The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-26
OHIO STATE NEWS.

toms post office, and one Of its best
known yorng men, died of diphtheria
after short Illness.
FRED CRuM and L. Il. Price, members
from the Lima band, were caught under
falling tree that was burning, and
both were badly hurt The tree had
been set on FIRE during the democratic
jollification.
A NEW block of twenty-four cells will
be erected at the penitentiary for the
Joliet system OF punishment.
DEXTER AGLER has been appointed
chief clerk in the Office of the super
visor of public printing
MARION CLOUD, of Columbus, was ac-
cidentally shot in the throat while hunt
ing quail and may die.
DlrHIHEmA has broken out in Lum-
berton. There were five cases in one
Nnily and three deaths have occurred.
THE Arlington Heights property of
Murderer Bill Elliot has been sold to
Silvis Casparis, u RAILROAD contractor,
for SO, COO, to pay off mortgage in
CURED during his trial.
JAMES A. PATTERSON entered suit
bSh4ilNI Ah I'LL lOL toOO uAitl
ages for the breaking of his jaw, the
killing of his horse and demolishing his
buggy The street was dug up. His
buggy overturned and the horse ran off.
A BIG corporation was made the 9th.
er day, under the name of The Con-
neaut Terminal Railroad Co., by Sam b.
Dick, of Meadville, Pa; Allen Il. Cox,
of Cincinnati; Thomas M. Wells, of
Youngstown; E. L. Rittman and A. c.
Huidekopcr, of Meadville, Pa. The
capital is S1,G50,000. 1t proposes to
build road from Conneaut to connect
with the Pittsburgh, Shenango & Lake
Erie road where it crosses the Nickle
Plate road, all within Ashtabula county.
A sPIRITUALIsTIC medium recently
visited Alliance and claimed to receive
several messages from the spirit of DR..
Isaac Young, who suddenly left that
place % years ago and was supposed to
be dead DR.. Young has now, however,
returned in the flesh, to the great cha
grin of the spiritualists.
JAKE RAILING, a plasterer, while
working on the new university build
ing at Delaware, slipped and fell sew
eral feet. He clutched a joist with his
hand, which was terribly lacerated by
q sharp nail. He hung with his hand
impaled on this nail until taken down.
Amputation will probably be necessary.
A laborer fell from the same scaffold
few weeks ago and was killed
AT GAINESVILLE during the democratic
jollihcation Clarence Goden, aged IL,
g., 10 s,,i l,,,& H.,
plosion of gas pipe which had been
filled with powder. His right arm was
so badly mangled that amputation was
necessary. Two pieces of the pipe lodged
in the leg and one penetrated the abdo-
men.
CLARKE county official count was
finished the other day and shows fol-
lowing pluralities: Elector Danford
959, other electors 920; Sam Taylor 9lS;
Shearer, circuit judge 600.
JOHN KoKENsPARKER was fatally
poisoned while butchering hogs near
GAINESVILLE by his hand being wounded
by the tusll of one of the animals
MISS JULIA ANDREWS, daughter of a
Youngstown millionaire, will wed S. c.
Bruce, ,seditor of the Turf, Field and
Farm.
IN attempting to walk across the
double track of the Erie at Youngs-
town, the other night, Frank Cook, a
| leading insurance agent, was struck by
one train and thrown under the wheels
of another, killing him instantly. A
wife and two daughters survive him.
The state inspector of workshops
| and factories, w. y. Mcdonald, is pre-
| pairing some fifteen cases to prosecute
Columbus, Sandusl1y and Cleveland
business men, who are delinquent in
erecting fire-escapes, according to his
orders. Ten days will be given then
to build the escapes.
| WARDEN JAMES is desirous of secur-
ing an appropriation to inaugurate the
Joliet system of punishment in the pen
itentiary, and to secure other regula-
tions. To meet this end he is cutting
down expenses, and a large number OF
safeguards on the payroll will be laid
off. They are not needed in the places
they have been filing, and their serv.
ices can be easily dispensed with. The
regular force of guards will not be in
tcrfered with.
JAMES O'CoNNoR, suffering from deli.
rum tremens, cut his throat with q
razor at Columbus.
HENRY SMITH, local preacher oi
Logan. was horribly beaten with q
club by Dave Korbel, half-witted fel.
low.
BURGLARS broke into nine business
| houses at Van Vert the other night
An additional pump will be put in the
Martins Ferry water works, costing
Sl2,S40
JOE STEWART, who was stabbed in the
abdomen at Washington c. II. by MAI
named Josh Taylor, is dead.
Ar Milton some one made villainou:
attempt to murder Mrs George Swanl
with a shotgun. The woman says hel
husband, from whom she has separated
fired the charge.
CHARLEY RAUK, aged 13, of Nortl
Bucyrus, was accidentally shot by hi
own gun while hunting, and died.
AT Gallipolis, two farm hands, james
Bowman and Ike Simmons, quarrelet
about twenty cents Simmons wa'
fatally cut.
AT Bucyrus, Will Steen, while hand
ling revolver, discharged the weapon
was struck in the right eye by the bul
let and died.
CHAs JOHNSON, the young man in th'
county Jail at Delaware, on the charg,
of obtaining money on false pretense
from his sweetheart, Lizzie Pfound, i