The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-11-11
WHOLE NUMBER 7O6
OHIO STATE NEWS.

Two-rH1RDs of the horses Of Steubenville
have the epizooty.
VIM. B. SMITH, q Cincinnati broker won
81, 900 on the late election.
HUGH SAVAGE, grocer, Chillicothe. assign
ment; liabilities, S13, 600; assets, $4,000.
THERE are thirty-two applications for divorce
before the Court now in session in Washington
County.
VIM. CULLEN, an old and esteemed engineer,
was run over and killed ut Wellsville the past
week.
The threatened general strike in the Tusca-
raWas Valley among the miners has fallen
through with.
WIN. l.. HAMoN, residing near Mt Vernon,
went out hunting. The doctors regard his re-
covery improbable.
JAMES w. SWIFT, a contractor of Caldwell,
ien from building few days since and was
dangerously injured.
county, was thrown from his wagon and 80
injured that his life is dispared of. E.
IHE safe of Dent & Powleson, at Newcom-
erstown, WAS blown open the other night and
S3OO In cash and 5000 in notes extracted.
The body of John MCGUIRE q young man of
Plain City, was found on the railroad track
near that place, few days ago, horribly man
gled.
DAVID MUM, of Kent, aged sixty years,
whose wife is visiting in Iowa, has been ar
rested charged with an unnatural crime with
his ten-year-old daughter.
EDWARD II. BULLARD, aged fifty-fye of
Dorset Township, Ashtabula County, hanged
himself from beam in his barn. The verdict
ls, that he must have been crazy.
RILEY BAIRD, an old resident near Piqua, was
found drowned in the hydraulic near town o
few days ago. 1t is supposed he fell off q
bridge while on his way home at night.
THE free postal delivery at GAINESVILLE, which
went into effect October l, makes rather good
showing. During the month there were 75, 900
letters delivered and q, 600 collected.
ROBERT PHIBBs, Street Commissioner, of
| Niles, having been on o spree for several days,
wound up by swallowing quantity of Paris
green, and his recovery is dispaired Of.
| JOHN BALL, a wealthy farmer near Logan
and aged 60 years, has encountered bastardy
| suit at the hands of Miss Pontius and the
case ls' naturally attracting considerable atten-
| ton.
Miss CARRIE MILLER, of steubenville, stood
too close to o crate fire, her clothing became
| ignited, and screaming, she ran frantiaally into
| the street, where she fell exhausted and was
almost consumed by the flames.
| ROBERT HUGHES, aged fourteen, of Ironton,
was jollifying over the election of Garfield by
| the aid of a cannon improvised from gas-pipe.
The pipe exploded, piece of the metal enter
ing the lads head and producing fatal injury.
| THE daughter of Jacob Pfeifer, of Upper
Sandusky, beautiful and accomplished young
lady, suicided by hanging. She was soon to
| have been married to George Wills now in the
West with a view to purchasing farm.
PETER BURNEs (celorod) aged 80 years, of
! Galllpolis, Ohio, was taken out of his house
| by others of his color and horribly beaten.
Burns is reported to be q Democrat, and it is
ayerred that that was the cause of his NAL
| treatment.
AT Unionville huckster named John Smell
attempted to drive his wagon into the house of
| Henry Simmons who, naturally enough OBJ
jected, whereupon Smell drew 32-caIiber re-
volyer and discharged III ce shots at the hired
man, without effect. Hired men are not kept
to be shot at and Smell must have been crazy to
think SO.
DR.. WYLEs, assisted by three other phys-
clans, at Ripley, performed the operation of
lithotomy upon the son, aged eighteen years,
of Louis Stephenson. The stone removed
from the bladder measured one and half
inches in diameter, from which the boy had for
long time been sufferer. The patient is
getting along finely, with excellent prospects
for his final recovery.
Mrs. CHAs. STEWART, of Urbana, who was
| lost from her home in Chicago 10 years ago
(aged years at that time) and picked mp by an
Urbana lady, taken home and reared. has Just
discovered her parents, after repeated and long
correspondence, and gone to pay them a visit.
They gave her up at the time as having either
been killed or kidnapped, and were only too Joy
fully surprised to meet her again, a grown and
married woman.
AT South Charleston fire broke out in Leon
Houston Bros large store building and ele-
vators and destroyed the entire building, ma.
| chinery and the contents, amounting to about
100000, principally wool and grain, with an in
surance of less than half that amount. The
fire spread rapidly, and destroyed some half Of
the best business houses in town, among then
, G: II. Wentz, saddlery; A. McIntire, grocery
, NJ. Peters, stoves and tinware; Charles Wilson
dry goods; A. Bradford, groceries, and two
dwellings belonging to Mrs. G. Ackley, who
owned two of the stores that were completed,
destroyed Wentz, Wilson and Ackley were in
: sured.
: FRED KARscH, Cincinnati policeman, wa
, | shot and killed the past week by Charles Mar
shall, colored desperate. Karsch had orderet
4 gang who were engaged in noisy dispute, t.
3 move along, when some of them took exception
to his order, and almost instantly Marshal
produced revolver, and placing it against tn
i officer, began shooting. Another officer, il
. company with Karsch, witnessing the shooting
knocked Marshall down with his mace, AM
: made heroic effort to break the mans skul
: afterward by continuing the pounding, but
n seems without much success. Marshall stoo
., | the pounding pretty well and afterward walke
to the station-house, when. he became insensibl
= and fell to the floor.
:, RESPECTING the Saddler murder trial at Woos
: ter, correspondent says: At last the finale O
9 the Saddler murder trial has been reached, an
James Saddler has been sentenced to ninetee
r years in the Penitentiary. He has been cor
fined in jail for one year, which makes twent
e in all, the full limit of punishment for mar
slaughter. When Judge Parsons pronounce
sentence the prisoners mother uttered vii
|. shrek of agony, but Saddler merely locke
scornfully at her and laughed. He has dis
played stolid indifference and sullen obstinac
!, during the entire trial, and receives now littl
g if any sympathy. Judge Parsons says had nc
!; Tormie received the blow from Saddler
q would have been alive to-day.