The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-05-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Democrats of the Fifth Ohio Dis
trict the other day nominated +. c. Lay
ton for Congress by acclamation.
THE store of McKittrick Bros. at
Jackson was burglarized and S65 in
money taken.
A BRANclt OF the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Steel and Iron Workers has
been insti ''.ted ut GAINESVILLE.
OWEN MCDONALD was arrested az
Lima for stoning a c., ii. IL ID. passen-
ger train.
CHARLES HALI.ETr, aged about D. in
Jail at Athens under an indictment fCH
murder in the second degree, dropped
dead the other night. lie was afflicted
with a pulmonary affection.
| JAMES MORGAN HART, professor OF
modern languages at tho University OF
Cincinnati, has been appointed To the
chair of rhetoric and English philology
recently established at Cornell Uni
vcrsity.
THE body of Daniel McNally, who
mysteriously disappeared from Canal
Dover last Christmas, has been found in
the Tuscarawas river.
HlIIsBono will adopt standard time
June /.
AUDITOR of State Poe announces that
he is ready to issue warrants for the re-
funder of tho fishing-net tax. The per-
sons who paid the tax should send proof
of their claims and receipt for the re-
funder, and the warrants will be for
warded at once.
TIE ten bills providing for the erec-
| tion by the Federal Government of
buildings in Ohio towns, introduced in
| the Congress-, are for the following
places: Youngstown, Lima, Defiance,
Hamilton, Akron, GAINESVILLE, Steuben-
vile, Piqua, Fremont, and one for in
creasing the limit OF the cost OF the
building already authorized for Ports
mouth from $50, 900 to $4,000. !
DURING quarrel at Sciotoville, be-
| tween Jared Clark and Grant Pennell,
the former shot and seriously injured
the latter. An old grudge was the cause
of the trouble.
The Democrats of Tuscarawas County
will hold their Convention at New Phil
adelphia, June z.
JAMES j. ANDERSON, Of Springfield,
crazed on the subject OF religion, has
been sent to the Dayton Asylum.
| THE Marion County Medical Society
has elected the following oflicerss Pres
ident A. M. Crane; vice-President, j.
A. Mouser; secretary, E. B. Lake; treas
| urer, o. w. Weeks
IDA SHAW, aged six years, was str~ck
by the engine of passing train at New
ark, and instantly killed.
WM. KING was kicked to death by a
colt in Auglaize County.
The Mexican War Veterans Associa-
tion closed their sixteenth Reunion at
Mt. Vernon, the other day. The next
reunion will be held at Sidney, May z
and 8, 1891.
VIM f. BUNDY, of Cincinnati
nephew of Ex-Governor Foraker, and
Miss Leedom, daughter of John p. Lee
dom, late Sergeant-at-Arms Of the House
of Representatives, eloped to Coving-
ington, Ky, and were married at an
early hour the othor morning. The
lovers met only four days before, in a
stage-coach in Adams County.
GEO. STUMP, young man resident of
Buena Vista, while returning from
church, got in quarrel and had his eye
punched out with an umbrella. He was
uiTcdul III bHt ObiltT eyt.
THE executive board of the Ohio Disk
trict of United Nine Workers has fixed
on the following scale Cor day labor.
Drivers. 81 %; No. track layers, 81 25;
inside laborers, So; trimmers, 81 90;
bumpers, 81 90: firemcn, 81; outside la
borers, 81 IS. This is on advances in
the majority of districts, the lurgest be-
ing about 20 per cent.
THE carpenters strike at Youngs-
town, inaugurated some days ago, was
settled on the 9th, the contractors allow
ing an advance of twenty-five cents per
day and nine hours to constitute day.
A MEETING of the Republican State
Central Committee will be held at CO.
lumbus, May 90 to fig time and place
for holding the State Convention.
ThE Senate passed the pension ap-
preparation bill with Sherman's amend
ment. which provides for Division of
Ohio into two agencies.
THE city boundaries of Dayton have
been extended, and the population, it is
claimed, will thereby be increased to
90, 900.
MARTIN DIETz committed suicide at
Akron by tying one end of a rope, made
of cloth, to spike in the wall, and the
other end about his neck.
FRANK BLocKsosiE, aged fifteen, en-
ployed by Charles Almendinger living
six miles south of Marion, had his skull
crushed by being kicked by colt. 1t iH
feared he can not live.
WM II. DYER, an electric Tight line
man in Cincinnati, took hold of "a ''live"
wire, the other day, and was hurled
from a building and sustained probably
fatal injuries.
THos. GADDIs was killed by cars near
Madisonville.
w. j. GLEASON has been appointed
Comptroller Of Cleveland.
PRESIDENT HARRISON VIII be present.
at the dedication of the Garfield nonu-
nent at Cleveland, Memorial day.
SIX hundred coal miners struck on the
9Th at Bellaire and Cambridge, against
the use of the screen.
The Canal Commission has leased 240
acres OF swamp land in Mercer County to
persons who will bore for gas and oil.
AN attempt was made near Ganton to-
wreck passenger train by putting ties
on the track.
w. II. KINDER, the new4y-a{poinss
Insurance Commissioner for Ohio. en-
tered upon the discharge OF his duties a.