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

20 years, was overcome Rnc died i'm
stantly. His brother Emmett seeing his
brothers. condition caught rope and
was defending ladder to bring up his
brother When about ten feet from the
bottom he was also overcome and fell
dead. These young men were both
school-teachers and highly respected.
SQUIRREL shooting is now legal in
this state.
A TURTLE marked 1850 is roaming
about in the fields near New Spring
field, Mahoning county.
THE Ohio Grund Lodge, Il. and A. NJ,
will meet at Springfield. July t4-16.
MAHoNINe COUNTY prohibitionists
will nominate n full ticket.
DAYTON has organized Law and
Order league. p, gf
GAS will be piped from Oak Harbor to
Pt. Clinton.
DAYTON, too, won't allow fash
pictures to be posted.
| SEVEN people were bitten by mad
dog at Defiance.
The Hancock county wheat yield is
remarkably large.
VAN VERT has society of the fair
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A HORSE and buggy, valued at $500,
belonging to Emanuel Mogle, living
about eight miles northwest of Findlay,
was stolen the other night.
AN electric car coming down the hill
from the Soldiers home, Dayton, with
twenty passengers, at the rate of IF
teen miles an hour, the other afternoon
burst the motor instantly swapping a
thousand copper wires with loud re-
port and breaking off the heavy iron
motor cap, hurting large plank through
the car. The only person injured was
one of three Catholic Sisters of the Pre-
cious Blood and she said she felt no pain
except in her head.
The state board of equalization has
added 10 per cent to the valuation of
the cities of Portsmouth, Canton and
Massillon, and deducted 10 per cent.
from that of Alliance.
A CURIOUS phenomenon of q ball OF
fire floating in the air is soaring the peo.
| pie of Allen county
| S. W.. RICHARDS, father of the re.
publican candidate for attorney general,
John X Richards, died the other morn
ing.
ALL of the men in the railroad mines
in Belmont, Jefferson, Guernsey and
| Harrison counties, numbering over D.
| 600, struck the other day for nine hours
a day and the Columbus day scale. All
of the mines have been booming
FRANK ADAMS, a young farmer of
near Cadiz, was driving across the rail-
road track at Jewett four miles east of
Scio, when the second section of No.
of the Panhandle train struck his.
wagon, instantly killing Adams and
both his horses. The train was running
at over sixty miles an hour. Adams
was but recently married to an estim-
able young lady.
PORTAGE county farmers say rose
bugs are destroying fruit
TOLEDO merchants have universally
adopted the half-holiday system.
ADoLPH KOCH, aged ten years, was
run over by loaded car on the Tile
works incline, at GAINESVILLE, and was
fatally injured.
THE state board of equalization have
raised the tax valuation of both Column
bus and Toledo ten per cent.
AT special election mt Gallon the
proposition to issue SO, 600 in bonds to-
enlarge the electric light plant was car
ried.
THE large cupola of the wire-mill at
Findlay fell the other day from the eff
fects of the recent wind-storm. A num-
Der of men We're at work in the mill,
and of these six were injured by the
falling timbers Charles Snavely, John
Brown, John Habner and George Rob-
inson were most severely injured.
JASPER PoRTIss, colored, of Spring
field, was killed while stealing ride in
the Big Four yards there.
SPRINGFIELD gets the Masonic home,
twelve of the fifteen trustees having so
decided.
ALL but one Of the fourteen glass fac
tories at Findlay have shut down until
September
AT Columbus Patrick Mulroney, r.
sword-swallower, died from the eff
fects of putting violin bow down his
throat.
OHIO ranks seventh among the lime
stone producing states of the union, the
annual product for the census year be-
ing valued at $1,514, 934
l
public schools of Cincinnati, for the
year beginning June l, 1891, are $951,-
503 OIL
WIN. Lowry, of Dayton, was thrown
from buggy and fatally hurt.
DURING the storm, the other evening,
while in his barnyard at Germantown,
Geo G. Banker was struck by lightning
He may recover.
Mrs. SHERMAN CLARK, wife of prom
inent farmer residing near Malvern,
Carroll county, was terribly injured by
an enraged COW. The other evening
, Mr.. and Mrs Clark were feeding the
COW and calf when the farm dog, which
} had entered the pasture, began barking
, at the cow. The animal became infu-
) rated, and rushing at the dog, which had
taken refuge behind the woman, caught
l Mrs. Clark on her horns, disembowel-
ing her. Her injuries are considered
: fatal.
CHRIST PALM, of South bloomfield,
| cut nine-foot blaeksnake in two while
moving.
The state school-book board have
agreed that the maximum price of high
school books shall be seventy-five per
cent. of the wholesale price, the same
us they had fixed for other books, The
publishers will be notified, and bids re-
ceived on the above basis.
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