The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-22
NEWS ITEMS.

their next meeting at Cincinnati.
A four-year-old boy of Frank Ora
ham, living near Logan, o.. was kicked
to death by a horse. 1t occurred in
runaway.
The Peary expedition sailed from st |
Johns, N. f., Friday for Labrador set |
Elements to get dogs and thence te
Greenland.
The steamer City of Alexandria ar |
rived from Havana with 100000 in gold
consigned to the Western national
bank, of New York.
Herman Eggert was n sight wher
married to Miss Kate Vergettcs nj
Newark, N. j. He had been the victim
of assault by unknown men.
News has reached Jeffersonville tina,
P. ii. Callahan, n wealthy farmer re
siding at Borden, Ind, was held up by
four masked men and robbed of $500 il
cash.
Jack Turner, farmer, was Wednes
day night murdered while asleep al
Lake Creek, Tenn, and Thursday hi.
wife, aged IS, was arrested for the
crime.
The Germanic arrived at Queenstown
at $3.50 Thursday, and reported that or
| the 5th she sighted portions of n wreck
| ninety-sevcn miles out from Sandy
Hook
At Enterprise, KY, Joseph Reeder,
aged 21, was struck by lightning while
reading book. The chair he was sit.
ting on was demolished, but the boy
| will recover
1t is reported that the National Citi
zens' Rights association, Judge A. w
Tourgee, president, has interested
itself in the case of G. j. Miller, hanged
and burned at Bardwell, Ky.
Chas. Vastine, the Scioto county muir
derer, now in the penitentiary at Co
lumbus, O., will probably be granted q
new trial, as his attorneys claim tc
have discovered considerable new evi
dence.
Services over the remains of Mrs
Georgia Barrymore, the actress
who died in California on the I'd inst
was held in ST. Stephens Episcopa
church, Philadelphia, Wednesday af
ternoon.
A shower of million half-inch toad
is reported about Grand Falls, Me
The roads are covered with them. 1t i
thought they were swept up the rive
by water spout that occurred few
days ago.
The first clause of the army bill wa
passed in the German reichstag Thurs
day by a majority of eleven. The min
isterialists are jubilant, as this prac
tically amounts to the passage of tn
whole bill.
While attempting to light gasolin
stove, Mary Gearty, II, and Ann
, :, Schroeder, aged 5, daughters of farm
ers near Port Clinton, o., We're burne
to death. The gasoline exploded, ig
hitting their clothing.
AT Mint Springs, eighteen miles mort
5 of Huntsville, Ala, John Walker mu,
: dered Vim. Campbell A half hour be
v fore, the men were drinking together
; the best of friends, but dispute aros
, and Campbell was killed.
a VIM. Miller and his small sons a,
v rived in Muncie, Ind, Thursday, e1
9 hausted and half starved. They ha
n walked from Parkersburg, w. Va,
: distance of 800 miles They left Parl
s ersburg forty-six days ago.
2 Miss Schurz, the insane niece of e2
n Secretary Carl Schurz, has mysteriou
o ly disappeared. Her Chicago relative
/, say she has been lost A love affair
S Germany is mentioned as having cause
g her mind to be unbalanced.
h A man giving his name as Willial
= Meyer has been duping Detroit mani
facturers by contracting for new altar
: for the German Catholic church at l.
n Porte, Ind, and borrowing money O
e the strength of his contract.
S big oil well has been struck on tn
Q Frank Winget farm, near Portland
q Ind. 1t is flowing 400 barrels dali.
% and has a strong pressure. The well
in entirely new territory, and is for
u miles from any other oil well.
The annual report shows that TIL
% Baptist Y. p. U. society is making
wonderful growth. In the past yea
1000 new societies have been organized
making the total now 4,500. There
IT now S,s46 in the founding fund.
Sarah Bolten, Indiana's pionet
/ poetess, is lying at the point of death
D Indianapolis Among her production
70 is the old saying, paddle Your Ow
~ Canoe" She is universally esteeme
y there and has national reputation.
70 Eastern papers have been TELEGRAPH
ing to Denver, Col, asking the real ir
. port of Gov. Waite's incendiary silv,
- speech. In an interview Friday he d
. clares that he meant just what he sal
:. :, and will not withdraw single word.
D At a special meeting of the Lit
- Rock (Ark.) board of trade Friday,
:. resolution was unanimously adopte
~ requesting Arkansas Senators and re
- resenCatives in congress to vote for Il
~ unconditional repeal of the Shermu
silver bills.
Col. w. L. Washington, of Nashvill
n Tenn, met companiOnable, nj
Of young man at New York, and slept
es the same room with him. When NOR
ID ing came the nice young man had di
,e appeared and with him the colonel
IN 81 900 wallet.
ae The surveyors have begun work {
3" the great Chicago and Central Indial
1t, Electric road Three routes betwet
,g Noblesvillc and Indianapolis will
hs surveyed, and the best one taken. II
60 mense orders for machinery and m
terial have been placed.
Gov. Flower has requested chang
In the personnel of part of the Ne
York state democratic committee. III
n, Is believed to be move toward Il fig
us for the presidential nomination.
~ Gen. Bernardo Reyes, governor