The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-03-28
OHIO STATE NEWS.

containing S24O in silver.
A LITTLE son Of VIM. Torbet residing
at Bayard, near Canton, set fire to hay
in his fathers barn while carelcssly
handling matches, and burned the build
ing to the ground. Cora, his ten-year-
old sister, was playing in the hay-loft az
the time. Her father, hearing her cries
for help, burst open the upper door, and
the little one jumped into his arms, not,
however, before her hair had all been
burned off and her body badly scorched.
She will probably die.
V. EMERICH, revenue officer, and
his assistant from Toledo, arrested
farmer near Delphos, for Illicit distilling.
Other arrests will follow.
SPRINGFIELD has appointed a COM
mission to redistrict the city into six
wards under their new charter.
GEORGE PooRMAN disappeared from
GAINESVILLE recently, and few days ago
his body was found in the Muskingum
river. Dependency, caused by over
work, is supposed to have driven him
to suicide.
THE j. &c A. Simpkinson Company,
dealers in boots and shoes, Cincinnati,
assigned Assets 100000, liabilities
S400, 000
IN Newton township, Licking county,
VIM. Darcus was crushed under fall
ing tree. His injuries are serious.
JOHN NEEDHAM. of Mt Oreb, return
ed home from visit and found his wife
drowned in a cistern.
THE president has appointed George
Ii. Sharp postmaster at Willoughby,
vice John A. Ellen, commission expired
DWIGHT o. DENT has a mania foI
burning money, and is under arrest for
insanity at New Philadelphia.
ELEVEN cars loaded with sheep and
hogs were ditched the other morning
by broken rail on the Pennsylvania
near Ada. Most of the stock was
killed.
THE will of Mrs. Henry Roth, a
wealthy lady of Bucyrus, who died a
few days ago, was admitted to probate
the other morning. The conditions are
peculiar. She wills all h er property to
her husband, who survives her, if at the
end of five years it will be found that
he has visited her grave not less than
| ten times.
| MARGARETHA RUNNING, 90 years old,
died at New Bremen of la grippe, leav-
ing three children, seventeen grand
children and twenty-one great-grand-
children.
VIM. A. STEVENS was acquitted of the
killing of Chas H. Wood, Cincinnati, by
Coroner Bange. He found that the
shooting was accidental.
EUGENE RITcHART, aged % years,
committed suicide at Fostoria by she OF
ing himself through the temple. De-
spondency over ill-health and business
reverses the cause. He leaves a widow
and one small child.
GEO. FINK and wife, of Reedsburg,
| Wayne county died within fifteen min
utes of each other the other night.
Fink died of inflammation of the bow
els, and Mrs. Fink dropped dead from
heart disease onto the death-bed of her
husband
THE senate, the other morning, re-
ceived from the house a message an
nouncing that the house had passed the
! Cincinnati new charter bill with certain
amendments and asked that the senate
| concur in the amendments. The senate
concurred in the amendments by d
unanimous vote, twenty-one members
voting. In order to clinch this action,
Senator Richards moved to reconsider
the vote by which the amendments
We're adopted, and stated that he
made the motion with the pur-
pose of voting it down. The motion
was defeated by unanimous vote After
this action a motion to reconsider can
not be entertained and the bill is ire
vocably law.
big LIZ" CARTER, the Cincinnati
murderess, has been found guilty of
murder in the second degree.
A NoRwALK jury acquitted John Rees
charged with arson.
EX-SENATOR MAJ. JOHN II. WILLIS
TON, of Fostoria, is dead.
The Macarthur grand jury has in.
dicted John and George Monroe and
George and Isaac French for riot, per.
jury, shooting with intent to kill and
assault and battery.
REV. JASPER SMITH, of GAINESVILLE,
died from Bright's disease.
Mr.. HUNT, of Sandusly, introduced
in the House a joint resolution to sub
NIT to the people at the November
election the question of amending the
constitution so as to provide for bien-
nial elections. The amendment pro-
posed provides for municipal elections
in the fall of odd years and state and
county elections in the fall of even
years. 1t is to do away entirely with
spring elections.
EDWARD KIRKENDALL, of Hamilton
Junction, came near bleeding to death
from cutting his foot with an ak while
chopping.
FRANK EMLINGER is in Jail at Findlay
for forging telegram on which he obs
tanned $12
A WOMAN and child were burned to
death in = frame house near the Comet
mines, jackson.
AT st. John, Henry Elking and his
sixteen-year-old son, were thrown from
a load of hay and badly injured.
j. L. DEAN brakeman, ON the
Wheeling and Lake Erie, was crushed
, to death between the ears at 0rrville.
, BARNEY MADDEN, of Van Vert, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself in
his wood-shed. He had been drunk for
several days.
TOLEDO comes to the front with the
largest cask in use in this country. Iti OF
] oak, weighs 10000 pounds, and holds
$4,000 gallons of wine. 1t is 20 feet
! high, 21 feet long and rests on a massive
cradle of oak, which raises it about