The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-06-30
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


jured while trying to stop runaway horse
at Lima.
A LITTLE son Of VIM. Deppe was fatally
crushed by a wagon at Selma.
A MAN named Smith was instantly killed
by falling derrick at Nevada.
JOHN BREMAN suicided by hanging at
Sandusky, on account Of sickness ana de-
spondency.
BURGLARS got away with 5000 in cash at
the residence of Samuel Carter, near UNI
opolis.
AT Centerburg, son Of Rantz Jacobus
met with a terrible death the other day.
While mounting horse his foot became
entangled in the trace-chain. The horse
started and ran fully mile with the BODY
dragging. The body was terribly mangled
when rescued. He was about eleven years
old.
GEO. ALEXANDER, sixteen years OF age
was the other evening watching nunepSS =.
of boys in the water bathing at NewyR'
Suddenly Dave Dean threw stone, strik-
ing the Alexander boy in the left eye, tear
ing it out. The sight is entirely lost. 1t
all came from carelessly throwing stones.
FRANK FURNAN, treasurer Of the "Owl
Creek Club" ut Mt. Vernon, an organiza-
tion gotten up to evade the local option
clauses of the Dow law, was fined 500 and
sentenced to thirty days imprisonment in
Jail.
The other night Mrs. John Link, OF Lima,
who has been sick for some time, got up
out Of bed in her sleep during the absence
of her nurse, and walked to Gottfried's
brick yard, where she was found next
morning, covered with mud and water,
having waded through a pond. 1t is
feared the shock will prove fatal to her.
JAS. BoGGs, farmer living near Circle
vile, was struck by an engine on the Q.
and NJ. V. track and instantly killed.
THE cornerstone of the new courthouse
at Circleville, was laid q few days ago,
Grand Master Mason s. Starker Williams
officiating.
DAVID KELLER, an old B. & o. employe,
was struck by an engine at Bellaire, and
fatally injured.
THE Secretary of The Treasury appointed
Louis Walrose assistant keeper of the light
station at Cleveland.
FRANK MUELLER. furniture dealerI and
undertaken, aged seventy three, Of Ports
mouth, rose at five the other morning to
take a drink of whisky. He got the wrong
bottle and enptied half the contents, which
were acids and creosote, used for embalm-
ing the dead. He can not recover, and on
the 22d was lying in terrible agony.
r. d. MoFFAT, proprietor of the ST.
James Hotel, Lima, fell from the veranda
ON the front of the hotel and was probably
fatally injured.
ANDREW SMITH, a farmer living near
Upper Sandusky, was instantly killed by
the fall of derrick used in the construc-
tion of a bridge.
SALOONS at Norwalk will be ordered
closed at 10 p. m. during summer and at
$3.50 in winter. Proprietors do not object,
but would like little more latitude on
Saturday nights.
ELI STAUGHToN attempted to commit
suicide at Pleasant Plain by shooting him.
self in the head with revolver.
A DEMENTED citizen named Joe Dennis
had a narrow escape from death at Wells
vile, few days ago. Dennis was in an
upper story of his home, and, seeing po-
liceman advancing, imagined the officer
was after him. Almost naked, he jumped
from the window, crashing through grape
arbor and fell to the ground, distance
of forty feet. In his mad fight he ran to
his brothers. house, jumped through a
window, carrying the sash with him, and
made his exit in the same manner. Dennis
was terribly cut in his flight.
MRS. MCGRAw, living ON the second floor
of tenement house in Cincinnati, left her
one-year-old child sitting in high chair
near the window while she went into the
yard. The little one climbed into the win
dow and fell to the pavement below, dis
tance of twelve feet. The child's skull was
fractured and death ensued
A BARREL filled with whisky exploded in
Harry O'Neil's saloon, Lima, and set fire
| to the building, which it damaged to the
extent of about fifteen hundred dollars.
A CHARGE Of murder has been preferred
against Walter Low, q cowboy, for the
shooting of Frank Hill, at Pawnee Bill's
Wild West Show, at Columbus. The other
cowboys have been released. He h. been
| closely identified by boy who sat near
him at the time of the shooting.
JOSEPH HANNAH, one of the leading citi-
zens and farmers in the neighborhood of
Felicity, was kicked by the family mule the
other morning, receiving what is feared
will prove dangerous injuries.
GAYLORD NJ. SALTzGABER was nomi-
mated for Congress by the Democrats Of
the Sixth District. X
| +. ZUMBACH was drowned while bathing
near New Philadelphia.
The monument to Moses Cleaveland will
be set up ut Cleveland next month. It
consists of a life-sized bronze statue on q
polished granite pedestal.
| MARY URBAN, domestic, at Mt. Airy.
suicided by taking Paris green.
LOCAL option was carried in Jackson
Township, Coshocton County, by vote Of
| 150 to 10.
JOSEPH MAIER fell from second story
window at Titlin, and received fatal inju-
| ries.
The cornerstone of the Sacred Heart
Church, Dayton, was laid by Archbishop
Elder on the 18th.
JACOB HAWK, a farmer, living near New
Philadelphia, died suddenly few days
ago, while in a apotato-patch.
EMANUEL ZUMBAcH, married man,
twenty EIGHT years Of age, was taken with
cramps while bathing near Gnadenhutten,
the other night, and drowned.
A GIRL, six years old, was fatally bitten
by rattlesnake at Springfield.
PIoUA celebrated the successful introduce
tion of natural gas into that city.
HORACE L. PIKE took 'sRough on Rats's
with suicidal intent, at Zanesville.