The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-19
OHIO STATE NEWS.


over 5000 acres of swamp lands the
past year.
MARION Methodists will dedicate a
$40, 900 church December "a.
MARION is in the throes of raising
S@5, 900 for carpet sweeper factory.
HARRY HERR1Ne, of Mansfield, in-
dicted for passing counterfeit money,
was acquitted at Wooster.
CLEvELAND's lake ore shipping is fall
ing off.
Hon. M. K. GAM, so, of Troy dis
trict, is the youngest member in con-
gress.
SAM BoosE, of Lima, was found guilty
of forgery, having used his brothers
name.
ANTHoNI's brewery at Delaware was
closed by the sheriff.
MAJ. WATSON, secretary of the Day
ton soldiers home, died of Bright's
disease.
A. b. MCCAsHROS, a painter, fell
from the roof of a school house at Mid
dleton, and was killed.
THE following Ohio postmasters were
appointed recently: NJ. Archer, vice j.
M. Vaughn, removed, Enoch Noble
county; S. Roberts, vice p. A. Pedicord,
resigned Meigsville, Morgan county; J.
McFadden, vice p. Bishop, removed,
Ogden, Clinton county.
Mrs. HoRNADAY, two sons and
daughter, of West Elliton, Preble coun-
ty died of typhoid fever.
Mrs. MARY HoLLINGswo RrH got a
so, 900 verdict at GAINESVILLE against the
Cincinnati * Muskingum Railroad Co.
Her husband was killed on the road a
year ago.
STARK county farmers are up in arms
over the depredations being committed
by hunters. Several days ago the farm
ers of Tuscarawas township decided
upon arresting all trespassers, and the
petition was being signed slowly until
the news of the deliberate shooting of
prominent farmer by hunter be-
came known. Now it looks as if all of
the Stark county farms woul1 be post
ed. The farmer shot was Orlando
Stoner, of Tuscarawas township. He
warned hunter, Daniel Jones, "A miner
of East Greenville against shooting in
his barn-yard. Jones laughed at him,
and continued his shooting, when
Farmer Stoner pushed him from the
premises. Deliberately raising his gun,
Jones shot the farmer in the leg A
tussel ensued, when the second barrel
exploded, but without iniuring the
combatants. Stoner went into the
house to have his wounds dressed when
the trespasser departed Stoner is not
seriously injured
Louis II. KLAYER, alias l.. NJ.
Schuetz, was pardoned out OF the peni-
tentiary by Gov. Campbell The man
was convicted at the January term,
1891, of the common pleas court of
Montgomery county, and sentenced to
two years for grand larceny.
OHIO raised 1000, 900 bushel of pota-
toes this year.
Doc RYAN, the Marion bank robber
will be tried at once.
The other day, in western suburb
OF East Liverpool, known as Jethro, a
young lad named McKenna and girl
named Bowman, neither yet 12 years of
age, engaged in a rough and-tum BILE
fight, during which the girl struck her
antagonist on the head with bowlder,
crushing the skull and producing injur-
les from which he can not recover. His
assailant has not been arrested.
CAPT. JAMES l.. BoTsFoRD of the
iron firm of Bonnel, Botsford & Co.,
Youngstown, has been rendered the ap-
pointment of quartermaster-gener
and commissary of subsistence by Gov>
elect Mckinley.
The other afternoon, while crowd
was waiting at the Big Four depot,
Urbana, for the north-bound train, a
bold highway robbery was committed.
A stranger knocked Michael Wagn,G
down and robbed him of forty dollar
Wagner is an old soldier, and had ju.s
received his pension.
SOME time since a woman giving hes
name as Mrs. NJ. j. Miller, claiming to-
| represent a Philadelphia firm, called
upon Mrs. l.. ID. Murray, milliner of
Macarthur, with whom she made a con-
tract to furnish lot of ladies' furnish
| ing goods to be sold on commission.
| The contract was made in duplicate
| and provided that there was 50 to be
advanced to pay expenses of shipping,
which, however, Icy the terms of the
contract, was to be repaid out of pro-
ceeds of the first sales made The con-
tract was awarded to the firm in one of
the VIII House envelopes, and III due
course of time the letter was returned
marked unclaimed" OF course the
whole transaction is bold swindle,
| a-d there are several victims in that
part of the state Mrs. Hooper, of
Zaleski, being among the number, who
were swindled out of 50, The Mrs.
Miller is a middle-aged woman tall and
rather good-looking, and was finely
dressed. She had gray hair and sport
ed bangs.
MARTINS FERRY is overrun with
burglars and foot-pads.
SIDNEY now has a free mail delivery
service.
DAYToN's police force costs the city
S75 900 a year.
CIRCUIT court at New Philadelphia
refused murderer Wherli new trial.
He was sentenced to hang March 4.
THE state board of agriculture issued
a bulletin of crops, which shows the
wheat crop in this state 20 be in very
poor condition. Late sowing is the
cause of the plant being in feeble con-
dition, and the white grub and the
Hessian fly have played havoc with it
BRDGEPoRT is now being supplied
with water from Martins Ferry,
THE large empire livery barn belong
ing to A. C. Marst of West Milton, was
burned about midnight the other night