The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-29
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


two years, as heretofore. The institu-
tion Is In prosperous condition.
WILSON HINES and Henry Rice, farm
hands on the Platt farm, in Monroe
township, Madison County, indulged in
being fatally stabbed in three places.
Haines escaped.
ALLIANCE is very mad because tho
Pennsylvania Railroad Company reduces
her to q way point by moving its traps
to Conway.
CHAs. JACOBS, JR., Cincinnati pork
and beef packer, has assigned. The as
sets are put at $50, 900; liabilities, $780,
900.
TIE safe at the Shock mill, two miles
south of Canton, was blown open, the
other night and $50 was secured.
ONE year ago j. A. Fortney's brother,
George, was torn in pieces by buzz
saw. The other day j. a. was ground to
death by car wheels at Edison.
RoBERT HERN, farmer, of Montgom-
cry County, signed an order for five dol
lars to pay for new tips for his lightning
rods. 1t was turned into $500 note,
and he paid 5000 to compromise.
WARDEN DYER reports that the Ohio
penitentiary is almost out of debt
Number of prisoners received during the
year, 9O2; daily average number in the
prison, 1859.
WILLIAM MAsKELL, brakeman in
the yards of Fairport Harbor, near
Painesville, was caught between n
switching engine and a steam ore shovel
and crushed to death.
! EDWARD BLAIR, indicted for the mur-
der of Arthur Henry, has been convict
ed of murder in the first degree at Otta-
wa The jury was out only one hour.
The trial occupied eleven days.
AMONG tho newly-appointed West
Point cadets are the following-named
young men from Ohio, c. II. Davis, Mt.
Sterling; E. I. Way, London; c. r, How
land, Oberlin, and L. T. White, Nor
walk.
SHADRAcK FORD dropped dead at Gal
lipolis, aged Ill years.
A MEMBER of the Ohio Legisture has
prepared a bill to increase the Dow tax
to $780,
w. L. POWELL, brakeman on the c., II.
& ID. freight, was crushed to death at
the Chicago and Erie crossing in Lima.
j. N. TRACY. train brakeman, who
attempted to board fast freight at the
| depot, Massilion, fell undor the wheels
and had his left leg cut off at the knee.
He is married and lives at Alliance.
AT Tiflin, the eighteen-months- old
child of Fred Roller ate quantity OF
poisonous fly paper. Almost Immediate
ly it passed into convulsions and within
an hour was pronounced dead by a ply
sician. An undertaken was sent for,
and while the little one was being
measured for coffin signs of life were
discovered 1t gradually improved, and
in few hours was pronounced out of
danger
ISAAC HALL, n Shawnee township
farmer, living near Lima, swore out a
warrant for the arrest of State Game
Warden Geo. w. Hull and A. C. Baxter,
charging them with trespuss in hunting
on his farm tho other day. Mr.. Baxter
was released on bail, but Mr.. Hull was
out of the city, and the warrant will
be served when he returns
BURGLARS broke into Frank Tor
rence's house at Springfield, the other
evening while the family was absent
and stole $50 in money, gold watch,
$500 worth of diamonds, etc.
ISAAC SMITH, the Pike County MUIR
derer, has embraced the Catholic faith.
This is accepted as an indication that he
has given up hope of escaping the gal
lows, as until recently he scotred at re-
ligion, and particularly at the Catholic
faith.
A MAD DOG is running around taking
bites out of inoffensive Maxville citi-
zens.
THE farmers at Jeffersonville are COM
planning of cholera among their hogs.
One man reports a bunch of forty all
sick.
THE returns on members of the State
Board of Equalization have not yet been
tabulated by the Secretary OF State, but
it is believed the following is a correct
list of those elected, with their post-of-
flee address as far as known: 1st Dis
trict--John Grubb, R.; Il. " Cherry, r.
Amzi McGill, R., Cincinnati. &c. A.
Strobel, d.. Hamilton. 3-James Tur-
ner, d., Dayton. 4-Henry Bolander,
d. 5-Samuel T. Woodward, r., Xenia.
6-David M. Barrett, R., Hillsboro. r.
William II. Washam, d., Jackson. s.
Amos Clark, r.; Park S. Horton, r.
9-.John Ackley, D., Athens. 10-W.
M. Maize, d., Columbus; o. L. Niles,
d., Circleville. 11-Leon II. Houston,
r., South Charleston. 12-S. III. Kerr,
d. 13-J. w. Robinson, r., Marysville.
14-Matthew Jordan, r., Marietta. 10
and 1C-W. j. Mason, d., Norwich.
II and 2S-George w. Ullery, d., Card
ington. IS and 19-M. Turner, d., Cam
bridge 20--C. A. Skinner, r., st. Clairs-
vile. a1-George w. WilIelm, r., JUS
tus. 22-F. L. Wells, r., Wellsville.
9S-Wm. Wallace, r., Warren. "a and
2G-Wm. Grinnell, r., Ravenna. 25-M.
l.. Dempcy, R.. Warrensville; j. w. S.
Webb, r., Cleveland. 81 and GOV. w.
Armstrong, R., Haynesville; Parks Fos-
ter, R.. Elyria. SO-J. Douglass, d.,
Norwalk; Z. N. Roth, d., Ceylon 81
Isaac Kagy, d., Tifin. 32-V v. Pur-
cell, ID. a8-Joel b. Couch, r., Napole-
on; B. T. Hyatt, r., Findlay.
HENRY A. BROWN, employed on the
farm of S. L. Bardswell, near Sandusky,
suicided by hanging.
GEO. w. MANN, received at the peni
tentiary from Trumbull County, June
13, to serve one year for black-mail
was released, n few days ago, by Or
der of the Supreme Court, it having
been shown that his conviction was IL