The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-07
STATE NEWS ITEMS

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THE President has appointed Benia-
min Q. Ridgeway postmaster at Wells
ton, vice John G. Vandervort.
FouRTH-cLAss postmasters were ap-
pointed on the SOth as follows: Benton
Ridge, Hancock County, j. II. Whistler;
Euphemia, Preble County, j. c. Rider:
West Point, Columbiana County, Henry
j. Bough.
CHARLES CoLLIsTER has been appoint
ed storekeeper and gauger in the
Eleventh District
A COMPANY has been organized at
Springfield to manufacture steel by the
Bookwalter process.
SUPERINTENDENT L. e. Sparks, Of
Martins Ferry, and James A. Douglas,
of the Waverly schools, were the in
structors of the Pike County Teachers
Institute, which closed on the 30th.
JOHN SHAFFER, section laborer on
the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne and Chicago
road at Nevada was instantly killed by
being struck by the engine of freight
train.
THE G. A. r. Brigade Encampment,
composed of the posts of the Thirteenth
Congressional District, will be held at
Lancaster October 2 and 8.
JOHN MAURER, well-known farmer
living on Crooked Run, near New Phil
adelphia, fell from the top of a high
straw-stack and was fatally injured.
THE skeleton of man was found low
down in old hollow sycamore stump
by worlmen engaged in blowing up
stumps, near Tiflin.
WHILE bathing in Licking Creek at
Newark, Burt Schraver aged ten years,
was attacked with cramps and was
drowned. The body was recovered.
JAMES FARAGHER, farmer living
east of Lorain, was killed by being
thrown from his buggy near Elyria on
to the sidewalk, breaking his neck. His
horse became frightened at bicycle
and ran, with the above result Fara-
CHER was fifty-six years old and mar
ried
a FREIGHT train on the Lake Shore
ran into the rear end of another freight
one mile east of Geneva. One carload
of paint and two cars of grain were
burned. No one was hurt.
A LITTLE son of Stephen Hillworth,
living near Celina, was badly mangled
by a dog.
HEIDELBERG COLLEGE, at Tiffin, has
been presented with museum valued
at 100000.
LONDON will have water-works.
THE Republicans of the Fifth Ohio
District nominated Hon. Jesse N. Oren
for Senator.
A COMMERCIAL traveller named Hen
kle was robbed, at Youngstown, of n dia-
mond pin worth 5000.
STANLEY c. JONES shot and killed A.
A. Amidon, a prominent attorney of
Painesville, the other evening. About
week before Jones' wife applied for
divorce, alimony and the custody of two
children, and Amidon was her attorney.
Since the commencement of the pro-
ceedings Jones has been drinking, and
was somewhat under the influence of
liquor when he committed the deed.
The Fairfield County Teachers Insti-
tute with $50 in attendance, closed the
most successful session ever held On the
3Oth, and elected for the ensuing year
G. n. Turner, president, and j. l.. Gra-
ham. Secretary.
Two HUNDRED and fifty teachers at
tended the Sandusky County Institute,
which closed on the 30th. The instrue-
tors were Rev. j. X. Swanda and Profs.
Knox and Irish. l. M. Green was elect
ed president, and James A. Smith, SEQ
retary.
THE twenty-fifth annual meeting of
the Stark County Teachers Association
closed on the 30th with five days ses-
sion. One hundred and twenty-eight
Prof. Alston Ellis, of Hamilton, O., and
Superintendent j. j. Burns, of Canton.
BRASS GREEN, an inmate of the poor
house at Youngstown, the other night
cut his throat from ear to ear. His
wound is fatal.
THE Secretary of the State Board of
Health is engaged in mailing circulars
to the proper authorities of cities, towns
and villages, calling attention TO the
law requiring the appointment of
board of health. The law is mandatory,
and there are many places where no at
tention has been paid to the enactment.
1t has been in such places where several
epidemics have occurred during the
present year.
T. S. WARING, cashier of the Farmers
NdtiOudl Dduh dt OrceHNllle, uleu u FtW
days ago, after short illness. Cause of
death gangrene limb the result of
GAS and oil was struck at Columbus
Grove, at depth of 1,395 feet
HENRY 2. OWENS was killed by cars
near Columbus
THE late DR.. Bayliss, of Cincinnati, in
his will gave every thing to his widow.
He is said to have left an estate of from
$50. 900 to 100000.
Mrs. VIM. BEEBE drowned herself in a
cistern at Norwalk.
CLEVELAND has "fresh air camp''out-
side its limits, where the sick children
of the poor are cared for in the summer.
The charitable people of the city sus-
tain the camp with gifts of money, bed
ding and clothing.
THE shortage of Halliday the Mount
Gilead bank cashier, will reach at least
s35, 900. He is believed to be in Canada.
JAMES COLLINS, the superintendent of
the Celina plate-glass factory, was
struck the other evening by the north
bound Dayton and Toledo train and
badly injured. He can not live.
FIRE at the Ohio State Penitentiary,
the other evening, destroyed the build