The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-25
OHIO STATE NEWS.


MABEL DE QUINCY, whose right name
is believed to be Mabel Whalen, of Nor
folk, jumped in the lake from a skif' at
Cleveland and was drowned.
PETER Coz, the 15-year-old son Of
Harvey Coe, was drowned while bath
ing in the Olentangy river, just north
Of Columbus the other afternoon.
Young Coe was an expert swimmer,
but he was seized with an epileptic fit,
and sank before help could reach him.
A SEVERE storm passed over Stouts-
vile. lightning struck the German
Reformed church, knocking the belfry
into splinters, passed down, tearing off
the siding and demolishing the doors.
There was stove on each side of the
house, and the current passed down the
pipe, breaking the stoves, tearing up
the floor and then passing into the
earth.
A TERRIFIC cyclone did great damage
throughout the northwestern part of
Coshocton county the other night At
Warsaw a large four-story business
block in course of erection was demol-
ished. The damage to fruit trees and
crops can not be estimated. The ap-
palling roar of the storm could be dis
tinctly heard at Coshocton, ten miles
from the scene of the great havoc
Residents declare it the most destruc-
tive tornado ever witnessed in the
county.
SMITH, one of the three burglars who
robbed the store of r. w. Griffith, Lima,
in February last, and beat Mr.. Griffith
into insensibility, was tried in court
and the jury came in the other morning
with verdict of guilty. Sentence was
deferred
ANTHONY CAREY lost leg under an
electric car at Columbus.
THE Ohio national guard will not go
into camp together this year. Each
regiment will camp where it pleases.
Miss ALICE MCKINNEY was killed by
lightning in her sisters school near
Newark.
AN unknown tramp was killed in a
Lake Erie & Western freight wreck
near Lima.
Rev. j. G. KAUFMAN, chaplain of
Garield's old regiment, is in trouble
with his congregation at Wadsworth,
for aiding an escaped prisoner to flee.
AS a result of the late trouble among
Polish Catholics at Cleveland, 500 MEM
bers of the church were eXcommuni-
Gated.
Ex-AUDIToR MYERS, of Delaware, at
tempted suicide by cutting his throat
PooRMAN's machine shops, at Canton,
burned from an exploding gasoline
stove.
JUDGE CHERRINeToN was renominated
for circuit judge by Chillicothe repub-
licans
THE Central Trust Co. of New York
has sued to sell the plant of the United
States Rolling Stock Co. at Piqua.
Mrs. DEIssLE, mother of Logan's
chief of police, is dead.
HoFFMAN's laundry safe, at Malta,
was blown by burglars.
WILHELM &c Gross circus is stranded
at Mansfield.
GEORGE DAWSON, aged Z, was caught
in the cogs of roller mill at Mt. Gilead
and ground to death.
E. j. BARNEY, of Dayto donated
$50, 900 to Dennison university, at New
ark, for science hall.
THE modification of being attacked
by the wife of man whom she thought
unmarried led Theresa Kicker to suicide
at Columbus by the trough on rats"
route.
DURING q heavy rain-storm lightning
struck the barn of Peter Ecllard one
half mile cast of Dalton, the other
afternoon, running down the rods and
striking Mr.. Eckard, who was standing
in the doorway, knocking him down
and rendering him unconscious for
several hours Several horses in the
barn were severely shocked by the cur
rent. On an adjoining farm three val
liable cows that We're lying under a
tree were struck by lightning and in
sanity killed.
HENRY NAYLoR, of Bridgeport, was
murdered by Italians and his body
thrown on the railroad track and ground
to pieces. Nine Italians are arrested.
THE following gentlemen compose the
democratic state central committee:
First district-Peter !. Nolan, Hamil-
ton; Second-Edward Felix, Hamilton;
Third. H. Bowling, Montgomery;
Fourth-O. S. Critics; Fifth-W. M. SUIT
ton, Putnam; Sixth-Lewis Evans Cler-
mont; Seventh-Wm. Barrett, Clark;
Eighth-W. It. Wear, Champaign; Ninth
w. w. Beatty, Lucas; Tenth. NJ.
Follett, Adams; Eleventh-Wm. A. Eng
land, Hooking; Twelfth-W. j. Clark,
Franllin; Thirteenth-J. A. Norton,
Seneca; Fourteenth-H. L. McCray,
Ashland; Fifteenth. A. Ivcrs, WASH
ington; Sixteenth-A. NJ. Lupton, Rel-
mont; Seventeenth. r. Hill, Licking;
Eighteenth, j. McNally; Nineteenth
j. H. Phelps, Portage; Twentieth
o. S. Cannon, Cleveland: Twenty-frst--
w. A. Theme, Cleveland.
w. b. SHABER, of Gallipolis, had a
desperate fight with nine-foot black
snake, which he finally killed
CAss McCAsE, of Gallipolis, died from
kicks of horse.
PoMERoY is rapidly clearing herself
of smallpox.
Mrs. r. r. S. Wolgamot and two
children were probably fatally injured
by lightning near Millersburg.
STANDARD pottery at East Liverpool
shut down on account of dull times.
Several others to follow.
DIR. c. Il. MANCHESTER, of Barnesville,
has been appointed a member of the ex-
anining board of the Wesleyan uni
versity at Delaware.
Mrs. A. WERNER, an aged lady who
resided with her son on West street,
Lima, was found dead the other morn