The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-23
OHIO STATE NEWS.
ALL HE HAD
Venerable Charles link Gavc For tho Lib
crty of His Son.

nDleS Charles Iink, farmer living
near this city, returned this evening
from an interview in the Columbus iail
with his son, the notorious Charles
link, forger, cmbczzlcr etc. The
scene between the aged father and son
on meeting for the first time for more
than twelve years under such circum-
stances was pitiful TO behold. The vcner-
able father gave every penny he could
raise, $500, toward raising the 81, 600
bond under which Charles was held,
and the latter's partner in the saw mill
business at Robinsville, Miss, near
Memphis, who has been at Colum bus
ten days awaiting the arrival of Xini's
father, handed over the balance So, 500
| link was released and started back for
Memphis with his partner and the
father came back here to his little farm,
where every body knows and estccms
the whole family. Much sympathy is
expressed for the aged parents.
Mrs. MARY J. GILLESPIE, engaged in
the grocery business at Portland station.
near Martins Ferry has made an as
signmcnt The senior member of the
firm died some years ago, and the wife
| took charge, with her son as manager
The son died some days ago, after which
suit was brought by creditor others
following. The assets are Sl6, 600 and
liabilities Sl3, 600,
GEO. III, BRUNsoNa Pan handle brake
man. residing in Columbus, fell beneath
train the other afternoon and lost both
| legs, He will probably die.
LEVI GOUGER, a prominent and we'll
| to-do farmer, aged fifty six years, living
in Lorraine township, Shelby county,
about seven railes south of New Bre-
men, committed suicide by shooting
himself with u shotgun. Gouger was
afflicted with la grippe, and it was
thought was temporarily insane at the
time. He committed the deed in his
/ wife's absence on the second floor of
! his house, aud was not discovered until
six hours after the happening.
AN electric road will be built from
| Toledo to Maumee.
SANDUsKY's 8 soldiers home will have
a resident trustee ere long.
| THE delinquent tax list in Columb bi-
ana county amounts to over 500, 600.
BILLS have been introduced in the
congress for a $50, 900 government build
ing at Massillou and SO, 600 structure
ut Steubenville.
TOLEDO will spend $500, 900 on a boul-
cvard.
La GRIPPE is carrying off old citizens
at Wooster.
| VAN WERTs water works pumps have
| been started.
CANTON will have a new $50, 900 brick
! plant.
TAN inquisitors have already put S27,-
600 back taxes into the treasury of Van
! Vert county.
julius LINDEMAN was killed by a
breaking chisel in Dayton machine
shop. A piece OF the tool struck him
on the forehead.
| WILLIAM ADAMS, of Wellston, fell 90
feet into a coal shaft and was killed.
LEVI CANCER, farmer of Shelby
| county, committed suicide because he
had an attack of the grip.
LAUEA SMITH, aged -, is undcr ar
rest ut Easton on charge of having
! poisoned her father.
Two chicken thieves at Urbana were
| fined $3.50 and sentenced to thirty days
in jail.
The grand jury of Wyandotte county
/ did not have case to consider for the
January term of court.
| THOMAS HoPPs left the home of Ed
win Beard, in Niles, the other morning
to notify the mill superintendent that
! Mr.. Beard was too ill to go to work
| Not returning search was made and the
body of Hops found, with life extinct,
! lying in the mill-race.
THE quarrel Of the various railroad
societies over Il candidate Eor the state
commissionership of railroads and telc-
graphs has been productive of at least
one result-the present incumbent will
hold his Office for some weeks, and per.
maps longer
The other night fire broke out in the
! factory of the Toledo Cot and Wringer
Co., which was entirely destroyed
Estimated loss on building, machinery
and stock, $40 COO with 50, 900 insur-
ance. 1t is believed to have caught
| from Il stove.
THE sporting fraternity of Columbu
is somewhat elated over the fact that
Judge Martin dismissed Thompson and
Jones, the booksellers who recently be-
gan q test case of the pool-selling law.
The Bott Bros, in whose saloon the
pool room is operated, were also dis.
missed. The other day the place was
wide open, and money was bet freely
on the runners. The decision holds
that the affidavit was faulty and the
evidence not clear 1t may be that the
state will test the law again.
FRED RoTu, the Cleveland actor in
prison for wife murder, was to have
been paroled, but he got drunk the day
he was to so out
TRAMPs at Newark are given food
and lodging and put to work on the
streets cracking stone.
HENRY WATKINS, u wealthy farm
er, was killed by the cars at Steuben-
Vile.
1'hE Dayton Natural Gas Co. refuses
to furnish gas for less than twenty
cents.
IN a Tiffin church fifteen members of
the congregation tainted from breath
ing escaped natural gas.
WILLIAM Cook, of Lucas, serving
five years in the pen, has been par
doued
REUBEN ALEsHRE, an old and re-
spected citizen of jackson, died the 9TH
er morning of la grippe.
j. +. VEGEs, of NorwallS, has sued
the Wheeling & Lake Erie for Sl5, 900