The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-09-12
OHIO STATE NEWS.


A. g. HENDRICKS, of Mansfield sui
cided by pouring coal oil over his cloth
ing and setting himself on fire. He was
insane.
TUESDAY, October 6, has been fixed
upon as Democratic Governors day,
| and the Democratic state committee
has sent invitations to all the demo-
cratic governors in the country to be
present on that day.
ARTICLES of incorporation have been
drawn up and will be fled with secre-
tary of state for mammoth enterprise.
The project is to pipe Lake Erie water
through central and southwestern Ohio
to Cincinnati, taking in the most i'm.
portant cities and towns along the
route. The counties through which the
great pipe line is to pass are Sanduslxy,
Erie, Seneca, Wyandot, Marion. Della
ware and Franklin, and from Columbus
through the southwest to Hamilton
county and Cincinnati. The company
is composed of prominent capitalists of
this state. While the corporation will
not hare large capital stock TO start
on, it will be increased tenfold when
pose of the company is to supply the
inland cities and towns with pure lake
water The point from which it is to
be piped is Sanduslzy.
The county commissioners of Cham
paign county, have awarded the con-
tract for the building of the Children's
home to the Piqua Lumber Co., at $1t,-
253 so.
AT Clyde fair, the other afternoon,
during the races three girls attempted
to cross the track and one of them,
daughter of VIM. Grover, aged seven,
was struck on the head by the thill of
sullky, and SO seriously injured that
she died in an hour.
JAMES LESTER, of East Liverpool,
was committed to the county jail at
New Lisbon, few days ago for drunk
enness, being unable to pay his fine.
During his incarceration his luck has
changed. His wife has received word
from Scotland that by the death of an
uncle he had become heir to an estate
of $S5, 200.
ANNIE EMERIcH, aged II years, played
with matches the other evening, at
Massillon, and was so badly burned
from her clothing catching fire that
death resulted next morning
THE following Ohio boys have been
appointed cadets at West Point: G. w.
Moses, Edentown, and e A. Feazel, of
Lodi.
JOHN w. BooKwALTER expresses his
belief that the price of wheat will
reach ST. so.
Miss SARAH JOHNSON, aged 90, was
burned to death by an exploding lamp
at GAINESVILLE.
BERT ZIMMERMAN, of Springfield, was
tramped to death by team of horses
at Lancaster.
A GREAT gas well was drilled at
Leipsic the other afternoon by J. Gu
sack. The well is a strong one and is
good for q 500, 600 feet per diem. The
town will be piped at once.
A. c. HUTCHINSON died in Springfield,
the other morning from blood poison.
Several weeks ago Mr.. Hutchinson was
troubled with a corn on his right foot,
and in pairing off the offensive growth
he wounded his foot. Gangrene set in
and finally blood poison. Deceased was
"a years old.
NICHOLAS WEBER, the old man who
shot his son-in-law, Philip Buhlman, at
Mansfield, the other afternoon, and
then fred seven shots into his own
head, is still alive and likely to recover,
though four bullets are still imbeded in
his head, the surgeons being unable to
locate them by probing. Buhlmau,
who stopped Weber's bullet with hi3
teeth has badly swollen Jaw, and is
in about as bad condition as Weber.
TOLEDO comes TO the front with one
of the largest casks now in use in this
country. 1t is of oak, weighs 40 900
pounds and holds &C, 900 gallons of wine.
1t is twenty feet high and rests on a
massive cradle of oak, which raises it
about three feet from the floor.
The Ohio State fair, at Columbus,
September 14-19, promises to be the
most successful of recent years.
The United States Baking Co., tina
controls factories and the cracker trade
in this and surrounding states, the other
day completed the purchase of the Bau-
man Bakery and Cracker factory in
Dayton and has taken possession of the
plant
The state senatorial convention of
districts Twenty-fourth and Twenty
sixth, was held in Cleveland few DAYS
ago. The late President Garfield's son,
James B. Garfield, was candidate
from Lake county. He was showed
under on the first ballot by ex-Speaker
Lampson, of Ashtabula. Lampson re-
ceived 105 votes to Ga~feld's 65.
THE Cincinnati tax commissioners
are stirring up taxpayers with sharp
stick. So far they have summoned
about one hundred wealthy men who
failed to make accurate returns of their
personal property.
WAYNE county gets the Ohio agrlcul-
tural experiment station, foe which
500, 600 will be put up
MARTINS FERRY has new fire alarm
system just like the big towns.
Two Dayton young men drove liv-
cry horse at such furious pace that il
stumbled and broke it's neck.
FISH commissioners of the state have
provided new car for stocking the
Ohio waters with the finny tribe.
OHIO raised something like so, 900, 900
bushels of wheat this season.
QUITE disastrous wreck occurred on
the Lake Shore road early the other
morning at Milbury Two freight
trains collided. Engines No. 513 and