The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-02-21
OHIO STATE NEWS.


Of South Wellston, died at his home the
other morning at 8 o'clock. lie was
taken with hiccoughing eight days be-
fore, and has continued to hiccough day
and night, without an intermission of
ten minutes since the first attack. The
case attracted consultation of all the
physicians, but at no time or by any
treatment could the hiccoughs be miti-
1 gated or checked. He died almost an
agonizing death.
ROBERT BEEMAN, n colored boy in the
employ of Congressman K. p. Kennedy,
at Bellefontaine, robbed the family of
the Congressman's gold gavel, iewelry
(the property of Mrs. Kennedy and va
rious other articles of considerable
value. Beeman made no effort to
escape and does not deny the stealing.
A oNE-YEAR-oLD child of Mr.. John
Herring, of Upper Sandusky, was per-
haps fatally scalded by the overturning
of cup of coffee.
MEASLES and whooping cough are
prevailing to an alarming extent at Co
shocton.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL has appointed
Harry T. Hall, son of Hon. Geo. w.
Hall, of Lima, cadet at the Ohio Mill
tary Academy at Portsmouth.
FoURTH-CLAss postmasters were APP
pointed the other day as follows: +.
Getzandiner, Cheviot, Hamilton County;
G.. c. Davis, Cornersburg, Mahoning
County; j. G. White, Mount Heron,
Darke County; Miss NJ. j. Barr, New
Harrisburg, Carroll County.
JULIUS WoLDMAN, aged seventy, de-
serted by his wife and children, commit
ted suicide at Cincinnati.
FRANK SMITH, the Urbana express rob-
Der, has been sentenced to seven years
in the penitentlary.
DANIEL ROBERTSON, injured on the
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad, was
given verdict for SIS, 600 at Youngs-
town.
JOSEPH l.. REAMCK, of Trio, was
found dead in bed at the Grand Cen
tral HOTEL Mansfield. He blew out the
gas.
i LOUIS LAUER, aged seventy-seven,
while going to Madison from North
Madison with Nicholas Gale the other
morning, when near the foot of the hill,
suddenly threw up his arms and fell
back dead from heart disease.
LIE other morning James Walker,
who is in the county Jail charged with
burglary, made an unsuccessful at
tempt to burn the jail. He set fire to
his bed clothing, which was entirely
consumed before the conflagration was
extinguished. Walker is desperate
character, and has threatened the lives
OF the officers interested in his convic-
ton.
Il. NJ. MCGILLIN, formerly a Cleve-
land dry goods merchant sued the H.
b. Clatlin Company, of New York City,
for 1864, 900. Mr.. ,McGillin says he dis
posed of his two large stores in Cleve-
land several years ago to the Claflins,
with the understanding that they were
to engage with him in the cattle busi-
ness, they assuring him he would make
Sl,OOO,OO the first year. Two ranches
which he owned were put into the cat
tie Trust, whereupon the Clafiins he
alleges, declined to carry ont their
agreement He claims to have lost
S364, 900 by the transfer of his property,
and wants damages in that amount
The Clafins own two stores in Cleve-
land.
ABOUT two miles north of Mt. Eph-
rain, the other day, an operation was
performed ON James Watson's youngest
child for the removal of something un-
natural in its windpipe. An incision
about two inches deep by three and one
half to four inches long was made, al
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| fetal means the child was made to
cough, and to the surprise of all present
expelled a large grain of parched maize.
With each respiration the grain of corn
traversed the full length of the trachea
| twice, from bronchial tubes to epiglot-
tbs and, keeping up constant irrita-
ton. The child, which is only II
months old is doing well, and hopes are
entertained of its recovery. The babe
evidently swallowed the kernel of corn
while playing on the floor about two
months ago, when the irritation was
| first noticed.
WHILE engaged at the Gottfried oil
well, four miles north of Upper San
dusky, S. T. Bechtel, leading resident
of that place, and one of the owners of
the well, was struck by wrench and
sustained a fractured skull. 1t is feared
his injuries are fatal.
THE infant child of Mr. and Mrs.
John Herring, of Upper Sandusky, was
fearfully burned the other morning by
spilling a cup of steaming hot coffee
upon itself
THE Miners National Convention, in
Columbus the other day, spent the fore
noon in considering the screen question,
and it was decided the scale should be
fixed on the basis of weighing after
screening, and that the several districts
have the power to adjust the differ
ences resulting, and arranging a com
parative scale on the basis of the run of
the mine.
AMONG the recent decisions of the
Supreme Court was one affirming the
findings of the lower court in awarding
to Mrs. Sarah O'Brien $3.50 damages
against the Columbus and Toledo rail
road for the killing of her husband at
Fostoria on the 18th of February, 1881.
The peculiar feature of this case is that
it has been in litigation for ten years,
having been tried four times in the com
mon pleas court and been heard once
in the district court, once in the circuit
court and twice in the Supreme Court.
MRS. JANE e. BLAZER, widow of DIR.
j. A. BLAZER, late prominent physi-
clan of Columbus, fell the other even
ing from a second-story window, at the
residence of her son-in-law, Charles E..
| Rome brake editor of the Sunday Har-