The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-17
OHIO STATE NEWS.

NOVEMBER q swarm of bees was captured
on tree in Tuscarawas County.
HARRY HoYT, Postmaster at Newark, last
week was robbed of 5000 by burglars.
Mr.. P. B. KINNEY, Of Newcomerstown,
states that he has an apple tree in full bloom.
FoRTY-Two cases of typhoid fever are re-
| ported from the Ohio Reform Farm, near Lam
caster.
TWENTY deaths from diphtheria within few
days are reported from Sufield, Portage
County.
JACOB AUspAueH, Of Napoleon, aged sixty
years, while intoxicated, was struck by q train
near Antwerp and killed.
JAMES E. HEBARD, proprietor of the CALI
| opolis Ledger, has sold that concern to s. b.
| Olmstead, Of Gurnsey County, who will con-
tinue it as Republican paper.
A SON Of Norris Gibson, in Rich Township,
| Sandusky County, who is aged seven years,
| playfully pointed a loaded revolver at his amt,
Minnie Russell, aged fifteen years, and shot her
In the forehead. Sac can not live.
Mrs. ]. II. REIsINGER and Mrs. J. W.
| Towner, sisters, living at Gallon, hare fallen
heir to ssoo, 900 through the death of rich
| uncle in Ireland named Bleek. The entire
estate is valued at 81, 200, 900.
A SOLDIERS MONUMENT, the magnificent gift
Of Ii. D. Harter, Esq, to the people of Rich
| land County, was unveiled at Mansfield last
week with appropriate ceremonies. Fifteen
thousand people witnessed the exercises.
SOMEBODY placed a quantity of cough candy
on the steps of the Catholic school at Findlay,
md when the children came to school they ali
| ate Of it. Every one was taken violently Ill
and vomited profusely. 1t is thought the
candy was poisoned.
| AT NEW CALIFORNIA Mrs. Henry Brice, an
old lady, was found dead kneelIng by the side
OF her bed, her hands clasp and head bowed
| down as if in the act of prayer. She had re-
manned in that position all night. Heart
| disease.
AGNES HUDSON, who had just returned home
| to Circleville from visit to Chillicothe, was
hit in the head by q chunk Of coal thrown by
her father, and it is feared, is fatally injured.
| She remains in an unconscious condition. The
father was under the influence of liquor.
MRS. Cora WOODBURY., of Urbana, has re-
covered Judgment Of $4,000 against the
| Cleveland, Sandusky and Cincinnati Railroad
| Company, for damages sustained by the killing
of her husband in a collision last winter.
| $4,000 was the amount sued for. Another
case, involving $4,000 for the death of her
husband, is yet pending.
The jury in the case of the State of Ohio us.
J. r: Fisher, at Napoleon, charged with the
murder of Francis Talbot, May 10, last, found
q verdict for assault and battery. The evidence
showed that Fisher was intoxicated and abusive
| in his language, and Talbot resented by kick
ing him, when he struck Talbot with putty
knife. Talbot died from the wound.
WHILE crossing the New York, Pennsylvania
| ana OnlO ha1lrOaQ track near P1k6S StatlOn, q
few miles north of Wooster, Mrs. Benjamin
Eby was caught up by the cow-catcher of the
west-bound fast express and carried distance
of about four miles to the Wheeling and Lake
Erie crossing, where she was found on her per-
lions perch in an unconscious state, badly cut
and bruised. She may recover.
GEORGE STAFFES, mason living in jackson
/ Township, Noble County, has frequently been
arrested for wife-beating, but last week his
fendishness toward his spouse assumed more
decisive turn. He assaulted her with trowel,
with which he penetrated her abdomen, and ii
and taken 70 Cambridge for safe-keeping,
Noble County being without jail.
SAYS q Bellefontaine correspondent "Ida
Holman went to the house Of Irwin jackson
and got into pitched battle with his three
Oldest daughters over some trivial matter.
The Holman woman is a stout, masculine fe-
male, and beat one Of the young ladies-Eva
Jackson-unmercifully, knocking her down,
jumping on her breast and stamping her In 0
frightful manner. Hemorrhage has supervened
and it is feared that she may die. Her assailant
was arrested and Jailed, but is out on bail
awaiting the outcome Of her injuries"
HORACE BROOKS, convict in the Ohio Peni-
tentiary, celebrated his thirty first anniversary
in that institution the 10th of the present
month. In 1850 he owned farm, which ID
now portion of Cleveland. A railroad crossed
it, and one day train ran into flock of hie
sheep and killed number OF them: In re-
v-nge he placed an obstruction on the track,
threw off train and killed five people. He
was convicted of murder in the second degree
and sent to the Penitentiary for life. He was
forty-three years old when he received his sem
tence and is now seventy-four, hale and hearty,
and yet has hope Of getting out some day.
He was good manager, and would to-day
probably be o millionaire had it not been foI
That one act He is the Oldest convict-not the
ol lest man-in the Penitentiary.