The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-07-01
OHIO NEWS.


the woods near Bucyrus, last week, was
instantly killed by tree falling on him
and crushing his head.
CLEVELAND is greatly excited over the
arrest of prominent dry goods dealer
named Ignatius Fuchs, charged with an
attempt to bribe Justice Babcock to dis-
miss suit against him.
Work is going on on the government
piers at Ashtabula, and the question is
to be settled as to the effect of its pre-
venting deposits and the formation OF a
bar by running the piers out into deep
water.
A CINCINNATI dispatch states that q
sub-contractor named Henderson, on the
Cincinnati Southern railroad, has alb
seconded with $1,000 belonging TO Con-
tractor Dole, and other funds, theamount
not known, belonging to Henderson's
partners.
A pAwNBRoKER's shop on Summit
street, Toledo, was entered by burglars
last Tuesday. Goods to the value OF
several thousand dollars were stolen. The
parties entered the establishment at the
rear, put out the gas, and cut open the
safe with O chisel. Several arrests of
suspicious characters were made.
PRESIDENT TAYLOR, of the University
of Wooster, has received information
that the institution has received be-
quest of $25, 1000 from one of the trus-
tees, W. D. johnson, of Clarke county,
lately deceased. Mr.. johnson also left
an equal amount to the Board of Home
Missions of the Presbyterian Church.
GALL, the Cincinnati man who di-
vorced his wife, sister of Victoria
Woodruff, for continuous adultery, "
the other day, was married the next
morning, the last making his fourth
wife, the other three being all living.
He is bound to be suited if he has to
run a divorce mill of his own.
The Atlantic and Great Western east
srn-bound passenger train, which left
Cincinnati at 10 o'clock last Sunday
night, was thrown from the track at Ham,
ilton, by a displaced switch. The fire
man, James Kirkup, was killed, and the
engineer, James Gray, was badly bruised.
No others were injured.
JACOB NJ. MoGREw, of Ohio, for a
long time Chief Clerk of the Sixth
Auditors office, will be appointed Au-
ditor in place of ex-Congressman Sheats,
of Alabama. Sheats was appointed only
about three months ago, and has been
removed. He has been absent several
weeks in Alabama, and will not return.
A CLEVELAND Herald special has the
following: "Two brothers named Reed,
living in Richmond township, Ashtabula
county, had quarrel some months ago,
which terminated last Tuesday by one
entering the bedroom and shooting the
other three times in the head. The
father approved of the act. The wounds
will prove fatal. The father and son
have been arrested"
LORD CHARLES PELHAM CLINTON, of
England, the representative of the En-
glish proprietors of the Mount Carbon
estate, situated in the Kanawha Valley,
West Virginia, has presented to Peter
Gibson, proprietor of the Gibson House,
Cincinnati, a magnificent set of silver
plate, valued at $4,000, for his gratuitous
services in protecting and managing that
estate for series of years.
AT fire in Toledo, last Monday, the
lives of a whole family were saved
through the efforts of faithful dog, who
Ieaped on his mistress bed and gently
bit her in the face until she was awakened.
Three barns which were destroyed were
then all ablaze. From the thorough
manner in which the incendiary did his
work, it was his evident intention to de
stroy the entire row of wooden buildings
contiguous to the structures destroyed.
ONO patents sash balances, Elias
johnson, Wauseon pot scrapers, Urias
Cramer, New Philadelphia /; railroad
crossing signals, R. 7. King, Cleveland
and Lucien L. Num-, Oberlin cal
starters, Frank Stafford, Cleveland
hand corn planters, J. Beers, Greenville
grading apparatus, E. Church, Cleve
land washing machine, James W
Meick, White Cottage; chain pumps
Chas. Fishbaugh, Tifin railway raj
joints, VIM. NJ. Spacht, Dunkirk.
BETWEEN Marion and Gallon the Be-
Line track and that of the Atlantic ant
Great Western run side by side fol
nearly twenty miles, affording one of tho
best locomotive racing tracks in this
country. For years past the broad
guage engines of the Atlantic and Grea
Western road have generally been abb,
to outrun the Bee Line engines, whel
the same number of cars were attached
to the respective locomotives, but
couple of weeks ago the Eastern Divi
sion of the Bee Line road was short on
engine, and the G. G. Gale, of the In
dianapolis Division, was placed upol
that end of theroad for couple of weeks
During that time several races between j
and the crack engine of the Atlantic an,
Great Western road have come off, an,
without exception the G. G. Gale has LEI
its opponent in the rear. The boys a
the indianapolis shops now take grea
pride in relating the feats of their favor
ite, and challenge anything that roll
upon "T" rail to outrun it.