The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-09-09
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OHIO STATE NEWS.

IHE Olnclnnau lndustr1a EXpO6ltlOn Ii In
progress. ssTtlFks
THERE is continued trouble in the coal regions
in this State. 90 til8-t sFif s4
DIPHrHERIA is prevailing to an alarming ex-
tent at New Lexington.
AT the stock sales at Washington, G. H.,
last week, cattle sold at S3 and 1876.
The furnace-fillers at Mingo Junction are on
strike, and it is stated that negroes are TO be
imported to supplant them. f
q MIroHEI1, who was to have been hanged at
Troy on the Sd inst, received respite of two
weeks from Governor Fostor.
JOHN CURTIS, of Madison County, while on .
trip to Columbus, was waylaid and robbed OF
$500 IN money and $3, 800 In notes.
HARRY PATTERSON, q young man living near
Belle Centre, accidentally shot himself while
out in a boat on the reservoir. He lived two
hours. >
The death of a COW from snake bite and the
subsequent killing of rattlesnake near Bel
laire, created something of sensation few
days ago.
ADEN MYERS, while picking pears on the
farm Of Jacob Kline, near Osborne, fell from
the tree and sustained injuries from which he
died in few hours.
FREE mail delivery has been introduced at
Mansfield. -Four special agents have been ap-
pointed to perform the duties, and forty boxes
placed In position
3 Mrs. HENRY STUCK, married woman Of
twenty-five years, residing ut Bucyrus, eloped
with an unknown man, leaving her two sick
babies with her mother, Mrs. Caskey.
THE body of Mrs. Jos. P. Lewis is to be ex-
humed, at Circleville, for an ANALYSIS of the
digestive organs. The trial of Frank E. Lewis,
son Of the deceased, charged with the crime,
is on.
DURING o Republican pole-raising at East
Chardon, W. Il. Hathaway, candidate on the
Republican ticket for Sheriff, was instantly
killed by the falling of derrick. He leaves
wife and one child. ~ A -1dS
J. s. MORGAN, of the firm J. 8. Morgan &
Co., printers, Home street, Cincinnati, COM
mitted suicide by shooting at Cleveland last
week. Financial embarrassment and disappoint-
ment in love, led to the act.
A BOILER weighing 1000 pounds in the Ma
tional Oil Works at Cleveland exploded and
was blown distance of 500 feet, In its fight
breaking in two large telegraph poles and
jured, one probably fatally.
E. R. SoMERs, of Mentor, was attacked by
tramps whose object was to rob him. With
presence of mind he showed q twenty dollar bill,
all the money he had about him, into his
| mouth, and thus saved it. He received ter
rible beating, however. ar
In Ohio Township, Gallia County, Lindsey
and Prent RAIDER went to the house of Daniel
| Howard and challenged him to fight. How
ard declined, whereupon they began shooting
| at him. He retreated in the house, procured
revolver, and it is thought, fatally shot one Of
| them.
AwEEK ago or more, John Smalley, residing
! near Ashland, committed suicide. Last week,
| in the same room in which John Smalley com
| mitted the deed, his nephew, Silas Smalley,
| aged 20 years, also shot himself with fatal
effect Cause, sickness and consequent de-
spondency.
A FEW nights ago q large aerolite passed
| over Cleveland brilliantly Illuminating every
thing and exploding over the lake with such force
| as to severely jar many buildings in the north
ern portion Of the city. Fragments flew on in
| different directions very much like those OF an
exploding sky-rocket.
THE notorious desperate, Tom Mcdonald, Of
| Circleville, got into an alteration with Mar.
| Beavers at Commercial Point, IN which McDon
aid had his only eye kicked out of his head, ant
suffered injuries of the brain, from the effect
of which he will die. Mcdonald has been tht
terror of the neighborhood for years.
DURING o severe thunderstorm, ten mile
west of Plymouth, the two barns of Adam
| Gangloof were struck by lightning and the en-
tire contents consumed. He lost about eigh
hundred bushels of wheat, his entire crop o
oats and hay, and one span of horses. Los
about S3, 600; Insurance, 81, $780,.
AT Shanesville, in Tuscarawas County, tw
renegade Omishmen entered the premises O
Mr. Bellar during the family s absence and out
ragged his little twelve-year-old daughter. He
screams we're prevented by forcing handkeI
|
in her unconscious condition when found. N
| arrests. Ea5 lltg H =
The A. B. Chase organ factory at Norwal
has been entirely consumed by fire togethe
with six hundred finished organs, quantities Q
material and all the machinery and tools Of th
workmen. No estimate can yet be made of th
loss It was insured in the Ohio Farmers 70
S32, 1000. Over eighty workmen are thrown on
or labor and have lost all their tools. The los
fall the heaviest on them. The building wa
one hundred and eighty feet long, forty wild
and three stories high. Nothing was saved.
A sIoKENINe affair is reported from Bellair
wherein the criminals will undoubtedly es
man, by name Thomas, with wife and child
were floating in boat from Wheeling to- Park
ersburg During the night they were attacks
by six ruffians where they were camping on til
shore, the husband terribly beaten, and witt
his little boy, put into skif and then sen SCI
adrift. The woman then was outraged. tn
cries of the Mortified family brought assistance
but not until the devilish work had been com
pleted As the ruffians retreated IN the dark
ness, they kept their pursuers at bay with re
volvers, which they used freely, but fortunatei
without effect.
JOHN HETrR1cK, the keeper Of Q saloon q
the corner of Richard and Samuel streets, Day
ton. last week shot and killed his brother-ir
law, Charles Held, a young man twenty-si
wears old The murdered man and youngt
brother were the sole support OF o wldoEe
mother, and recently Hettrick induced the la
ter to make his home with him, in order, 1t
said, that he might thereby get control OF
, wages. This the elder brother objected to, an
: had some words with Hettrick on the subjec
+ Late at night, when Held was returning hom
Hettrick jumped over fence from his var
and, before Held was aware of his danger, sci
, nine buckshot through his heart. Hettrickw W
} arrested after considerable resistance.