The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-02-25
NEWS ITEMS.

at Bedford Ind. Ihirty-fve have been
found dead within week.
Twenty-seven livea have been lost
owing to deadly gas in the Impensada
lead mines, near Cartagcna, Spain.
Gov. Flower Wednesday approved the
bill repeating the law providing for
chief inspector of police in New York
city.
The West Virginia legislature passed
law making train robbery or at
tempted train robbery punishable with
death.
All the prisoners in the couqty Jail at
Burlington, Kan, escaped. Among
them was Van Ornan, the Waverly
bank robber.
The Washington house has passed
bill making it unlawful to buy, sell or
give away, or manufacture cigarettes or
cigarette paper.
1t is given out that the s57 depotitors
in Rocllafellow S5 Co.'S broken bank at
Wilkes barre, Pa, will receive about five
cents on the dollar.
Charles Scott, murderer of b. f. Cur.
tbs, has been sentenced at Tyler Tex,
to hang on Saturday, April l, the hang
ing to be in private.
The Japanese press regulations bill
forbids women from publishing news
| papers, confning this work to men over
| twenty-one years old.
Samuel Bachelor an old soldier of
Brazil, Ind, went to Indianapolis Feb
| ruary to draw his pension and has not
been heard from since.
The Deutsche Adelsblatt says that
| Chancellor Won Caprivi is about to an
nounce his engagement to the widow of
| Col. Lehman, of T'ilsit.
Advices from Japan state that rail-
| way projects are now under considera-
| tion by the japanese government, and
several surveying parties are now at
work.
f. G.. Pratt, Hawaiian consui-yeneral
at San Francisco, whose wife is one of
the royal heirs, telegraphed his protest
against annexation to Washington
Thursday.
| Preliminary steps have been taken to
establish in Chicago a great medical
school-one which shall pival and pos
| sible outclass the best institution of the
kind in Europe.
Ed Burkhart, of Leslie county, KY,
was shot and instantly killed by his
| brother-in-law, John saylor. Both
were under the influence of whisky
when the killing occurred.
DIR. Blout, state quarantine inspector
at Gloucester, Tex received Il telegram
from DIR. Swearingen, Texas health of
fcer, directing him to inspect all trans
Atlantic steamers for cholera,
The Mississippi supreme court has af-
| hrmed the death sentence of Ben Nc
Coy and j. Terry, of Copiah county
! gang of Negro robbers and murderers.
| They will be executed March -
The special senate committee, ap-
pointed to investigate the conduct of
the California State Railroad commits
sioners, has presented its report favor
ing the removal of the commissioners.
a large paper manufactory employ
| ing 800 skilled mechanics and capital
stock of 5000, 600 will locate in Seymour,
Ind, provided the citizens will donate
six acres of land and erect the necessary
buildings.
j. C. Shafer has moved out of the
Harrison homestead at indianapolis,
and the house is being placed in shape.
to be occupied by the president March
5. 1t will be arranged just as Mrs.
Harrison left it.
Miss Laura Roberts, of GAINESVILLE, O.,
attempted suicide at an early hour
Thursday morning by taking morphine.
1t was the same old story of a quarrel
with her lover, where death was prefer
able to life without him.
DIR. Goldsborough S. Griffith, presi.
dent of the Maryland Prisoners Aid So
ciety, states that Gen. Brinkerhoff, of
Mansfield, O., will succeed the late
Rutherford i. Hayes as president of the
| National Prisoners association.
At depth of 5000 feet oil has been
struck six miles from Parliersburg, w.
Va, on the Ohio side. The well is
guarded, and several thousand acres
have been leased. The owners are
Marietta and Parkersburg men.
George Laburn, an eX-United States
marshal, and j. l.. Woolsey had an al
tercation on the street in Denison, Tex,
and the latter killed the former with a
pistol. Woolsey charges Laburn with
having alienated the affections of his
wife.
Judge Walter Q. Gresham admitted
Wednesday for the first time since his
name has been mentioned in connection
with the cabinet of Iresident-elect
Cleveland, that he had been offered and
had accepted the position of secretary
of state.
AT indianapolis, Ind, James Murphy,
a brakeman, who resides at Mattoon,
H., was struck by brick by Rafe
Blake Thursday night, and probab bly,
fatally injured. Murphy was walking
with Blalle's wife on the street when
assaulted.
Charges are made by the chamber
of commerce that the new silver coins
issued by the Peruvian government are
illegal. The charges are founded upon
the statement that the new coins do
not contain the proportion of silver re-
quired by law.
There was no little excitement among
the 200 depositors OF the broken bank
of h. V. Rockafcllow ~ Co., at Wilkes
barre, when it became known that the
total liabilities will reach $342, 600,
when the entire assets would scarcely
foot up to so, 600
In West Virginia. wheat in the CEN
tral sections has not been injured by
the cold weather and looks very well.
In the western sections wheat has been
greatly protected by snow and not much
| injured bV cold: the prospects are for n