The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-13
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


AN epidemic Of meas'cs is existing Il
the Athens County Childrens llome
thirty of the Juveniles being now con
fined to bed with the disease, which
number is likely to be largely incrcasedi
/ THE other afternoon as John Robbins,
a young man Of twenty years of age, re-
siding near Kirkwood, four miles from
Piqua, was out hunting, he slipped and
fell, his gun being discharged, tearing
away his right cheek. He will recover.
CHARLEs WALLACE woll-known
farmer and stock k-raiser of Fayetteville,
west OF Winchester, while working With
q team OF mules was kicked in the abb
domen by one of the animals and died In
o few hours.
AN old man named Brady has been
breaking stone on the old National
road, just east of GAINESVILLE, for several
weeks At night he slept in u covered
wagon. The other night being cold he
obtained permission from Adam Rock to
sleep in an unoccupied shanty at his
coal mine. During the night the shanty
caught fire and was burned down, but
| the accident was not discovered until
noxt morning. Mr.. Brady has not been
seen since, but his dinner bucket was
| found in tho ruins. 1t is believed he
| perished in the flames.
The Board of Managers of tho Ohio
Penitentiary has paroleda turned loose
upon tho State four men convicted OF
manslaughter. and one each convicted
of rape, grand larceny, robbery, hors(
stealing and shooting into train. None
of the sentences, ofcourse, had expired.
The net Indebtedness of Cincinnati
is S24, 7S7, 600. The available assets are
$2S, 538, ,643, besides which there arc per.
manent investments in public
buildings and works aggregating s2l..
900, 600.
UPPER SAHDusKY has now plant
for stenm brick and tile machines. :.
WM B. GAMBLE has been appointed
postnaster at Akron.
FIRE at Frankfort destroyed numbc
OF buildings. Loss $4,000.
AT Columbus, Mary Weimer was con.
victsd Of manslaughter for killing the
newborn child of hor daughter
In the United States Court at Colum-
bus. prisoners were found guilty Of
crimes as follows and sentenced to the
Ohio penitentinry: Geo. Kimes and An
drew Sanburn, of Meigs County, maxi
ing and passing counterfeit money, the
former two and one-half years and the
latter two years; Frank Il. Richards, Of
Newark, using the mails for improper
purposes, two years; Frank s. Green,
ex-postmaster of Centreville, EN- mbezzling
from the mails, two years.
AT Hamilton, George Bonner had his
right arm torn from his body by the
bursting OF an emery wheel.
FOREST w. BRAYToN, an inmate of
tho College Hill Sanitarium committed
suicide. His hallucination was that he
had committed ''the objectionable SIM"
and he took his life in fit of melan-
choly.
RAYMOND LAKE, a painter living at
23 Lane avenue, Columbus, fell from
scaHold, breaking his back and sustain
ing internal injuries which it Is thought
will prove fatal.
ONO Democratic clubs will convene
and elect officers at Columbus, January
8, 1891.
U. S. EXPRESS Office at Evansville is
out 81, 600 money package per thief.
By the explosion of potash tank in
the A. l.. McReynolds Chemical Works,
Cincinnati, Louis Schloss, John PrintS
and John Fehl were SO badly burned
they may die. The building was
wrecked.
CHAN SING LEE, Chinese laundry
man, OF Marion, took out a license, the
other afternoon, to marry Miss Signe
Hanson, Danish girl of that city. The
was to have occurred in few
days, but for reasons best known to.
himself he changed his mind, and went
to the residence of the probate Judge
and announced: me no want to mally
Mellican GIRL" and presented the Judge
with the license.
THE elegant home of DR.. ]. A. Kin.
mel in Findlay has been almost COM
pletely looted by burglars during the
absence Of the family in Europe for
several months past. The burglars had
been visiting the house almost every
night and have taken away every thing
that could with safety be carried out,
including silverware, valuable pictures,
books. curtains, bcd-clothes, and even
furniture. The value OF the goods is
Iully $1,000.
THE Wheeling and Lake Erie rail-
road has been completed to Steuben-
villa
JESSE HEADINGToN, aged 81 years, of
Mt. Vernon, n survivor of the Mexican
IS well as the civil war. committed sui
side by swallowing arsenic dissolved in
Whisky.
JACOB KoRNTHAL, married man,
Igad twenty-five, killed himself at his
,ome in Cleveland. Kornthal had been
ii for several weeks and had lost much
ime from work. He had frequently
threatened to kill himself
THE State Convention of tho Knights
II Labor of Ohio will be held at Gallon
IN December 20, the same time as the
'armors' Alliance.
THE Superior Court Of Cincinnati has
flirmed the decision Of the Hamilton
,ounty Common Pleas Court against the
inoinnati Inclined Plane railroad. of
n injunction against using tho single
rolley electric system.
j. G. LOCKWOOD. deceased banker at
iilan. loft an estate valued at $500, 900.
IHE other night Mrs. John Stewart,
4 Steubenvills, quarreled with hor hus-
and, and three mornings later her
'ody was found in tha Ohio river.
WILLIAM WATT. twenty-five years old.
tsempted to cross tho track OF the
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