The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-06-27


Fostorla... $500 24OO Sidney. @ 100 2dc0
Fremont q. 22O0 $500 Troy. .......... 22OO $500
Greenville. 1900 2,2Oo Urbana. ...... 1900 $500
Lancaster. 2,10O $500 Van Vert. 1000 2,l0O
Lima. ......... 1000 800 Warreu.... 230) 200
Mansfield. 270) $500 Xenia. ......., 2,eOO 2,3Ci
Marion. ..... 940O 1900
ED ROGERS, of Cincinnati, was strucle
| by a tiger in Robinson's circus at Ham
ilton and seriously injured.
The commissioner of pensions has
appointed DR.. S. M. McVey member
of the board of pension examining sur
geons at Caldwell.
CHARLES EVANS, a young druggist,
was found dead in bed at Youngstown,
and it was supposed heart failure was
caused by indulgence in cigarettes.
The governor has appointed G. G.
Davidson, of Alliance, to be a trustee of
the Ohio university at Athens, vice Hon.
John Hancock, deceased.
FOLLOWING is the syllabus of the SUI
preme court decision in the suit of SEN
ator Lowry to compel the state APP
portionment board to rearrange the
new senatorial district: "Eirst-
Where the governor, auditor and secre-
tary of state, or a majority of them, as
the board created by section II, of arti-
Gle il, of the constitution for the decen-
nial apportionment of the state for
members of the general assembly, have
made an apportionment, they can not
be required by mandamus, or otherwise,
to make another apportionment,
unless the apportionment as
made so far disregards the
principle prescribed by the consti-
tuition as to warrant the court in saying
that it is no apportionment, and should
be treated as a nullity. Second-The
apportionment made by the board, con-
Cured in by the auditor and secretary
of state, at the session of the board held
April 13, 1891, does not violate any of
the principles prescribed by the consti-
tuition, and is valid apportionment
Writ refused" When Senator Lowry
entered his suit 5 he remarked to a
correspondent that he did not expect to
win; that the chances were only one in
thousand in his favor, but that he
wanted to try for that one chance.
THE census of the Ohio tobacco crop
shows that for the census year ended
June 1, 1890, the yield was 81, s53, 563
pounds, worth 81, ,642, S5S, from A, 303
acres. There were 12, 929 planters in
the state.
By the explosion of portable boiler
at Akron Henry Golden was killed, Jno.
Harvey fatally, and six other men seri-
ously injured.
GEN. GEosvENoR has been appointed
an agent of the treasury department to
| go To- s,,4A Nf %1,p
worlds fair.
DIR. j. KosT has resigned as chancel-
lor of Heidelburg.
FREDDIE SPENCE, the seven-year-old
stepson of John Noel, was drowned at
Portsmouth.
DR. M. w. HANNA, of Los Angeles,
Cal, formerly of Springfield, has en-
dowed Wittenberg college with $50, 00C
and so provided in his will.
EMMA BELCHER, aged fifteen, o1
: Riverside, died from the effects o1
breathing the flames of a gasoline lamp
that flashed across her face as she car
ried it.
AT Canton Henry Heitzell, middle
aged, married man, while going home
intoxicated, sat down on the Valley
track to rest early the other morning
He was horribly mangled by q freight
train, being dead when found.
TWENTY years ago Jas. ArbucSle anG
his eight-year-old son were plased il
the alms-house at Youngstown. The
boy was sent out to learn a trade, be
came contractor in Pittsburgh, anG
the other day took his aged father tc
his home for the rest of his days.
MISS ELLA RAGAN, of st. Marys, wa:
thrown into cataleptic state from {
{ fright at lightning, and continued il
, that condition for ten days.
, RICHARD RHEIN, aged fifty-eight
, jumped from the suspension bridge
DER the Ohio at Cincinnati with inten
, to commit suicide.
| Two children of James Ross were
i drowned in Snow Fork creek, neal
, Buchtel
, JUDGE ROBINSON rendered an import
ant decision at Youngstown, bearing
on the question of merchants getting
up clubs for the sale of their goods Ii
the case at bar a merchant tailoring es
tablishment got up club, each mem
ber to pay in $1.50 per week, suit o
clothes to be drawn by lot until every
member had been supplied. Two mem
bers, after paying in $50, became dis
satisfied and sued to recover the amour
paid in. The court held that the scheme
was game of chance or lottery in vic
lation of the statute in this state, anC
rendered Judgment for the amount o
= each claim.
1 THE Ohio supreme court has sustain
1 ed the new Legislative apportionment
D Two girls of IS, Lily Knecht and De
: liza Bradford, suicided with laudanum a
Tiffin because they thought themselve
crossed in love.
THE Ohio democratic state convention
will be held at Cleveland.
D W Z. THOMAS, night operator a
Troy for the Dayton and Michigan road
was murdered by tramps early the 9th
er morning.
The motion for leave to file petition
!, in error to the circuit court of Hamilton
" county in the case of Chas. Craig, tn
colored murder sentenced to be hange
: July 10, was allowed.
JANE LEWIS, colored woman O
y Ohio, has been awarded her share O
= $50, 600, left by Col Taylor, of Kentucky