The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
OHIO STATE NEWS.
,oAnLrr fever Is prevalent at Newark.

SCARLET fever is prevalent at Newark.
WILLIAM HALLER, one Of the most widely
known Socialists in Southern Ohio, died at the
hospital, Cincinnati, of pne1monia, the past
week.
SARAH HUFFMAN, q colored woman of Belle
fontaine, sued John Dickinson, a white man,
for 50, COO for striking her with shovel, and
got $40.
THE United States Senate has passed bill
to provide for survey of marsh lands in
Lucas and OTTAWA counties, and the Same has
been reported to the House.
TIE store of n. h. Pierce, of Warren, was
entered, and twelve-hundred pound safe
rolled out into the street, where the thieves
blew it open and abstracted $500 in money.
THE case of John Hetterick, on trial at Day
ton, for the murder of his brother-in-law,
Charles Hites, is exciting great interest in that
city. The crime was marked by incidents OF
unusual cruelty.
JOHN TAYLOR, of Millersburg, drove o team
of horses into creek to water them, and the
water being deeper than he suspected, both
horses were drowned. Mr.. Taylor narrowly es-
capped drowning.
An accident to a freight train near Cam
ton, ON the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chi
cago Railroad, caused by . broken rail, COM.
pletely wrecked eighteen or twenty cars, at an
estimated loss of $4,000
The company mentioned as organizing at
Youngstown with capital of 81, ,000, 600, will
Company. Over $500, 900 of the capital stock
has already been pledged.
The Special Legislative Committee Of Ar
rangements having decided not to allow Indies
to accompany the Legislative excursion party to
Washington, State Senators who desired to
take their wives or daughters made up q special
party and left Columbus for Washington in ad-
vance OF the regular body of law-makers.
AT Jackson, the jury in tho Becker murder
case came into Court after twenty-four hours
Nh
in the second degree. The prisoner, Becker,
! was very much broken down and visibly nery-
| ous, and from appearances he was satisfied
that the verdict was not for higher degree.
The jury at one time stood five for first degree
| six for second degree and one for granddaughter.
| A motion for new trial has been made.
NEAR Dexter City, William Finch, farm la
| borer, living with the widow Hussey, cut his
| throat in dreadful manner. He retired at
| the usual time in usual health and mind, but
| about eleven o'clock wakened up the family and
| showed them his wounds, bid them .good-by
| and fed from the house. Some of the neigh
bors, with lantern, tracked him by his blood
| for three miles through fields and woods,
where they found him In house and had him
| properly cared for.
! e. G. WILEY, Cashier of the Third National
| Bank of Urbana. and perhaps one OF the most
| popular and well known men OF that city, met
| With tragic death the past week. He had
| gone to the depot to purchase ticket to
Washington for his daughter, to attend the
| inauguration ceremonies, and having per-
| formed that duty, had no more than passed out
| the depot than he was struck by q pass
ing freight and instantly killed, the wheels
| passing over his abdomen. News Of the tragic
| death spread rapidly, and in less than sn hour
the entire little city seemed to be under q cloud
of deep grief. He was aged forty-nine years.
The Athey-Seneff murder trial at New Phila-
delphia has been exciting considerable atten.
ton, but the most thrilling portion Of the pro
ceedings was the full confession of Mrs. Athey
on the witness stand on the morning Of March
LIST. She stated that after she and Mary Senef
! had left the party that Friday night at Crite'i
they went home together, and commenced pre-
pairing for bed; that something was said abou
the rapping on the window one night, and he
husband, Henry, and Mary told her it was nont
of her business, and called her liar. She 60
excited, and the two clinched. She opened tn
kitchen door and got the Ak. Mary got it ava.
from her, and she got it back and struck he
and killed her. How many times she strucl
Mary she did not know, as she states she was 81
crazy and excited. She then tied the body in
sheet, and dragged it to the ash pile, where sh
dug hole and buried it. She then went bacl
to the house and commenced cleaning up tn
blood. Her brothers afterward helped her Il
take it up and hauled 1t to Sugar Creek. Mrs
Athey claims to have a scar on her arm mad
by a chair in the hands OF her victim. Sh
sobbed continually while giving the details o
of the killing, and at times broke completed.
down. From her testimony it is evident tina
the defense will take the grounds that the kill
ing was not premeditated