The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

elecJS ". COnley president.
THE formal opening of the GAINESVILLE
city hospital took place few days
since. Rev. j. c. Holiday recited the
history of the enterprise, and Rev +.
Richards delivered the dedicatory ad-
dreus.
EX-SENATOR r. c. SNYDER, of Can
ton, met with painful accident the
other evening. In his hurry to catch
passing street car he slipped and fell
down the steps of his business Office,
breaking his right leg The same leg
was broken some six years ago by be-
ing thrown from buggy,
DIR. JORDAN, of Johnstown, Licking
County, became Respondent and com
mitted suicide by swallowing NOR
phine.
TREASURER VEITH's defalcation at
Upper Sandusky forced his old father
into bankruptcy.
FARMER THOMAS c. BOND, of New
Vienna, is crazed by the death of an
only son and was sent to the Athens
asylum.
STEWART LAKE was probably fatally
injured by being struck in the face with
baseball bat by Il companion named
Priest Both boys live in Madison
township, near Newark.
TALL, thin lady, well-dressed and
aged about 45. journeying from Sharon,
Pa, to Cincinnati, became suddenly in
sane and is in the Dayton Jail.
The towboat Silas =. Coe burned to
the waters edge while lying at the foot
of Vine street, Cincinnati. Loss $4,000,
with Sl2,O 600 insurance. The watchman,
VIM. Carney, was burned to death.
PATRICK LEO and George w. MoXham,
held at Dayton for counterfeiting, had u
hearing before United States Commits
sioner Corwin, a few days ago, and as
the prisoners would not tell where they
got the coin they were passing, both
were held to answer to the United
States Court at Cincinnati in the sum of
81 900.
A. c. CHAPMAN has been appointed
postmaster at ThorndylSe, Portage
County.
THOMAS MERs, aged over 100 years,
and his wife Sc, died few days ago,
and were buried together at Akron.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL has pardoned
| Henry Frohman, recommended at the
last meeting of the Board of Pardons.
| Frohman was sent from Hamilton Coun-
! ty, last October, on a sentence of year
for cutting.
JOHN CURRAN, who suicided at Car
bon, willed his entire $1,000 to his per-
sonal friend Robert Graham.
THE Senaca County Farmers Insti-
tute closed two days session at Tiff
fin. Officers were elected as follows.
President, Samuel Baker; vice-presi-
dent, b. f. Tomb; secretary, James II.
Knapp; treasurer, Isaac Baldwin; eX~
ecutive committee, b. f. Moore and ID.
| L. German.
AN Indictment against Henry Free
man, at Cudiz, for voting twice at the
last November election. has been
quashed, the document not stating for
what officials the election was held.
Freeman WAS released on his own rccog-
nizancc.
HUGH NJ. THOMPSON, of Sidney, was
elected Senator to fill the uneXpired
term of Senator Robertson, deceased.
Thompson is i'll, The vote was light.
JOHNNY MOORE, blacksmith of
Barnesville, fell down stairs and broke
his neck.
FARMER 3. w. BANE fell from a
wagon at Dayton, dead, of heart dis
ease.
The Third and Thirteenth regiments,
o. n. G., have consolidated.
MNGo Junction had $4,000 fire the
other day.
Mrs. Lucy WooDMAN, a widow fifty
years of age, on return from a meat
shop, Dayton, the other evening, drop
ped dead on the kitchen floor. She
was subject to Mysteries and easily eX-
cited by the school children who passed
her door. On her return to the house
she complained that the children had
been teasing her, and n moment later
fell dead.
CANTON was visited by a gang of bur.
glars the other night, and several
houses We're entered. The home of Johr
McGregor, eX-county clerk, was burglar
lied and two gold watches and chains
with an 0vercoat secured. Loss abou
$780, The North Cherry Street school
house was entered, and an organ cover
and some property of the scholars taken
At the house of N. Holloway nothing
beyond pair of overshocs was missed
although the house was ransacked. Al
attempt was made to enter the hous,
of Geo. c. Lindsay, but the burglar
were frightened away. Next morn
ing the storc-room of Jacob Spidel
was entered and furs to the value of So
taken.
EEv TIMOTHY HOWE, one of the old
est ministers in the country, was ad
judged insane the other day by Probat
Judge Rees at Newark. He is eighty
six years of age, and being nervous, h
endangered his life by escaping fror
his home and wandering ON the railroa
track.
IN Dayton saloon, the other night
Jacob Schmidt, 65 years of age, was a
the bar drinking Il glass of beer an
discussing with his companions the i'll
that affect others, and at the same tim
boasting of his own health, with tn
statement that he had not felt bette
for years. He then called for a cigal
and while in the act of lighting it fe
dead at the feet of his companion,
: When picked up there was not the sen
blance of a spark of life left. His deaf
was due to heart disease.
} Acting on the recommendation {
> the Board of Pardons, the Gove1nc
has pardoned George Ward and Andre,
, Zimmerman, serving one year and fl
teen months respectively from HenI
l