The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26


work house is needed, and have taken
steps to establish such an institution.
THE Mt. Blanchard Oil and Gas Co
is preparing to drill a number of test
wells in the vicinity of Mt Blanchard.
LATTY, near Van Vert, has an cpl
demic of diphtheria.
JOHN ARMENIA is under arrest at Alli-
ance charged with burning his build
ing.
r. NJ. PETRIE, of Chagrin Falls
pierced his hand with scarf pin and
blood poisoning set in.
WILLIAM MCNEvINs was killed in
hand-car accident on the Lake Shore
road near Sandusky.
MRS. DAVID GOLDMAN has sued
Cleveland gambling house to recover
81, 165, alleged to have been lost by her
husband at faro.
BUCYRUs hasn't an empty house.
A FALLING tree killed Jacob Smith
near Defiance.
YOUNGSTOWN organized company to
prospect for gold in Georgia.
JOHN LYNCH, miner, was killed at
Buchtel by Thornton Sampson, an ex-
convict, who was subsequently hustled
out of town to prevent lynching. A
quarrel, begun by the murderer, was
the cause.
THE jackson club of Columbus has
completed all the arrangements for it's
regular Sth-of-January banquet, and,
like its predecessors, it will be one of
the opening political events of 1892 on
the democratic side.
MRS MARTHA CRADLE lives in an old
log house, near Plain City. She has
three children, the eldest of whom is
Amanda, a comely girl of 16 and Mrs.
CRADLE though poor and ignorant, is
very fond of her. and properly careful
rs to her choice of associates. Recently
the old lady sharply ordered a young
suiter of her daughter, named Peters,
to leave her presence and stay away,
under threats of severe corporal punish
ment and the other day, when she saw
young member of a Columbus anna
teur camera club focusing his instru-
ment on the house, she elevated her
spectacles on her wrinlSled forehead
and rcmarked: There's that pesl1y
Peters talking through a telephone to
Mandy, sure's shootin'." Then she
took down an ancient shotgun, which
was loaded for small game, and delib-
erately blazed away with it at the sup
posed Peters, tearing the face of the
camera into flinders and perforating the
amateurs coat-collar with bird-shot.
The young man vacated the premises
without asking for or offering an ex-
PLANTATION
THE annual Ohio Agricultural con-
vention will be held at Columbus, Jan.
uary IA.
A WooD county weather prophet pre-
diets thirty heavy snow storms this
winter.
Work of grading the SanduslSy &
Columbus Short Line will be pushed
right along.
Columns elks will erect $50, 900
club house.
OVER $4,000 has been subscribed for
public crematory at Cleveland
AT East Liverpool stream of oil 200
feet high, which gushed from newly
bored well, burned for thirty hours.
Tools, etc, valued at 81, 500, were de-
stroyed.
TwENTY-sEvEN oil wells are in drill
ing in Sandusky county.
The commissioners of Knox county
have been asked to purchase the fair
grounds of Mt. Vernon, upon which the
| county holds a mortgage for $1,000.
THE Ohio university, at Athens, has
PAL students. The trustees will ask for
an appropriation of 81, 800 the coming
session of the legislature.
THE corporate limits of Fremont are
to be extended three-quarters of a mile,
which will include the villages of Ball
vile and$jtony Prairie.
A NUMBER of Paulding county farm
ers sold their live stock to stranger,
and now hold worthless checks as
valua BILE lesson.
THE Union Window Glass works
were destroyed by fire at Bellaire, and
George Stewart, fireman, perished in
the flames.
EAST LIVERPOOL claims population
of II, ,T04
GAINESVILLE ministers condemn Sun
day funerals
THE Union house at Chagrin Falls,
the oldest hotel in northern Ohio, has
been turned into tenement house.
THE citizens of Orrvillc are going to
contest the locating of the agricultural
experiment station at Wooster
THE grippe is becoming epidemic in
Belpre. Entire families are down with
| it,
CHARITY balls will be fashionable in
Ohio towns this winter.
SIRINGFELp smells natural gas un-
der her and expects it hourly,
| PoRT CLINTON would like to have
$40 0OC expended on her harbor.
AN epidemic of sore throat is preva-
lent among the hogsin Summit county.
JOHN CoCHENBAUGH, aged IS, living
in Perry county, has never been known
to speak to anyone except relatives and
near friends.
STEUBENvIGLE citizens are up in arms
because the council gave the electric
light company permission to trim down
the shade trees.
+, L. HARPER, of the defunct Fidel-
| ity National bank, finished the fourth
year of his sentence at the Ohio peni-
tentiary few days ago. This was also
his forty third birthday. lie has three
yeats and half to serve yet, which
will make him in his forty-seventh year
when he gains his release