The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-04-18
OHIO STATE NEWS.

has been bought by a local company
from the bondholders in New York
Clarke Rude, of Sandusky, is the heav-
lest stockholder.
PERRY E. WEYGRANDT, aged 2S years,
school-teachcr of Marshallvillc, sui
cided by shooting himself in the fore
head. He lived an hour after commit
ting the deed. No cause known.
NEAR Spencerville two-year-old
child of r. Winters was perhaps fatally
hurt by being struck on the head by q
dat-iron, which fell from an ironing
board.
A PARTY of capitalists at Youngstown
will organize a company, with capital
of S400, 900, TO build plant for the man
ufacture of sheet-iron lath, to take the
place of wooden lath in the construc-
tion of buildings.
THERE is n proposition to consolidate
the Hooking Valley Coal and Iron Co.
and the Ohio and Western Coal Co.,
and capitalize the new company at So
10000
FIRE destroyed the Cincinnati Union
Stock-yards the other night. 1t burned
over ten acres of shielded ground, and
the loss is put at $4,000.
w. II. ATKINSON, brakeman on the
Muskingum Valley railway, had hand
crushed so badly at Trinway as to rem
der amputation necessary.
A SPECIAL election for local option
was held in jackson township, Shelby
county, the other day. The vote cast
was precisely that cast for governor
3S9-and was as follows: Montra, ''wet,"
S3; dry" 81; jackson Center, ''wet,"
81; dry" 1Gs. Dry majority, Ill.
AARON HOLMES, aged about thirty
years, a conductor, in the railroad yards
at Alliance, while engaged in uncoupling
his engine from some cars while in mo-
tion, was caught between the bumpers
and crushed so badly that death ensued
an hour later. He leaves a wife and in
FAINT in poor circumstances.
A MAD dog scare of large proportions
prevails at Clifton, nine miles from
Springfield. A hound belonging to
Chas. Speaks, went mad and bit num-
Der of dogs and cattle. Another mad
dog swept into Yellow Springs the 9TH
er day, and bit lady named Mrs. Nc
Laren and also Chas. Knott severely on
the hand. Sixteen dogs have been kill
ed at Clifton within a week, and every
canine without an owner has been kill
ed on sight. An actual reign of terror
exists there, and there is no telling how
many dogs, cattle and horses have been
noculated with maddening poison.
@. S. HUNTER, a justice of the peace
of the northern part of Richland coun-
ty, stopped at the Grand Central hotel,
Mansfield, the other night and was dis
covered next morning nearly asphyxiat-
ed by gas He did not recover con-
sciousness until the evening.
ELsY SIEBERT, aged thirty-seven, un-
married, living near Ontario, Richland
county, attempted to throw the belt
from a saw-mill with his foot and was
caught in the belt and hurled with ter
rife force against pile of lumber,
nearly every bone in one side of hi.
body being broken. He died in an hour.
THE state assembly of daughters of
Rebekah closed two-days' session at
Akron the other day by the election OF
the following officers: President, S.
Ollie Schuler, New Dover; vice presi.
dent, Frances King, East Liverpooli
secretary, Jennie Groby, Miamisburg;
warden, Ida Thomas, Ironton; inside
guardian, Rella Wilson, Dublin, and
chaplain, Helen Bishop, Worthington.
The next annual meeting will be held
at Lima.
WIN. BALES, who murdered Policeman
Harper at Kenton, several nights ago,
was taken from Jail by mob of about
fifty men at 2 o'clock the other morn
ing, and hung to maple tree near by.
The mob gained entrance to the jail by
breaking down the door, which awak.
ened Sheriff Neville, who rushed down
stairs with his revolver. A dozen men
met him at the foot of the stairs and
thrust four revolvers in his face, de-
manding the Jail keys, saying they
wanted to get Bales and hang him. The
sheriff refused to get the keys, not hav.
ing them with him. They found them
in an adjoining room, opened the jail
doors, got Bales and gave him time tc
put on his pants and pair of slippers
took him out and hung him to the maple
tree on Wayne street, near North street
about fifty yards from the Jail.
AT a special meeting of the state
board of public works the following
resolution, offered by Mr.. Hahn, was
unanimously adopted: Whereas, Com
plants have been made to the board o.
public works that the waste weir a
the southwest corner of Mercer county
reservoir is insufficient to carry off the
surplus water, and thereby crops arr
being damaged in the vicinity; re
solved, that the acting commissioner
Hon. f. j. McColloch, be hereby in
structed to proceed forthwith to in
crease the wastage by lengthening tn,
waste weir and also by placing in sucl
devices as will enable the state to lowe
the surface of the water to a point be
low the present elevation of the vast,
weir and also to take such steps as ar,
necessary to ascertain the damag
caused by the present overflow"
THEODORE WHITMAN, a fifteen-year
old lad, was fatally injured in the Bair'
Mine, near Doylestown, the other after
noon.
The GAINESVILLE Gas Co. has reduce,
the price from S1.25 to $1.20 a thousand
BELLEFoNTAINE democrats will con
test the election of the republican coun
Gilman in Ward 8.
MRS. WM. RUSSELL, wife of a New
tonville farmer, committed suicide b.
hanging. She had long been in i'll
health.
The democrats have a majority @
two in the council of Findlay for tn