The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
OHIO STATE NEWS.

DRHrHERIA and whooping cough prevail TO
an alarming extent at Bellefontaine.
BUReLERs are working effectually at Mans
field, three or four houses being entered per
night.
MICHAEL, the ten-year-old son of Michael
Miller of Chillicothe, was drowned in the canal
while skating.
THE Harrof brothers, at Youngstown, con-
victed of murder i'll the second degree, were
sented to the Penitentiary for life.
OVER seventy citizens of De Graft were sum-
moned to Bellefontaine last week as witnesses
in the Loffer-Carl shooting case.
CHARLES II. LINN, of Warren, aged go years,
while walking on the railroad track, was struck
by passenger train and instantly killed.
SIMEON WRIGHT, an old and we'll known
farmer in the Welsh settlement near Bronson,
was fatally kicked by vicious horse last week.
CHARLES BAILEY, q citizen of Mt. Gilead,
has mysteriously disappeared, leaving n wife
and children In destitute circumstances.
LESTER JONES, of Bronson, while quail
hunting, accidentally discharged his gun, the
charge taking effect in his side, and it is
thought will prove fatal.
The residence of Mrs. Governor Tod, at
Youngstown, was entered during the day, while
amount of $4,000 stolen.
The heart and stomach of Simon Kline of
Canton, who recently died, is to be analyzed,
and it is thought his son, Joseph Kline, will be
found guilty of causing his death by poison.
GEORGE A. WHITE, an in-oate of the Sol
diers' Home, Dayton, was struck by switch
engine, knocked down and completely decapi-
tated at the drawbridge of the c., c., C. and L
Railroad.
The Grangers of Caldwell are in a peck of
trouble. They have had to appoint Receiver
for their Grange store, which seems to be short
some how or other to the amount of about
$1,000
GEORGE CREyEsToN, o highly respected and
well-known farmer living near Mingo, CHAM
paign County, committed suicide the past week
by hanging. He had been in feeble health for
some time.
CONDUCTOR VIM. HILTAB1DDLE, of Gallon.
who was SO badly injured N the collision on the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad last
week, died after week of intense suffering.
He leave wife and two children.
Two merchant tailoring firms of Marion,
Fogelson d Madison, and Addi Ibling, have
made assignment, the liabilities of each being
| $4,000. This looks very suspicious for the
| young men of Marion. They ought to pay
| their tailors. -. ~
A FARMER named Cutler, near Millersburg,
employed trampto do chores about the house.
The very first night the tramp collected lot of
clothing, including Mr.. Cutters new suit of
clothes, . considerable sum of money and other
| valuables, and vamoosed.
P. B. Conn, editor of the Daily Herald, of
| Steubenville, was arrested the past week on a
| charge of sending obscene mail matter through
the mails, the affidavit being filed by John
Moore, ex-County Auditor, whom Conn had
attacked in his paper.
Cook HovEY, charged with falsifying the
| records of the City of Urbana, and forging and
overissuing city bonds, while holding the Office
| of City Clerk, on being brought into court,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two wears
in the Penitentiary.
Mrs. LUCY ANTHONY, of Oxford, who was in
the act OF going out calling, set down in q chair
| and requested her daughter to play a piece
on the piano for her. Her daughter complied,
and having finished, turned around to find her
mother sitting in the chair dead.
| JAS. W. KINCAID, aged eighteen, of Westville,
| eloped last week with girl of sixteen, and was
married to her at Piqua. Shortly after the
ceremony had been performed telegram was
received from the old folks saying, 1--WE for
| give you. and the children returned home.
AT Canton tramp attempted to steal silve,
! spoons at the residence of Mrs. Heingartner
| where he had just enjoyed a breakfast, bui
| finally concluded to yield up his booty under
the persuasive influence of revolver in the
the hands of a daughter of Mrs. Heingartner
YOUNG girl residing near Tippecanoe saw g
fire issuing from the hay NOW of William
| SIMPSONS barn, and rushing in with q bucket
of water, threw the contents on the flames
and then squatted over them with her dress to
smother them. She succeeded, but came neal
being burned to death.
| LINCOLN GUNTHER, of Chillicothe, last week
attempted to elope with the step-daughter oi
i MIR. d. Kelley, of that place, but the pair were
captured before they got away. Gunther go
80 mad that he challenged Mr.. Kelley to q duel
MIR. Kelley laid the correspondence before
Justice which necessitated the father of the
young man putting up $500 to keep hi
chivalrous son out of the bastile.
AT Kent, while adjusting belt in the Ken
Alpaca Mills, Ed Atchison, a workman, wal
caught IN the betting and drawn to the upper
shaft, where he was whirled several timos be
fore falling. His arm was torn in two at the
elbow, the flesh on the shoulder and upper par
of the arm being stripped clean, leaving the
Zone bare, and the flesh on the chest was ter
rlbly torn. Every particle OF clothing was torn
from his body and his recovery is doubtful.
TEN year old daughter of Mrs. James Ross
of East Delaware found along the railroad
what she took to be money box. Mrs. Rost
attempted to open it with an ak by placing the
suppose box on the floor and striking it. A
loud report followed the first blow, and the
lady found herself badly injured in the left
breast, arms and face by the explosion of
railroad torpedo. How the dangerous missil.
came where found is a mystery as yet unex
planned.
Mrs. BARBARA EwALD nee Schultz, living or
Washington Avenue, near Cincinnati, com
mitted suicide last week, it is thought, by shoot
ing. The act was committed in stable and
the fact that the stable burned, it was thought
the hay was ignited from the flash of the pis
tol. Her charred trunk was taken out of the
ruins, the legs, head and arms being burned
OFF. She had been married but nine weeks, and
committed the act, as letter she left to hel
husband attested, because her mother and the
mother of her husband were at such great