The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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preacher at Akron, was sent to the coun-
ty inflrmary.
THE committee to select site for the
proposed Library and Memorial Hall, at
Circlcville, have chosen the Ballard
property, corner Main and Pickaway
streets.
A MAN giving his name as N. B.
Myers was arrested at Tifiin, suspected
of completely in robbing the railroad
ticket Office at Marion, and beating the
operator nearly to death.
MISS MARY HAMMELT, the daughter
Of Watson Hammell, deputy sheriff OF
Tuscarawas County is strangely miss
ing. She was last seen at uhrichsville,
May II, seeking work.
Ar DeGraf, Mrs George Kress was arr
rested, being accused of poisoning the
tea which Lincoln Krcss and Mrs. Mott
| Kress drank The tea contained arsen-
ic, and both we're made very sick.
AT . o'clock the other morning when
Charley Barnthouse, the night operator
at the Hooking Valley depot, Marion,
was returning from his night lunch,
three men confronted him and ordered
him to surrender, placing revolver
against his face. He gave in, tho men
| tying his hands and feet and also gag
ging him, and they carried him some
distance from the depot and left him,
taking his watch, and going to the de-
pot, forced an entrance, securing S52
in money and n revolver. Six passen-
gers were in the depot, but the work was
done so quietly that they heard no dis
| turbance.
THE now water-worlls at Marion were
tested the other day, and accepted by
council.
WILLIAM HUFFMAN was convicted
of burglary, and Elijah Cole of forgery, at
Tifin.
PoMERoy and Middleport boast of the
champion lady pedestrian of tho State.
Miss Lizzie Schreiner lives at Middle
port two and one-quarter miles below
the Telegraph Office in Pomeroy, where
She has been employed as compositor
for the past eight years. Every week
day. winter and summer, for the eight
years she has walked to and from her
work. with but six weeks rest. Shs
works ten hours per day at her case.
Her walks average twenty-seven miles
per week through rain and sunshine,
snow mud and summer heat, and she
frequently has to Chamber around the
bluffs to get by flooded districts. This
gives her !, 404 miles per year, or 11,2S2
miles in the eight years. Subtracting
1G2 miles for the six weeks she rested,
she has 1910 miles still to her credit.
During the eight years she has actually
performed 24,600 hours of labor, and has
set about 1860, 900 ems of type. When
she began walking and working she was
not enjoying good health, but now she is
rosy-cheeked and vigorous, and thinks
no more of iaunt of half dozen miles
than most ladies do of walking around
square in the city.
LIGHTNING struck large tree the
other night in front of Mrs. Mary
Brady's house, on w. Main street,
Newark 1t entered the house, shocked
Mrs. Brady, leaving red streak across
her face and running down her right
arm. 1t left zigzag streaks across every
picture in the house, and running down
under stove killed some little chick
ems in a pan. 1t tipped over an iron
sink and went out. Mrs. Brady is the
mother of Hon. Peter Brady, ex-State
Treasurer.
THE Circuit Court at Cleveland passed
on the writ of error filed in the case of
Otto Leuth, the boy murderer, now in
tho ponitontiary awaiting execution.
4he court held that there was no error,
and tho motion for new trial was de-
MED.
NEAR Johnstown, Licking County,
while Eben Pratt, prominent citizen,
was cutting down trees he was caught
beneath the branches of falling oak
and injured so that death ensued short
ly after the accident.
JOSEPH BUTKER of Cincinnati, aged
seventeen years, jumped from the Cow
ington and Newport bridge into the
Licking river, the other day, and was
drowned.
WHILE Frederick Hoffman, painter,
of Cincinnati, was. using blower" for
the removal of old paint, the gasoline
reservoir exploded. Hoffman was
frightfully burned, and it is not expect
ed that he will recover
AT Norwalk, Francis Clyde, of Belle
vue, on trial for swindling Henry Downs,
of Bellevue, and Walter Upington, jew
elors, of Norwalk, on forged orders, was
convicted.
THE Ohio Pharmaceutical Conven-
tion WAS in session at Toledo. on the
10th.
AT Lima party OF young ladies, in
cluding Miss Katie Brice, the youngest
daughter of Senator c. s. Brice we're
out riding, and had narrow escape
from being fatally injured. In turning
around in the road just southwest OF tho
city the shafts OF the buggy broke let
ting it run into the horse, and he ran
away throwing the girls down u steep
Miss jamie Porter had an
arm broken, but luckily tho others es-
capped with slight bruises
OVER one hundred Mahoning County
farmers met at West Lima and organ
lied an alliance. The mcmbers will
take hand in politics.
JoHN MooRE. of Crooked Tree, Noble
County, has just passed his one hum
drodth birthday, and says he never took
a dose OF medicine.
Al Marion II horsc belonging to John
Setter which was being fed on the street
out OF the wagon, became so badly
frightened at the passing of Il traction
cngine that it fell over dead.
J.. p. GRIMES, eX-county recorder, and
pension agent, was found
dead in his Office at Cadiz. lie had re-