The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


THE Dayton Board of Trade has collected
and shipped to South Dakota n large
amount of clothing and supplies for the
sufferers from the recent storms and fires
| In that section.
The Zanesvillo street car line will be
sold to an Eastern syndicate for $4,000.
The gauge will be widened and the cars
run by electricity.
Ex-REPREsENTATivE DAVIS, Of Cleve-
land, is to he appointed Assistant In
spector of Shops and Factories for Ohio.
! PIouA may have centennial celebra-
tion before iong. The Indian agency
Upper Piqua was established nearly a
hundred years ago.
| THE Sixth and Seventeenth regiments OF
Ohio Infantry, on their way home from
New York, 81 ert a day in Washington,
visitin. the various places of interest in
the city. Many of their members called ut
the White House. The War Department
was n source of great interest.
The Bellefontaine bank gave 2O,OO) for
SIS, 900 of Beliefontaine water works bonds.
"CHmsTIAN Science" advocates will mold
q convention in Cleveland, June IL and IL.
| AFARMER named Sheerer aud his daugh-
| ter were fatally injured in n runaway ac-
cident near Tliiin.
A PETITION is in circulation to have local
option in Salem should Urbana adopt that
method of shutting off saloons.
FARMERS say that the tramps are multi
plying, AMI in some localities are becom-
ing greater nuisance than ever before.
THERE is general complaint from oil
parts of the State that horses do not bring
as good pr, ces as usual.
| IA BOX car that had been closed for six
weeks was opened in Findlay, and in 1t
was found luckless hen tina. had been
without food or water all that time. 1t
WIS still alive and soon recovered its GUS
tomary sprightliness when led
| 1uE contract has been awarded to pipe
natural gas to Upper Sandusky. The work
is to be done bv August 10, and the price
is $42,5o0
A LIFE-MAN at the Ohio psnitentiary,
named Rice, sent up from Butler County,
committed suicide by taking morphine.
A FREIGHT train on the Cleveland, Lor-
ain and Wheeling railroad went
through bridge into n creek, at May
nnrd Tho conductor was fatally injured,
and two men were badly hur'.
TIFFIN will have a band and fireman's
tournament and natural gas celebration
July 3, and 8.
| FRANK SCHERER committed suicide at
Youngstown. He was Respondent
A THREE-YEAR- OLD child was fatally
burned at Tifiin.
DR. NJ. II. MIEssIE, of Circleville, has
received official notification of his appoint
ment as one OF the medical examiners of
pension claimants in that district
SHERMAN ROBINSON was arrested near
Macarthur, a few days ago, on a dispatch
from Columbus, charging him with being
deserter from the United States Army.
| He was taken 20 Columbus.
AT Hartwell, Mrs. Protzman, wife of the
ticket agent OF the Bee-lne road, was
sandbagged in the office and choked to in
sensibility by thief, who stole S15) from
the drawer. AMI escaped. The woman did
not recover Consciousness for several
hours.
IT will be rem mbered that the Legisla
| ture at its last ses ion passed au act in .
creasng the fees for interpretations 70 be
filed with the Secretary of State The
law went into effect May l. According
to the new fee bill the charge on $1O, 00) Is
$40, and sums over that one tenth of on g
per cent.
The city council of Urbana by vote,
has decided to submit the question of
local option to the people OH Sa urday,
May %.
Mr. MORTON, a young and enterprisng
farmer o. German Township, Clarke Coun-
ty, was offered the privilege of renting
big farm. He concluded IL he took charge
he must have helpmeet On Sunday he
called on young lady neighbor named
Miss Della Miller. almost n stranger. He
explained the situation and proposed. Mon
day he got the license, Tuesday they were
married and Wednesday took chargc Of
tie farm.
THE chief of police of Columbus in COM
pliance with the mayors order, an
stiucted the police in that city 10 notify
keepers of professional gambling rooms to
close them aitor May /.
A BELLAlRE lady got up fine dinner fol
company, then went 10 tho parlor to invite
the company out. When they got to the
dining-ioom they found that some tramps
had cleared the table of everything.
JOHN SMELLING aged eighty SEVEN and
Mrs. Tabitha Ackerman, aged eighty
three. were recently married in Wayne
County.
AKRON Is trying to form a board of trade.
One hundred and fifty names have been
secured.
In making an excavation for an avenue
at Cumminsville, Cincinnati, whole trees,
perfectly petrified, were found forty feet
fl ON the surface of the ground.
CHRISTIAN RUoHLE was robbed of $500
AMI shot through the thigh by two high
waymen, near Tifiin.
SUIT has been brought at GAINESVILLE
against the Cincinnati and Muskingum
Valley Railroad Company for $4,000 dam
ages. BY Thomas Smith, a former employe
vino was injured, rs he claims, by the
comiany's negligence.
"A CHARLESTON wv. Va) syndicate has
purchased the Hotel Martin block and the
opera house ut Lancaster.
MRS. SAM'L HOOVER, aged eighty years,
dropped dead at Bellefontaine, while ap-
pnrenily in good health. Supposed heart
disease.
THIEVES entered the stable of VIM.
Wnitcraft, at DeGraff, and stole 0 horse,
buggy and harness.
w. ii. A. RoUDABAUGH, shoe dealer at
Beleville, has assigned. Assets and liza
bilities about $4,000 each. Harmon Tar
bar assignee.
MEMBER enrolled at the Dayton Soldiers
Homr, 5,42L
LOUIS MILLER, Mansfield farmer, hung
himself; dependent
THERE were six cases of suicide at Ceve-