The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-10
OHIO NEWS.

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NJ. Christian, were recently burned to
death by the explosion OF can of kero-
sene with which one of them was en-
deavoring to kindle a fire.
AT Xenia the Tiff will case, wherein
the deceased willed his property to vari-
GUS institutions, societies and persons,
disinheriting his two children, has ter
minated in setting the will aside.
AT Cleveland, on Friday evening, the
Northern Ohio Wooden Mills, caught fire
by the friction of machinery. The loss
is estimated at 500, O,OeO; insurance, $2O,
600. Only small portion of the build
ing was saved.
THE success of the Springfield, Jack
son and Pomeroy narrow-guage coal road
is assured, as every dollar of the $780,
600 required to build the road has been
secured. Preparatory work upon the
road will be commenced Immediately.
A IABoRER on a wood train at Lima,
named Andrew Daily, who was hurt a
few days since by pile driver slipping
off a car, striking him in the abdomen,
causing internal injuries, died on Sun
day last. He leaves a wife and nine
children.
AT Cleveland, the other day, John
Keneen, aged 50, murdered his mother
in-law, Mrs. Bridget Genan, aged so
years, by cutting her head open with an
adz. The murderer then gave himself
up. He pleads insanity, and says there
has been no trouble between deceased
and himself.
LOUISA RoHMEYER, a young German
girl, was found drowned in a cistern, at
Cincinnati, the other day. 1t was
thought clear case of suicide, but indi-
cations of efforts on her part to save
herself either controvert that idea, or
indicate that she changed her mind after
taking the plunge, but too late to escape
her fate.
Mrs. BoEHM, the fat woman of Bar
NUNS show, died at her residence in
East Baltimore, few days since, aged
30 years. Her weight was 5S3 pounds;
her height, feet inches, and the span
around the waist was p inches. She
was born in Licking county, in this
State. Her maiden name was Hannah
Jane Duck.
AT Youngstown, Sunday morning, two
boys named Tilden and Lord, about IA
years of age, and an unknown tramp,
were found dead in the casting house of
Andrews & Brothers furnace. The boys
went fishing on Saturday, and it is sup
posed fell into the water, and in the
evening went to the furnace to dry be-
fore going home, laid down near the hot
blaze and were suffocated by the gas.
AT Circleville, last week, w. Mar
shall Anderson, President of the School
Board, gave notice to the. e.teachers that
he would indorse no order for their sal
aries unless they complied with his order
to discontinue the customary morning
reading of the Bible and prayer. Some
teachers had disregarded said order by
direction of q majority of the School
Board, and now war is imminent.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer asks: "When
will Miss Gary come Bach that we may
Liszt to her sweet voice again." And
the Boston Advertiser responds
"Haydn't you better Handel the sub
ject differently, and not be Chopin it VI
in that way2 Composeyourself. Strauss
show which way the wind blows, and
che is likely to be Offenbach. She viii
soon be Wagner head in Cincinnati il
you will only make it an object. "
CITIZENS of this State have recently
secured patents on the following inven
tions Earth-augers, Geo. S. Strong
Mount Vernon devices to protect work
men from the water while washing sheep
G. II. and J. II. Mccall, Morristown
extension-tab slides, W. J. Boda, Day
ton; ightning-rods, ]. A. Kleckner
Canton; turntables, S. NJ. Carpenter
Cleveland music-teaching apparatus
J.'A. Scarritt, Columbus screw-cuttine
dies, NJ. A. Griffith, Dayton ; augers
NJ. Wells, Cleveland galvanic batteries
W. M. Davis, Cleveland; strap-loops
S. G. Talcott, Ashtabula.
CRIMINAL negligence was punished il
England recently, in the case of "nigh
inspector of railroad, who "forgot'
that he had ordered one train forward
and SO ordered another right into it, oc
casioning a terrible collision, by whicl
many lives were lost. He was tried TO
manslaughter last month, found guilty
"with strong recommendation t.
mercy," and sentenced to eighteel
months imprisonment, with hard labor
A case almost precisely similar in Ohio
where the guilty person was a youni
woman who acted as telegraph operator
resulted in the poor creatures dismissa
from the company's service!
By the falling of a scaffold at tn
Central Ohio Hospital for Insane, 9
Columbus, last week, George Bowers
Jerry Ryan, Albert Gottlieb and Wn
Herman were killed, and Fred. Kunt
and Ben Smith, it is thought, fatally il
jured., They fell distance of eighty
five feet. One man on the scaffold mad
descending jump of thirty feet an
aighted on wall, escaping without il
jury. During the excitement which pr
vailed, the timers on one of the tower
quit their work, and left soldering pc
behind, from which FIRE communicate
te the fsei. sad Del are ia the tewel
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