The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


wM e. BoLIN, mayor Of CircleviIIA
died the other morning. of acute pnou.
monia, aged ffty.eight years. lie was
probably the best know person In the
county.
JuDaH SENRY and Hon. Boston @.
Young will contest for the Democratie
Congressional nomination in the Eighth
| District. q.N.4
WALTER J. MULLINS was commission.
cd Captain Of Company d, Eighth Regi'
ment, Wooster, and Chas. A. Lehrer has
resigned as First Lieutenant OF Com
pany B, Sixteenth Regiment, Sandusky.
BURGLARS entered Mrs. Michael
Burtschey's store at Findlay. took $3.50
in cash, and set the goods on fire. The
whole stock was destroyed. Loss SO, 200;
insured for $4,000
THE Republican Convention for the
Tenth Congressional District will be
held at Washington c. H., July %.
The Democratic Convention for the
Eighth District will be held at Carey
September 10.
THE Republican Convention OF the
Twelfth District, after 200 ballots, ad-
| iourned from Ironton to meet at CALI
polls, August 2s
CLUB JOHNSON (colored) was drowned
while bathing at Pomeroy.
THERE were five cases of sunstrose In
| Cincinnati on the 9th, which resulted
fatally.
THE completed census returns show
| that Hamilton has q population of 49,
| S44. W
AT the Seventeenth District Repub-
lican convention, at Steubenville, Jo-
seph d. Taylor was renominated, re-
ceiving 1874 votes to SO for John NJ.
Cook.
OSCAR ADRIAN, of Dennison, went out
to flag train on the Panhandle the
other morning, and while waiting went
to sleep on the track. He was struck
by passenger train and killed.
THE President has sent to the Senate
the name of Mrs. Minnie b. Taylor as.
postmaster at Hicksville.
Miss MARY SIEss, young lady Of
twenty-eight years, living in Lima, had
not taken mouthful of solid food for
twenty-eight days up to the 27th. The
doctors say her case has no parallel in
medical science. For eight years she,
has not been able to sit or stand erect.
She is bent almost double, her face now
being on level with her ankles. The
primary cause of her trouble is thought.
to have been large tumor, which ap-
peared upon her bowels in October, 1879.
This and spinal trouble have brought.
about her present condition.
THE Republicans Of Ross County have
nominated Milton S. Clark as their cam
didate for circuit Judge in the Fourth
Judicial District. Nomination was made
by acclamatioL.
THE Democratic Congressional con-
vention of the Ninth District renomina-
ted Congressman Cultivate for his
fourth term by acclamation,
A DISPATCH from Census Superintend-
ent Porter gives Akron's census figures
as 27,5oO approximately This is an in
crease of a little over 81 per cent. over
the figures of 1880.
AT Youngstown, John Williams, an
N. Y, p and o. brakeman, attempted
to board an engine and fell under the.
wheels and was crushed to death.
TIMELY discovery of their intentions,
prevented the escape of four prisoners.
from the Jail at Hillsboro, the other
night.
McGARvEY, of Lima, has filed suit.
against the Solar Refining Company for
$4,000 damages. He was operating a.
machine for shearing iron sheeting, when
his clothes caught in the cog-wheels,
drawing him in, dislocating his shoul-,
ders, and injuring him otherwise perma--
nently.
JOHN SUIBLE, coal miner at Saline
vile, Colum biana County, was blinded
and horribly dis6gured about the face
by the premature discharge of blast.
JAMES PATTON was crushed by gun.
rack falling on him in the armory at.
New Lexington. He will recover
WILLAMETTE KING, young lady,
aged twenty years, was sentenced to-
the penitentiary for two years, for man.
slaughter, at New Lexingsss.
THE census just finished makes the
population of Columbus 1I3, 797-a gain,
of 61,8lS in ten years
ONE of Springfield's big men polit--
ically weighs sixty pounds and is forty
six inches high. 1t is Councilman Joe
Leffel. =,
Hon. GEORGE w. HALE, of Lima,
has been appointed Game Warden for
Ohio.
AN Ohio boy takes high honors at
Yale, and an Ohio girl one of the
honors at Georgetown ID. C.) acad-
emy.
DURING storm, the other night, one
of unusual severity, Howard Miller. a,
small boy, was struck by lightning and
killed while emerging from Sunday
school near his home, just noSth OF Can
ton. f,af ~ t.sr8s.,
AT an election at Cuyahoga Falls, it.
was decided, by vote of 292 to 271, to-
have open saloons. They have been
closed for two years
AT Piqua young man named Toughey
Jones, jumped from the top of build
ing into the canal, about fifty feet be-
meath, striking on his back, but without
injury.
A SUDDEN rise in the Muskingum
washed out part of the now dam being
at Stockport, and the esti>
mated damage is 5000
THE penitentiary authorities say thar
the application for pardon of e. l.
Harper, the bank wrecker, has been laid
before President Harrison.
The Indictment against Wm. Means
and J. r. Decamp, former officers of the