The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-16
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

| between Mr.. jacob MoSer, pr0mlnent
undertaken of this city, and Mr.. r. Il.
| Cahill, Democrat, a wealthy citizen Of
Bluffton. The stakes were the finest
caslSet that can be bought at the time Of
the death of the winner, and the ex-
pense of an elaborate funeral.
THE Fifth Regiment, O. N. g., has
elected II. L. Kennan, Captain; Clarence
l.. White, First Lieutenant and Frank
r. Remington Second Lieutenant.
JEpA MITCHELL was attacked by q
vicious bull at Mt. Gilead, and serious
ly injured.
WHILE some children were burning
leaves at Chatham, the clothing of
boy named Sparks caught fire, and he
was burned to death.
Hoes are dying in large numbers in
the eastern part of Logan County, OF
cholera. Already the loss reaches into
the thousands.
CHAs. NOBLE, assistant cashier of the
Smithfield National Bank, at Steuben-
vile, has skipped out, leaving short
age of nearly $4,000.
Mrs. JAMES MCBRIDE was thrown from
buggy and killed, near Youngstown.
AT Youngstown, Curtis Heckle and
John Weller, two young iron-work-
ers, were wrestling the other night,
when Heckle was thrown down, his
head striking an iron rail, causing con-
cussion of the brain that resulted in his
death. Heckle was twenty and unmar-
ried.
AT Shanesville, Tuscarawas County,
the other evening, Miss Emma Hickson,
the eighteen-year-old daughter of Amos
Hickson, was run over by the cars and
killed. She had been to the post-office,
and in crossing the railroad track re-
turning home was struck by the rear
cars of a broken train, and her body lit
orally cut to pieces.
OWING to dense fog at Marietta,
eleven barges and boats of coal were
sunk or stranded, causing loss of over
100000, and seriously injuring Mate
Fitzsimmons, of the Harry Brown.
GOVERNOR FORAKER has issued the
following:
To the people of Ohio: We were
never more prosperous than now. The
year has been full of blessing. We have
had abundant harvests and an important
and almost universal improvement in
business. While calamities have fallen
on others we have been spared. Our
laws are respected and obeyed by hap
py and contented people, who appreciate
our institutions and government more
than ever before, the future is bright
with hope and promise and for all these
blessings we are indebted to the good
ness and mercy of God. 1t is therefore
fit and appropriate that conforming to
established usage and in compliance
with the Proclamation of the President
of the United States, we should make
proper acknowledgment of the giver of
all good. Therefore L, Joseph b. For
aker, Governor of the State of Ohio, do
hereby designate and appoint Thursday,
and praise, and do here
by request all classes of citizens to suit
ably observe the same as such.
j. b. FORAKER,
Governor of Ohio.
THE board of election of Steubenville,
on the Sth, removed Ed Marion and s.
M. Matlock, registrars, and James Nc
Cullough and Nimrod Teaff, judges of
the ward polls, for refusing to return
their registers at the prescribed time,
and for refusing to accept the vote of
man whose name was ordered to be
placed on the register by the board.
Marion and Mccullough are Demo-
,rats and Matlock and Teaff are Repub-
leans.
WIN. TRAUKNER was convicted of man
slaughter at Findlay.
CHAs. SEIBoLD, aged fifty, a carpenter
II
works, Dayton, had his left hand chop
ped off by machinery. He is a poor man
with a wife and five children.
BARRY FLYNN was killed by train
while walking on the track near Alli-
lnce.
CHARLES PREFER, while walking on
he track at Millersburg, was struck by
! train and killed.
AT Findlay, Joseph Donovan killed
Iohn b. McMannis with piece of
BOARD.
NEARLY three hundred persons in
government employ at Washington
anne home to vote in Ohio.
MARTIN WEIpEMYER hanged himself
n his hay-mow near Bucyrus.
The dedication of the NJ Il. Church,
f Caledonia, Marion County, occurred
ecently, and DIR. Whitlock, of the o, w.
J., at Delaware, delivered an excellent
ddress. Nearly $4,000 was spent in i'm
rovements.
AT Newark a three-year-old daughter
+ Mr.. j. English, fell downstairs intoa
rock of hot applebutter, and was so
adly scalded that she will probably
lie.
ROBBERS entered the sleeping apart
,ent of w. L. Rider, of Marion, the
ther night and stole 81, ,45O cash.
AN unknown emigrant was ground to
cath beneath the wheels of b. & o.
rain at Mt. Vernon, the other morning.
Ie got off the train and missed his foot
lg while trying to get on board.
MARTIN WEsDEMEYER, aged ffty-six,
suicide early the other morn
lg at his home six miles west of Bu-
yrus, near Osceola. He left the house
t three o'clock in the morning, and
as found three hours later hanging in
le barn, and had been dead for some
me.
The other night, while the streets of
iffin were thronged with people, Dam
j Wolf, drunken farmer, broke open
40 front door of the National Bank and
ntered, while a crowd of two hundred
ersons were watching his movements.
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