The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-01
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Of Newark was victimized to the tune OF
So, 900 by forgery.
THE next annual meeting OF the Ohio
Medical Society will bo held at Columbus
the first Wednesday in May, 1890.
URBANA was visited by an unusually
heavy frost the other night Wheat and
corn are badly damaged, especially in low
lands.
THERE was a severe frost in the Upper
Miami Valley few nights ago. Young
corn was badly nipped, and the fruit Is
thought to be seriously injured.
THE Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows se-
lected Dayton as the next meeting place.
SPRINGFIELD is to have natural gas as
soon as it can be pipod there. 1t will be
brought from the field in Mercer County,
and the syndicate will bring it. 1t is be-
lieved that it can be burning in SPRING
field by October 1. The charges will be
the same as in Dayton.
| The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the First National Bank at
Bowling Green to begin business with O
capital of $50 900.
THE Mercer County Gas and Fuel Com
pany and the Dayton Natural Gas Company
have agreed upon terms of consultations
JOHN w. HERON, of Cincinnati, has
been appointed U. S. Attorney for the
! Southern District of Ohio |
A BALD eagle was captured by some
boys while it was bathing in the creek,
near the water works at Gallon, and is in
possession of I. b. Burgerps son, one OK
the captors.
DAVID ENsLEY, a wagon maker, hanged
himself in his shop at Beavertown.
LEVI LAMBRIGHT, while making coup
| ling in the Nickel Plate yards at Fostoria,
caught his foot in a rail guard. A car
backing onto him broke his leg in three
places, besides receiving other terrible in
juries
Mt. GILEAD voted to authorize the issue
of S6 900 bonds to drill for natural gas.
A THREE YEAR OLD child was burned to
death at Portsmouth.
A CALL has been issued for the fourth
annual Convention of the Ohio Republic
can League, at Columbus, June %.
VIM. COLLINS. ON trial at Circleville, for
wife murder, entered a plea of guilty OF
murder in the second degree, and was sem
fenced to life imprisonment.
VIM B. DAY, of Canton, was appointed
U. S. District Judge for the Northern Dis
trict of Ohio. srrSh
JOHN BERRY, living near Marion, has
curiosity in the shape of a three-legged
lamb, which is minus right fore leg Its
head is also decorated with couple of
wattles, like those of a turkey.
AT East Alliance, Daniel Collins, seven.
ty-five years of age, cut cash in his
throat, stabbed himself twice over the
heart and twice in the stomach, then tied
n rope around his neck and hung himself
to the limb of tree He was cut down
alive, but can not recover.
The city council of Pqua, by vote of
TO >, rejected the petition of the temper
ance committee to submit local option to
vote. I!
The $780, 900 of bonds issued by Green
vile to buy land and sink gas wells have
been taken by O. Ii. Vennor g. CO., of Bos-
ton, at a premiu IN of So, 25O
DAVID MCCULLOUGH, aged sixty five
years, while trying to rescue two of his
grandchildren from railroad bridge
near Ottawa, was stru ok by a train and
fatally hurt. The children were slightly
injured.
AN amateur base-b ball club has been or
ganized at Lima. ef2isr r-'-N
ANGUS WEIGH, an employe of Scioto
furnace, Scioto County, while working
with some logs on hillside preparatory
to rolling them down the hill, was killed
instantly by the logs starting before he
anticipated, and catching and rolling over
him. He was crushed In O frlghttul man
ner
AUGUST ONLY, of the wholesale liquor
house of Only Bros. 81 Co, of San ndusky,
suicided by shooting himself in the head
with a revolver. He married there two
weeks before, and had just returned from
his bridal tour. He is supposed to have
been temporarily insane.
THE thirty eighth annual session of the
Great Council of Ohio of the Imperial Or
der of Red Men convened at Columbus on
the 21st The report of the Chief of Re-
cords shows a total membership in Ohio of
3Os4. an increase of ], 237 during the year.
Number of Pocahontas Councils, six, with
total membership of 400. Total receipts
for the year. $26 491 SO; current expenses,
S14, ,639 81; expended for relief of widows
and orphans, $44, Asa At; investments, S2S,-
922 IS; in wampum belts, SIS 2O5 S5. The
present mem bership of the Order at large
is TS,79L
CLEVELAND teamsters are excited about
Canadian drivers that come across the
border with their horses during the sum-
mer to work at reduced prices. !
THE Ohio Dem ocratic convention will be
held at Dayton August q and 2S.
A SIX YEAR-oLD boy was attacked by
bull dog at Newark and fatally injured.
YELLOW SPRINGS has voted in favor OF
the building of town hall
THE fifty annual session of the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows Of Ohio oon-
vened at Toledo the 21st inst The Grand
Secretary's report shows the membership
to be 50, TIA, an increase Of 1910; total ex-
penditures $420, ,367.6o; total assets, ST. 925,
353 "a; number of Rebskah lodges, 179;
membership, 10, 506, an increase Of 1905
PRESIDENT HARRISON appointed the fol-
lowing Ohio postmasters, few days ago;
Azariah C. Cooker, Caldwell, and John d.
Deyarman, Louionville
MAJOR H. L. WIEALT, an old time sport,
died at Columbus, few days ago, aged
over eighty years. He was widely
known through the West and South before
and during the war.
AT meeting Of the Ministerial Assoca-
tion at Portsmouth, 1t was agreed to begin
war on Sunday excursions. A commit
tee was appointed to send protest to the
anagement Of railroads against this So
) called evil. :
EMANUEL BEATTY, an old resident OF
!, Lucas County, hanged himself In a barn.
, MEAN Akron two brothers named Wing