The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
NEWS ITEMS.

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upon his return to Indianapolis will be
as informal as possible
Robert Il. Burton, a wealthy plumber
of Camden, n. j., was kicked to death
Friday morning by a spirited horse
Mrs Kcnna, widow of the late United
States senator, John f. Kenna, is likely
TO get the post Office at Charleston, w.
Va.
There are twenty-five suspects" in
the isolated tehts for typhus fever vic
Tins at Bellevue hospital, New York
city
At the North Meath election Mr..
Gibbon, the anti-Parnellite, polled 665
votes, and Mr.. Mahoney, Parnellite,
2,376
An insane woman in Venezuela muir
dered her twelve-year-old daughter with
a machete. The girl was cut into forty
pieces.
The famous Hungarian cavalry gen.
eral, Baron Edelsheim Giulai, is very
i'll and there is very little hope of his
recovery
The Chinese government has appoint
ed minister resident in the Pamirs,
who will rank with the minister resi-
dent in Thibet.
1t is asserted that about 400 clergy
men, of different denominations, from
Ulster, will take part in the unionist
campaign in England.
Commodore E. d. Morgan has placed
his yacht Ituna in commission as the
flagship of the New York squadron by
raising his official flag.
The Berlin police continue their Wis
its in search of anarchistic and social
istic workmen. Several suspected men
were arrested this week
''Mr. Hunt" the "man with the
cough" has been arrested in New York
city. He is the slick forger that worked
banks in Cincinnati and other cities.
The Panama investigating committee
has postponed further examination of
witnesses until Tuesday next, as Col.
Fellows, chairman of the committee, is
sick
Admiral Gherardi, with the United
States war ships Baltimore, Charleston,
San Francisco and Yorktown, arrived
at Fort Monroe at $50 o'clock Friday
morning.
Hon. w. Z. Barrett, speaker of the
Massachusetts house of representatives,
delivered, in the Legislature, Thursday
afternoon, his eulogy on the late James
G. Blaine.
There was riot at Martines hall,
Chicago, between attendants at a jew
ish wedding and democratic club,
both having rented the place for the
same night.
Frank L. Perley, the well-known
manager of the Modjeska company, was
Friday granted decree of divorce for
adultery from his wife, Ida M. Perley,
by Judge Stein.
Gov. Pattison has appointed Judge
Heydricl of Franklin to the vacancy on
the supreme bench caused by the resig
nation of Chief Justice PaXson to accept
the Reading railroad receivership.
Piano manufacturers of New York
city have reconsidered their decision
not to exhibit at Chicago. Sohmer &
Co. and ChiclSering are among those
preparing to be represented at the fair.
A serious commercial crisis is threat
ening in Paris on account of the slack.
ness of the current trade and rash spec
ulation in bullion. Several of the firms
are bankrupt and more are expected to
fail.
Mayor Washburne signed the ordi.
nance Friday morning which provides
for the elevation of railroad tracks
within the down town or burnt dis
trict of the south side, Chicago, by Jan
uary 1, 1895.
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switchman in the Hooking Valleyyards,
stepped on the wrong track and was
run down by cut of cars. He was
killed almost instantly. He was So
years old and unmarried.
Edwin Won der Abe, son of Chris Von
der Abe, the well known base ball man
of St Louis, and himself stockholder
and treasurer of the St Louis club, was
run over by grip car Thursday night
and probably fatally hurt
Eight whisky men and two sugar
men were arrested in New York for
making whisky out of the refuse OF
sugar refneries. They will appear be-
fore the congressional investigation
committee at Washington Thursday.
Mccarthy, NJ. p, presented in the
Canadian parliament'a petition signed
by 80, 900 members of Patrons of Indus
try, an organization of Canadian farm.
ers, asking that coal oil, binder twine
and corn be placed upon the free list.
Commissioner of Agriculture Geo. M.
Chaplain, of Arkansas, has, in a circu-
lar urging the reduction of cotton acre.
age, called a state convention of far.
mers to meet at Little Rock, March 10
20 decide on the amount of reduction.
Joseph ZetzoclS, Pole, undertook
at Johnstown, Pa. Friday, to drink two
quarts of raw alcohol on wager of 50.
The man actually drank one quart OF
the stuff, and was eating some sausage
preparatory to taking the other quart,
when he fell, and when picked up he
was dead.
In a free-for-all fight in country
store seven miles north Of Ryan, KY,
John Jones and Ham. Ratclitf were
fatally cut with knives. Hayden Holtz,
Sam Parks and Wilson McWade were
also dangerously hurt by being hit over
the head with clubs. The fight grew
out of shooting match, in which the
two men fatally wounded were win.
ners.
The chief of police has been instructed
by the police magistrate to arrest OF
order out of the neighborhood the Cor
bett-Mitchell party, should it attempt
to arrange fight at Niagara Falls,
Ont Proprietor Bampfeld will decline
to permit articles To he sipned on his