The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-15
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

an army was after him, and ran away
from homo in his night clothes. he was
taken home, and fingered for two days.
when he died brain trouble was the
cause of his death.
THE post-ofIice at Delhi was robbed of
800 the other night
BARKER Cook, o brakeman on tho w.
II. v. & Il. railway yards, at Nelson
Vile, fell between the cars OF moving
train and was instantly killed. HIS
head and arms were entirely severed
from his body.
PATRICK KELLY, q prisoner indicted
for stealing copper from the lncandes-
cent Light Company, pleaded guilty TO
petit larceny. On learning that ne
would be sent to the work house for six
months, Kelly went into court and ask
cd to change his plea and pleaded guilty
to grand larceny, stating he preferred
being sent to the penitentiary than to the
work house. This request was granted
and Judge Gilmore sentenced him to
year in the penitentiary. Kelly stated
he was acquainted with the work house,
and preferred the penitentiary.
A RABID dog created sensation in
Hamilton, few days ago.
THE cornerstone of the new jail at
Fremont was laid, a few days since.
NEBRAsKA's new Democratic Gov
ernor, James e. Boyd, was former
resident of GAINESVILLE.
SuAwHANs Opera-house block, Tiffin,
has been sold for $40, 600 to Hon. w. Z.
Rouse, who intends to remodel and i'm
prove it extensively in the near future.
RUDOLPH GILGEN's business place,
New Philadelphia, was raided by
burglars, and cash and many
articles of value carried of. The bur-
glary occurred during the funeral of his
wife, the thieves knowing he was abb
sent.
AMONG paroles granted by the peni-
tentiary managers tho other night, were
those of Fred H. Braggins, the Cleve-
land editor, sent up for eight years for
forgery, and John II. Simons, treasurer
of Darke County, convicted OF embez-
element and sentenced for six years.
THERE is diphtheria epidemic ut
Hamilton.
Fort RECOVERY has a typhoid fever
epidemic.
THREE small islands in the Maumee
river, near Toledo, have been found to
belong to the State, their value being
about So, 300 They are now occupied by
private parties.
JOHN G. BISHOP, farmer OF Dudley
township, Hardin County, was killed by
his team of horses running away.
HARLEY DOVER, eleven-year-old boy
of Washington c. H., was horribly man
| gled by circular saw.
THE youngest member of the next ma
tional House of Representatives will be
Hon. M. X. Gantz, of the Fourth Ohio
| District He is twenty-eight.
Jos. SuRocK and five children, Of Can
ton, were poisoned by eating tainted
cheese Condition not serious.
BENZ MILLER, of Lima, lost three
children with diphtheria in two days.
MILLER, the bigamist, got out of the
Van Vert Jail the other day, but was
soon recaptured.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL attended an en-
tertainment on the night of the 9th, and
upon returning home was taken with
severe vomiting spells, which contin-
ued throughout the night. He was con-
fined to his bed all next day, but at
night was somewhat better. The Gov
ernor contracted severe cold at Mays
vile, KY, where he addressed polit-
ical meeting Saturday night before the
election, and narrowly escaped case OF
pneumonia.
HARE's official majority for Congress
over Foster is TT. The official vote by
counties is as follows: Seneca $50, Ma
rion 500, Wyandot 7os for Hare; Han
cock 500, Union 1,Os1 for Foster, max
ing Hare's majority 1T.
BIG Four freight train was derailed
near Sidney, the other night A tank
car full of oil was destroyed.
ENGLIsHMEN have invested $4,000, 0oC
in Ohio iron industries in the Mahoning
valley.
THE construction of the Hamilton
| electric railroad is being pushed with
vigor.
CHARLES BLYTHE, the colored mur
derer of DIR. A. L. Jones, died the Other
morning in the penitentiary hospital, Of
consumption.
THE two-year-old child of HIGHLAND
Hecker, Cincinnati, drank from bottle
OF morphine and died.
Mrs. ELMIRA SHAFER, one Of the pion
eers of Oberlin and mother of President
Shafer, of Wesley College, died at Ober
lin, aged eighty-four.
THE six-year-old son of Fred Diebold
Lima, ate whole box of worm lozenges
supposing them to be candy, and died il
commissions.
Ex-CITY CLERK JOHN S. ROLLER, o
Youngstown, has been sent to the peni
tentiary for two years for embezzlinl
public funds.
CINCINNATI is O wire center, ant
claims to make among other things 20,
900 bird cages, $4,000 rat traps, 100, ,00'
fly traps and 800, 900 sieves annually.
w. ii. SHULocK is bad when drunk
He took possession of st. Mary's Churcl
at Portsmouth after service, drubbe'
the pastor, struck the priest, and hell
the crowd at bay with a knife.
w. c. LooING, Newark grocer, esti
mates his assets at 81, 800, liabilities no
known.
DIPHTHERIA is epidemic at Mercer
and has closed the schools.
The other night, near Silverton, tel
miles northeast of Cincinnati, Joe Wal
ters, Anthony Fritz and August Sick
got into drunken fight with each 9th
er Fritz was cut in the arm and Sick
was killed. Which man was the mul
derer is not known, but both Walter