The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-07-15
OHIO NEWS.

WILLIAM LEooMPT, well known citi-
zen of Dayton, while standing on box
car on the railroad track, fell off and
broke his neck, dying almost instantly.
TIE internal revenue receipts of the
First District of Ohio (Hamilton county,
for the fiscal year ending June 80, were
$S,O55, ,517.45, being an increase of $685.
365. 26 over the previous year.
Mrs. LUCY HEBRON PARKER, who has
for the past seven years filed the chair
of Natural Sciences in the Cincinnati
Wesleyan College, has been appointed
to and accepted a similar position in
the Female College at Delaware, Ohio.
Col. SIDNEY D. MAXWELL, Superin-
tendent of the Merchants Exchange,
Cincinnati, was, on Tuesday of last
week, presented by the members of that
body with handsome set of solid silver,
consisting of ninety eight pieces of table
ware. About ten hours previous the
Pork Packers Association presented him
with silver tea service complete.
VERDICT of Cincinnati Coroner's
ury: "We, the jury, find that the said
Louis Fellman came to his death by
shot accidentally went off by himself by
killing cat by shooting the same and
,,I,o,, gbo ,.oo Do4 5ao5 INSTANTLY Inv
striking the cat with the breech of the
gun and the load discharged ITSELF"
A GREAT deal of excitement prevails in
the vicinity of Springfield over what is
called the army worm. Whole fields of
grain have been destroyed by the pest.
In the neighborhood of fremont, field
of rye, belonging to Mr.. Sanders, was
consumed in a few hours. Where the
pest came from is mystery. Efforts
are being made to stop the advance of
this vast army.
AT Cincinnati last week VIM. Williams
represented himself as connected with
the Chicago Commercial AdUertiSer,
and obtained pass on the Baltimore
and Ohio road. Then q telegram was
sent to the proprietor of the paper, who
replied that Williams had no authority,
to ask for pass on account of his paper,
whereupon Williams was arrested, and
now lies in the station-house on a charge
of obtaining pass by false pretenses.
ONO patents: sash balances, Elias
johnson, Wauseon pot scrapers, Urias
Cramer, New Philadelphia railroad
crossing signals, r. T. King, Cleveland,
and Lucien L. Mum, Oberhn car
starters, Frank Stafford, Cleveland !;
hand corn planters, J. Beers, Greenyille !;
grading apparatus, z. Church, Cleve-
land washing machine, James W.
Melick, White Cottage; chain pumps,
Chas. Fishbaugh, Tiffin; railway rail
joints, VIM. NJ. Spacht, Dunkirk.
PATENTS recently issued to citizens OF
this State /: Hub-borers, Austin Bas-
com, Norwalk manufacture of iling,
F. h. Hall, GAINESVILLE paper bags, Ed
ward Mill, Cleveland sad-iron heaters,
Jas. S. Bitter, Delaware car-movers,
Milton Woodwork and Jerome B. Fred
ricks, Conneaut; crown-sheets for steam
boilers, Solomon B. Canon, Columbus !;
oil-cans, Anson o. Kittredge, William
H. Clark and William J. Clark, Salem !;
railway-rail chairs, George o. Ross,
Marion, Ohio; grate-bars, James A.
Sinclair, Bridgeport; harvesters, Lewis
Miller and Jacob Miller, Canton rolls
for utilizing the fag-ends of railroad
rails, Henry Chisholm, Cleveland.
For sometime past warm conflict
has been going on in Westerville, Frank
lin county, between the citizens of the
town and one Henry H. Corbin, who re-
Gently started q saloon within the cor
porate limits. Until recently the war
has been one of words, but the other
night some unknown parties secretly
placed gunpowder in the saloon building,
connecting with it fuse, which caused
an explosion to occur about midnight,
blowing out the windows and doors of
the building, and raising the roof about
four inches. Upon Corbin's application,
warrants were issued for the arrest of
the preachers of the various churches
in Westerville, the Postmaster and -four
other citizens. The warrants charge the
parties named, and others unknown,
with riotous conduct in assaulting and
encouraging an assault upon Corbin's
saloon with stones. The Otterbien Uni
versity is located at Westerville, and fol
many years no saloon has been allowed
to exist in the town. The excitement is
very great, and each side is equally de
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