The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-06-17
NEWS ITEMS.
Stephen Wright was killed AT Al<rca,
f1 nv fhe falling of m iron pirfler

o., by the falling of an iron girder.
Bellah & Co., OF Wilmington, Del,
wholesale dealers in iron and steel,
have failed.
Moonshiner Jack Skinner, of Ala
bama, has been pardoned out of the
Columbus penitentiary.
The president Friday appointed War
rem S. Kinkead, of Louisville, consul to
Southampton, England.
The general verdict is that the U. s.
government building is the ugliest
structure in jackson park.
p. II. Lewis, travelling salesman, ac-
cidentally shot himself at Gallipolis, o.,
infiicting a dangerous injury.
A leak has been discovered in the ar
mored warship Hood, lying at Chat
ham. 1t was caused by defective
rivet.
1t is intimated that the financial
troubles may induce the president to
call the extra session even before Sep
te nber.
A syndicate of bankers has been
formed in Budn Pesth to establish q
lottery similar to the Prussiun state
lottery
II. II. Brown & Co., of Milwaukee
carriage manufacturers, have assigned
to o. l.. Rosencrans, who gave bond for
S75,O 900.
Prince Alfred, the eldest son of the
duke of Edinburgh, who, for some
time has been ill of scarlet fever, is now
convalcscing.
The treasury department Wednesday
was Offered $780, ounces of silver
and purchased $50, 200 at prices ranging
from 1856 to S3G0.
An application for the appointment
of j. II. Beck as collector of customs at
indianapolis was Wednesday filed by u
friend of Mr.. Beck.
Mrs. Lavinia Stephens, rich widow
of Ellshart, Ind, aged sixty-ive, was
married to August Brothers, Il young
clerk of twenty-six.
The government receipts Wednes-
day We're: Internal revenue, $780,
Sls.62: customs, 1854, 1880, and mis-
cellaneous, $40, 1874.
The Texas Trading Co., of Galveston,
Tex, wholesale and retail corpora
ton, made an assignment Friday. AS
sets S163,O00, liabilities sS1, 800.
One hundred of the students who
have been imprisoned at Warsaw on a
charge of being implicated in nihilist
conspiracy. have been acquitted.
The president has recognized O. j. P.
Brice as consul of Belgium at Green
Bay, Wis, for the states of Wisconsin,
Minnesota and the two Dakotas.
Over the Kentucky pavilion, in the
department at the Worlds
fair, is the sign in big letters: "Ken-
lucky leads in Tobacco, Hemp and
Horses"
Thursday afternoon Secretary Gres-
ham presented to President Cleveland,
Don Aatonio Lozo Arriaga, the new
minister to the United States from
VIM. L. Sherwood, dealer in cloth at
141 Fifth avenue, Chicago, assigned
Friday morning to John c. Williams.
Assets are placed at $50, 600, and liabili-
ties at $4,000.
1t is stated that Edward NJ. Field, of
New York, who was remandcd to the
Buffalo state hospital to determine the
question of his sanity, is now as ration
al as he ever was.
The Martinsville Qnd.) Electric Light
and Power Co: assigned Friday to j. X.
Scott. Liabilities $4,000; assets, S1O,-
900. Cause, internal dissensions and
of the money market.
Fifty villages in Buclowina and
Galicia have been partly destroyed by
the floods. Water in the Boristow
Ozocerite mines has rendered work i'm.
possible. Hundreds of acres of crops
have been devastated.
The Iimes-H Herald, the only after.
noon newspaper in Dallas, Tex, was
sold at receivers sale to DR.. c. n. Ros.
SER for $4,000 The paper was anti.
Cleveland and for free silver 1t will
be continued as democratic daily.
The strawboard manufacturers of the
United States held their annual session
at Niagara Falls, N. Y. The companies
include all the larger ones
of this country, and form in themselves
n sort of trust in the strawboard bust.
ness.
The duke of Veragua's only purchase
at the fair is stntuette in the French
exhibit representing saffron lady in
lilac bodice, purple petticoat, mauve
ribbons, emerald stockings and scarlet
shoes, sitting on d green and gold
chair.
The advance guard of delegates tc
the annual convention of the Interna-
tional Typographical union, which
opens In Chicago on Monday, arrived
Friday from the east and Canada, and
were met by the local committee ON
reception.
The Vile Marie, at Montreal, the
greatest female establishment of the
Roman Catholic church on the conti-
nent, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
81 200, 900, with only 100000 insurance.
Several firemen were fatally hurt and
two killed.
The cholera appears to be spreading
in the south of France One death has
occurred at Mines, the capital of the
of Garde. eight at Ais,
twenty-five miles northwest of Mines,
and two at Montpelier, seventy-eight
miles north of Marseilles.
The Paris Temps says that Gen.
Dodds will not return either to Ccttuna
or to Dahomey. French officers re-
turned from Dahomey in an interview
describe the situation there as precari-
GUS. The natives take the offensive
daily in slight skirmishes.
Mime Abbey, a good-loolsing clairvoy.
ant created sensation by horse.
whipping j. W. Galloway, a commercial