The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-11-28
OHIO STATE NEWS.
STARTLING SUGGESTIONS.


wards out of the way.
The financial statement in the report
shows that the current expenses, in.
cluding salaries Of the officers, amount.
ed to S37, s30o7 The annual cost pei
capita was $685. and the weekly cost
per capita S947. The appropriations
recommended for the ensuing year are
as follows: Current expenses, $25, 0O0
salaries, $40, 900 furniture and carpets,
81, 500; ordinary repairs, ST. 900; grading
and improving grounds, 5000; fruit trees
and plants, 5000, library, $500; religious
services, $3.50; expense of trustees, 5000;
telephone, 5000; chapel and school
room, 5000. Total, S32, 900. The aver
age number OF in RmateS during the year
was 294.
GEAUGA county has no saloons
JOHN ADAMS general store, with
800, 900 pounds of wool, was burned at
Hainesyille.
IDA SUTTON, was divorced in the
afternoon at NorwAlk, and in the
evening married A. s. Gaskell, of Buff
falo.
MRS w. K. BECHTE1, wife of the
superintendent OF schools at Sterling,
Wayne county, died from the effects OF
dose of poison. She was welded only
few months ago, and came to Sterling
three weeks ago from Cleveland. Her
husband, on coming home from his
school, found her very sick. She told
him she had pain in her bowels, and
took some liniment for it. He made a
hurried investigation and found that
she had taken a teaspoonful of bella
donna
JOHN MCCLURE, administrator of the
estate of Thomas Sterling, has COM
menced suit in court against the Pitts
burgh and Western railroad for $40, 600,
for causing the death of Sterling, who
was employed as puddler at the mills
at Hazelton.
A JUDGMENT of nearly $40, OOO the
aggregate amount sued for by the Mad
river and the First and Second national
banks, of Springfield, VS.. the Ashville,
Lenoir and Tuskaseegee Lumber Cos,
represented by stockholders has been
rendered.
THREE boys of New Bremen went
duck hunting and bagged the barn-yard
variety of farmers who made the
parents pay 50 per duck.
THOMAS GoRMAN, a twenty-year-oid
iron worker in the Ktna mill, Martin S
Ferry was struck in the stomach by
the handle of crane, and died soon
afterward.
BERT GAY, farmer near Guilford,
i lyi11al f,11i,re Io
struck stone, crushing his skull. He
was married and well-to-do.
BERT, the fourteen-year-old son OF
George Hetzler, farmer of Orange
township, Shelby county, mounted q
horse in narrow stall the other after
noon, when the vicious animal threw
him off, trampling on his PROSTATE
form, killing him instantly.
A MINERAL spring of great medicina
properties has been discovered neal
Weatherfeld, Mahoning county.
CLEVELAND claims Illuminating ga.
can be made for six cents per 1000
cubic feet, hence trouble as to fran
chise.
MADDEN Bros, farmers, of near Ur
bana, failed for $4,000, and j. D. Tyler
boot and shoe man, of Monroeville, die
the same for same amount.
The Ohio Oil Co. drilled in a we'll neal
Findlay that flowed salt water, but ha'
changed to 600 barrels of oil per day.
The supreme court few days age
granted motion for leave to file pc
tition in error to that court in the cast
of murderer w. j. Elliott. He will
| however, remain in the Ohio stat,
prison until the court has passed on the
merits of the case.
SPRINGFIELD will bore for natura
gas again.
POLICE raidej the gambling dens a
Lima.
U. S. WHITE, one of the first settler
in the northwest, died at Bucyrus.
JOHN c. DRAKE, farmer living Yves
of Piqua, was held up by highwaymel
in the suburbs, the other evening
Charles Moxham and Barney Bunder
berg are charged with the offense, ant
are in Jail in default of bail.
A DISASTROUS accident occurred ol
the Pan-Handle railroad at Burgetts
town, twelve miles east of Steubenville
few days ago, caused by one freigh
train running into the rear end of an
other. Charles Hardy, the front brake
man OF the rear train, was caught ur
der the wreck and literally roaste
alive. Engineer Thomas Whitesides
of Pittsburgh, and Fireman John Nc
Farlan, of Cadiz, were fatally in
jured by being crushed between tn
engine and tender Fourteen freigh
cars and one caboose were completed
demolished and the debris burned ur
The track for the length of the rea
train was badly torn up and the rail
twisted, and all trains are delayed fror
four to six hours.
The cigarette smoking evil anon
Cincinnati school children is puzzlin
the superintendent and principals
AT Harrisville, Harrison county, tn
other morning, fire broke out in tn
general store of James Adams, tn
leading merchant of the place, consun
ing the stock and his two story brio
building. Total loss about IS, 900.
TIE secretary of state has filed h
report of the fees collected for the las
quarter of the fiscal year ending NJ
vember 15, 1891, which amounted in tn
aggregate TO Sl6,9ss 80, making tots
for the year of S1o5, 475.47
FITZGERALD, the Youngstown mul
derer, sentenced to hang on the 20tl
will be respited until December IS, thu
his attorneys may take his case to th
supreme court.
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