar-bone.
! WIN. LANNING, a nine year-old boy, was
run over by Wyoming street car, and
sustained injuries from which he died soon
after.
CANTON gave royal welcome on the Sd
to the first delegation of two hundred
} Hampden Watch-works employees from
Springfield, Mass, who arrived there at
2 four o'clock to start matchmaking in
the new Hampden building just completed.
= GEO. RIGNEY, the nine year-old son Of
Michael Rigney, asdrowned while swim.
ming in the Scioto river at Chillicothe the
other noon. His body has been recovered.
j. REPORTS from the fruit-growing regions
i of the southeastern part of the State are to
a the effect that the extreme heat has great
: ly injured the peach, apple and plum crops
by baking the exposed portion of the fruit
Defective fruit will be the result, and loss
> Of not less than % per cent. of the entire
/ crop is predicted. Not since 1864 has fruit
been SO badly injured by the hot weather
and blistering sun.
+. AT Tiffin, as Mrs. John Canty was get-
ting dinner the other day, the gas went
out, and when she attempted to lightiit
there was an explosion and the stove MAJ
!, blown into thousand pieces. Luckily she
q escaped serious injury.
MARY ANN DoNNELLY, saloon keeper
r of London, persuaded Timothy Linsky, .
, farmer, while he was in drunken condi-
q ton, to give her q deed for his farm.
CHAs CoREILL was drowned while bath
ing near Portsmouth.
FERDINAND KIRcHNER, for many years
! chief dyer at the Tifiin Woolen Mills, died
q in convulsions from poisons taken into his
a system from the dyestuffs used.
JOHNNIE LENToN, aged twelve years, was
IL run over by coal car at Buchtel, and his
right leg was broken in two places.
]. THE widow of General Grant has accept
s ed an invitation to visit Columbus during
i the Grand Army encampment and EXPOSE
>. ton. She is expected to be present at the
opening Of the exposition on September 4,
l. and during her stay will be the guest Of
Il Governor and Mrs. Foraker.
DANIEL SrErrLER fell from a load of
/. wheat at New Philadelphia, and was in
" stantly killed, the wheels Of the wagon
passing over his body.
d Two men were seriously injured by the
b premature discharge Of dynamite cart
ridge at Portsmouth. ~
LYMAN NJ. HUMPHREY, the Republican
u nominee for Governor Of Kansas, Is. n
Y Ohio boy, having been born in stasS