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Newspaper
The Ohio Democrat
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1891
Page
2
A scattered review of diverse topics including railroad snow, bank failures, wheat and mortgage concerns, rare mineral finds, postal history, and notable figures. The item lists global and domestic affairs, scientific curiosities, and social notes, presenting a mosaic of late nineteenth century interests and anxieties.
Information to County Superintendent Lydy reveals a wholesale poisoning at a Fireat township public school. The teacher Don Goat and fifteen pupils are in critical condition, two pupils have died. The well supplying the school water is the suspected source, with adults near home not affected. Water samples are being tested to confirm poisoning and density of the mystery toxin.
Thom son Houston Carbon works described as the largest carbon manufacturer, burned completely Tuesday night. Fire likely started in the plating room from a gas or naphtha explosion, with high winds driving the blaze. The nearby McLean Spike and Rollfog mill, owned by Gen. Alger, also destroyed, with insurance around 120000. Spike works valued at 350000, insured for 19000. Many workers left jobless. building collapse and widespread damage to surrounding area reported.
A landslide on the Northern Pinetle near Canton Station about eighty miles from here killed fifteen men and injured twenty more. Sixty Tacoma men labored to clear debris after the wall of earth and rock slid into the Gren river, washing some workers away. A relief train brought the wounded, most in critical condition, and many dead are Irish and Swedish. Andrew Liteon survived by swimming after being swept across the river.
An organized band of robbers infesting the region for years was discovered in a cave beneath a trapdoor. A hunter fell in, revealing a finished cave with a lamp, whisky, and supplies including 12 bushels of clover reed and pork. Farmers had reported thefts for five years but traced nothing.
The Chronicle correspondent in Tien Tsin describes a large insurgent movement in Mongolia and northern districts near the capital. An armed Mongolian cavalry force is said to be advancing on Peltin as local Christians face violence and religious suppression.
An article describes a vast opium trafficking network led by the notorious Yom Whaley with a small squadron of vessels in port. Australian refugees Hoom and Douglass are said to have joined the operation, and many coast freighters evade customs to transship drugs. The Benglai is noted as heavily armed, requiring naval intervention to stop the smugglers.
A two year old boy David T Beale Jr vanished during Thanksgiving gathering at his family home in Annan Cry and was found safe after a ransom plot. A masked man delivered the child to his relieved parents as he presented a ransom demand of 30000 dollars, but the plan collapsed with the boy’s return. The Beale banker family, led by David T Beale senior, faced a tense search and swift police involvement.
Fragmentary notices report a child dying after choking on noodle soup following diphtheria and a tracksman finding a body near Bridge No 4 after suspecting a break in. Separate items note Roosevelt’s plans and a Western Union robbery investigation, with local and national inconclusive updates.
Government contract notice lists bids for carrying U S mail on Pacific and Caribbean routes under the March 3 act. New York to Havana and New York to Buenos Aires services awarded at stated rates. multiple lines to be operated monthly with third and fourth class compensations. Contracts run ten years with specific start dates in 1802 1809 and related ports include Galveston La Guayra Caracas and Hong Kong.
Nov 24 dispatches from Monrovia report northern native tribes rebelling against Liberian authority and seeking protection from England in Sierra Leone. President Johnson vows not to surrender sovereignty. risk of broader frictions among great powers if English support grows. Influenza widens in Berlin with 40,000 attacked since Nov 1 and 30 deaths in eight days.
The Chronicle's correspondent in Tianjin cites official reports of massacres and outrages by rebels across China. Descriptions include killing native converts, burning children, torturing clergy, and cannibalized victims, with a brutal feast by a Chinese mandarin alleged. European diplomats and the entire colony express indignation as imperial troops push forward toward rebel positions.
George Wheaten Allen known as Land TV Allen died Sunday night at the infirmary in his 71st year born in Connecticut he came to Ohio in 1880 and peddled a wagon to wealth later moved to Malo township where taxes and poverty led to confinement in the poor house and infirmary despite advocacy for the Homestead act and public sentiment he ended his days in hardship.
A garbled 19th century dispatch reports Lake Shore accident aftermath near Cleveland with multiple fatalities and serious injuries, rail officials silent, coroner to convene a jury, and conflicting engineer statements amid broader unrest and unrelated foreign notes.
In the Paint Creek valley six miles west of Chillicothe archaeologists from the Columbian exposition, led by B W Putnam of Harvard, unveil the North Park world works. The site includes a vast paralleled fortification, two defensive enclosures, multiple mounds, altar and mortuary mounds, copper discs, shell beads, and rare flint finds. Excavations reveal pottery fragments and evidence of textile craft, with a major flint collection noted on September 18. Researchers box and ship artifacts to Chicago for the American archeological exhibit.
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