The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-07-23
OHIO STATE NEWS.

900 worth of bonds in the stove.
j. NJ. BOYER has been appointed post
master at London and Evan Il. Kirby
atSco
The loss from the Sprin gfeld cyclone
will reach 500, 600 None of the injured
will die.
The board of pardons, after visiting |
the annex, decide to ask for reprieve |
in the cases of Murderers Craig and |
Mccarthy until they (the board) meets
In September.
FRANK MARIAN, n penitentiary con-
vict who had been playing the insanity |
dodge for some time, tried to carve two |
guarge with razor, but was finally |
subdued and punished.
DELBERT FORBES, aged IL, was struck |
and killed by baseball at Columbus
THE First national bank, of Huron,
has been organized with capital stock |
of $4,000.
A. j. Rosa, a deaf man, was killed by |
the cars at Blue Ash, Hamilton county.
MICHAEL BURNS was fatally crushed
by cars at Springfield.
SEVEN members of Toledo's council
are indicted for boodling
cothe, saw Ike Schreckengast drinking
at spring, and mistaking him for an
animal shot him.
THE Catholic Total Abstinence society
met at Youngstown, elected officers,
and selected Cincinnati as the next
meeting place.
JOHN REED, an old man living at
Jackson, was nearly beaten to death by
his two daughters because he refused
to divide his property with them.
NELLIE PURTEE, aged ID, attempted
suicide with laudanum, at Portsmouth,
because her mother scolded her for talk
ing to "a boy.
TIM MALoNEY, a Cincinnati convict,
serving five years for larceny, is dying
of Inflammation of the stomach, in the
penitentiary
WHILE riding with two girls at Mans
field, Ed Metcalf was thrown from
buggy and his neck was broken The
girls carried his body home
The Union Iron and Steel Co., with
capital stock of 81, 800, 900 was formed at
Youngstown.
REPORTS from Alliance concerning an
epidemic of scarlet fever in the Fair
mount Children's home are greatly ex-
aggerated.
CBAs FISHER, an Urbana tailor, was
pressed too hard by creditors and
skipped.
A NUMBER of underground passages
were found by workmen who were dig
ging "a cellar in Columbus. They were
used to secrete runaway slaves before
the war.
ANDREW GRovEMILLER, who commit
ted suicide at Canton, took his life be-
cause he could not live apart from his
wife. Some weeks ago Mrs. Grovemil-
Ter applied for and was granted di-
vorce.
MRS. SARAH R. MCCORMICK, aged 80
years, and one of the Oldest ladies in
Gallia county, met with a serious acci-
dent the other night. She tried to get
between cow that was tied and barn
and got caught with the rope and was
thrown violently against the barn, the
cow falling against her, breaking three
ribs, besides hurting her internally.
Her recovery is doubtful.
THE Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Co. filed certificate with the secretary
of state few days ago, increasing its
capital stock from $4,000, 900 to S14,-
900, 900. Under the Massie law the state
receives fee of $4,000 for the increase
of capital, and it was paid by the com.
pany without the usual protest.
JAMES 0. DAVIS, well-known citizen
of Dayton. and prominent in G. A. Z.
circles, was found dead in his room the
other evening
BERT JACKSON, a switchman at Bay
ard, had his leg taken off by c. and
p. train, and was injured internally.
He lives at Youngstown and will die.
ONE of the oldest residents of Cincin-
natl passed away few days ago at the
Old Mems home on Walnut Hills. The
deceased was Capt Ira Athearn, who
at the time of his demise, was in his
ninety-fourth year. Capt. Athearn was
well known in steamboat circles wher
steamboating was seeing its palmy
days back in the forties and fifties.
c. FUNK has been commissioned a:
postmaster at Big Plain, Madison
county.
COOPER PosT No. III G. A. R., of Ma
rion, will send thirty members to the
grand encampment at Washington.
THE Athens county Jail has for some
time been without an occupant. 1t now
contains two men, Lige Cobb and join
johnson, who were brought there the
other night charged with the murder O.
John Markey. Markey was shot on the
evening of the 4th while on his way
home from picnic near Buchtel, thi
county. He fingered until the follow
ing morning, when he died. The whole
affair has been shrouded in mystery
Notwithstanding the vigilance of the of
fcers. Every effort to apprehend tn,
perpetrators was unsuccessful unit
Friday, when the deed was fastened up
on Cobb and Johnson. They are charged
with rnurder in the first degree, but th
grand jury, which does not meet TO
several months, will have to determine
upon their guilt.
THE tobacco crop in Belmont, Guern
sey and Monroe counties will be mucl
smaller than usual.
COLUMBUS conductors and motormel
have organized union, and there ma.
be a general strike for So day.
CROOKS made haul during the pa
rade of Barnum and Bailey's circus a
Marion. The residences of DIR. Gran
and Fred Painter were entered an
jewelry secured, while young ma
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