The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-07-30
NEWS ITEMS.

The Sixth Missouri district repub.
licans have nominated o. l.. Houts, of
Warrensburg, for congress.
A Chicago paper states that not one
firm in twenty on the board of trade of
that city is paying expenses Business
is very dull.
A Muncie Qnd.) girl threw red pep
per in the eyes of young man named
Saylor for talking about her. Saylo
will go blind.
Mrs. Chew, wife of Mr.. j. j. Chew,
secretary of the American legation in
Vienna, died at Marianbad, bohemia,
from peritonitis
Capt. +. Vehling has arrived at San
Francisco, the sole captain, pilot and
crew of the little steam launch Kussi-
loft, from Alaska.
Fifty employees of the Xenia (O.) Shoe
Manufacturing Co. went out on strike
Friday morning. They objected to the
employment of two girls.
Telegraphic reports from all parts of
Manitoba state that the crops are in
magnificent condition, not single
drawback being reported.
b. b. Crandall, brought to Buffalo,
n. Y, from Los Angeles, Cal, and put
on trial for defrauding insurance COM
panies, has been acquitted.
The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of George Shiras, jr., of Penn
sylvania to be associate justice of the
| United States supreme court
The entry into Austria of all Jewish
refugees has been prohibited. The
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cautions to prevent the introduction of
cholera.
A branch of the Norfolk & Western
road now runs in front of "Old Anse"
Hatfield's home, in Logan county, w.
! Va, where many murders have been
committed.
The statement having been made that
ex-Gov. Hoadly would appear for the
Homestead rioters, his partner, Edgar
NJ johnson, Thursday denied it in a
| public letter.
Cardinal Giuseppe d'Annibate, prefect
of the congregation of Indulgences and
Sacred Relics, is dead. He was born at
Barbona in 1915, and was created a car
dinal in 1889.
Mr.. Henry B. Ryder, the United
States consul at Copenhagen, was ar
rested, charged with fraud in connec-
ton with the liquidation of testa-
mentary estate.
A marriage license was issued at Chi
cago to John Overholt and Miss Kate
Smith, aged IA years. The girls mother
says it is common for Italian girls to
marry so young.
A collision took place on the Bay of
Quinto railroad Thursday morning near
Erinsville, Ont, in which Engineer
Christy, Fireman Hardy and others not
known were killed.
Chicago surgeons removed the fourth,
fifth, sixth and seventh ribs of the
veteran Maj. o. G. Towne. The patient
is doing well and there is every pros
pect of his recovery.
Owing to the discovery of smallpox
in Block Island hotel, Newport, r. L.,
there has been a hegira and in few
days the hotels of that place will be
practically deserted
A Judgment against Andrew Carne-
gle, the Homestead millionaire, for
$1,000 in favor of the Continental Trust
Co., receiver for the American Opera
Co., was filed in New York.
A barlSeeper in the Auditorium hotel,
Chicago, objected to Col Louis Clarlls
remark that all Chicagoans are robbers
and was promptly made to apologize to
the colonel at the point of gun.
Moses Pollet, who butchered his wife
two weeks ago at st. Louis, because he
was jealous, has been indicted by the
grand jury for murder in the first de-
gree.
EX-Gov. Henry j. Gardner, who was
governor of Massachusetts from 1850 tC
1853 inclusive, died at his residence in
Milton from cancer. He was the old.
est, or next to the oldest, living eX-gov-
ernor.
The Paris Figaro of Thursday says
that the police have discovered an an
archist plot to blow up the bourse and
other public buildings. The paper adds
that two of the conspirators have been
arrested.
Susie Kirwin, the well-known opera
singer, and her sister, Mrs. VIM. Blair
were severely injured by the omnibus
in which they were the only passengers,
being crushed between two cable cars
in Philadelphia.
Surgeons L. w. Andrews and c. w.
Cary, of the medical board Of pension
examiners, at Chicago, performed re-
narkable surgical operation on Maj. o.
c. Towne, the veteran, removing an en-
tire diseased lung.
The treasury department now holds
S112, 800, 900 in free gold. and is gradu
ally accumulating gold coin at the com
mercial centers for the purpose of meet
ing the demand for small notes in the
West for the movement of the crops.
The eruption of Mount Etna con
tinues. Throughout Tuesday night vio
lent rumblings were heard, accompanied
by an increased discharge from the diff
ferent craters. Stones and ashes were
projected to height of fully 1,2O0 feet
The Fort Payne (Ala.) Coal and lror
Co. stockholders in Boston voted to re
duce the capital stock from s., 1000, 900 tC
; So, 800, 900, and issue S1,0O0,O00 new
bonds to pay on the $780, present in
debtedness and give working capital
Three men stealing a ride on the side
ladders of Missouri freight train were
knocked off the cars while crossing {
bridge near Pleasant Hill, Mo-, Thurs
day. Two of them were killed out
right, while tho third was badly hurt
The men were evidently tramps anc
have not been identified.
AT jackson, Mich, early Friday
morning four men, supposed to be eX'