The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-02-25
OTTO STATE NEWS.

dent, j. w. Jones, Radner; secretary,
l.. A. Davis, Delaware; treasurer M. L.
Schroclt, Columbus. The directors are
j. w. Sparks, Wilmington; f. u. Todd,
Urbana; A. e. Fillmore, Zanesville; Ii.
+. Owen, Delaware; j. w. Palmer, Fre-
mont; John Clark, Findlay. The Ohio
Tile, Brick, and Drainage association
elected j. w. Everal, president; w. B.
Mcclure, vice president; S. e. Hazy,
treasurer, and l. NJ. Justice, secretary.
REV. Belts, of Center Chapel, swore
out warrant before Henry Snyder, a
justice of the peace, of Jackson town
ship, against Henry Trcece for splitting
on the floor at a meeting held in the
church the other night. The only evil
dence offered in the case was a pool of
tobacco juice in front OF where Treece
sat. He was bound over.
THE practice of putting salt on the
electric car tracks cost the company at
Findlay over 5000 The brine slowly
eat into the insulation of the wires with
disastrous results,
The Portsmouth Wheel Works Co.
has decided to remove their plant to
Washington, c. H., which gives them
land and buildings They were re-
Gently burned out there, suffering $780,
900 loss
THE other day when it was announced
in the female department at the Ohio
penitentiary that Matron Kissenger
and Assistant Matron Hustled had been
discharged, Big Liz Carter, the Cincin-
natl murdcress, sprang upon Lizzie Ed
dington, whose disgraceful escapade
was the cause of the dismissal of the
two female officers, and gave her
beating. Big Liz was finally subdued
and locked in cell,
AT Findlay gambling has been car
ried on slyly since Mayor Waltermire's
term began. OF late gamblers have be-
come bolder, and the place run by Alt
man & Williamson was raidcd. A large
amount of tools were contiscated. The
proprietors were arrested and fined 500
and costs
A LOCOMOTIVE belonging to the Pan
handle Co. blew up at Norwich at an
early hour the other morning. No one
was hurt.
A TERRIBLE tragedy was enacted in
the main tunnel of the Yellow Creek
Coal Co.. S mines at Bergholz, jefferson
county, by which James Barlus, a
miner, was shot four times and instant
Iy killed by Simon Shecltier and his
brother Daniel Bad blood had existed
for some time between Barllus and the
Shecklers because of the discharge of
their two brothers-in-law on account of
slack work.
A man giving his name as c. D. Har-
per and claiming to be a reformed sim
ner, swindled the Fremont Y. NJ. c.
A. out of S133 by means of a forged
check.
The Ohio lumber dealers elected Off
GERS as follows: President, r. d. Ter
rance, of Xenia; vice-president, r. w.
Dobbins, of Lima; treasurer, J. Elliott
Pierce, of Dayton; directors, E. A. Hill.
dreth, of Columbus; B. f. Packard, of
Warren, and NJ Holiday, of Wheeling.
WM. c. WAUGHLER, of jackson, was
appointed a cadet at the United States
Military academy at West Point.
WALKING into his farmhouse near
Canton, and removing a shoe, Frank
Monnot pulled the trigger of shotgun
and shot himself through the heart
Dependency.
JIM FRANKLIN fell into hole in the
railroad yards at Bucyrus, where Il
broken steam pipe made boiling cal
dron, and was burned from the waist
down.
FRITZ NEU and his two sisters, of
Springfield, are said to be part heirs to
$50, 400, OOO-the value of immense es-
tates in Germany.
ALBERT FULLER fell 1--WE stories down
an elevator shaft into n pile of shay
ings, at Portsmouth, and escaped un-
hurt.
LAST fall James Liste and James Mo-
meyer dropped sealed bottle into the
Mahoning river, at Youngstown, Civ
ing their names and addresses. Two
young ladies of Ironton found the
bottle, and a correspondence has sprung
up.
HENRY LNGs, aged "a, a freight
brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, and a resident of Tifiin, was
thrown from the top of car by the
sudden operation of the air brakes, at
an early hour the other morning, and so
badly mangled that he died in four
| hours.
THE saloon of John Williams, OF
Youngstown, was robbed of $3.50 while
he was at dinner
AT Findlay, Jerry Bowersox, a
wealthy farmer, was killed by kick
from his horse.
Two OF the convicts who were re.
leased from the penitentiary the other
morning did not remain at large for a
| great length of time. That night Rich
ard j. Oliver and Robert Harper were
arrested after struggle and juggcd
for highway robbery. They served a
year each for burglary from Cincinnati,
but make New York their home. They
did not take tickets to Cincinnati when
released, but money instead, because
they wanted to get back east. They
did not have quite enough so they held
up u colored man on Seventh street for
the rest They snatched his chain, but
the watch didn't come off and although
they tried to make off, the Negro caught
one, while citizens landed the other
They are tough people, and have a gooc
chance to go right back to where they
came from.
Mrs. THOMAS OGDEN, aged 81 years
who lives in the Fifth ward of Alliance
was standing in front of an open CRATE
when she suddenly became i'll and fel