The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-06
OHIO STATE NEWS.
A Compendium of the Weeks Events.

A Compendium of the Weeks Events.
The Chillicothe daily Ne,os, after fouf
weeks struggle has suspehded publication.
A young man of CoIumbiana named Tirzah
Greenamayer, committed suicide by shooting.
A heavy landslide occurred on the Valley
Railroad Akron, delaying trains several hours
The three-year- son Of Henry Seigler,
near Unionville. was kicked by horse and killed.
The wife of Joel Stil'ey, prominent farmer
residing near Mt. Vernon, has been adjudged in
sane.
A son, aged ten years, of Phillip Piper, or
Mansfield, was accidently drowned by falling OF q
log into the water.
Later reports from Nelsonville say that
policeman James Fewen the murder.r of young
Cooley, has died of his wounds.
Ellsworth Who'll, of Millersburg, was run
by the and had both legs 80 badly crushed
that amputation was necessary.
A ten-year-old SON of George Patrick, resid-
ing at Irving Station, near Mechanicsburg, was
drowned while attempting to cross swollen stream.
C. N. Luttgerding, of Cambridge, is under
arrest for burning down his own house, his object
being to come into possession Of the insurance
money.
Tom Swisher, of Versailles, son of conductor
Jphn Swisher, of the Bee Line, aged Twenty-Five in
fit of temporary insanity, committed suicide by
shooting.
Samuel Shoemaked, employed on the farm of
S. II. Cruthers, near Kenton, while hauling rails,
overturned the load, which fell upon him and
crushed him to death.
james Reynolds, sister of Councilman
Reynolds of Columbus, was found dead in the street
at an early hour in the morning and it is thought
that she was murdered.
At Youngstown, boiler in the upper fur
mace Of the Briarhil Iron Company exploded, kill
ing the engineer and one of the laborers and seri
ously injuring several othes.
The Ripley Bee has been purchased by the
the proprietor of the Ripley Tinles and Mr. Tomlin-
son, former editor Of the Bee, has made arrange
ments to start paper at Ironton.
SamuelS. WHEREBY, farmer, residing three
miles west Of West Alexandria, fell from hay y III,
riking his head against the corner of grAnery
from which ne died in a few moments.
John Godfrey Smalley, arrested for the muir
der, seventeen years ago. of Jacob Baughman al
Zauesvllle, after preliminary hearing, wss bound
over to await the sction of the grand jury.
Andrew Dempy and his stepdaughter, Mary
Berry, of WILMINGTON, under srrsst charged
missed, but not SO with Mary's. Hers took effect
in the left cheek.
The Sunday law, requiring saloons nnd ciga,
stores be closed Sunday, has ben enforced in
city Of Dayton. In sp to Of this, it Is said that
tie hack doors are not kept heavily ironed and
barred.
While two brothers named Farming were
plowing in field on the farm of John Valgamore
pear Portsmouth, bolt Of lightning struck them
add their teams, killing one Of the brothers, the
four holses and seriouly iDjuring the other brother
Gov. Foster has decided to reprieve Man I
and Oar, the young murdere sentenced to be
hanged May 7th at Canton for the murder of the old
man watmough near that place. The reprievs will
extend until June 25th, on which day Shannon il
be hanged
The Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton and Kankake
Line Railroads have arranged for low round tril
rites Of fare to the ncinnati and Chicago Conven
items. The fare from Cincinnati to Chicago and re
turn, or from Chicago to Cincinnati and return vii
| lie nine dollars.
Philip Kaderly, residing near New Philadel
phia, arrested some time ago for beating his wife
has finally been adjudged insane. He had bee
whipping her considerably Of late, claiming, upol
each occasion, that the spirit moved him to do 50
She said 1t the spirit of the divil, and in al
! probability she was somewhere near right
Tullie and Gillie Runkle, of Mad Rive
| Township, Champaign County, each working OF
| their gandmother's farm, have had decidedly un
| brotherly time of it. They are both married men
TuIlie nailed the gate shut Gillle to keep hin
out of fell, and when the lattea attempted toope
1t Tullie drew knife Gillie banter ed Tulie 10 ri
him, at the same time hitting Tulli, with beIn
| Iole. Tu'lie got rail and pounded Gille until b
unconscious, and until his (Tullies) wifs tool
him on. The matter is now in the courts
A buck lamb was born on the farm of A. W
Jones, living about two and half miles east Of Ur
bara, with two perfect bodies, eight legs, two per
feet necks and but one head. The lamb was kille
shortly after its birth, the farmer fearing 1t wcu
die and wishing to have it preserved as curiosity
! Physicians who examined it, however, state that
| would undoubtedly have lived and grown to tn
usual size.
A correspondent at GAINESVILLE tells thi
horrible tale: A man named Alexander Phillip
was arrested in Somerset Township for threatenin
to kill woman. his daughter. Agnes Phillips, wa
arrested at the same time charged with threatenin
| to burn neighbor's house. They resisted tn
| officers, and each knocked down a constable befor
| beng arrested, and when brought here by Office
Kadel he had put nippers on each a precautionar
measure. These prisoners, it is claimed, have bee
living in incestuous relations for several years. an
the woman has had eight children by her father
and Is now enceiRte by him. It is also alleged tha
one of his own children by his own daughter-i
other words, his daughter and his grand -daugbte
At once-is about to give birth to a chld sired b
her own father and grandfather. He debauched hi
daughter, and when the fruit of the unnatu q
union reached maturity he in turn ruined her.