The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-04

miles east of Warren, struck heavy
lubricaung oil, known to tho trade as
Mecca oil The strike creates excite
ment there.
A BIG gas we'll was struck q few days
ago on tho west side OF the Muskingum,
one mile from the corporate limits OF
Marietta, at 1,s00 feet. 1t threw out
stones and gravel 90 feet over the top Of
the derrick. This is O new field and the
excitement Is high.
Miss JENNIE CARUTn, of Martins
Ferry, burned while making apple butt
ter, has since died.
MARY HUGHES, insane, while in the
probate court, Cincinnati, threw an ink
stand ut Judge Goebel, barely missing
his honor head and making dent in
the wall behind his seat.
AT Canton two-year-old child Of A
thony Shaffer. unobserved by its mother,
drank cupful of lye which was care.
lessly left on table, dying in terrible
agony. a.,
EIGHT prisoners in the county Jail at
Elyria, escaped the other morning by
saving out. OF these three wore in for
burglary, two for srson and one for
highway robbery. ttt .
MARY TENNIS gave tho Columbus law
yers delightful racket by kissing
every body in the courtroom in her Joy
at having her petition for divorce
granted
THE Farmers Alliance, of Wood Coun-
ty, nominated ticket composed o.
Democrats and Republicans.
x,-o of Nnwo vi
the other day, on q charge of using the
mails for fraudulent purposes. He was
taken to Columbus.
JOHN BERGE and Frederick Raabe
were instantly killed at the Riverside
Furnance, Bellaire. They had gone up
on the elevator with load of iron, and
just as they reached the top of the cupo-
la the rope snapped, precipitating the
men and iron to the bottom, about sixty
feet. Berge was killed instantly, and
Raabe died shortly after being taken
out t. s tr Ifst4
Hon. ii. l.. MoREY has been nomin-
nted for Congress in tho Third Ohio Dis
trict
JOSEPH JENKINS was nominated for
Congress by the Union Labor party OF
the Fourteenth Ohio district.
FRANK GALLUM, q we'll known Ger
man farmer, living three miles sodth Of
Norwalk, committed suicide the other
morning at two o'clock by cutting his
throat from ear to ear with a corn
scythe. Temporary insanity is the sup
posed cause. -lt .F ~
ID. Il. TAYLOR was appointed postmas-
%nr at 10 fv uin
Park, resigned.
COLONEL R E. DoAN, of Clinton Coun-
ty, was nominated for Congress by the
Republicans of the Tenth Ohio District
on the 334th ballot. -
THE new Cincinnati Flower Market is
to be located in Sixth street market
space.
THE boiler in a saw-mill at Middle
point, blew up, killing tho engineer and
badly scalding boy who was in the
building.
Mrs. WM PULrz, of st. Marys, said
that nobody loved her, took paris green
and died.. .s.fIr
THE last issue of the Weekly VollSs-
freund, Cincinnati, was seized by the
postal authorities, it contained lottery
advertisement, in violation of law.
JAMES MALONE, an engineer, walked
out of a second-story window OF the Vine
Street Hotel, at Lima, while asleep,
fracturing couple of ribs and sustain
ing severe bruises about the head.
CHAs. E. SPANGLER left a $3.50 dia-
mond ring in the wash-room of the Nc
Donald House, Coshocton. Returning
- In ha I. Al
appeared.
Miss MARY ANDERSON and Miss Ada
NJ. jeffrey, of Ohio, have been appointed
to clerkships in the Pension Bureau.
VIM. PARSONS. coal miner, was fatal
ly injured by fall of slate in w. G.
Hayes mine, near Coshocton. He neg
lected to protect the roof by propping.
ALBEIT REYNOLDS, one of the pioneers
of Allen County, whose home was in
Perry Township, complained of feeling
unwell when he got up the other morn
ing, and laid down. When his wife
went to wake him he was dead.
SALI.IE O'CoNNELI, of Tifiin; Celia
Boyle and Mary Dwyre, of Newport, r.
l.; Nora Shaw, of Republics; Mary Hem
ry, of New York, and Emma Gossier, Of
Crestline, took the vail at the Ursuline
Convent 1ifiin.
COMMISSIONS we're issued by Assistant
Adjutant- General Drill to.J j. William
Koos as Captain, Daniel ii. Gaumer as
First Lieutenant, and Chas. Il. Atwell
as Second Lieutenantof Battery c, First
Light Artillery GAINESVILLE.
A sIx-YEAR-oLD son VI Charles Nun
namacher died at Fremont from being
severely burned The little fellow
was making cigarettes from some weeds,
and in lighting one his blouse caught
fire. e,
VIM. MACK, a saddler, and Chas. Dicks,
timer, died the other day in Cncin-
natl from falls, the former through
hatohway and tho latter from scaffold-
ing upon which he was working.
Four masked robbers entered the
house of John Krimm, an aged farmer,
living near Gibsonville, Hooking Coun-
ty, struck him and his aged wife with a
blunt instrument, robbed the house and
escaped. The old man died from his in
juries. lsl IS tif5isksA p
JOHN J. MIDDLETON, aged seventy
seven, farmer near Sidney. died from
blood poisoning, caused by having toe
a,nputated, which was frozen twenty
years ago. iraff 6
WM. FREY was found guilty of mani
slaughter. in Cincinnati, the other day,
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