The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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CHARLES RADDELL postmaster at East
Union, took morphine with suicidal in
tent. The cause is unknown.
FIVE persons were poisoned by eating
cheese at Republic.
THE Republicans of tho Twenty
seventh and Twenty-nintn Senatorial
Districts nominated w. S. Kerr and
George II. Hilderbrand for the Senate.
CHAs. SMALLwooD, of Chillicothe, has
brought suit against George Graves to
recover S215 lost in gambling.
THE other evening John Eitler, q
butcher of Wooster, was carried past
Crestline while asleep, got oil the train
while it was in motion and lost his left
foot.
THOMAS T. THOMPSON, of Cleveland,
rendered his resignation as member Of
the State Board of Pardons to Governor
Foraker. His resignation has been ac-
cepted.
THE father of little Maggie Thompson,
formerly of Cincinnati who was so
brutdlly murdered last spring by the
boy, Otto Luth, was run down the other
morning by switch engine and in
stantly killed at Cleveland.
GRDsBY PooR, a well-known farmer
and stockman, who resided q few miles
east of jackson, fell out of wagon
which he was driving and broke his
neck.
CAL JOHNSON, vault-digger, in sink
ing hole on Major ]. L. Brusharts
premises, near Portsmouth, at twenty
four feet below the surface ran across o
petrified rabbit, psir of tusks, each
measuring five feet IN length, and q
dozen coins bearing dates between 1850
and 1900.
WHILE grading street on high hill
in Sidney, huge stone wall was un-
earthed where no one ever saw build
ings. 1t is about ten feet wide on top,
increases in width as the excavation is
made, and is supposed to be about twen-
ty feet high. 1t is built of ''nigger-
heads" of which over 800 loads have
been hauled out The hill at the point
of discovery is seventy feet above the
level of the town. The stones were found
about four feet under the surface, they
being accidentally struck while cutting
grade. 1t is ascribed to the work of
Mound Builders.
AT Newcomerstown burglars entered
the houses of Mr.. Yingling, Prof. Duff
and Squire Little and carried away
clothes, cash, keys and papers.
THE Democratic Convention in Mont
gomery County will be held Septem-
ber 2S.
THE Duke-Norton Oil Company, at
Lima, has decided to the Standard Com
pany 113 acres of the Lehman farm for
$40, ,OOO
THE Republican Senatorial Conven-
tion of the Thirteenth Ohio District will
meet at Sandusky September 25.
coLoRED boy was killed near Allen
town by traction engine.
A YOUNG man named Minzey was seri-
ously injured, near Newark, while
trying to put belt on threshing ma
chine after the steam had been turned
on.
The State Board of Pardons held
brief session on the 9th. The following
pardons were recommended: Frank
Heintz, sent up from Lucas County for
robbery, and sentenced for one year;
Samuel Wanamaker, convicted in Sep
tember, 1888, in Mahoning County of the
crime of forgery on twenty-five indict-
ments of two years each; Fred Davis,
sent up from Williams County for bur-
glary, and sentenced for fifteen months.
The Governor pardoned Heintz, and his
mother being there, has taken him
home.
Mrs. WIN. LEWIS, while interfering
with family quarrel, at Portsmouth,
was struck in the head by a brick in the
hands of Ed Oliver. Her skull is fract-
ured, and death will probably follow.
Oliver has skipped.
REVENUE collections by Deputy
Charles E. Clark, of Dayton, during Au-
gust were: Special taxes, S467.46; beer
stamps, S6,s17.25; cigar stamps, SIS, 59O.35;
manufactured tobacco stamps. 81, 2,9G7.39;
total collections, $1s, s4245. The sale Of
spirit stamps has been transferred to
the Germantown Office.
FIFTEEN threshers were poisoned the
other day near Tiffin by eating cheese.
All were taken violently i'll, and it is
feared some of them will die.
GEO. McWILLIAMs, of Youngstown,
has pair of shoes made in 1S40 They
are still whole, and he wears them oc-
casionally.
WALTER GAGE, young man living at
Danville. was stabbed by man named
Jones recently. Gage received four Sc
we're wounds which may prove fatal.
JAMES RUcKER, the fellow who has
been assaulting and terrorizing women
at Newark, was fined S1O0 and costs and
sentenced to four months in Jail. There
are several other charges against him.
The Commissioner of Pensions ap-
pointed the following Examining Sur
geons for Ohio on the Sd: Drs. A. II.
Hunt, S. p. Grill, Jos. Z. Barrett,
Wooster: f. j. Taylor, Glasgow; Isaac
Rice, /. Il. Turner, f. NJ. Boys, Paints
vile.
THE State Board of Health on the Sd
received information that no deaths and
but two new cases of diphtheria have
occurred in the stricken village of Mos
COW, Clermont County, since August 80.
The weekly report Of the board issued
on the Sd shows that there are twenty
Ave cases of typhoid fever at New Con-
cord, Muskingum County.
STRAW in the rear of the stalls IN one
of the big barns at the Ohio Reform
Farm at Lancaster caught fire the other
night from gas jet, and when discov-
erod had made wonderful headway. The
flames spread to adjoining buildings
and before controlled had consumed the