The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-11-07
OHIO STATE NEWS.

Dennison. Whitman was fatally hurt
A SPECIAL from Conover says TIN
three-year-old daughter of George Dill
n farmer near there, the other nigh
fell into brushheap and was burned
to death
LOUIS SHTBLY, of Wooster, was killed
in runaway accident.
PROF TABERT, aeronaut, came neai
being killed at the jackson park, Col
ton. His balloon burst when he wa,
five hundred feet high, and his para
chute opened just in time to preven
him from being dashed to pieces.
CALVIN HANNA, who is well knowr
in police circles, was arrested the othel
day at Mahoningtown, charged will
burglarizing store and securing
large quantity of goods and govern
ment stamps. Considerable stoler
property was found on his person
Hanna was arrested in Youngstown
several months ago, charged with Grim
inal assault upon girl, but succeeded
in gaining his liberty.
TWENTY -FOUR divorce cases are on al
Lima.
A CosnocToN syndicate will pipe nat
ural gas to Mansfield.
BERTHE KIPL1NGER, aged nine, had
both hands cut off in feed cutter.
Miss ALICE JOHNSON, melancholy,
took strychnine at Seville and died.
THE cornerstone of new state epilep-
tic asylum will be laid at Gallipolis
| November 10.
A JURY at Marietta gave Elizabeth
Reppert S10,025 damages against the B
& o. s. W., for the loss of leg.
THE State Canal Commission the 9th.
er morning removed all employees be.
cause the appropriation for expenses is
exhausted. Last year the board Great
ed deficit, which had to be met with
this years appropriation.
THE old Buckeye Flint Glass Co.,
of Bowling Green, will resume opera
tions November 10 with 100 hands
JOHN CoNBoY, for having burglar
tools in his possession, was sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary at
GAINESVILLE.
KENToN had $50, 600 fire the other
night
AKRoNs fine new depot is nearly
completed.
FINDLAY now has a hospital and a
home for the friendless.
IRA MALoTT, convicted of murder in
the second degree for the killing of
Barok Ashton, was sentenced to i'm.
prisonment for life in the penitentiary
by Judge Johnston at Youngstown.
OVER 100 miles of the new double
track on the Pan handle have been
finished and only 90 more miles remain
to be laid. Tunnels 5, and 10, includ-
ing the large one at Cadiz, have been
widened
WHILE cleaning her back yard, at
Akron, few nights ago, Mrs. James
Harts dress caught fire from pile of
burning leaves. She rolled about on
the ground in vain endeavor to extin.
guish the flames, and then ran scream.
ing into the house of neighbor, where
she sank down exhausted. She was so
badly injured that she died next morn
ing. James McGinty was painfully
burned while trying to extinguish the
flames.
The government sent 100 stands of
arms and two cannons for the military
department of Mt Union college.
THE barn of Rev. Winters at Crest
line was burned down the other night
by an incendiary One man, tramp,
three horses, two cows and all the
grain, hay and farming implements
were consumed.
ROBERT SIMPSON MILLER dropped
dead few nights ago on the stairs
leading to the city hail. Springfield.
He fell forward and was carried into
police headquarters, where he died be-
fore medical assistance could be Sc
cured. He was 70 years old.
THE factory of the United States
Supply Co., at Cleveland, was complete
ly destroyed by explosions, followed
by fire, the other afternoon. Three
persons were killed and several injured
The factory was recently established
in an old brick stable on Wilson ave-
nue., which originally cost $40, 900, and
made fuses, cartridges, ETC., for mining
operations, using different preparations
of gun cotton, dynamite, nitro -glycer-
inc and gun-powder. The first explo-
sion was heavy one, blowing the roof
nearly off and shattering the walls.
The shock was felt for half a mile
away. Shouts and screams were heard
inside the building, and then all of the
twelve employees excepting four tum-
bled pell-mell, out of windows and
doors. Several other lighter explosions
followed, sending bricks in all direc-
tions, and in a few minutes the flames
were at work. The fire was subdued,
and in a few hours the charred bodies
of John Fink, IA years old; Alfred
Schaetfer, II years old, and Paul Pfaun-
kuche, nephew of the president of
the company, were dug out of the ruins.
Minnie Peck, an employe, was severely
cut and bruised, and other employees
were injured, but not severely. The
loss on the building is about So, 500, and
on the stock S5, 600.
RALPH CUNNINGHAM crawled into a
furnace at Fostoria with suicidal in
tent He was rescued but will die.
WHILE Cleveland firemen were prac-
ticing with the Pompier ladder the
other morning, Lieut.. Rettger fell from
the fourth story of the city hall and
was so badly injured that he died in
fifteen minutes
EDITOR MCFADDEN and Sheriff OPP
perman came together in a fistic en-
counter at Kentonville over an item in
the Steubenville Gazette. The former
got black eye.
THE Guernsey county grand jury in
dicted Robert Mercer, 10, for mutilat-