The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-12-17
OHIO STATE NEWS.

yard conductor at Mansfield, wal
crushed to death by falling under the
cars.
LIMA has an epidemic of diphtheris
and several sporadic cases of scarlet
fever.
PHILIP HAUs, serving twelve-yeai
sentence at Columbus for manslaugh-
ter in Scioto county, has been parolcd.
DEN1soN UNIVERSITY students are
preparing to erect u large Y. M. c. A
building at Newark.
ELLSWORTH w. FEIeBY was indicted
by the United States grand jury at Co.
lumbus for sending obscene matter
through the mails
MORGAN LEE, aged AZ, a prosperous
farmer near Chase, Athens county, was
thrown from horse, which kicked him
over the left eye, fracturing his skull.
He died the other afternoon.
SYLVESTER SANDS, quiet, well-re'
spected young man of 20 living with
his parents at Carroll, Fairfield county
shot himself the other evening, dying
instantly.
REV. JOHN WILSON SIMPSON, ID. D.,
the fifth president of Marietta college,
was inaugurated the other day.
SCARLET FEVER has appeared in Coal
ton.
AT Canton, Mike McGinn, a lineman,
was working on n pole with a rope
dangling from his shoulders to the
ground. A cab came along, became en-
tangled in the rope and McGinn was
jerlied from the pole to the ground,
dashing his brains out.
JoHNs UNpERDowN, of Weston, fol-
lowed Dick Orles, feather renovator,
who had called to see his wife, and
stabbed him six times with dirk
knife The mans body rolled down a
bank, where it was found by the
coroner. Underdown gave himself up.
Mrs. CuAs. BENNER; of Oak street,
Columbus, died of asthma, while her
daughter, Cora, played Nearer My
God, to Thee by request
JUDGE H. l.. SrBLEY, of Marietta,
decided the other day that the civil
rights law was unconstitutional as far
as barber shops were concerned.
THIEVES who stole Mr.. Kochl's tur-
keys at Jcromevlle, dropped a pocket
DCOK COnldlllluB SOU anu u 'lOO hCOS'
but have not called again.
CHARLES EBEIGHT, an eX-convict just
released from the penitentiary, was
found at Columbus with a lot of stolen
clothes in his possession by Patrolman
Potter. Ebright attempted to shoot
and was maced so badly that he nearly
died at the city prison. He is still in a
dangerous condition.
LAWYER CHARLES MANER married
May Young at Poland, but before he
had the knot tied he caused the arrest
of Lucy Dalzell, who wanted to shoot
him because of an alleged promise to
marry her
Mrs. SIDNEY A. WILLIAMS, mother OF
Deputy United States Marshal Williams,
of Cincinnati, and eX-Fire Chief j. M.
Williams, died at Portsmouth. She was
eighty-four, and was the first girl baby
born in Portsmouth.
IN Fairmount Cemetery, Jackson,
workmen dug up mass of hibernating
snakes while making grave.
THE will of William Mckinley, ST.,
father of Gov. Mckinley, has been filed
for probate. He leaves all his property,
of whatsoever nature, to his daughter,
Miss Helen Mckinley, whom he names
as administrators. His estate is valued
at about 100000.
THE state dental association the 9th
er morning selected the following ex-
ecutive: C. E. Miles, Columbus, chair
man; w. H. Todd, Columbus; L. Bethel,
Kent; w. II. Whistler, Cleveland; j. r.
Callahan, Cincinnati; l.. Il. Custar, Day
ton.
THE state dental society elected the
following officers the other evening:
President, George j. Wilson, Cleveland;
first vice president, Charles Welch, Will
mington, second vice president, w. H.
Todd, Columbus; secretary, L. b. Bethel,
Kent; assistant secretary Henry Barnes,
Cleveland.
WHEELER COLLINS assaulted Lemuel
Clayson in Springfield with a club, when
the latter fractured his skull with a
monkey-wrench.
AT Newark, Dan Shanahan, aged IS,
died from lock-jaw, caused by rusty
nail wound.
FIRE in the Beaumont e. Blanken-
buller mills, GAINESVILLE, did $50, 0OC
worth of damage.
THE. governor has pardoned Henry
Guenther, sent from Montgomery coun.
ty on a twelve-year sentence for man
slaughter. He killed his wife, with
whom he had lived unhappily and whom
he charged with infdelity. Guenther
is expected to die at any moment.
MASKED men tried unsuccessfully to
hold up S. G. Houcl, station agent al
Durbin, near Springfield.
EX-CHIEF OF POLICE FREEMAN, of Day,
ton, has married Maggie May Morrison.
Freeman was divorced from his wife
just week before.
AT Chillicothe, the trial of Lettie
McGloglin, aged 49, who was under an
Indictment for murder in the first de-
gree, came to an end, the jury bringing
in verdict of not guilty. 1t was al.
legged that she threw her illegitimate
child into the canal early on the morn
ing of July 23. The trial was under
progress eight days, and attracted a
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