The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-04-16
ONO STATE NEWS.

RAILROAD COMMISSIONER KIRKLY has
appointed Ed Archer, of Noble county,
his chief clerk, and Jesse Werlich, OF
Seneca county, steBographer.
A CASE in which Gov. Mckinley is
one of she defendants, was filed in the
supreme court the other morning. II
comes from Stark county, and beside
the governor, the Rollstone national
bank sues NJ. G. Barber and q. d. Sax
ton who, together with the governor,
were executors of the will of James A.
Saxton, deceased; Angus Mcdonald,
Alexander Laughlin and Mcdonald e.
Co. The suit grows out of n note given
Mcdonald S Co. for 81, 600 to james A..
SaRton in his life time, and which has
been sold to the bank The governor is
sued, of course, i'm his capacity as ex
ecutor.
THE resignation Of r. X. Paige as
trustee OF the cleveland asylum for the
insane, was rendered and accepted by
the governor few days ago. Paige is
the Painesville bank president
The governor few days ago appoint
King, NJ. d., of Dayton. and A. B. Rich
ardson, of Cincinnati. to locate the new
insane asylum.
EDMUND BAUER, OF McConnellsville,
has been sued by the United States for
importing gardener in violation of the
contract labor law.
WESLEY WILKERMAN, Louis Sanders
and John Hattinger are held at Newark
for burglary.
THE Fourth district republican con-
,vention will be held at Lima. May 4.
HERBERT STUCKEY, of Paris, mistook
jug of concentrated lye for cider and
was fatally burned.
JOHN MYERS heirs are claiming all
the land upon which the town of NAL
vern, Stark county, is built.
THE crop bulletin of the state board
of agriculture just issued estimates the
wheat crop of this year at 1000, 900
bushels, an increase over last year of
100000 bushels. The barley yield ia
estimated at rs per cent. of last year IS
crop; rye at 10 per cent: corn at s5 per
cent. and fruit at "a per cent.
SAFE-DLowERs cracked the safes in f.
Heslop & Sons coal office in the Bellaire
Stove Co Office the other night, com
for their trouble. They also stole a
typewriter and clock from the latter
Office.
ALBEIT HOLMES was cut 10 pieces by
cars at Steubenville.
KSEBLER's brewery at SanduslIy was
burned.
E. PADGET is arrested at Washington
G. H. for selling land which he never
owned.
JOSEPH CoEAR, of Norwich town
ship, near Columbus, is mysteIiously
missing.
AT Canton, the other afternoon, John
McCurdy, a plasterer, aged thirtv-five
years, shot and killed his employer, l..
7. Waltenbaugh. He made similar
but unsuccessful attempt on his wife
and then blew out his own brains Nc
Curdy had charged his wife frequently
with infidelity. Lately he became de-
spondent and imagined that Walten-
baugh SO placed his work that he could
not interfere with their intrigue. In
stead of going to work after dinner he
hid near the house, and saw his en-
ployer enter In few moments,
with a 32-caliber revolver in his hand,
he crept to the cottage bedroom win
dow. Hearing a voice inside, he broke
in light and fired. He then ran to the
front door and shot down Waltenbaugh,
who was escaping. Turning, the in
furiated man pursued his fleeing wife
and fired at her twice, striking her in
the head, before neighbors interfered.
Being satisfied with his work he re-
turned to his yard, and by shot in the
temple ended his existence. Mrs. Nc
Curdy up to last report was living and
perfectly conscious. Waltenbaugh stood
high and leaves wife and five children,
| two adults.
THE verdict in the Woolweaver case
at Macarthur was manslaughter.
w. NICK VANCE has been elected SUI
perintendent of the Urbana schools.
A HEAVY hail storm at st. Clairsville
destroyed considerable property.
THE c., A g. C. depot, at Millersburg,
was burned.
MEs. CHARLES IsHAM, of Ada, took a
dose of strychnine by mistake and died.
ANNIE RoUsH, died at Gallipolis at 1O5
years.
| n WOMAN Haueu bTeen Sulclueu dJ
| East Liverpool.
JACOB HELTY, the defaulting Treas
urer of Lima, was fined 81 ,400-double
the amount of his shortage-and given
one year in the pen.
GEORGE DAVIS, colored, died at Co
lumbus from severe burns.
THE village of North jackson, Ma
honing county, was visited by the most
destructive fire in its history. The fire
originated in the building occupied by
Jesse Smith. The flames spread rapid
ly, and in a few minutes the following
business places were a mass of ruins:
b. Z. Phillips, druggist and jewelry
store; the building occupied by the
postoffice and owned by S. ID. Mowery;
barn belonging to Jesse Smith. Ed
FoullI's dry goods store was badly dam
aged. The aggregate loss is $16, 900 and
total insurance $500. The only fire
apparatus the town afforded had been
taken to the country several days ago,
and the fire was only checked by the
most strenuous efforts on the part OF
the citizens with pals.
GEORGE CoNsER, wealthy citizen OF
Salem, aged 73, committed suicide by
shooting himself with revolver, pur-
chased for that purpose, causing death
almost instantly. He had been in i'll.
health and despondent for some time.
He took poison week ago, but was dis.