The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
NEWS ITEMS.

mated for congress by the alliance in
the Fifth Nebraska district.
Philip G.. Wright has accepted the
profcssorship of mathematics in Lom-
bard university, Galesburg, Ill.
Peter Moran, u Homestead striker,
was arrested and committed to Jail
Thursday morning on charge of riot.
Mrs McGufl,., the oldest woman in
Mercer county, is dead at her home in
Bethel. She was in her one hundredth
gears
new steel beam bridge will be built
over the Shenandoah river at IIarpers
Ferry, w. Va. 1t will cost $4,000 and
oe over 600 feet long.
Gov. Brown. of Maryland, has APP
pointed Congressman Page to succeed
the late Judge Irving MS chief-justice of
the First judicial diftrict.
Prof. Williston Walker, of the Hart
ford Theological seminary, has declined
the call to the chair of church history
in Oberlin Theological seminary.
Sporadic cases of cholera have occur
red in Naples Venice and Genoa. The
patients have been isolated and the
public have not become alarmed.
The Sullivan special to New Orleans
left New York at 5:15 Thursday after
noon via Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati
and south by Queen and Crescent route
Chauncey Depew, Mrs. Foster and
Miss Foster and Miss RuslI, daughter of
Jerry Rusk, sailed from London
Wednesday by the the City of Yew
York.
Chairman Taubeneclz has called a
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;nittee of the Peoples party, to be held
at the Richelieu hotel, st. Louis, Sep
tember IL.
During a balloon ascension at the
county fair at Melbourne, w. Va, the
balloon burst when about 100 feet up
and the woman occupant fell and was
seriously injured.
The steamship Clement, which runs
between Liverpool and Hamburg, on
Thursday landed at Falmouth, Eng,
four seamen i'll of cholera. She has
been quarantined.
State School Commissioner Carson
has appointed Prof L. d. Bonebralle,
of Mt. Vernon, o., to succeed Prof W..
j. White, of Dayton, as a member OF
the state board of examiners.
jeff Houser, aged II, of Owen, five
miles south of Marion, o., Friday morn
ing attempted to jump on fast moving
freight train, and, falling underneath,
was literally ground to pieces.
At Reedville, Ind, the headless body
of boy was found near a switch,
where he had been bcheaded by train.
His head could not be found. Con-
ductor Heath discovered the boy.
Cardinal Gibbons Wednesday issued a
proclamation to the clergy and laity of
his archdiocese, calling upon them to
properly celebrate the four-hundredth
anniversary of the discovery of America.
Up to and including the 31st of Au-
gust, the treasury department has
shipped to various points in the United
States $7,000,000 in small notes for the
purpose of facilitating the movement of
the crops.
Near Harrisville, w. Va, tree was
recently cut down which had a
bullet imbedded in it six inches from
the outside. Marks showed the tree
had passed 81 years since the bullet was
shot into it.
Henry Krust, an inmate of the Day.
ton (O.) soldiers home, on visit tc
morning in the rear yard of Henry
Wenke's grocery, Fifth street Cause
of death mystery.
Twenty carrier pigeons, belonging tc
the Pittsburgh Homing club, were re-
leased at Massillon, O., Wednesday
morning and arrived in Pittsburgh il
two hours and sixteen minutes. The
distance is 10 miles.
The American Druggist, of New
York, says: A great many people are
giving themselves unnecessary trouble
about cholera. The disease is only
formidable where inadequate means
exist for graphing with it, and in thi:
country we are fully prepared for it.
The steamship Minnesota, at pier No
49, Philadelphia, was stopped Friday
from unloading by the deputy surveyor
of the port, Mr.. Franklin, on account o.
having 119 bales of rags aboard from
the cholera infected districts of Europe
j. A. Funk, Springfield (O.) deale,
in teas and coffees was secretly al
rested on orders from State Dairy anC
Food Commissioner McNeal and taker
to New Carlisle and fined $50 each il
two cases of selling adulterated coffee
to local dealers.
1t transpired Friday evening tina
$500 fever patients occupy all the bed
usually available in the London hos
pitals for emergencies. About 1,50
beds had been specially arranged for
however, to meet the requirements of
cholera epidemic.
At Williamsport, o., Lloyd Wilkinson
accidentally shot his companion Georg
Harmount, in the face, infiicting an in
jury that will disfgure him for life
The boys were out on n lark, and cam
across an old revolver, with which the.
played COW boy.
John Kolesar murderer awaiting
trial. committed suicide IL Jail at Cleve
land o., by hanging. On November 1
he shot and killed his wife, in her room
at 81 Cross street. Mrs. Kolesar ha
been living in the city for eighteel
months, with her paramour, Paul Web
ber. She deserted her husband in Den
yer and fed to Cleveland Kolesar fol
lowed and killed her
Official figures issued Thursday shoy
that the scarlet fever epidemic that ha
been raging in London for long tim
past shows no signs of abatement
There are in the Metropolitan asylur
and London fever hospitals $3.50 case
of the disease.
Mr.. Goddard, the city editor of th
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