The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-16
OHIO STATE NEWS.

OHIO STATE NEWS.
GEORGE METcALF, aged thirty years, of Bel
mont, was killed by falling tree.
CINCINNATI is to have another National Bank,
with the capital at half million.
An attempt was made the past week to burn
Bapsts banking house, at Crestline.
THERE were 500 patients in the Dayton,
Ohio, Insane Asylum at the close of the fiscal
year.
Four body-snatchers have already been
chased from the grave of the murderer Calla-
han, at Wooster.
HORACE WHIrINGToN, colored, near Gallipo-
Lis, drank whisky, went to bed in the barnyard
and froze to death.
The two-year-old boy of Mrs. A. J. Miller,
of Cardington fell into a tn of boiling water,
and was scalded to death.
The public schools of Findlay have tempor-
ariily closed on account of diphtheria. Wilson
Stoker's two children both died within three
hours.
The death of w. s. Carson. formerly agent
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Cam
bridge is announced from Topeka, Kansas,
whence he went for his health.
AT jackson Peter Becker shot and killed Jas.
Brady, in front of Daniel Crossin's saloon.
Brady was Crossin's bartender and the shooting
was the result of an alteration.
The funeral of Callahan, hanged for murder,
Mt Wooster, was rather an imposing affair."
Sixty carriages followed the remains to the
burial ground, while many followed on foot
AT Youngstown, the jury in the case of Lot
Harof, charged as an accomplice in the murder
of Marshal Cone, of Canfield, last July, has
been found guilty of murder in the second de-
gree.
ELIJAH R1NNER, residing in the eastern part
of Holmes County, was attacked by vicious
bull, and while it was goring him, he managed
tn anh etO yrifh hi ho flao
in the head, instantly killing it.
ANDREW LEWIS, of West Jefferson, in jail
at London for burglary, has gone crazy as a re-
suit Of his Imprisonment and been taken to the
Columbus asylum. Some men can't stand
punishment.
SILAs A. HARDY, residing four miles east of
Port Clinton, was killed by the Toledo accom-
mediation the past week. He was an influen-
tial and well-to-do farmer and ex-President of
the Ottawa County Agricultural Society. He
leaves family.
ALFRED BARON, son of Colonel C. S. S. Baron,
of Bellaire, was crushed to death by backing
freight train the past week. In his effort to
avoid the train, he slipped on the ice and fell,
and before he could regain his feet, the wheels
were upon him.
They are trying to try whether they can try
81 Hoffman before Gin cinnati Court. They
first have to try the lawyers to see whether they
can try the jury, and if they succeed in irving
the jury, it will then come SIS turn. This is a
little mixed, but it is about the status of it.
Mr.. COLE has been heard from again. He
has heen operating on o mum ber of persons at
Bucyrus, selling them pruning knives and re-
qulrlng them to sign an order, which later
turns out to be a note. As we have said before,
people will write their names at times when
they ought not to, and this man Cole is making
money by it.
ANTON RocKERT, an agent in the employ
OF the Singer sewing-Machine Company,
at Wooster, has been arrested for
selling two machines for cash and
turning forged notes over to the company for
the same Although sewing machine agents
are themselves bore, they are as likely to get
into trouble as other people.
FRED LAvELLE, French Canadian, has been
arrested at Newark, for larceny, and his arrest
reveals the fact that he is a survivor of the
Custer massacre. His ~ tx is punctured with
scars received from the arrows of the red skins
in that terrible encounter. Since his mirac-
ulous escape from death, he has been given to
dissipation, and finally wound up by putting on
the wrong mans oyercoat
THE son of j. A. Kinsley, of New Philadel-
phia, who was seized with a singular disease q
year ago, died the past week. The flesh of his
entire body suddenly became as hard as stone
and in this condition he continued to live for
the period of one year. The case is pronounced
without parallel in history, and bafIled the
skill of physicians.
JAMES McGRAw a railroad man of Bellare,
aged twenty-three years, attempted to board an
| engine of train while it was in motion, missed
| his footing and was dragged several miles be-
| fore his condition was discovered. His legs had
| been torn from their sockets and his entrails
| were strewn along the track. He leaves young
wife who is lying in critical condition from
| the shock the news of his death produced on
| her.
THE books of James II Irvine ex-Audito,
| of Muskingum County, show a discrepancy in
the school fund of $12, ,177.75. Mr.. Ir wine il
| the editor of the GAINESVILLE Signal, is promi
nent politician, and has always been regarded
as man of strictest integrity, and this discov
| cry has created the greatest surprise. Although
yet made no satisfactory explanation, and the
County Commissioners will proceed at once tc
| investigate the matter.
Later-Since the above was placed in type
Mr.. Irvine makes an explanation. He says
SIN respone to my request, Mr.. Allen rendered
q full and satisfactory account of the missing
$12, 177.75, belonging to the school fund of the
county. He informed me that upon his going
out of office the first Monday in September last
he found himself in possession Of an appare n
excess of some 81, 900 or $12, 900. He now
reflects upon himself for not advising me OF
the fact so that 1 might have instantly made ar
investigation to discover where there had beer
an oversight in not charging him with thI
amount, but remembering the former Treasures
Oane's) experience with Auditor Caldwell in 9
similar case of apparent surplus, he took pri
his most intimate friends, who advised him t
deposit the amount in bank and await the de
velopments of its discovery which would b
sure to come. Thereupon he accordingly mad
deposit In bank in this city, where it has sine,
remained, and when 1t will be taken and re
turned to the County Treasurer"