The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-05-28
OHIO STATE NEWS.


detective agency bunl<o game.
JOIN Bowen, of Akron, was crushed
TO death under an s0O-pound casting. 4
Miss IDA BEEBE was struck by light"
ming at Mt. Gilead.
JACoB HARVEY, the condemned Day"
ton murderer, wrote the governor,
pleading for mercy.
CHRIS. SILKINs, u boiler cleaner fell
only five feet out OF u cab Of big Four
engine, at Springfield, the other morn
ing, and was instantly killed breaking
his neck
MARSHAL JONES fred several shots at
man supposed TO have been one OF
three who robbed u Big -Four freight
car of fifty dollars worth of goods at
Franklin, the other morning. 1t is
thought the man was shot i'm the arm,
but he escaped.
JAMES ARTAIAN foreman of the Erie
night switching gang, fell fron the top
of a freight car at Gallon. He struck
the rail, his neck was broken and his
head horribly crushed. He was aged
twenty years and resided in Gallon.
DALTON is invaded by a gang OF
tramps who nightly burglariAe the more
prctentlouS residences.
THE Lima national bank will prob
ably pay all claims in full.
Four horses were burned 20 death in
Isaac Roebucll's barn at Huntsville.
THE barn of Samuel Iuskins at Mar
tins Ferry, was burned with three
horses.
VAN Loon, the condemned murderer
and bank robbcr, wrote a letter to Gov.
Mckinley asking that he be nailed to o
cross as a test of his innocence.
The body of Jennie Sutton, of Bell
aire, who suicided in the river because
her love was not rcciprocatcd, was
found.
CLoTELLE, Springfield colored girl
who was stoned by two boys some time
ago, died from the injuries received.
FNDLAY will vote on the question Of
issuing 500, 900 bonds to secure new fac"
tories.
CHARLES NEwMAN's two hands were
blown off at Portsmouth while he was
fooling with a shotgun.
Two Feesburg farmers were poisoned
by handling fertilizer
STEPHEN CLEvNzER, living near Spring.
boro, has hog with one head and two
bodies.
HocKING VALLEY miners and owners
have agreed to settle all future troubles
by arbitration.
JOHN HAMLToN,a "a colored insane man.
at Chillicothe, imagines himself a loco
motive.
MARY GUTHRTDGE, aged 90, died at Do
Graft.
The large barn belonging to Isaac
RoebucR, six miles north of Huntsville,
was burned the other night. great
effort was made to save the contents,
but it was unavailing. Four work
horses, lot of grain, hay, etc. were
burned, entailing IL loss estimated at
$4,000. 1t is thought that the fire was Of
incendiary origin.
THE efforts to secure pardon for
Herman Peter, serving a life sentence
in the penitentiary from Fairfield coun-
ty, is meeting with considerable oppo-
sition. Several citizens of Lancaster,
including the prosecuting attorney, have
protested to the governor against Pc
ters' application for clemcncy.
The funeral services over the remains
Of State Librarian Tuthill were con-
Quoted at his late residence in Lam
caster, the other morning, by Rev.
Mechling. The remains were placed in
a vault The state house officials sent
handsome horat offerings. A number
of the state officials and friends from a
distance attended the obscquies.
GEORGE w. LAsHLEY, a Mead town
ship farmer, near Bellairc, made an as
signment to Geo. Arnold. Liabilities
about $4,000; assets probably 5000.
ELRoY CHALFANr and Emma Hutton
eloped from GAINESVILLE and were mar
ried on the train.
SPRINGFIELD's B.P.A. has granted the
street railroad company a franchise for
an electric road.
The sheriff of Richland county took a
prisoner TO the penitentiary and when
the pen was reached the prisoner was
boiling drunk.
CLINTON E. VIoToR was killed by the
cars at Columbus
SEVERAL Columbus children were
poisoned from bananas.
A DESPERATE effort was made by four
prisoners to escape from the pen by
means Of false keys, but the plot was
discovered in time.
A MAD dog bit number of hogs near
Hicksville. The hogs are now suffering
with hydrophobia.
EX-WARDEN DYER has received letter
from Amos M. Ins1eep, an ex-convict
who was received at the penitentiary Z
from Union county in 1880, on life
sentence, which was committed to six
teen years by Gov. Campbell. Inslleep
was released from the pcnitentiary
January 6, 1902, on condition that he
leave the state, never to return He
has since lived with his sister, at Mil
ford, Iroquois county, III. He threatens
in his letter to come to Ohio and kill
EX-Govs. Foster. Hoadley and Foraker.
He was particularly bitter against the
latter and would kill him sure.
AT Springfield cat belonging to j.
c. Forrest, widely known as national
president of the Car Repairers' associa-
tior, gave birth To three kittens, all
joined together, la Siamesc twins.
They are alive and healthy,
VAN Looms wife assisted him in the
annex and broke down when she saw
her husband behind the bars.
WHILE playing on the railroad track at
Youngstown, Il two-year-old son of John
Frank was struck by Pennsylvania
passenger train and cut TO pieces in
sight of his mother, who is insane from
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