The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


JAMES MorFIT, farmland living
near Springfield, is one Of the principal
heirs to an immense estate in England.
II. M. CLEwEIL, has been commits
stoned Captain of Battery A, First
Regiment Light Artillery, o. N. g., vice
Fred A. Gay, resigned.
rHEnew city hall and market-house, at
Springfield, erected at q cost of 1925, 600,
was dedicated the other day.
SUFFERING caused Mrs. Edward Sass
man, prominent society lady OF Tole-
do, to commit suicide.
At Jackson, Miss Annie Meacham,
nineteen years old, was adiudged insane
and ordered conveyance to the Insane
Asylum at Athens.
WILLIAM H. MARsTELLER, wealthy
farmer, accompanied by his wife, were
driving in covered carriage four miles
west of Youngstown, the other night,
and in attempting to pass over cross
ing on the Pittsburgh, Youngstown and
Ashtabula railroad, were struck by a
passenger train and hurled thirty feet,
both being instantly killed. Their
heads were crushed in and bodies badly
mangled.
THE President nominated the follow
ing postmasters few days ago: A. ID.
Braden, Canton c. +. Cook, Paulding;
S. Fogelson, Marion; G. Hall, Lima; j.
G. Light, Ottawa; A. M. Rice, Kenton.
JAS. O. GRIMES, one of the best-known
lawyers in Eastern Ohio, died the other
day at Cambridge.
ANOTHER great natural gas we'll has
been struck in Wood County.
THE law creating the Female Work.
house Board for Cincinnati, has been de-
clared unconstitutional.
THE Cadiz glass-works were sold to M.
j. Burn, of that place. for SO, 400.
CINCINNATI saloon-keepers are making
another effort to secure a refund OF tax
paid under the Scott law.
AT Bethville a drunken man was ar
rested for creating disturbance at a
funeral.
DIXON STANsBURY, an old resident of
Urbana, died few days ago.
ALFRED ELLISON, dwarf, aged nine
teen years and weighing twenty pounds,
died at Big Plain, on the 18th inst.
A TRAIN struck street car at New
ark, and four persons were injured.
ANOTHER "gusher'' has been drilled
in near Lima.
SIX tramps took possession of the Val
ley depot at Canton, and made things
lively for nearly an hour. An agent
named Lied was locked in his private
Office.
THE mayor of Reading termed the
council ''gang of boodlers'' and in re-
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tuted proceedings to oust him from Of
fee.
BARNEY ALLEN, pioneer of Newton,
died at his home, a few days ago, at the
advanced age of ninety years. Mr.. AL
len was drummer-boy in the war of
1912.
THE twenty-third annual State Con-
vention of the Young Mems Christian
Association began at GAINESVILLE on the
14th, in the Second Presbyterian Church,
over 400 delegates being present. The
report of the committee on nominations,
which was unanimously adopted, was as
follows: President, T. II. Walbridge,
Toledo; vice-presidents, III. III. Griggs,
Newark Prof. A. w. Hurlburt, Mari
eta College; j. L. Taylor, Cleveland;
secretary, Virgil Squires, Defiance;
transportation secretary, A. A. Sawyer,
Oberlin Seminary; press secretary, w.
III. Dalton, Canton Addresses were
made by j. L. Taylor, of Cleveland; #.
w. Gebhard, of Dayton, and g. +. Poole,
of Cleveland. Reports were read from
about thirty associations throughout
the State, all of them showing a graft
flying increase in membership and in
tereSt
THE Ohio Canal Commission has filed
it's annual report with the Governor.
Regarding the results of the work of tho
commission the report says: ALREADY
property and claims estimated at $780,
600 have been discovered and described,
of which S125,000 have been leased or
applied for at per cent. annual rental.
There is a large amount of property
along the Miami and Erie canal, north
of Dayton, not yet appraised, while all
south, except in Hamilton and Dayton,
and also the lands around the Lewiston
and Lorain reservoirs have not been es-
timated. Except in Akron and Colum-
bus, and basin in Massillon, no prop
erty has been appraised on the Ohio or
Hooking Valley canal and their feeders
and extensive reservoirs From
our investigation, and from the records
and facts obtained, we venture
the conjecture that the work of the
committee will result in disclosing
81, 500, 900 to SO, 600, 900 worth of property,
independent of the canal proper, Of
which not one-fourth is necessary to the
maintenance or operation of the canals.
If wisely managed this would produce o
revenue which, added to their earnings,
would maintain the canals without bur-
den to the Taxpayers" The Commits
sion estimates that it will take two
years to complete the work for which it
was created, and recommends that the
salary of the Commissioners be increased
to $4,000 per annum. The report de-
votes considerable attention to the pro-
posed abandonment of bed and reser-
voirs, and disputes the proposition that
in such cases the property reverts to the
original owners.
IT is estimated that the canal within
the corporate limits of Cincinnati is
worth $4,000 900.
GoERGEN e. ENGELHARDT, merchant
clothiers, have left Toledo under a
cloud. During the night the stock was
removed from the store, and next day,
when parties called for suits, found it
empty The firm has been running a
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