The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22
OHIO STATE NEWS.

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JOSEPH ScnENaLgR, Of Sanduslsy, was
awarded 81, 900 damages against the Big
Four railroad for personal injuries sus.
tanned while in the company's employ.
lie sued for $4,000.
THE Grand encampment of Ohio ]. 0.
o. f.. will be held in Findlay May 1, 2
and g. Extensive arrangements for the
entertainment of the delegates and
visitors are being made. A thousand
Odd Fellows are expected TO be in
attendance. A parade of Patriarchs
Militant will be one of the big features
2f the encampment, cantons from all
parts of the state having agreed TO
participate.
! Mrs CATHERINE HOFFMAN, aged 80,
/ fell out of the window while sleep
walking and was badly bruised at
GAINESVILLE.
Gov. MCKINLEY has pardoned Alpheus
Ballard and Frank Griffith, the former
upon the recommendation of the board
of managers of the penitentiary, and
the latter at the instance of the board
of pardons.
Mrs e. NJ. STANDIsH of Columbus,
at the sanitarium in Urbana for the
morphine habit, shot herself because
her husband would not let her have the
drug. She will recover.
The Columbus Street hallway Co. has
advanced the wages of its employees
from five to ten cents per day.
ALFRED TAFFELT, while digging in
the garden at Kenton, found what he
thought to be horse-raddish. Calling
his sister, two brothers and a neighbor
they ate it All soon became violently
Ill. Prompt action by physician
saved their lives.
THE Diamond window glass factory,
Findlay, was damaged $4,000 by a
storm.
The saloons and fruit stands of
GAINESVILLE must be closed by 12 o'clock
Saturday night, says Mayor Silvey, who
was elected on the Sunday closing is
1ue. A wide-open policy has prevailed
for many years.
AT Springfield Mr.. and Mrs. A. b.
Runyan, highly respected couple,
,, celebrated their golden wedding, the
other day, surrounded by hundreds OF
friends
, SAM BowDIN, an ex-convict, sent from
/ Hardin county for horse-stealing, was
, arrested at Chillicothe for stealing a
horse from Samuel James, of New Hol.
land He is suspected of like crimes
at other points.
THE Sunday law is to be enforced al
GAINESVILLE.
r JOHN GoRsUcH, q Chillicothe pioneer,
? died the other day, aged eighty.
5 REVENUE officers are wading through
the swamps of Paulding county search
ing for moonshiners
The ninth annual meeting of the
: Ohio woman's suffrage association will
be held in Delaware on May 8, 10 anC
n IL.
j THE consolidation of the vast iron in
# terests of the Mahoning valley, includ
k ing all the mills of Youngstown anC
e those at Girard, Pomeroy and Warren
d will no doubt be completed within tn,
n next few days.
= THE Daughters of Rebekah of tn,
n Ohio 1. o. o. T. closed their annual ses
J. sion at Toledo, the other afternoon
II Newark was chosen as the mex
l. place of meeting. The officers elected
are as follows: President, Lydia Xii
e len, Springfield; vice president, Ger
d trude Hudson, Cleveland; secretary
IL Anna Henry, Akron; treasurer Ellel
IS Warren, Garrettsville; inside guardian
Ie Mary A. Troup, Van Vert; chaplain
Is Anna Fish, Toledo. The Rebeka
j. branch is reported as in a fourishin
/ condition.
ie At Johnsonville. twelve miles mort
= of Mt. Gilead, young DR.. Denison su
II cided, taking $50 grains of some sort c
70 bromide.
. George Cowden, of Bedford township
- Meigs county, dropped dead near tn
barn, while attending to his chores. ii
was sixty-six years of age and an VI
'e right citizen, and father-in-law {
y Charles E. Peoples, prosecuting alto
- ney for Meigs county.
- A WEIRD ceremony conducted by til
}. male Greeks was celebrated NET
u Youngstown, few days ago, it bein
- the Greek Easter. An isolated spot
=: ~ dense woods was selected, where thrt
- sheep and numerous chickens wei
d -oasted on spits. When done they wei
- washed down with wine imported fro
Greece. Following this they hung O
effigy of Judas Iscariot, splitting on
and throwing fire-crackers on the forr
and concluded by cremating Judas. A
he ter this they iudulged in a weird dan'
.r TO the music of Greek mandolins.
e- THREE workmen found the body of
.s male infant buried in pine box in Il
er woods on the Train farm three mil
ad from GAINESVILLE. The coroner had Il
he body examined, but no marks of vi
We lence could be found The infant WI
ds dressed in the most expensive clothin
er indicating that the parents we
at wealthy.
or The new water works at Bryan ha
been started, and the supply of wat
from four wells is inadequate to su
'y. ply water for the city, consequent
as other wells will be put down at ono
ew The ones already put down have 4
ity effect of lessening the flow of fountai
mis- in the part of town in which the watG
sre works wells are located. Several re
NJ dents have threatened TO bring suit
zee damages
rec DoRE SHUMAN, business man of Vi
he Vert was found dead in bed at t
he Park hotel, Piqua, supposed from hea
disease
HARRY KISG. aged s, was drown
ell while fishing in Rock creek, Tiffin.
led SOME large deals have been made
lie the northwest Ohio oil fields within t
use past few days The Standard Oil
RI paid sl75, 900 for the Ferryman farm
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