The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-18
OHIO STATE NEWS.

TO other infants.
ALL rowboats on the Ohio hereafter
out at nights must carry white light
on the bow.
JAMES DAVIS was caught between en-
gine belt and fly wheel at Gallipolis
and fearfully crushed.
A CHAMPAIGN county farmer cut six
teen acres of wheat which averaged
thirty-five bushels to the acre.
CHARLES LEE was elected postmaster
of Green Spring
SECRETARY OF STATE RYAN has ap.
proved the Common Sense poll-boolS
and tally-sheet," designed by Short and
Forman, of Cleveland, and it will be
adopted by the election boards through
ont the state as the one to be used un-
der the new election law.
CARL LEvIcK, bitten month ago
while in the field barefoot, by an un-
known kind of snake, died at SPRING
field the other morning in agony. The
poison had dried up his stomach and
made the liver as hard as a knot
A TELEGRAPH operator at Falls juno
tion went to sleep at his instrument.
Two freight trains collided and five men
were crushed.
G. SrAIGER, of Portsmouth, died
from drinking ice water while over
heated.
WILLIE MILLER, aged Z, was blinded
by stone-throwing playmate at Day
ton.
CONTRACTOR II. p. RICHARDSON, of
Newark, was arrested for sending a
threatening postal card through the
| mail.
STEUBENvILLB has an artificial ice
factory.
MEASLES are raging in Meigs county.
PROF. FROST, of Oberlin, married Ella
| Marsh, of the senior class.
j. ID. CARTER was crushed to death at
a barn raising in Noble county.
j. w. BARRY, a Cardington lawyer,
had his right leg cut off by the cars.
IN a freight wreck on the Fort Wayne
railroad, near Massillon, two fiat cars
were wrecked and ten threshing ma
chimes were dumped into a creek
Mrs. JOHANNA GARDNER was killed by
an engine at Cleveland while picking
up coal.
GEO. VAN SICKLE, an eighteen-year-
old boy sentenced to the penitentiary
from Coshocton county for three and
a half years for shooting to kill, was
transferred to the reform farm by order
of the governor.
MAN CoPPERMAN, accused of firing
his sleeping wife's clothing is honora-
bly, discharged at Cleveland, as it was
proved that it was the deadly cigarette
She was smoking that did it.
Ar the Eleventh Ohio district repub-
lican senatorial convention, held in
Springfield Hon. d. w. Rawlings, OF
Clarke county, was nominated for state
senator.
LIBERTY CENTER, Henry county. peo-
pie think that there is fortune be-
meath them and they will bore for oil
and gas.
WALNUT and poplar logs are being
shipped from Musllingum county tc
England.
The Republican central committee
has selected the following executive
committee to have charge of their cam
paign: George Fields, Toledo; A. s.
Bushnell, Springfeld; C. d. Firestone
and NJ. r. Patterson, Columbus; John
Whiting, jr., Canton; j. L. Loves, Day
ton; Z. S. Wilson, Ironton; NJ. Il. Her
rick, Cleveland, and II. B. Morehead
Cincinnati. w. II. Hahn, of Mansfield
is chairman of the committee, and W.
S. Matthews, of Columbus, secretary.
A FRIGHTFUL gasoline, explosion al
Akron fatally burned Charles II. Hell
wig and quite seriously George Stubbs
The men We're employees of the Hill
Sewer Pipe works and were emptying
barrel of gasoline into gas machine
when in some unaccountable manner
the fluid ignited and blew up. A column
of fire rose to IL great height and en-
velopcd Helwig in mass of fire. II,
rushed toward pile of sand and buried
himself in it, extinguishing the flames
He was horribly burned, scarcely
portion of his body escaping. Stubs
was much more fortunate and his in
juries are slight.
THE board of managers of the peni
tentiary at their regular monthly meet
ing, few days ago, paroled the follow
ing prisoners: Timothy Donovin, Ham
ilton county, two years for grand lar
ceny; Gertie Williams, Belmont county
seven years for shooting to kill; Rober
Downing, Lucas three years for at
tempted rape; W. II. Wells, Hardin
three years for attempted rape; Rober
Purcell, Sanduslky county, four year
for robbery; James l.. Downing, Pauld
ing county, four years for burglary
John Campbell, Lawrence county
seven years for burglary and larceny
{ George Jones, Madison county, thre
, years for burglary; Charles Kline, Starl
county, two years for burglary and lar
ceny.
: A SHELBY COUNTY farmer has an oil
, sow that is adept at milking cows.
t GRADING has been commenced on tn
: new Sandusky and Columbus short lin
railroad.
AL BAUGHMAN, Farmland, livin
near Alliance, accidentally shot him
! self dangerously while out hunting.
t DARKE coUNTY's wheat will ayerag
!, % bushels to the acre.
\ The state bar association will NEE
a at Putin Bay July 1917.
WooDCoCK shooting will be legal o
July Is.
THE Twenty-fourth, Thirtv-secont
. Fifty-frst, Eightieth, 122d and 143d {
, " !. and Ninth O. " C. held a reunio
at Coshocton on the Sd and 4th of Jul,
, There were about 10000 people in a
n tendance. The parade was the fines
g ever seen in the city.