The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-26
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


birth to twins the other night, one q
boy and the other girl. The left arm
of the boy had been severed near the
elbow before birth, and the stump was
perfectly healed when the child was
born. The children are otherwise all
right and healthy.
CINcINNATI's post-office leads the
largest thirty offices in the country in
increase of receipts. Cleveland is next
AT Fremont INLAND Waggonor, the
fifteen-year-old son of wealthy farmer,
lost his life by the accidental discharge
of gun while hunting.
EMMETT V. RHODES, cashier of the
First National Bank, of st. Paris,
pleaded guilty to the misappropriation
Of bank funds, and was sentenced to five
years in prison by the United States
Circuit Court at Cincinnati.
WIN. CROOKS, a contractor, was fatally
injured at Massillon, by the caving in of
sewer trench. A workman named
Ribstock was seriously injured.
VERDIcTs against the Pennsylvania
Company are becoming so heavy at
Youngstown, that the cases are being
IdheH W Une ". .. SOurUS.
THE mutilated body of John Stobart
was found in the river near Pomeroy.
He was probably murdered.
A DRUGGIST named Adams was fined
$40 at Wellington for selling liquor con-
trary to law. The case will be ap-
pealed.
A BLACKSMITH named Gorham, while
working at an anvil in a stone quarry
near Lancaster, was blown up by a keg
of powder, which ignited from a spark
from the anvil. His injuries will prob
ably prove fatal.
Four persons have been indicted at
Lancaster for keeping gambling-room.
ROSCOE WARDEN, aged twenty-five
years, resident of Alliance, and en-
ployed as a machinist at Salem, was
killed while endeavoring to board a
freight in motion at Salem to visit his
young wife, he having been married but
few weeks. His head was cut off and
the body shockingly mangled.
ISAAC G. HILLEN has been appointed
postmaster at Greenville, vice ID. S.
Hine, resigned.
w. ScoTT WELSH, the defaulting city
clerk of Bucyrus, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for nine years.
YOUNG man named Horn accident
ally shot himself while hunting near
London, inflicting fatal wound.
SAM PHIPP, of Youngstown, has
brought suit at Mt. Vernon, against
Marcus Hyman, a merchant, for $1,000
damages for SANDER
SOME persons selling organs in the vi
cinity of Millersburg, are charged with
raising notes from S35 to $135.
EMMA DRYDEN, aged ten, of Sprigg
Township, Adams County, was burned
to death the other afternoon.
Two boys quarreled about dog at
Akron, and one was shot in both checks
by the other.
Mrs. RHoDA COLE, aged fifty-fve
years, deaf and dumb inmate of the
Wayne County Infrmary, dropped dead
of heart disease while disrobing to re-
tire.
THE following postmasters were ap-
pointed few days ago: North Star,
Darke County, Richard Mendenhall;
Osgood, Darke County, 1. N. Medford;
Williams Center, Williams County,
Oscar Hoover. Unity, Columbiana Coun-
ty, Elizabeth Kyes.
THE other afternoon the wedding of
Uncle Aaron Noel, farmer living near
Portsmouth, aged SO, to Mrs. Lizzie
Dawson, widow of Lucasville, was
stopped by the groom's son, A. Il. Noel,
he taking tho marriage license from
him.
AT Pomeroy, the coroner's jury, after
careful investigation of the case of
John Stobart, who was found in the river
with his throat cut and five knife cuts
near his heart, decided that it was sui
eide. John Keiser and tramp named
Wyand, who were suspected of having
killed Stobart, have been released from
Jail.
JOHN WESLEY MARKS, a well-known
character of Wooster, was jailed on the
18th, in default of $1,000 bond, charged
with attempting to murder his wife
by shooting at her with Springfield
rifle.
THERE is case of smallpox on Pelee
Island, and it is feared that the disease
will spread.
AN Indictment has been found against
Pat Donohue and Charles Burdge, of
Piqua, for the murder of Zack Brown on
the 7th inst
Mrs. e. A. GEAcH, who was injured
at Columbus by stepping into a trench
dug along the street, has recovered
verdict of SO, roo against the city.
A BRAKEMAN named McSweeney was
killed by cars at Norwalk.
AT Akron well digger named O'Brien
was being raised by a windlass from
12O-foot shaft The rope broke when he
was about half way up, and he fell to
the bottom of the we'll, sustaining seri-
GUS internal injuries. He may re-
cover.
Mrs. HARRY FITCH was killed by
lightning at Toledo.
AMONG the aged domestic animals
owned by Farmer Brown, of Tuscarawas
County, are dog sixteen years of age,
cat that is nearly seventeen, rooster
of thirteen summers and a COW of twen-
ty-two.
JOSEPH SCHWARTZ has entered suit in
the common pleas court at Toledo,
against the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton railroad for $4,000 damages,
alleged to have been sustained by the
loss of his left hand while making
coupling in April last.
OmO'S wheat Weld is about 81, 900, 900