The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-05-27
NEWS ITEMS.

Many deaths from malignant diph.
liberia are reported ut Little Falls,
N. ID.
Reports of damaging prairie fires rag
ing near Aberdeen, s. D., have reached
St. Paul.
40 less than 5000 persons were driven
from their homes in Meadville, Pa, by
the high water.
Twelve leading gamblinghouse keep
ers at New Orleans have been indicted
by the grand jury.
A headless child was born to Mrs
Charles Conway, of Paris, Ky 1t lived
but fifteen minutes.
Seven babies have been found on
door-steps in Lexington, Ky, within
the past two months.
Prof Buchweld, of Lcipsic, claims to
have discovered number of manu-
scripts by Dr. Martin Luther.
Kidder Peabody IL Co., of Boston,
shipped 100000 gold on the steamship
| Scythia. sailing to Europe, Saturday.
Silas Colgrove, of Indiana, Il principal
examiner in the pension bureau, has
resigned. His salary was $4,000 per
year.
| M. Lardeux, Il French journalist, pro-
poses to walk from Paris to Chicago,
via Siberia, crossing Behring Straits on
the ce
The president has appointed Capt
| VIM. III. Hummer, of the Twentieth in
fantry, paymaster in the army, with the
rank of major.
AT Eric. Pa, the total loss by the
flood will reach si5O,OOO while at Titus
vile it is said to be nearly as heavy as
that of last June.
Postmaster General Bisscll has APP
pointed John l.. Thomas, of Missouri,
to be assistant attorney general for the
post Office department.
The German government has offered
Count Won Alvesvelen the German ann
bassy at Washington, but the count de-
clined to accept the Office.
The Germanic arrived at Queens
town Thursday evening finishing her
passage in seven days, twenty-five
hours and twenty-four minutes.
Chung Tong, of the Chinese com
panies at San Francisco says he is wait
ing instructions from his home CON-
pany before advising Chinese how TO
act.
The establishment of the Ionkcrs
Hat Manufacturing Co. was almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire Thursday morn
ing. The loss is estimated at 800. 600
About 600 hands are thrown out of en-
ployment.
business men of Mexico are exercised
over the proposed changes in the Gus
toms tariff. The tax of II cents per
| lxsl
bacco and snuff is meeting with great
deal of opposition.
|, Miss Laura States, on the day she
was to be wed, abandoned her be-
trothed husband, Harvey Embly, ut
Canton, and skipped to Wheeling, w.
Va, where she married her old sweet
heart, VIM. Thomas.
The Press Club League convention ut
{ ST. Paul Friday elected John A. Cock
> Grill president. A resolution was adopt
, ed instructing the governing board to
establish fund to build IL home for
aged and infirm journalists.
{ William Schureman, proprietor o.
+ the Normal Qll.) exchange bank,
> which suspended last Monday, has
, been taken 10 Jail, charged with EN-
l | I)cLIieIleHU. oneTeu W luTllSLl
bail, but he would not allow it.
The confession made by colored
t fiend named VIII Barnes who was az
| rested on suspicion as one of the thieves
= operating in Warren county, Miss
cleared up the murder case Of VIM. Jehl
: who was murdered five years ago.
The international IIorseshoers decid.
ed to join the American Federation
There are $4,000 members. making tn,
z federation the largest labor body of it:
kind in the world. The next convcn
c ton will be held in Washington, in 1891
i a steam shovel employed on the Van
dalia. near st. Joseph, Ind, Thursday
struck snow-bank five feet deep
buried under about eight feet of sand
The snow had edidcntly driftcd there
l. in the winter and the sand drifted ovel
e II since.
d At the conven tion of railroad teleg
n raphers, in session at Toronto, Ont.
j. Wednesday,, the report of the grant
). secretary showed the membership to bs
10000. and that there was Il substantial
), sum in the treasury, with u protective
o fund of $4,000.
Arailway accident resulting in n large
$ number of fatalities is reported from
Li,ncnuu. SuXe-Weimer. The boiler o
o n locomotive exploded, killing five per
sons and iniuring a number of Others
SO seriously that eight of them are in
dying condition.
: Baron l'ucheracht, one of the Secrc
J, taries of the Russian embassy, has mar
y ried I'aronness kolemine. the divorced
! wife OF the late grand duke Louis ~
= OF Hessc. I!aron Eacheracht will, IT il
!. said. be transferred to the Russian en-
G bassy at Lisbon.
e Admiral Gherardi is going t.
h the Brooklyn navy yard. He will tnl,'
:; command and relieve Commodore Ei'
= ben. who will be sent to Il Europca,
= station. The navy yard at this por
I has long been the rear-udmiral's choic'
of shore command.
): The drought continues in the Cam
e pagna and in southern Italy generally
n The damage of this drought vii, b,
u very heavy. Mast of the crops ar,
!, y ruined. rs no rain has fallen for o"c
- four manths. The depression in this
d capital is very great.
VI Rufus Hatch in his will warns hi
y boys against drinking and gambling
~ lie also prefers they should get busi
= ness education in preference to Il col
lego course.
james Sanduslsy, once wealth,
r.