The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-08-18
OHIO STATE NEWS.

The total number of live stock in Ohio ID
1875, ,770.
JACK MoGRAw, at Youngstown, aged fifty,
died from drink.
The strange epidemic among horses at Cam
den is still prevalent.
SAMUEL DIErR1oK, near Shreve, had two val
liable horses stolen from pasture field. =
The Marion Telephone Exchange has been
completed, with thirty miles of wire in opera
don.
SIX arrests have been made at Plain City
during the past week for violation of the Rev
enue Law.
Mrs. MARGARET KNIGHT and Mrs. Margaret
Spry, residing at Bellefontaine, both died Of
old age last week. 9-
in Ohio, as fixed by the State Board Of Equali-
cation, is ss3, ,764, ,815 "a ~
THE dwelling of John Mcbride, at Logan,
has been struck by lightning the second time
this summer. Miss Mcbride was painfully
injured.
Ing to extract a cartridge from reYplyeF aeci-
| dcntaiiy snor- -nimseH through the breast.
Mortal.
A CONTRACT has been made with Mesus.
Kinney Parker, of Norwalk, for the con-
struction of new Courthouse at that place,
for $29, 300.
A BOY named Delmer Price, aged fourteen
years, died near Plain City from the effect Of
poison contracted while pulling weeds in
corn-feld. 49,
ISAAC KIDD, of Moss Bun, near Marietta,
had his hand and the greater portion Of his
arm torn off by being caught in the cylinder OF
threshing machine.
A NEwcoMERsTowN correspondent says that
the yield of wheat in that vicinity which Is now
being threshed, is much lighted than was ex-
pected, and farmers are discouraged. The
price Of wheat is steadily going up.
/ has bad hi0 time of cir
| Gus day there were twenty arrests for drunk
! and pocket-picking, and at night fourteen men
| were captured in q house of in-fame. Twenty
houses we're also burglarized.
| MRS HENNEsY, of Urbana, aged sixty-ive,
| seeing that her COW was about to be killed BY
! an approaching train, succeeded In driving the
| animal away in time to save its life, but the
| locomotive struck her and injured her fatally.
| FRANK vANpERMARK, turnkey Of The Lam
seGs 1fss
| on him with raised bar Of iron as he entered
his cell. The wound, it is thought viii not
| prove fatal af41 life Haef -
THE Bellefontaine correspondent tells an
other one. He says that in Perry Township, II.
| q. Ryner killed sixty-nine snakes thath he found
| in one nest. II it wasn't for stretching things
o wee too much, we might add that there were
| just thousands and thousands of these nests
in Perry Township.
ANDREW BRUCE, q shower Of the queer Of
1
| Cincinnati the past week, having in his pos
session at the time of his arrest ten counterfeit
silver dollars. The queer had the true ring and
| weight, but upon close examination was
found to be not genuine.
CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati En-
Quirr writing from Bellefontaine, tells this
| awful one: ''Tom Manuel, of this place, has
pig ten months old, weighing one hundred
and fifty pounds, that was born with but two
| legs, and it walks around on them" II it
B. | ocT,,f for fha rrOuld -
man the writer was talking about.
AT Crown CITY, twenty miles below Gal
ipolis, on the river, four children were playing
and digging under projecting bank in deep
ravine. Without knowledge of their pres
ence, a man stepped to the edge Of the bank
and discharged q gun, when simultaneously
the bank caved in, crushing to death two of
the children, named Speerlock and Stevens,
and seriously injuring the other two.
MATT GRIFFIN, who, few years ago was
prominently identified at GAINESVILLE with the
Murphy temperance movement, as speaker,
on the 7th inst, attempted to outrage mar
ried woman at the fair grounds near that
place. He was arrested and after being held
in s4OO bail, was accompanied by the Corsta-
BILE to Blandy's machine works to get bail.
| While circulating among the employees he sud-
denly disappeared and made good his escape.
A NILES correspondent says: 1t is at las
dreaded that Niles is to lose two of her large
rolling-mills. New Philadelphia has succeeded
IL
Ward mills will go. Yet Niles still lives, and
will speedily recover from the blow, and be in
better condition than ever, as the two mills
have always been conducted on the "order
system" and have proved o drawback, instead
Of any material benefit to our town. The WORK
of removal will be begun at an early date.
SMTHvIILE, village eight miles northeast
of Wooster, is all torn up over . JUVENILE
shooting scrape Willie Pollard, while playing
with revolver, took aim and fired at an ap-
preaching companion, Samuel Baker. The bal
.. entered Bakers body little below the nave
and lodged in his left side. The wound was
probed six inches, but the ball could not b
found He sank very rapidly, and died
Pollard is twelve years old and his victim nine
It is believed that the shooting was accidental
although there is difference of opinion upor
the subject The parents of both boys an
overwhelmed with grief.
Two negroes have been committing mum
| ber of highway robberies in the vicinity Of
Cincinnati and in several instances shot anl
seriously wounded their victims. Their act
became so bold and notorious that the neigh
borhood in which they were operating turnei
!, out in full force, and one of them (giving hi
name as Ed. Anderson), was caught in corn
field near Mount Pleasant. The other fellow
| for the time escaped, but not until after one
hundred shots had been fired at his retrestiuf
, form in the darkness Of the night. It was will
difficulty that the prisoner, Anderson, was KEEP
from being lynched. ,