The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-15
OHIO STATE NEWS.

of the olden time, the note of remotest
date being n dollar bill issued by the
Farmers and Mechanics bank of Chilli.
cothe, o., of date May 4, 1916, and the
notes of most recent date being issues
of the Bank of Marietta, in 1886. A
silver dollar contained in this pocket
book is of the coinage of 1926.
HEAVY frost in the Licking valley the
other night
JAS. MCCAIN, of Northampton, was
killed the other morning shortly before
noon at the Big Four crossing at
Isabella street by the Big -Four express.
THE penitentiary will be done in
model at the Worlds fair. Plans of the
drainage, etc, will also be shown.
HARRY SWEET and Frank Jones, aged
10 and 13, were sent to the Reform
farm for burglary from Newark.
PETE Trey, Montgomery county
convict attempted suicide by setting
his clothing on fire.
GEORGE BURKE, one of TIE worst all
around crooks ia the country died at
the penitentiary.
DIR. A. II. OLIVER has accused Dr.
Howell before the Central Ohio Medical
society with plagiarism.
WILLIAM Il. SLAGLE has been arrested
charged with firing his house in order
to secure the insurance at Marietta.
THE Women's Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Society of Miami Synod at
Springfield, elected the following off
GERS for the ensuing year: President
Mrs. DIR. j. L. Shaffer, Delaware; vice
president, Mrs. Louis Morris, Cincin-
natl; recording secretary, Miss Emma
Meyer, Cincinnati; corresponding secre-
tary, Miss Hattie Mitchell, Tippecanoe
City; treasurer, Mrs. Fanny c. Reeves,
Dayton; delegate to general convention
at Omaha, next June, Mrs. DR.. Shaffer,
Delaware; alternate, Mrs. Sarah Pope,
Dayton.
MEssRs. r. NJ. RowND and Daniel
IIartnett of the State Land commits
sion, returned to Columbus the other
day from Napoleon, where they had
gone to investigate several claims of the
state to land now in possession of pri-
vate citizens. Ex-senator Ryan occu-
pies observation-disclosures tract, and adj
mits it belongs to the state, but thinks
the commission places an eXtortionate
valuation on it. The commission was
unable to effect an agreement with the
ex-senator, and the land will probably
be sold to the highest bidder.
The public schools, by order of the
baard of education, at st. Clairsville,
the county seat of Belmont county,
have been closed, caused by scourge
of scarlet fever which is prevailing in
that town. The schools have an en-
rollment of over 1000 scholars.
THE Fostoria gas trustees drilled a
well on the Hardinger farm, west of
town, which turned out to be a gushing
oil we'll 1t flowed eight hundred bar
rels of oil, and is still discharging at
the same rate. The well was drilled in
what was supposed to be good gas ter
ritory.
JAMES KELLY, porter at the Powell
house, Colum bus, fell down stairs the
other night and died from his injuries.
STATE Dairy and Food Commissioner
McNeal has received report from state
chemist Webber of the latter's analysis
of some coffee taken from the stock OF
an Athens dealer DIR. Webber finds
that there is no coffee whatever in the
product, but that il is manufactured of
flour and other authorizations. 1t is Ia
beled Sunshine Coffee put up in gor-
geouly printed wrappings, and sold at
thirty cents pound.
JOHN e. TREsTLE, the Cleveland, Can
ton and Southern railroad conductor,
who had his legs take off by falling un-
der train at Canton, died of his in
juries after terrible suffering.
HENRY FUNK, awatchman, was killed
at Coalton, while driving a COW from a
railroad track.
The police the other afternoon ar.
rested Bert Comfy on the charge OF
highway robbery, he having been iden-
titled by several parties as one of the
men who knocked down and robbed a
colored man named VIM. Hopewell, in
the rear of saloon in the outskirts o1
Findlay, several nights ago. Thos.
Marsh, who was also identified as one
of the parties, has made his escape from
the city.
THE body of Jacob Glass, of Duflield,
was found horribly mangled by the
cars near Kent He was partially de.
mented and had started for the doctor.
WALTER FoRsYTH, aged 8, the boy
burglar, broke Jail at Massillon by the
aid of poker and the slight neglect on
the part of the jailer who forgot to lock
the door.
ALLIANCE is on boom. Over two
hundred houses are needed to supply the
demand.
DEATH released the spirit of Charles
jenkins, United States counterfeiter
from its earthly prison while his body
was yet behind the bars of the peniten'
tiary.
PROF. ORION, the eminent geologist
says that Ohio's supply of natural gas
and coal is running short.
CARRIE ELLIS, walking near a lonely
wood near Youngstown, was seized by
| two men, but she screamed and rescuers
showed up in time to save her honor.
SAMUEL BAKER, coal digger, aged
so and married, while under the influ,
| ence of liquor, shot himself in the left
leg just above the knee, at Ironton
The leg will have to be amputated.
STEPHEN Roy died in terrible agony
at Glen Roy of blood poisoning, the re
suit of jump from a moving train two
weeks ago He had just been married
| three weeks
ANDRUs EsTERLE, well-known resi-
| dent of Upper Sandusky, was fouuC
dead in the grass near the wagon bridge
east of town the other morning. His