The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-11
OHIO STATE NEWS.

Findlay Electric Street Railway Co,
owned by Cincinnati capitalists, headed
by Geo. Kerper, for injuries sustained
in falling from car January 20.
The Ohio Temperance Alliance elect
ed the following officers: Rev. DR.. w.
E. Moore, president; Rev. DIR. II. j.
Smith, secretary; Rev. W. f. Filler, as
sistant secretary; Hon. Morris Sharp,
treasurer.
AFTER refusing pardon to Walter
Kelley, the Belmont county life-prison-
er; recommending one for r. G.. Caughey,
for passing Il forged check, and recom-
mending commutation from two to one
year in the case of Erwin Gettier, of
Montgomery county, convicted at the
May term, 1892, of burglary and lar
ceny, the board of pardons adjourned
until April l, Mt noon the other day.
Michael Shaner, an insane prisoner,
| attempted cremation at Lima the other
morning. He was locked up several
days ago, and his home is unknown.
| He tore up his Clothes piled them up
in one corner of his cell and set fire to
them. Shaner would have been roasted
to death but for timely discovery.
He was very badly burned.
ALBERT AsHMoRE, of GAINESVILLE, a
| postal clerk ON the Baltimore 65 Ohio,
attempted to throw off the mail at
Hicksville Somehow his feet became
tangled in the string of the mail bag
and he was pulled from the train. Mr..
Ashmore was badly hurt about the
| head, his leg was broken and his shoul-
der crushed. The morning fast mail is
limited, and goes through that place at
the rate of sixty miles per hour.
| JAMES BIRD, the confidence operator
arrested at Toledo, was evidently ac.
quainteG with police court methods.
He pleaded guilty of being a suspicious
person, and was fined $50 and given ten
days. Sentence was suspended on con,
dition that he Immediately leave the
city.
Mrs. GEORGE D. WICK, wife of the
iron manufacturer, of Cleveland, died
suddenly the other morning at her
home, of internal hemorrhage. She
was Miss Name Chamberlin, of Cleve-
land, before her marriage, and a sister
of the renowned beauty, Jennie Cham
berlin.
THERE was n run the other day on
the SanduslSy savings bank but every
depositor got his money.
SAM BoGGs is still endeavoring
through the courts at Delaware to Sc
cure the release of his sweetheart, Leila
Bennett from a convent
Lou HoUK, the three-card monte man,
has settled at Columbus.
AS A tribute to the memory of the
late eX-Gov. r. NJ. Bishop, Gov. McKin-
ley has ordered the capitol and state
arsenal flags to be displayed at half
mast for 80 DAYS.
AT Union Furnace two children of
VIM. Hansel, little girl aged II and a
little boy aged ., We're at play in the
house, when the little girl picked up
revolver and said ~ will shoot you!"
and pulled the trigger, the ball enter
ing just in front of the right ear and
lodging ip the left side of the face,
making probably fatal wound.
IN the general clash of creeds agi-
tating the religious world, the Lutheran
church will take a turn next, and Rev.
L. A. Gotwald, d. D., professor of prac-
tical theology in Wittenberg college,
and one of the foremost and most influ-
ential ministers in the Lutheran church,
is to be tried by the board of directors
of the college, April 4, call for n
special meeting of the board hav-
ing just been issued. The charges
have been made by influential Luther
ans at Dayton. The principal ground
of complaint is that DIR. Gotwalds atti-
tude has been that of opposition to the
type of Lutheranism that dictated the
establishment of Wittenberg college, in
that he holds to the type of Lutheran
| ic, olo, -;ct ,F Il
Gil which body was formed chiefly by
those who caded from the general synod
Ito which Wittenberg belongs). They
complain that his teaching operates to
change the historic spirit and doctrinal
position of Wittenberg college.
AT PEBBLES Nellie Corwin, while milk
ing COW, was kicked on the leg and
the limb broken. She was then badly
gored by the infuriated animal.
EUsTACE HENDERSON, 16, inhaled car
bonic acid gas from the furnace in his
fathers foundry at Logan, and died
shortly afterwards.
AT Cleveland the bondsmen of Thos
Axworthy, after five years of litigation,
will pay the shortage and close the
matter up.
JOHN MEDvIs, a Hungarian, aged 40,
was found dead in coal mine at Congo.
Heart disease.
, MRS TAYLOR, of Lima, took ten NOR
, phine pills with suicidal intent, but was
discovered in time to save her life.
A NEW post office has been established
at Azelda, Columbiana county, Richard
b. Tullis, postmaster.
= AT Warren, John Stringer, who sued
Lewis Latte for SIS, 900 for alternating
: Mrs. Stringer's affection, got one-dol-
lar verdict and will have to pay the
costs
SAM'L TAYLOR, of Petersburg, mill
, hand, suicided by deliberately throw
= ing himself on circular saw. He was
!. beheaded,
AT Lima Mike Flynn, 85, threw him
n self in front of train and died. No
e motive is known Cor the suicide.
! AT Greenfield Mrs. Margaret Kelly
: dropped dead of heart disease while at
;. prayer.
l. FRANK BEHELEN was probably fa-
tally beaten by Frank Stevens at Co
lum bus
FRED KREIGER, of Air Line Junction,
near Toledo, ran away from police.
man who had him under arrest, and
, may die from pistol shot at the base
+ of his spine.