The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-12
NEWS ITEMS.

Several shocks Of earthquake were
felt at Belgrade Wednesday morning.
Two young sons of VIM. s. BrittoA
we're drowned while bathing at Richs
mond, Ind.
John S. Jordan was cut in two COM
pletely by circular saw at St Fran
cisville, Ill.
Another bundle of rifled letters Wa
found near the railroad track two mileo
from Columbus. o.
Farmer Hiram Brady, near Wellston,
o., was gold-bricl1ed out of $500. Same
Did way, identically.
l.. A. Stitch, of Montgomery county,
Ky, is taking to the Worlds fair
steer weighing 4,130 pounds.
Lord Randolph and Lady Churchill
have gone to the south of France. His
nervous system is shattered.
The Peoples Savings bank one Of the
small concerns of st. Paul, Mimi,
closed its doors at noon Friday.
AT Stevens Point, Wis. the CONNER
cial bank failed to opened Thursday.
Assets s200,O00; liabilities 100000.
Isaac Sachs, a merchant of Coalton,
o., repol 10 1t two veiled women tried
to lidnap him while he was visiting at
Jackson.
Henry Allen & Co., New York
brokers, will bring suit against the
National Cordage Trust pool to recover
s670, 600 commissions.
| Pearl Sutton, aged ten, was instantly
killed at Sistersville, w. Va, by the
handle of windlass flying back and
striking her on the head.
j. c. Jeffries, of Carmel, Ind, drew
$500 out of the Westfield bank to pay a
| Gcbt, hid it in II bed-ticli for safe keep
| j z: then a thief stole it.
Mrs. John Fisk shot and killed her
husband in the street ut Paris, Tex.
She was a morphine tiend. They had
been married but week.
John Lynch, a farm hand, vas sun
struck in a distant field os Il farm seven
miles south of st. I.otns, and lay for
four days before he was discovered.
The steamship Aller, which arrived
at New York Thursday morning from
Liverpool, brought $50, 600 in gold con-
signed to Ladenburg, Thalman & Co.
The fatal scalding of Sylvester Fish
er's 2-year-old son is reported from
Amity, east of Springfield. o. His sis
ter pulled a pot of scalding water over
on him.
The st. Louis Republic claims that
the passenger earnings of the western
railroads for the month of July show u
decrease as compared to June e;.xnings
of $500, 000
The treasury department Friday pur-
chased 100000 ounces Of silver at 72
cents an ounce. an advance of ! lilo
cent an ounce over the price paid
Wednesday.
Theodore Thomas, musical director
of the exposition, has asked to be re-
lieved. He sent his request to the COM
mittee on liberal arts, but it has not
been accepted.
Beginning Wednesday, the extensive
locomotive shops of the New York,
Lake Erie & Western railroad will be
in operation but "a hours per week. at
Susquehanna Pa.
j. w. Neff, of Cincinnati, was grant
ed the right of way through Clark
county Wednesday to build an electric
line from Springfield to Nenia. Work
will begin at once.
John jackson. of Greenbrier, Ark,
invited his brother-in-law, John Pad
gett, to his house, and when he pad
gett) came to the door, Jackson shot
him to death. No cause.
AT New York, Katie Reynolds and
Philippine Cooney, both young girls,
have been arrested, charged with
house breaking. The girls had been
burglarizing flats for several weeks
past
The London Standards correspond.
ent at Budah Pesth says that the
wheat crop in Hungary will be one
million hundred weight in excess of
the estimate, and that the quality is
excellent.
The first dirt on the Chicago and
Central Indiana Electric road was
turned in the south part of Noblesville,
Ind, Wednesday,. The road goes due
south to Indianapolis in place of via
Westfield.
Nicholas w. Hirschmann cashier for
the consolidated Steel and Iron Co., OF
st. Louis, was arrested Thursday,
charged with embezzlement. He ac.
knowledges his guilt. He is nearly
$40, 600 short
Silver to the amount OF 149, 900 ounces
was offered for sale to the treasury
department, Wednesday. at prices
ranging from II cents to 711G cents per
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7O.9 cents rendered.
Attorney General Ellis has given an
opinion to the effect that the insurance
law passed by the late Michigan legis-
lature is unconstitutional, owing tc
section 5. which permits unauthorized
companies to do business in the state.
Milton Wall, Negro was arrested
for robbing registered letter pouches
at Livingston, Mont, of large sums OF
money Wall was messenger, en-
ployed by the railroad, and delivered.
the mail from the depot to the post
office.
A white man named Felts, aged 1O1
, years, died at his home in Knoxville,
Tenn. He was native of North Caro-.
4, lima, but came to Knoxville when a boy,
and exchanged rifle and six deer hides
for fifty acres of land, now covered by
the business part of the city.
Young Thomas Day, of Summer
county, Tenn. who killed Robert An.
pie at Carthage, last February, was
I, convicted of voluntary Inanslaughter,
punishment being fixed at six years in
the penitentiary Both young men
We're popular, and the tragedy caused