The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-10-13
OHIO STATE NEWS.

BEILEToNTArsE is infested with thieves and
pickpockets.
KENT thinks Of putting in water-works at q
TWENTY-FIVE divorce suits are on the dockets
Oh tne Common Pleas Court, at Urbana.
CARL ToPLUT, German farmer residing
near New California, was killed by . kick from
THIEVES entered the house of T. e. Pomerov.
at Milan, while he was eating his supper AID
stole $500 In money.
FRANK FUNK, butcher living near Seville,
was struck by passing train about eight miles
north OF Wooster and instantly killed.
BosH GREIR, a farmer living near Circleyille.
returning home from town in q wagon in an
intoxicated condition, fell out and broke his
A GANG of highwaymen are-infestinp FIRE.
mont and vicinity. Several persons have been
nearly killed e-'
.JEEFERsoN ADAMS who three weeks ago at
mansfield attempted rape upon the person of
mrs: Moorhead, has been sentenced to the PEN
ltentary Tor seven years.
GEoRGE FREEHErMFR. a younr farmar l;v-
ing three miles east Of Independence, suicided
py drowning in mill-race. There seems to
nave been no cause for the rash act.
WIN; UPHOLD, resident Of GAINESVILLE, was
mangied beyond recognition by train in the
oeeP cut Just east of GAINESVILLE. suspicion
exists that Uphold was murdered and his body
placed on the track.
THE Grand Jury has returned indictments
against the Hydraulic Company and Straw
Board Company, Of Akron for maintaining a
nuisance In the form Of filthy mill-race run
nang !nrough the business center of the city,
This Is decisive step in one of the biggest and
pitterest local disputes on record at that place
QUARREL between Chas. Wilkinson, white.
and dranyllle Nixon, colored, at New Straits
Vlue, resulted in the colored man biting the
white mans entire under lip on. After he lit
s.e Up On ne spit u out on the ground. 1t is
enough to make one feel sick to think about it.
Inc coiored man has been bound over to Court
In the sum Of $500.
4 MAN named Winters, living at Magnolia. n
few miles north Of New PhiIadelphia. COM
menced building o house few weeks ago.
is wnen ne was taken suddenly Ill and died. The
and unable to hire help to finish the bouse,
has undertaken the Job with her own hands.
She Is now at work lathing it. and is doing
good work. AL honor to the plucky little
widow. --''-o
TERRIBLE accident occurred at the fair
grounds, at Tifin, last week. A span of fine
horses belonging to Jacob Rickenbaugh took
I1gnt and ran away around the race-track and
Tnen passing the first quarter-stretch one Of
tnem ran against o scantling and drove it COM
E.etsy through its body from the shoulder to
that condition before it dropped dead. The
animal was valued at $3.50
Two scoundrels called at the house of Mrs.
Abraham Fry, In the suburbs of Mount Vernon.
and finding her alone, demanded money. Al
though over sixty years old, she refused and
defied them, whereupon they knocked her
down and kicked and beat her until she
was unconscious. They then ransacked the
premises and secured $3.50 in cash and made
good their escape. Her husband returned in
about an hour after the robbery, and learning
the facts, reported them to the authorities.
GENERAL ORDER No. 1, in the Wooster Uni
versity, has created general CONSERVATION.
Young ladies are to receive gentlemen callers
but one night in the week, and neither the Ia
dy nor gentlemen students are permitted to
attend any kind Of theatrical amusement. The
young ladies are circulating q petition which
prays the Faculty to state at what hour thew
must dlsmisB Their gentlemen callers. This Is
good idea. Some of the young ladies' might
let the fellow stay all week, and claim that he
had made but one call.
AFARMER named Raphael Durbin, residing
near Mt. Vernon, attempted, few days ago, to
cross . swollen stream with Q wagon. Accom-
panying him were his wife, gister-in-law
named Miss Martha Buck, his daughter Mary.
aged nineteen, and three small children In
the middle Of the stream the horses we're
swept from their feet and the wagon, with its
human freight, overturned. The three small
children were carried by the current to food
gate, to which they chung until rescued. Mr.
Durbin himself succeeded in swimming to shore.
His wife, daughter and Miss Buck were
drowned.
TIE October crop report Of the Ohio State
Board Of Agriculture gives the following
figures: Wheat, 1873 bushels per acre, total
number Of bushels, 87,215, ,248 oats, 26.7
bushels per acre, total number of bushels, H.
$50, 225 barley Ger cent. Of 1880, 81 rye (per
cent of 1880, 85; corn, 60; hay, 80; apples,
IS pears, 63 peaches, 80 grapes, 66 tobacco,
70 potatoes, 80; number Of swine for market,
So; condition of pastures, 50. The drought
has injured the crops more in the Southern
than in the Northern half of the State.
Abundant rains have at last revived the pas
lures nearly all over the State. Wheat figures
20 per cent. Of last years heavy crop (52, 500,-
900 bushels0. and oats 103 per cent.