The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-28
OHIO STATE NEWS.

MOSS, n. 4. MOSS, r., u Gardner, II. y. |
Tracy, Charles II. Moss, Clark Rude,
Chas. i. Mayer and Robert Garrett were
elected directors; John Gardiner was
elected president and Jay o. Moss sec.
rotary and treasurer.
AT Darbyville Joseph Tipton's child
was burned to death while playing
about the fire.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to secure the
location of the new Odd Fellows or
phan's home at Bucyrus, midway be-
tween Bucyrus and Gallon, on the line
of the proposed electric railroad con-
Meeting these cities.
Ar Cleveland Mrs John Scrapus cut
her throat with a case knife and will
die. She lived unhappily with her hus
band.
THE only son of William Lindsey,
farmer living in Muhlenberg township,
near Circleville, died from Inflammation
of the bowels, caused by eating pop
corn.
EDWARD STANTON, a young man liv.
ing on the west side, Portsmouth, Wis
tied his neighbor the other night, and
started nome about midnight. In the
meantime terrific snow storm came
up. He thought he knew the path, but
walked into a ditch that was filled with
snow. He sank to his armpits and was
unable to eXtricate himself. Stanton's
cries brought no assistance, and he re.
manned in the snow until day light
when he was found. He was thrown a
rope and drawn from his perilous posi-.
ton. Outside of his ears and face being
frozen he is all right as the snow kept
the rest of his body warm.
DR. PRoBsT, secretary of the state
board of health, received word the other
day of an epidemic OF diphtheria at
Marion, thirty-seven cases having de-
veloped. The secretary went to inves-
tigate the matter.
HIRAM MCKNIGHT, the lawyer con-
vict, who lost his case before Judge w.
II. Taft, in the United States court, at
| Columbus, was returned to the peniten-
tiary under guard.
A DISABLED grip-car reared back into
U trailer, at Cleveland, fracturing Jacob
| Eyerdan's skull and breaking Charles
Hagedarns leg.
HENRY STOUT thieving peddler,
was sent from Marion to the Cleveland
work house for stealing sheep.
A PECULIAR MALADY exists among the
sheep of Eugene Beecher, of Uuion
township near Newark. Within the
past few days ten of them have died.
They suddenly become mad and butt
each other, and attack anything which
may approach them. mad dog is
supposed to have bitten them.
PATRICK MORAN, charged with the
double murder of Blakeslee and Fox on
Christmas night at Cleveland waived
examination and was bound over with
out bail.
ANDERSON LOGAN, aged eighty-four
years, of Yellow Springs, eight miles
south of Springfield, and Mrs. Francis
McBrear, aged siXty-two have welded.
Ross WILLIAMS, fifteen-year-old boy
residing at Blaine, Belmont county, is
| five feet nine inches high, weighs 80
! pounds and measures around the head
! one foot ten inches; neck, one foot six
! inches; shoulders, four feet six inches;
! chest, four feet three and one-half
inches; waist, four feet three inches;
hips, four feet three inches; arm,
! between elbow and shoulder, one
foot seven and one-half inches; calf, one
| foot six inches; ankle, one foot two
inches He is probably the lagest boy
of his age in Ohio.
The other afternoon, at the sand cut,
near Hanover, Licking county, an Aus
trian named Pith G.. Kuth met horrible
death. He was picking Jumps of coal
as trains We're passing, and was struck
and knocked under the wheels, being
shockingly mangled. He was about
| forty-fve years of age.
WEBSTER CoRsE, an insurance agent,
of Dayton was out sleigh riding the
other night and for fear some one would
hold him up, placed his pocket book,
| containing valuable papers and $40 in
money, under the cushion on the seat
| When he returned the horse to Raper's
livery stable he forgot his pocket book.
| Happening to remember it some time
later, he returned to find it had been
! taken. Frank Bradshaw, colored
man who worked for Raper was ar
rested for the crime, and later Chief
Farrell, having recovered the papers
and money where Bradshaw had hidden
them, made him confess the crime.
Bradshaw will be held for grand
larceny.
The arbitrators in the Poorman-Ryan
case say that Poorman is entitled to
three-fourths of that $1,000.
A BIG party is being formed in Find
lay which proposes to join the rush for
land claims in the Cherokee strip, which
is to be opened for settlement
March 4.
Mrs JONATHAN YARIAN, wife of a
farmer living one mile east of Column
biana, committed suicide the other
night by hanging herself. No cause is
known except dependency
THE diphtheria epidemic in Madison
and Delaware townships, Hancock coun-
ty, has assumed serious character.
Entire families are i'll, or have sue
cumbed to the disease. The public
schools have been closed, and the vii.
lage councils of Mt Blanchard and Ar
lington have ordered the churches
which were holding revival meetings to
discontinue them.
THE shroud covering the body of Mrs
Frances Umbers, of East Defiance,
caught fire from the candles about it
and the body was horribly burned.
STATE INSPECTOR MCDONALD ordered
the closing of the Massillon opera house
until repairs have been made to render
egress less difficult in the event of fire
Miss SARAH BECK, prominent young
lady of Fostoria, has gone insane over