The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-25
OHIO STATE NEWS

GEORGE WnTE. oe Chillicothe, took
an overdose of morphine ut Dayton and
wakes no more forever.
MOTHER STEWART, the temperance
advocate has returned to Springfield
after receiving great honors in Europe.
GOV. CAMPBELL has pardoned II. A.
Smith, the Wood county bigamist, in
accordance with the request of the par
don board.
STATE RAILROAD INSPECTOR Nc
INERNA finds that the rules of the COM
rany made the Ravonnn wreck possible,
and censures the freight crew Tor gross
negligence.
Mrs. MIDDLETON of Pisgah, came to
life just as the undertaken was about
to lay her ont
THE state board of equalization add
ed 10 per cent. to the valuation of prop
erty in Cincinnati, and permitted farm
lands in Hamilton county to stand as
returned
Mrs. d. p. GEORGE, of Mt. Gilead,
put her one-year old baby to sleep
on the lounge and left the house. Re-
turning after the brief space of ten
minutes she found the child on the floor
dead.
The wife of Hon. NJ. Stuart prom
inent lawyer and vice-presidcnt of the
Ohio State Bar association, at Ravenna,
died from the effects of twenty grains
of corrosive sublimate taken with sui
cidal intent. She was prominent So
ciety lady. III health is attributed as
| the cause for the deed.
WHILE playing about her fathers
rendering establishment at Tiffin, the
four-year- old daughter of Samuel Del
mer fell into kettle of boiling water
and was seriously and probably fatally
scalded.
THE valuation of Cleveland real es-
tate was reduced from 81 ZIG to go per
cent, while the farm lands of Cuya-
hoga county were reduced from to
10 per cent in the state board of equal
| ization.
SPECIAL AGENT WINDOW has recon-
mended the property at the corner OF
High and Market streets, Akron, of
fered by the Union club for $40, 200, as
the site for the public building at that
place.
ACCORDING to a census bulletin Cuya-
hoga county is the only county in Ohio
| which does not own q county aims
house.
THERE was bad wreck on the Chi
cago and Erie railroad at Hepburn,
station five miles east of Kenton.
| Swift's refrigerator meat train east,
running special, ran into the work
train pulling in the siding, killing nine
laborers and injuring many others.
| Both locomotives are in the ruins, with
ten or twelve cars.
THE strike of the five Thousand miners
on the Cleveland, Lorraine and Wheel
ing road and the Wheeling and Lake
| Erie extension to secure the nine-hour
day, has been settled by conference
between the operators and miners
representatives, and work was resumed.
| The men accepted nine and one-half
hours to May next. They abandoned
their claims on deficiency of work.
McCoNNELLsvILLE band returning
from funeral played "The Girl 1 Left
Behind Me-"
THE fve-year-old son of Henry
Menke, living near St Johns, Mercer
county, fell under wagon, which
passed over his neck, killing him.
TOLEDO has now forty-6ve letter car
riers.
GALLIpoL1s voted strongly for cleo
trio light.
A New LISBON farmer has IT'S, 900 Gel
cry plants
EDWARD SPRINKLE was disembowel-
ed by a hay-fork at Youngstown, while
putting away hay. He viii die.
| l..l1
Wood, aged 92, at Oberlin.
THE penitentiary contains 1851 male
and 3S female prisoners OF this num-
ber l22 men and women are serving
life sentences. Several Of the Iife-m
are serving for rape. On April l the
prison contained 211 federal prisoners,
since which 80 have been discharged
and SO received, making the total 27O
at this time. Clerk Reeves has for
warded the government bill for keep
ing these men calling for SO, 312. 90 for
the past quarter.
RUFUS TAYLOR, of GAINESVILLE, a
brakeman, was killed near Dresden.
THERE are 4,975 head of sheep in
Hamilton county, with a tax valuation
of S12, 524.
WIN. TURNER, ex-county commission
er, and his nephew, Frank Turner, had
a bloody fight on the formers place
near Portsmouth. Frank lives on his
uncle's farm, and for some time there
has been bad blood between them The
other night the uncle went over to
serve notice on Frank to get off the
place. He was met at the gate by the
latter who went at him with an ak.
Mr. Turner is giant in stature and the
fight was terrific one. When Chief
of Police Schmitt went over to arrest
the nephew next morning, he found
him almost dead with frightful cash
in his forehead and similar one in the
back of his head. The ex-commission,
er was also in a serious condition. Both
men are prominent in the county.
Mrs, DIR. S. HoLLowAY, of SPRING
field, received authoritive news that
she is the only heir to 81, 200, 600 left
her by an uncle, Sir James Baxcndale,
of Manchester, Eng, whom she never
saw He was noted for his large wooden
mills, and died year ago. The exccu-
tor has been searching for Mrs. Hollo-
way ever since.
A BELLAIRE man has patented q
potato masher
MIR. DRYFUsE is jailed at Portsmouth
for kissing ladies indiscriminately on
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