The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-09-19
OHIO STATE NEWS.

IHB total amount OF money emncH |
sled by David Douglass, OF Youngs
town, will reach $751; He secured
bail, and will probably make partial
settlement.
W. C. AUSTIN, of Geneva. fell h'om
his wheel by a sudden attack of illness,
and the wheel of heavily loaded brick
wagon passed over his shoulders He
may recover
ABOUT $4,000 Ohio farmers raise to-
bacco, and $4,000 acres are used to grow.
the weed.
Mrs. JAY WooD. of Coshocton, has
sued the parents of her husband for
alternating his affections
Mrs. LAURA G.. EDwELL committed
suicide by Jumping from the east bridge
Mt Cardington into the mill-dam. She
was demented, the result of severe
case of la grippe last winter.
THE Forty-ninth o. V. l., Gen. Glib
sons old command, held its annual re-
union, few days ago, at the fair
grounds, near Tiffin, being the thirtieth
anniversary of the departure of the
regiment for the front. There are
about 200 survivors of the regiment
present.
The unveiling of the soldiers monu.
ment erected by the citizens of Scipio
township, Seneca county, in memory OF
the dead heroes of the late war took
place the other afternoon at Republic
under the auspices of the G. A. r. post
of that village. Appropriate addresses
were delivered by Hon. d. d. Hare and
Allen w. Smalley, of Upper SanduslSy.
1t was beautiful day, and fully six
thousand people were present
BRYAN's natural gas well is down
over 2,O25 feet, and gas is looked for
daily.
The Junior o. U. A. NJ, of Wells
vile, have presented American flags to
public schools there. The Catholics
also raised an American flag on the
parochial school
GALLIPoLIs street-cars gather up
about S1GO each week and pay out 3IS
for operating expenses.
THE Canton &c King Co., of Cleveland,
will bid on a 1,0OO-foot bridge for the
Imperial railway of China.
WHILE Isaac Nichols, living near
Cardington, was threshing the other
day he had runaway, dislocating his
shoulder breaking two ribs, leg broken
in two places above the knee and per-
haps internally injured.
WHILE jumping over a fence near
Shawnee, Geo. Rifles gun discharged
and blew off his right hand.
LIZZIE BETscH, aged II, of Columbus,
attempted suicide by taking paris
green. The stomach pump saved her
life.
FARMER Peters killed twenty-four
copperhead snakes in fifteen minutes
near Carrolton few days ago.
AKRON Hebrews have organized So
cial society.
AT Youngstown, contractor VIM.
Holtzworth and force of men were
engaged in erecting masonry for the
outlet of large sewer when derrick
broke, striking Francis Peters, ma
son. on the head, instantly killing him.
THE canal commission found that an
acre of valuable ground in Cleveland
and ten acres in Muskingum county be-
long to the state.
PERRY's victory was celebrated at
Put-in-Bay few days ago. Ex-Presi-
dent Hayes delivered the address.
ALLIANCES free fair will be held Oc-
tober 10.
JACOB III. SHAFFER, a wealthy farmer
of Champion township, Trumbull coun-
ty accompanied by his daughters Ella
and Plunna, was run down by Penn
sylvania Co. express the other morn
l,.,, 90 l,,,I1
county fair. All three were instantly
killed.
BURGLARS entered the store of w.
II. Nees & Son at Uniontown, twelve
miles from Akron, and secured S4, 500
in money and notes the other night,
They entered through window and
blew the safe door out with powder.
Officers have no clue.
THE following post offices will be
raised to the presidential class October
l. Bedford and Salineville.
Browns Run, three miles northwest
of Middletown, boasts of being possess
ed of the smallest living woman, Ella
Ticlxel, daughter of William Tickel. a
well-to-do farmer Miss Ella is now
thirty years of age, having been born
in 1861, at Miamisburg. When born
to grow and develop until three years
of age She is but twenty-eight inches
tall at the present time, and weighs bul
thirty-siX pounds. Her parents are o1
the usual size, and her five brothers
and five sisters, some of them grown tc
manhood and womanhood, are endowed
with all the gifts of nature.
SHELBY county has 634 ex-soldiers.
ST.. CLAIRsvILLE has let 81, 500 con
tract for an electric light plant.
THE other morning Mrs II. M. Pan
cake entered w. r. Cooks saloon, il
| Van Vert, with basket of brick-bat
on her arm. She first accused the pro
prietors son of selling her husband
liquor and demanded the return of SIS
which she said had been spent in thu
place. The young man denied that any
liquor had been sold to Mr. Pancake
whereupon the enraged woman threw
a brick-bat into a fine eight-by
twelve-foot French plate-glass miro
behind the bar, breaking it into thou
sand pieces. Then, going out, sh'
threw two bricks through the larg,
plate glass in the front window ant
sent another one through the door. Al
together the broken glass was wortl
nearly $400.
MRS. CHARLES MYERS poisoned her
self to death at Columbus because o
her husbands abuse of her.
HENRY WEBSTER, colored, was sho
and killed at Columbus by Patrolmal