The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-06
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


tentiary enjoyed extra privileges and
dinner on Thanksgiving day.
WILLIAM STEWART, in q quarrel at
dance in Van Vert shot and killed Ham
Prooit and Oliver Ramsey. All are col
ored.
AT Moore's post-offlce. Adams County,
tho residence Of Mrs. Annie Bayler was
robbed OF $50 in money and S125 worth
Of jewelry and clothing.
THE Commissioner Of Pensions has ap-
pointed DIR. j. L. Slayer Pension Exam.
lining Surgeon at Paulding.
WILLIAM KMMELL, blacksmith Of
Hubbard, was using q pair Of pinchers
| to pull the shoe off pony, when the
animal kicked, driving one of the
handles of the pinchers into his head
over the right eye and coming out over
| the right ear. He was taken home in
an unconscious condition. and, though
still living at last report, there is little
hope of his recovery, owing to the in
jury to the brain.
WHILE Michael Hogan, hooker-up at
the mills Of Andrew Bros. & Co., Youngs
town, was attempting to put piece OF
iron through the rolls, he slipped and
was carried into the boxes, his body be.
ing whirled around seventeen times be-
fore the engine could be stopped. His
right arm was torn off, ribs broken and
his head crushed. He died in few
minutes. Hogan was twenty years old,
and unmarried
Mrs. HENSON, wife Of John Henson,
OF the West Side, Portsmouth, while re-
turning home the other evening after
obtaining supplies for Thanksgiving in
Portsmouth, fell dead near tho west en-
trance of the Scioto river bridge. The
body was found shortly after death on.
sued, as it was still warm. Mrs Hen
son was about sixty years old, and had
been troubled with heart disease for
some years.
FRANK DuLIN. brakeman in the Big
Four yards at Columbus, was run over
by locomotive and instantly killed.
His home was in Delaware.
REPRESENTATIVE ANDREW JACKSON,
of Green County, is in a stew. Twenty
four boils have popped out all over him.
THE jury in the trial Of w. Il. Clark,
at Columbus. charged with criminal!y
assaulting Mollie Beitinghaus, an eleven
year-old girl, returned verdict Of
guilty Of rape, the penalty for which is
Imprisonment in the penitentiary for
life. Clark is the soldier for whom De-
tective James j. Murphy went to Cali
fornia last September, and, stopping off
at Ogden, Utah. mysteriously disappear
ed, his dead body being found some
weeks later in q ditch whore he had
been drowned.
THE semi-annual report Of the State
Sinking Fund Commission for the six
months ending November Is was filed
with the Governor few days ago. The
total receipts, including balance OF
S243, 11g IS, were $500, 470 0s, and the dis
bursements S311, ,2l2 SO. The pu bile debt
during the six months was reduced $780,
600, leaving the total debt Of the State,
the last of which natures in July, 1900,
at 50, 541, 1855.
THE population Of the penitentiary
for the past year was daily average of
1859; in 1887 the daily population aver
age was 1,4O1; in 1888. 1890, in 1889, L.
497. The past year the average has been
1O2 more than ever known in the history
of the prison One hundred and twenty
four U. S. prisoners have been received,
and 7SS State prisoners, or a total Of OIL.
The releases are as follows: pardoned,
United States, 8; State, 3S; by expira-
ton of sentence, United States, 93;
State, $40; by parole, State, 1873; died,
United States, 6; State, 81; escaped,
new trial, United States, 1; State, 49,;
number continued in prison October 81,
1890. United States. 207; State, 1850; to-
tai, 1857; in prison November 1, 1889,
United States, 1877; State, 1,S22; total,
500. There have been 130 paroles
granted, which makes total of 655
since the law was enacted, May 4. 1885.
AT Youngstown singular coincidence
has occurred of two men by me same
name, though not related, recovering
Judgment against two different railways,
each for personal injuries. John w.
Henley commenced suit against the p,
and L. e. railroad, and secured judg-
| ment of $4,000, which has Deen affirmed
! by the circuit court. John w. Henley,
on the Same day, recovered a judgment
against the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and
St. Louis railway for personal injuries
| received in this State. The two men
have never seen each other, and yet the
two cases are similar in nearly every
particular.
JOSEPH DONOVAN, who KILLED John
McManness in Findlay over year ago,
returned from Canada tho other day and
surrendered himself He is charged
with murder in the second degree.
| ULRIc CAMPBELL, a colored man con.
Sicted in Lorraine County about three
years ago CT sape and sent up for Ave
years, the other morning developed the
possession of a nerve that entities him
TO the belt He was paroled on the 9th OF
October and has since been working for
Manager Watkins near Prospect. A few
days ago he went back to Columbus, and
had been hanging about the prison with
tho intention, it was supposed OF sur.
rendering himself. The other morning
he secured entrance to the clerks Office,
and with skeleton key opened the
desk and secured $15 and some railroad
tickets worth $50. He was apprehended
in crap joint and locked up on charge
OF grand larceny.
ELMER SEIDLE was killed on the Big
Four about twelve miles west Of Marion.
Deceased was badly ground to pieces
and at the time of his death was intoxf-
Gated. He was twenty-eight years o.
age and unmarried.
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