The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-03
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

broken into fragments and the drill
house wrecked. Martin Schearney was
killed, Frank Geiner perhaps fatally
scalded and Thomas Fox, the engineer,
was scalded and had both legs and one
arm broken. Another man is missing,
and IL Is feared he was blown into Lake
Erie.
DAYTON Soldiers Home had $500
pounds Of turkey and | 800 mince pies
among Christmas rations.
Ar the penitentiary 1,600 convicts
were allowed to exercise the gift OF
speech and were served with an extra
holiday dinner Christmas.
THE Ohio Oil Company, the land de-
partmcnt of the Standard Oil Company,
with headquarters ut Lima, has in
creased its capital stock from S.. 500, ,006
TO $4,000, 900.
JOHN DREANY's boarding-housc and
Hall Il Ginibys store, at Jacksonville,
burned.
Mis-. G. w. DILLMAN, aged ffty-6ve
years, fell on an icy sidewalk ut Can
ton, and fractured her skull.
Mrs. ARTA MYERS, who obtained
divorce from her husband recently,
tried to commit suicide the other even
ing by taking huge dose of morphine.
A physician with astomach-pump saved
her from the effects of the rash act.
Cause, disappointed in love.
ELIZA TERHEIDE, soldiers widow,
aged so, died in Cincinnati of age. want
and exposure.
SECRETARY RYAN reports l,219 incor-
poration certificates issued last year;
total capital stock, S2sS, ,S65,000. The
greatest increase of capital stock was in
building associations, amounting to $780,
10000 more than ever before.
CHRISTMAS while firing a cannon
made of gas-pipe, at Wellstou, Allen
Emmert son of Nickel Emmcrt, met
with most serious and perhaps fatal
accident The cannon burst, and one
half of it entered the inner side of the
right thigh, tearing away all the mus
cular structure and lodging in the hip,
near the spine, from where it was re-
moved.
Ed. MCCARTHY, the murderer of
young Charles Nedderman. at Cincin-
to hang until dead April 3next. Conse-
quently Charles Craig, the assassin Of
Anna Craig, will have "a partner on the
gallows.
Mr.. JAMES BooTH was murdered by
his farm hand, Henry Worley, at his,
home, near Newcomerstown, while
seated at the breakfast table Christmas
morning.
MADIsoNvILLE boys tried to encour-
age bonfire by pouring powder on it.
They have retired from society until
the skin grows again on their faces
THE beautiful white Christmas was
general all over the Ohio valley.
AT Canton Herman Koch, deaf and
dumb man, beca me insane and at
tackled members of his family with
butcher-knife. He was captured after
hard struggle and landed in Jail.
JAS. SMITH, aged 1S, and Geo. Kneisley,
aged II, sentenced to the penitentiary
from Richland and Montgomery Coun-
ties for burglary and forgery respective
ly for two and three years each, were
transferred to the Reform School at
Lancaster by the order of the Governor.
LEVI JACKSON fell into an ore crusher
in IL brick-yard at Stcubenville, and was
crushed to death.
THE grand tax duplicate for the State
for 1891 is $1,777, ,S23, las, an increase of
S3s, ,G25, sol.
CANTON captured wild man in the
woods of Sugar Creek township and his
name is Daniel Crosley.
JOHN L. TIsDALE was convicted of
murder in the first degree at Lancaster
fo,. chO Gan I, Rnua1,
DIR. JOHN DAVIS, one of Cincinnati's
most prominent physicians, died sud-
denly Christmas night
A YOUNG daughter of Sophia Walters,
of near Caldwell, died the day after
Christmas from eating too much candy.
Mrs. E. M. SPRAGuE, of Cincinnati,
was found dead in bed by her husband.
She was the victim of chloroform talxer
to relieve toothache.
SIEETER BULLE, son of a farmer six
miles southeast of Sidney, celebrated
the third anniversary of his birth the
other day by falling in "a well. The
hole was twenty-nine feet deep, and con-
tanned nineteen feet of water 1t had
pump in it, and as the boy went
down feet first, he showed uneX-
ampled presence of mind by
throwing one arm around the pump
stock. A woman saw him fall. She
got a long-handlcd rake, reached down
to him, and he graspcd it. He lifted him
self too far out of the water by this and
his weight soon broke his hold. Again
he embraced the pump, and held on I'M
til rope was procured. A man de-
scended and the boy was saved.
THE woman killed in the Bolivar
railroad wreck has been identified as
Betsey Lindsey, of Fremont.
Mas. w. A. ATKINSON, of Fremont,
was burned so badly by her clothing
igniting from gasoline stove that she
died.
THE new bridge over the Ohio corr
Meeting Cincinnati and Newport is to be
opened for public travel about March,
1891.
MISS LIZZIE SHAY, of Chillicothc, COM
mitted suicide by hanging herself. She
was Respondent on account of the death
of her brother.
MADISON County childrcn's home was
scorched $500 worth.
THE will of Matthew Thoms was Of
fcred for probate ut Cincinnati. n few
days ago The entire estate, valued at
$15O,OOO is left to the city of Cincin-
natl in trust for the use of McMiclSen
University.
HERMAN LEMPKE fell from the roof Of
the Hollender Hotel, Cleveland, Il dis
tance of seventy feet, and was instantly