The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-18
OHIO STATE NEWS.
OHIO AT THE WORLDS FAlI

The Cominlssion VIII Ask for an Incrcasoo
Appropriation Historical Relics ior Ex-
| hibition.
Columns, March 10-The Ohio
Worlds Fair met Thursday, Executive
Commissioner Ryan being one of those
in attendance. A Aresolution was adopted
authorizing each committee to employ
sufficient labor TO care for the respect
i've exhibits, common laborers to be
| paid at the rate of not to exceed seven-
| ty-five dollars per month, and expert
labor at the rate of 500 per month.
The executive committee appropriated
81 900 to be used by the ladies of Mari
eta in preparing a bronze tablet on
condition that the Marietta people
raise S7O0, and that the tablet become
| the property of the state. Gen. 70.
| Brinkerhoff, of Mansfield, was elected
as q speaker at the dedicatory service
| of the Ohio monument, vice eX-President
| Hayes, deceased. The commission felt
that the 100000 appropriated by the
general bill for the commission was en-
tirely inadequate and it was decided ia
ask for S75, 900 additional.
1t was also desided that SO, 900 of this
additional sum shall be devoted to q
the manual training schools of the
state, which are located at Cincinnati,
cleveland and Toledo. They felt thai
| the legislature would see the necessity
of making this additional appropria
tion in order that the states exhibit
shall be worthy and complete.
The executive committee of the Ohio
Archaeological and Historical society
met with the Worlds fair commission.
| Among the relics collected by the COM
mittee for the exhibition at the Worlds
fair is a silver tankard, brought over in
the Mayfower and used at the first
| communion services in this country at
| Plymouth. An old milestone, used in
the first mill in Ohio, has been loaned
to the society by the Dodge family, OF
Beverly, o. Mrs. Dodge will also fur
| nish two remarkable dresses, one OF
which was worn at a ball in commem,
Grafton of the battle of YorlSton.
| A resolution providing that "OhiC
Day" shall be celebrated on the day OF
the dedication of the Ohio statue was
adopted by the Worlds fair executive
committee. The date is not yet deter
| mined
The commission adjourned to meet
at Chicago at the call of the president
A POST mortem examination of the
body of little Stanley Hott, of Colum,
bus who was found in the canal and
supposed to have been drowned, showed
marks of violence before he was thrown
into the water.
THE W. r. corps of the Sixteenth
/ III II. Ell
GERS: Presiding officer, Mrs. Margaret
Wilson, of Greenfield; conductor, Mrs.
Allie Hamilton, of Chillicothe; secre-
tary, Mrs. Emma Nichols, of Chilli
cothe; assistant conductor, Miss Mary
McGregor, of Chillicothe; chaplain,
Mrs. Lewis, of Circleville; treasurer,
Mrs. Helen Carson, of Hillsboro; organ
ist, Mrs. Denman, of Circleville.
WHILE Josiah Davis was on his way
home from Coalton, where he had been
on business he was run down by a
train and killed.
DICK MCGowN was assaulted with
club in the hands of Daddy Parker, a
colored cook, at Portsmouth the other
night McGown may die.
A BODY, supposed to be that of Thorn.
| 40 IOyS VI lOuIlbSIOWIs was 1Ouuu
hanging in the woods at Forest. The
wife said that the body was Foy's. and
got $1,000 insurance, but it now trans.
pires that Foy is not dead, but is in
Pennsylvania somewhere.
AT Dayton Elmer A. Mundorf, aged
20, was run over by an electric car and
had both legs mangled to the hips. He
died while preparations were being
made to amputate the limbs.
Mr.. CLAPP introduced bill in the
house the other day which provides foI
the inspection of state and private
banks 1t fixes the amount of cash q
bank must have according to the poput
lation where it does business. In places
of 5000 or less the cash assets must be
$40, 900, and in cities of $1,000 and over
the assets must be $4,000. 1t provides
for the appointment of an inspector by
the governor at $4,000 per year. who.
shall make report to auditor of state,
Any bank official making a false state-
ment is liable to fine Of $40, 900 or inn
prisonment from one TO five years.
GEORGE II. KEPHART, prominent
business man of Spencerville, was prob
ably fatally injured by falling from the
roof of burning building. He owns a
number of dwelling houses, one of
which caught fire. In trying to put it
out he got on the roof, and slipped and
fell to the pavement, breaking both
legs and receiving internal injuries.
wELL-DREssED young man, sandy
complexion, about 80 years of age, sup.
posed to be Walter Houston brick.
layer of Columbus from papers found
on his person, committed suicide three
miles north of West Jefferson, on East
pike, by shooting himself with cheap
32-caliber revolver, after cutting his
throat with a pocket-knife.
JOSEPHINE WARD has sued the whole
sale house of E. c. Shaw & Co, Toledo,
for $40, 900 damages Her husband, who
was bill clerk for the firm, came to his
death February 4, by falling from the
top of their store building, where he
had gone to examine the chimney, the
heating apparatus of the building in
some manner becoming defective.
The dead body found near West JEFF.
ferson proves, as was supposed, to be
that of Walter Houston of Columbus.
For several weeks a wild cat has beer
seen on the Wash Hill farm, near Mil
lersburg. 1t is described as being about
double the size of common cat and re.