The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-08
OHIO STATE NEWS.

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other night He had been TO the Can
ton fair.
WORK has been commenced on the
proposed new electric belt railway to
extend from Hamden to Coalton, dis.
tance of eight miles. 1t is estimated
that the new route will cost $500, 900.
A PIGEON belonging to VIM. G. Brown,
719 Delaware street, Columbus, Travelled
from Union City to Columbus, 100 miles,
in three hours, and won for its owner a
gold badge offered by the North End
Homing club.
VIM NoELs fell thirty feet from a
building at Kenton, breaking both legs
and injuring himself internally.
A PHEASANT flew through the win
dow, breaking the glass into atoms, in
A. Dobbins' house, Bellefontaine. 1t
was captured alive in the dining room
by Officer Brock Laport. A large fox
squirrel was shot in the shade trees In
front of Gen. r. p. Kennedy's residence,
and quails are piping in the courthouse
yard.
AT Pomeroy, Van Spence got fifteen
years for brutal assault. This is his
third term.
ktTT1E SELLS went to bed at Colum-
bus smoking cigarette. She may re.
cover from her burns
AT Columbus. George Spencer beat
his delicate wife with hod, injuring
her head so badly that she is now raw
ing maniac.
HENRY H. EDWARDS, while beating
his way from a northern point on the
Lake Erie division of the b. and o. rail
road, to Newark on a passenger train,
met with terrible death. When near
Utica the attention of Brakeman Coyle
was attracted by an unusual noise as if
something was loose under the sleeping
car. He gave warning signal and the
train was stopped, when the mutilated
remains of Edwards We're found dang
ling from the rear truck of the sleeper.
Life was wholly extinct. The horror
expressed by Brakeman Coyle can
hardly be described when he found that
the fearfully crushed body before him
was that of his brother-in-law.
A ROW of three ice houses at Sandusky
was destroyed by fire. The owners were
Alex. Motry, whose loss is estimated at
$4,000; eager, Lyman &c Moss, loss,
$4,000. Epply &c Zimmerman, loss,
$500.
PETER GALLAGHER, a wealthy farmer
of Western Muslsingum, was fatally in
jured. While narrowing, his team be-
came frightened and ran away, catch
ing the unfortunate man under the har-
row, dragging him considerable dis
tance.
ADJT. GEN. PoCocK has received the
resignation of George Dunn as second
lieutenant of Company B, Eighth in
fantry, at Akron.
WHILE Willie, aged ten, son of Cas-
sing Steiner, living west of Button,
was picking apples, limb broke, pre-
cipitating him onto picket fence. Two
of the picllets entered his abdomen, and
the child hung on the picket several
minutes. When taken off his bowels
were exposed to view. He is fatally in
jured.
Mrs. MCDOWELL, OF Columbus. sister
in-law of the late Gen. Irwin Mellow
ell, is mysteriously missing.
AT Mansfield, injunction proceedings
have been instituted to restrain the
city council, mayor and city clerk
from issuing the S25, 900 voted to Law
renee Rust and II. n. Hills as bonus
for locating there boys training school
similar to Kenyon military academy at
Gambler, of which those gentlemen are
regents.
ERNEST CROFT, IS, at Gallipolis tied
mules tail to his arm. The mule be-
came frightened and dragged the boy
five miles, killing him.
GRANT Boone, colored, was fatally
injured by the premature discharge of
daynamite while at work in the Lotus
iron-ore mines, Coalton, the other day.
THE general store of J. Maudru &
| Sons, at MaXimo, five miles west OF
| Alliance, was entered by thieves the
other night, who carried off $500 worth
of jewelry, cutlery and clothing. Sus-
| picion rests on two men who were seen
entering Alliance at an early hour the
| other morning carrying large bundles.
A reward is offered by the firm for the
capture of the thieves
De. ToDALAY VEERANAGAvA, a ma
| tive of East India; and n student in the
| Wooster university, is threatened with
expulsion by the faculty if he does not
cease his liberal advertising of being
able to cure all diseases.
WILLIAM LYONS, a colored prisoner
from Belmont county, cut 10 gashes in
| himself, and tried hanging twice, but
still lives.
A CRAP game was discovered in the
penitentiary hospital.
JOHN STIzER was crushed by falling
slate in the Franklin mine, Coalton.
BERTHA ROSE, of Haverhill, n school
teacher, was drowned in the presence
of her scholars.
AT West Liberty j. II. Wright, aged
27, was put off a passenger train and
was struck by freight, dying an hour
later
SEVERAL pear trees are in bloom at
Bellefontaine,
REV. j. +. HALL, who was recently
bound over to the common pleas court
at Van Vert, on "a charge of stealing a
horse, has been tried by a court of in
quiry of the church. composed of three
local preachers, and acquitted of the
charge, so far as the church is concern
ed, The verdict of the church court
meets with popular approval.
MRs. SARAH SNYDER, AN aged lady OF
the South Side, Columbus, asked her
husband to raise the window and let in
some fresh air. While complying with
the request he heard fall behind him,