The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-10-24
OHIO STATE NEWS.

Cincinnati and was well-known there.
lie died of old age, being in his ssth
year
BY the will of Miranda Jones, late OF
NorwallS, her estate of $4,000 is 70 be
equally divided between the Missionary
society of the NJ. j.. church and the
Board Church Extension of the M. ".
church, the latter portion TO be added
to the Jones Loan Fund established
by her husband, Rev. Joseph Jones.
TIE NorwallS savings bank has
been incorporated with capital OF
500 O0O
LIZZIE MASSEY of GAINESVILLE, put the
muzzle of shotgun in her mouth and
pulled the trigger with stick She
blew the upper part Of her head off
THE president has appointed Uriah
NJ. Eclthart postmaster at Monroe
Vile, that Office having become presi-
Dental.
ASHLAND has about 100 cases Of scar
let fever
A NATURAL gas famine in Ohio is
feared
FosToRIA will have new 10-pot win
dow-glass factory
FouRTH.cLAss postmasters will soon
hold u state convention at Columbus.
THE forged check racket has been
played on several Dayton merchants.
ABOUT FIVE miles of the new Snndus-
XIV and Columbus Short Line has been
graded.
AT boarding house kept by her
mother, Annie Lacy, q young colored
girl but IS years of age, at Canton, was
shot and killed by Charles Hawkins,
boarder Hawkins then shot himself in
the head dying in a short time after
ward. The cause of the shooting is un-
known.
THE grand centennial celebration of
the battle of St Clair closed on the 10th,
and the expectations of the Monument
al association have been realized fully.
Great crowds of people have assembled
each day to pay homage to the dead
heroes. Fully 10. 600 people assembled
on the last day on the old battle-ground
of Ft. Recovery to witness the sad rites
of placing the remains of the dead he
roes in their third and last resting
| place
j. HOMER WADE, JR., of Cleveland,
has given land to the value of $25, 900,
near the park bearing his name, to the
Woman's College of Western Reserve
university. The new buildings are rap
| idly progressing
HARLEM CRoNKLEToN, while work.
ing in gravel pit near Radnor, Della
ware county, had q leg badly crushed
by heavy mass of earth and stones
falling upon it. A companion named
Price, was also struck by the falling
mass and slightly injured
THE c., d. g. l. machine shops, at Day
ton, were burned. Loss $1,000.
AT the third days session of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Medical association at
st. Louis, it was decided to hold the
next meeting at Cincinnati in October,
1892.
AN unusually large number of cases
were acted upon favorably by the board
of pardons at the quarterly session ter
minating few days ago. Six murder
ers and three other prisoners were rec
commended for clemency by the board.
A PECULIAR disease is raging among
cattle in Mercer county, which resem-
bles epizootic apatha, a contagious dis
ease hitherto unknown in this country.
Scores of cows are afflicted and several
fatal cases have been reported.
VERY strange death occurred at
Kent, few days ago. A week before,
Thomas Smith, native of Ireland was
taken i'll with typhoid and malarial
fever. He was not seriously ill, seem
ingly, and it was expected that he
would be able to be out in few days.
Two days before his death he was
taken with hiccoughs, which kept up
necessarily until his death The at
tending physician had never seen case
of the kind before, and called other
medical men in consultation, but the
case puzzled and baftled medical skill.
Tbs sufferers strength was rapidly
overcome, and death came to his relief
THE state is full of ten-cent theatrical
snaps
HENRY Coon, Of Centerville, died of
lockjaw.
DAYTON is after the Natural Gas Co.
with an order in court to restrain it
from supplying other towns until it's
contract with the city is fulfilled
Two prisoners sawed their way out
of the Elyria Jail by making saws from
the steel shanks in their shoes
A GANG of horse thieves is working
in Licking county.
OHIo's average yield of wheat for this
year was seventeen bushels per acre,
Ed KUHI, at Van Vert, fell from his
wagon and burst his windpipe, dying
almost instantly.
The supreme court the other day rem
dered an important decision in the case
of the Ohio Oil Co. against the state,
brought up on error to the circuit court
of Putnam county, that will serve as
precedent The company was indicted
and fined for polluting the Portage riv-
er with refuse from their refinery and
appealed to the supreme court to test
the law under which the corporation
: was prosecuted and escape the penalty.
The court affirmed the Judgment, and
, thereby sustained the law, establishing
the right to prevent the pollution of
streams in Ohio
THE grand jury has indicted William
, Garfield, the alleged wreclSer of the linn
tied express at East Palestine, for muir
der in the first degree.
MISS ALICE WELSH, aged 81, was
struck by an electric car at Columbus
and instantly killed.
AT n meeting of the shareholders of
the Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern
, railroad, a few days ago, proposition
4 A !.