The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-31
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

\ Jaw q few days ago, the result OF rum
ming q thorn in her foot some ten days
before.
| ADoLPm A. LEY, while getting off q
Cleveland, Akron and Columbus train at
Akron, fell under the wheels and had
one arm and leg cut of. His condition
| is precarious. s,s9
B. HARRINGTON, q brakeman on the
Valley railway, fell from car near
Akron the other night and his body was
cut in two by the car wheels.
HENRY FAST, farmer, was arraigned
before Squire May, at Celina, charged
by Game Warden Medford with break
ing up and robbing quails' nests. lie
paid S31 fine and costs.
A LITTLE girl of Henry Gray, living
six miles south of jackson, was acci-
dentally shot with revolver, the ball
entering just below the heart.
A DAUGHTER of Martin Woodside was
probably fatally injured in a runaway at
Tif1in, the other night.
AT Lima, Charley Bayless, three
year-old boy, was fatally kicked on
the head by horse.
SMITH HUTCHINSON, engineer at the
Strock lumber mills, Springfield, was
found dead the other evening beside his
engine. He was SO years old.
SAM'L AIKEN, aged 76, leading farm
er of Sharon, and for nigh half q con
tury ruling elder in the Presbyterian
Church, died on the Esd.
VIM. G. DEsHLER, State agent to re-
ceive money for the Johnstown flood
sufferers, made his final report to Gov
ernor Foraker tho other afternoon. The
total collected and forwarded under tho
call of the Governor was ST3, 129 75.
The village of Louisville, six miles
esst of Canton, is badly stirred up over
the action of the council in setting at
defiance the Owen law, by granting per-
mission for saloons to be kept open on
Sunday.
THE firemen of the West Seventh
street engine-house, Portsmouth, were
each the recipient of clay pipe, of In
dian make-a gift from President
Harrison. They were delivered by
Master Earl Pursell, who has been Wis
iting in Washington, and who is great
friend of the President sgrandchildrcn
the McKees.
AT Medina G. w. Lewis, common
pleas judge, who lost an arm in the war,
fell from wagon and broke his remain
ing arm, and also fractured the wrist.
Vol. SHANK, after speeding trotter
at Litchfield, stepped down from the
sulky in which he was driving and fell
dead. Heart disease.
IRA SMITH, aged twelve years, who
shot and killed girl named Knop near
Canton, has been arrested on n charge of
manslaughter. Notwithstanding the
verdict of the coroner that the killing
was accidental, the girls father is dis
arrest.
JACOB MILLER, head of the Aultman
agricultural works, at Canton, died q.
few days ago of paralysis. His life was
insured for nearly $3.50, 900.
The Richland County Prohibitionists
held their convention at Mansfield and
nominated a ticket, as follows: Repre-
sentative, w. Ii. Funk; auditor, Il, &.
Cline; treasurer, Thomas Bradley; ther-
iff, Solomon Daubenspeck; recorder,
VIM. L. Sheely; commissioner, o. III.
ler; coroner, DR.. r. Z. Work.
JOHN CLEMENTS, of Ravenna, accused
of forging his fathers name to notes for
several thousand dollars, was arrested
at indianapolis.
LEWIS SNYDER, lifeinsurance agent,
aged about 50, married and living at
Station Fifteen, five miles east of Dem
nison, on the Panhandle, was found ly-
ing on the railroad track near Bowers
town, the other morning, his body cut
to pieces by the cars. AS his money
and watch were missing when the body
was found, tits supposed he was assault
ed, robbed and placed on the track and
killed by the cars.
PORT JEFFERSON in search of gas, has
apparently struck a geyser. While
driving pipe q stresm of water was
struck. 1t squirts to the top of the der
rick, seventy-five feet high, and throws
up stones Weighing four pounds.
AT the Democratic Senatorial conven-
tion of the Twelfth District, held at Pi.
qua, Hon. A. j. Robertson, of Sidney,
was renominated by acclamation.
A LARGE quantity of arrow and spear
heads were lately unearthed near Old
Salem, Tuscarawas County.
THE following fourth-class post
masters were appointed on the goth:
Ellsberry, Brown County, w. Il. Brit
ingham; Good Hope. Fayette County,
Il. f. McElwain; Neel, Brown County,
M. A. Neel, ST.; New Straitsville, Perry
County, j. A. Taylor; Quaker City,
Guernsey County, II. b. Cox.
A HUNDRED survivors of the Twelfth
Ohio Infantry. many of them with their
wives and daughters, and a number of
widows and sisters of deceased soldiers
Of the regiment, assembled in Memorial
Hall at the Soldiers Home, on the goth,
for tho ninth annual reunion of tho
association. President Lloyd Stockman
was in the chair. L. B. Brotherton, of
Dayton, soldier Of the First Ohio Cav
airy, delivered welcome address
Speeches were made by many of the ole
officers and comrades. A resolution was
adopted providing for the erection of q
monument on the crest of the South
Mountain, point carried by the regi-
nent in bayonet charge ahead OF all
'ther troops. The next reunion will be
leld in Ft. Scamon, at Fayette Z H.,
w. Va.
The Matthews Paper Mill, at, Zanes-
lille, has shut down indefinitely be-
,ause OF dullness of trade. A46
A CINCINNATI distilling company, Or
,anized to oppose the whisky combine,
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