The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-31
OHIO STATE NEWS.
THERE is smallpox at Ironton.

1HEhE IL SmaupOX at lrOntOn.
WARREN has Board of improvements.
CHAMPAIGN County will hold no fair this
year.
NEAR Perry, Edward Marvin was killed by
falling limb.
THERE are 800 miles of free turnpikes in
Logan County.
ANTHONY CLINE, living near Alliance, was
killed by falling tree.
THOMAS z. DOUGLAS has been reappointed
Postmaster at Mansfield.
THERE is a vaccination boom at London, in
consequence Of reported smallpox.
A CORRESPONDENT at London says the small
pox in that place is nothing but measles.
THE Army of the Tennessee will hold their
reunion at Music Hall, Cincinnati, April 6.
MARION KENT, of Plain City, who recently
went to New Mexico, has been murdered by In
dians.
THE practice of cutting harness, buggy-tops,
saddles, etc., is being extensively indulged in
in Marion County.
Ar Norwalk William Rattigan, charged with
forging notes to the amount Of %, 200, has
pleaded guilty.
JOHN WH1NLIN, slater, fell from roof at
Lorraine, distance of sixty feet, and was per-
haps fatally injured.
JOSEPH BENNETT, engineer, was killed at De-
fiance, by falling under moving train. His
home was Fort Wayne, Indiana.
R. COLLINS, of Toledo, brakeman on the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, was crushed
to death between bumpers at Clyde.
The furniture factory of Adam Wooten, and
leased by S. Bishop Co., at Gallipolis, was
destroyed by incendiaries. Loss, $1,000.
MoKENDREE NJ. E. CHAPEL, on Eastern ave-
nue., Cincinnati, built in 1874, under the direc-
tion of Rev. Granville Moody, burned the past
week.
LOGAN COUNTY has come into possession Of
180 acres of land heretofore held by Auglaize
County, and recovered from swamp lands 800
acres more.
JAMES CoNN, young blacksmith of Wells
VILE, while cleaning revolver, accidentally
shot himself in the temple, producing fatal
wound.
A GREASY old tramp arrested in Cincinnati
for vagrancy, was found to have upon his per-
son over 800 in money. The money was as
greasy and nasty as he.
A PROTEST has been filed by nine members of
the Legislature, with Auditor of State ogelvee,
against the payment to the Athens University
Of $40, 600 for repairs
THE dead body of Ebenezer Prosser was
found at the bottom of the trestle-work bridge,
q mile west of Youngstown, he presumably
having fallen from the bridge the night before.
CANNED meats, fish, oysters, etc., should be
partakeu Of very cautiously. Reports Of poison
ing from this source comes from every direc-
tion. In France the law prohibits soldering
cans containing meats.
JOHN c. MOORE, aged thirty-nine years, an
officer of the Cavalry Recruiting Office at 219
West Fourth street, Cincinnati, fell dead while
waltzing with a young lady named Miss Lizzie
Manler, at ball given by the Rosette Club in
that city.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
at Marion, says that by inquiry from farmers
and others posted, he discovers that there is
scarcely any corn that will germinate this
spring. This is owing to the fact that the hard
freezing weather the past winter froze the corn.
ALLEN WAsHBURN, aged forty-eight years, of
Milan, suicided by taking morphine. He had
his coffin made to order some three months
ago, and since that time has repeatedly threat
ened to kill himself. His mind had become
weakened from the effect of a stroke of paral-
ysis.
"OID MAN GALES" of Urbana. a colored
mnf, ,-h...liAily correspondent AYERS he
was one hundred and twenty-five years old
He makes the statement from papers unearthed
| when the census enumerator was making his
rounds. Gales neighbors, aged seventy-ive
and eighty years, say he was an old man when
| they were boys.
THERE is great excitement in portions of
which has recently attacked the horses Of that
community. Tho disease is an affection of the
| blood, and may linger in the system six months
| before it shows itself or its presence is known
! Swellings appear on different portions of the
| body, which finally break and discharge a vel
/
WHILE burying an old lady at Hammonds-
vile, Jefferson County, two young men who
scarcely had the grave dug when the funeral
cortege arrived, struck the grave Of q man who
died with smallpox few years ago, and so ter
rible was the stencil (and scare) that Q panic
ensued, every one deserting except the two
young men who, though themselves badly
| scared, finished their work.
| NEAR Unionville farmer-like looking indi-
| vidual called at the house of Aseph Brown, and
| asked Mrs. Brown to give him small bills for a
$40 note, as he needed the change to pay a
| neighbor for some corn. Mrs. Brown changed
the note, taking her money from a bureau
| drawer. She then went to the well and brought
after which he went away. The next
day Mrs. Brown, on going to the bureau
drawer, discovered that it had been robbed of
about $50 in bank bills. She has no doubt as
to when the robbery took place.
THEADoRE KELLER, q observation-disclosures
Did son of George Keller, residing at 241 Race
| street, Cincinnati, was recently abducted and
| so well secreted that the efforts of the police
and detectives to discover his whereabouts were
of no avail. The parents of the little fellow
were frantic with grief, and had almost given
up finding hin, when lady named Mrs. ]. 81.
Gray, residing at 1879 Mound street, from the
description she had read of the boy, discovered
him being led by middle-aged woman named
once, who, in fright, abandoned the child, and
mad her arrested. The Fitzgerald woman ac-
knowledged to the abduction, and said she had
taken it to keep. She had been keeping it in q
den in a basement. The parents were over
joyed to receive back their child, and the alb.
1uctress will go-to the Penitentiary. She has
heretofore served a term in the Work-house.