The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20
NEWS ITEMS.

lsh Columbian ports.
The Chicago Salvation army has gone
into camp at Lake Bluff.
1t is learned that President Harrison
will not leave Loon lake until abut Sep
temper /.
The schooner Eva Douglas is at quar-
antine, below Port Tampa, Fla, with
nine cases of yellow fever
Several persons have been poisoned
by drinking water from a well at Oak
Park, Del, one of whom is dead.
DR.. w. f. Carver, the famous marks
man, has challenged the editor of the
Denver Republican to mortal combat
For little or no cause Joe Perkins
shot and killed William Coe near
Charleston, w. Va. Perkins escaped.
A child named Triddle, at Moorfeld,
W. Va, was nearly dead when its par
ents discovered a cat sucking its breath.
The Quijoloa mail stage was held up
by lone highwayman. The mail sack
was cut open but nothing of value was
found
West Virginia gets 81, ,33s, 200 from the
government for the Improvement of her
rivers. That state was fifth in the
matter of appropriations.
1t has been asccrtained that the re-
cent war in Honduras had it's origin in
quarrel over woman who had been
wronged by one of the men.
At Port Townsend, Wash, the British
steamer Winifred, recently seized by
the customs officers for violation of the
navigation laws, was fined $780,
At Depere, Wis, the three-hundred-
barrel Merchant flour mill, owned by
John p. Dorsman, burned Wednesday
morning. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
S15.O 900.
The quarantine regulations against
British Columbia ports were raised at
Port Townsend Wednesday, the small
pox having almost entirely disap-
pearcd.
At the Driving park, Knoxville,
Tenn, Wednesday Name Marantett's
high-jurnping pony broke the worlds
record by going four feet eight and II
half inches.
John Showacre, OF st. Mary's, w.
Va, was cleaning well, and let down
a lighted lamp to see. There was an
explosion and Showacre and boy were
badly injured.
While riding bicycle near Wayman
Lane, Me-, Charles Werz reeled and fell
co the road dead. Heart disease, super
induced by the heat and ovcr-eXertion,
was the cause.
John Orvis, socialist labor candidate
for governor of Massachusetts, has de-
clined the nomination owing to i'll
health and lack of unity among the
friends of labor.
In the combined rifle and pistol an
nual competitive drill of the naval ca
diets at the Annapolis naval academy,
Naval Cadet I. c. Roberts, of Alabama.
won the first prize for craftsmanship.
South Dakota will this year be the
banner wheat state of the union. Her
yield is placed by experts at from so,
900, 900 to 60, 000 600 bushels. There are
also abundant quantities of other
grain.
The Canadian fisheries department
has received advices to the effect that
the macllerel catch of the New England
fishing fleet to date is $4,000 barrels as
against II 900 barrels last year, and 33,
900 in 1890.
Henry Gottlieb, a lawyer with an
office on Park row, New York, was ar
raigned in court on charge of forgery.
The police say that they have as many
as fifty cases against him of swindling
and forgery.
The Luna Natural Gas Co., drilled in
large gas well on the Wish farm, neal
st. Mary's, Friday afternoon, with a ca.
pacity of 1900, 900 cubic feet The com
pany intends sinking nine more wells
on this field
Mrs Eliza Roberts, of Battle Creek
Mich, who was one of the eighteen per
sons injured in the Santa Fe railroad
wreck near Petersburg, Col, on Tues
day, is dead. The rest of the injured
are recovering.
The Hotel Stafford, new siX-story
building at Fourteenth and II streets
Washington, was badly damaged by fire
Friday morning. The loss on furni
ture and fixtures is estimated at abou
So, 900; insurance, $4,000.
There were eight Indians in the gans
that murdered Hogdon and the Mexican
near Hatchita, Tex. They are led by
the ''Kid." No further particulars cal
be obtained and it is not known wher
the Indians are at present.
Announcement Thursday that tn
relatives of the late Mrs. Hopkins
Searles were about to bring suit agains
her husband for what they considere,
their fare share in the estate caused
surprise in New York city.
The probabilities are that the talked
of republican branch headquarters a
Chicago will be abandoned, or at leas
postponed for the present. Mr. Camp
DELL admitted as much Friday, but di
not care to make any explanation of tn
change.
The division in the house of common
Thursday night on the motion OF Nj
Herbert Henry Asquilin (Gladstonian
member for the East division of Fif,
shire, of 'no confidence" in the govern
ment was carried by vote of $50
$40.
AT Denver, Col, an engine of the Gin
Gle railroad struck an electric car at
street intersection Thursday night, xii
ing one person and injuring sever;
others, most of them fatally, 1t is sal
that number of the injured are visi
ing knights Tempt"
Andrew Oglesby colored deput
sheriff, was shot and killed in
suburb of Memphis, Tenn, by Gr
Ayers, colored, whom he was trying
arrest for wife beating.
Wednesday morning Mrs Jane Ne
son, the venerable wife of DIR. A. Ne
son and mother of Prof f. r. Nelso