The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-02-13
OHIO STATE NEWS.


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THE Springfield board of affairs re-
fuses to sustain the council in its eff
tort TO bring the natural gas company
20 time.
THE departure of ex-Mayor White
from Beaver Dam was cele bratcd in
cegular Fourth of July way. White was
very unpopular.
The schools at Waynesville closed
on account of diphtheria.
DURING dance at Oberlin, Art Pomc-
roy was fatally stabbed by Orrin
Hughes.
THE Grover Cleveland club, of Mans
field, has changed the name to Jackson
club.
WIN. SEAMAN, of Jones Station, tried
TO suicide because his parents accused
him Of being lazy.
JOS Spohn, aged s5, died Mt TiAin,
from the effects of fall on an icy pave.
ment several weeks ago.
WIN L. Cisco, convicted of man
slaughter having shot corn thief just
year ago, was sentenced, at Sidney
TO one year in the penitentisry. Chns
Covile, who stabbed n man with
pocket-knifc, goes up for two years.
AT Urbana, Don Purkeypile, indicted
for shooting Mrs Sarah Idle, with in
tent to kill, entered plea of guilty and
wsc sentenced to seven years in the
penitentiary by Judge Griger. II turns
out that Purkenpile is deserter from
the regular army, in which he enlisted
after committing the crime for which
he was sentenced.
W. r. REED, one of the Ohio Worlds
Fair commissioners appointed by Gov
ernor Campbell, has resigned.
! JONN WARREN, alias Chas. Anderson,
an escaped convict from the Nenia
work house, was arrested at Dayton.
FERD SEGTz, the old murderer who
served over fifty years in the Ohio pen.
itentiary, has been declared insane.
JONATHAN MARKLEY, leading law
yer of Springfield, was found dead in
his bed the other morning. Death was
caused by rheumatism of the heart.
THE entire board of pcnitentiary
managers has resigned to Gov. McKin-
ley.
MISS KATE RAYL, a Lima school
ishing paralyzed girl.
MICHAEL STAUCH, an ex-convict, was
discovered snealSing away from the
Pan handle depot, Newark, with mail
sack. He was chased two blocks, when
he dropped his load and escaped. A
warrant for his arrest was issued by
United States Commissioner King.
Stauch has skipped the county.
EDWARD KIMBALI- a colored prisoner
serving a ten.year sentence in the peni.
tentiary, from Hamilton county, for
cutting to kill, the other day deliber.
ately MANNED himself for life. Kimball
violated the prison rules and was pun
ishedas In spirit of revenge he re.
turned to the hoe shop, where he was
employed, sharpened one edge of an
unfinished hoe, placed his hand against
the wall, and at one stroke severed the
two middle fingers of the left hand and
nearly severed the index finger The
edge of the steel was turned where il
struck the finger bones. 1t is believed
that the index finger can be saved
kimball is twenty-five years old and il
doing time for attempting to cut G
mans throat in rough and tumble
fight
AT Norwalk, Ernst Kenyon fell thirty
feet from an electric light pole the
other morning, fracturing both wrists
crushing a knee-cap and nose, and suf
fering internal injuries 1t is thought
he will survive, though as cripple fol
life
WHILE crossing the track of the
Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad or
horseback, about seven miles below
Steubenville, Charles G.. Showalter, O
the firm of Showalter S5 Kamm, the eX
tensive Steubenville butchers, wa.
struck by train and fatally injured
The horse was instantly killed
Mr.. CLINGMAN, of Hamilton, intro
duced bill in the senate to amend
Section 1928 of the Revised Statutes Sc
as to give mayors of all the municipal
tiles final jurisdiction in petty offenses
instead of having such cases taken III
to the court of common pleas, AL
such cases are to be tried by u Jury
however.
LIMA is being flooded with counter
felt quarters and dollars.
AN effort is being made to knock on
the habitual criminal law.
THE Dayton fair will be held thi:
year September 5, 6, T, s and9.
The following patents were issued
the other day: George McConover, Cleve
land, draw shave; Eugene Fontaine
Upper Auburndale, railway time sig
nal; Arthur A. Fuchs, Tiffin, box clamp
, ing machine; also machine for trim
ming tox corners; also boX-tenoninl
machines Harry b. Garrigucs Massillon
, molding plastic material; John NJ
Haise, Florence, broom-holder; Thos
L. Jenkins, East Liverpool extension
, ash pan and fender; Thos. $. Maxwell
, Cleveland; attachment holder 70
, sewing machines; Nose Mosler
Cincinnati, burglar-proof safe ire
, issuc); John Il, Murphy, deceased
Cincinnati, NJ. J. Murphy, administra
triX, cut out; Ernest L. Phuger, Akron
, slack-line attachment for fishing rods
Herman S. Saronini, Marietta, musica
instrument; Adam Scott, Wilmington
, collar pad Oscar j. Thomas, Peninsula
! pail holder; Julius j. Vernier, Toledo
/, catamenial rack; Thos j. Williams am
/. r. s. Murray, Ironton, attachment 10
saw mills.
The body of Charles Weaver, VIII
, has bren missing from Dayton for sew
2 eral days, was found under the ice.
t ALLIANCES is having baseball on role
: skates
d THE Auitman hospital at Canton ha
L been opened.
r A DRUNKEN child only 10 years old il