The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-09
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

having his right foot crushed so that
amputation will probably be necessary.
AT Macarthur, Nelson Shoemaker
| pleaded guilty to a charge OF horse.
| stealing, and was sent to the peniten'
tiary for three years.
"SuANG" WHITE, the colored man who
killed Henry Nichols at Sidney, has
been bound over on the charge of MUIR
der in the first degree.
THE Otterbein University Alumni AS
sociation held its sixth annual meeting
at Dayton, the other evening. Officers
were elected, and an address was deliv-
cred by Judge c. A. Bowersox, recently
chosen president of the college at West
erville.
AT New Philadelphia, while adjusting
| the headblock at his saw mill Henry
| Trostroff fell on the circular saw, cut
! ting his body in horrible manner. His
hip was lacerated and cash ten inches
long cut across his abdomen, his bowels
protruding. Strange to say he is yet
| living.
A HOTEL. clerk named Killian was
knocked down and robbed by footpads at
Sidney.
THE new pumping machinery in the
Bellefontaine water works is working.
The wells are down 1,700 and 600 feet
respectively. and the water would dis
count in smell gases from the new
smokeless powder. 1t is so offensive at
times as to be oppressive; especially in
public places where much is used. The
works cost S125,O0 and the public is
disgusted.
BEN STRAwsER and Frank Mons, we'll
known young men of Lima, went coon
hunting, the other night. They took
whisky, got drunk, fought and Mons
struck Strawser over the head, crushing
his skull like an egg-shell. Mons
fled.
LITTLE EFFIE MILLER. the six-year-
old child of Cincinnati widow, was
choked to death with toy balloon, with
which she had been playing.
AT Sidney "Shang" White shot and
instantly killed Henry Nichols.
GREENvILLE has natural gas.
AN editor at Van Vert was horse
whipped by an actress who objected to
being called a "barn-stormer."
The Ohio Dental Society, in session at
Cleveland, elected officers, the other
day, and selected Columbus as the place
for the next meeting.
CHIEF SIMPSON, of the Springfield
Fire Department. and seventeen of the
men handed in their designations the
other day. The trouble arose from the
appointment of Chas. Rotee to 60 upon
the force. The custom has been to
make appointments from the minute
men. Rotee, an outsider, was appointed
over the minute men, and hence the
trouble.
In response to numerous inquiries
from the press and other sources, Secre-
tary of State Ryan examined the legis-
lation of the last General Assembly and
finds that the votiag precincts of the
State have been increased 1,SS5, making
the total number 2,372. This, however,
will probably not be the full number, as
the election boards of the various cities
have power to create election precincts
where they think it necessary, but, as
far as the records show, that is the
number in existence under present leg
islation.
THE Governor has granted an uncon-
ditional pardon to Peter Deweese, con-
victed at the January term, 1889, in the
court of common pleas of Darke County,
of the crime of arson, and sentenced to
the penitentiary for one year.
NED BREMEN was killed by cars at
Lima He was walking on the track
and did not hear the train approaching.
A PANTRY girl at the Grand Hotel,
Cincinnati, was severely bitten by
tarantula.
THE Governor has appointed and COM
missioned David III. Moore, of Hamilton
County, to be trustee of the Ohio Uni
versity at Athens, to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the death of DIR. VIM. p.
Johnson.
PETER e. REITER, a general merchant
at West Lodi, has assigned to Charles
w. Kaufman. Figures not given.
GoPHERs blew two safes at Mt. Ver-
non, the other night. From the one at
j. S. McConnell's warehouse they OBJ
tanned five dollars. The noise of the
explosion at A. d. Bunn's warehouse
attracted the attention of the police,
and the operators were frightened away
before they secured the $500 or S4OO con-
tanned in the vault They made their
escape from town by boarding a north
bound B. and o. freight at four o'clock
in the morning.
A CONTROLLING interest in the Akron
Electric Street railway has passed into
the hands of John f. and c. Frank
Sieberling, who exchanged for it the
Akron Academy of Music, valued at
100000, to j. ii. Wade and S. Il. Ever
EFT, of Cleveland,
The total registration of Cincinnati
this fall is 63,374-3,2OO behind last year
and 700 less than the Presidential vote.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ORA CoRwIN, living
near Bellefontaine, left their six
months'-old child sleeping in cradle
and went into the garden to work, the
other morning. When they returned
few minutes later it was burned to
death, spark from the stove having set
the bed-clothing on fire.
RELY REED, a brakeman on the Bal
timore and Ohio, in attempting to leap
from the tender of a freight engine to a
car, near GAINESVILLE, missed his footing,
fell under the wheels and was cut TO
pieces. The remains were taken to So
nora, where his father lives.
AT Sandusky Michael Hansen, a hod-
carrier, was struck on the head by a
stone that fell from the top of build