The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-17
OHIO STATE NEWS.

A SMALL cabinet organ and clock were stolen
from the Congregational Church at Hudson.
Ar Logan an aged lady named Foraker, while
crossing Salt Greek, broke through the ice and
was drowned.
DEATHS from scarlet fever at Carey average
alarmed about it.
The infant child of George Anderson, at
Vienna Junction, fell into tub of hot water
and was fatally scalded.
THE Tifin Wooden Mills corporation have
made an assignment. Liabilities, $40, 600; esti-
mated assets, go, 900.
GEoRaE GREEN, of Cardington was perhaps
fatally kicked in the bowels by Mexican pony
which he was trying to work.
GEORGE EaENBETT, at Marysville, got four
years in the Penitentiary for burning the bridge
Of the Panhandle Railroad.
TIE ten-year-old girl Of widow Brownstetter
was fatally burned at London, by her clothing
igniting from an open crate fire.
The body OF Daniel Smalley, who was found
dead near Kimbalton, few days ago, has fallen
into the hands Of body snatchers.
ISAAC SPRINGER, Of GAINESVILLE, committed
suicide by shooting in the neck. Had been
drinking. Leaves q wife and five children.
No effort has been made at Warren to arrest
the participants in the Caffray- Mccoy prize
fight, which came of almost in sight of that
city.
PATRICK KkvANAUaH, aged sixty-fve, of Ur-
bana, was drowned in Dugan Creek. 1t is
supposed he wandered of the bridge in the
| night.
THE daughter of William Noble, in Steuben
County, was smoking pipe, and by some
means her dress caught fire and she was burned
to death.
FRANK ToLvER, the murderer of Pat Carr, at
| Carbondale, Athens County, was arrested last
week in the mountains Of johnson County,
Kentucky.
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| prevented the running of trains on the N. Y,
P. and o. Railroad for several days. Many
| bridges were carried away.
TIE case of Julius Radtke, of Dayton,
charged with killing his two-year-old child, has
| been continued until March "a on account of
| the illness of his attorney.
| MRS PARKS, woman living in Newark, took
| q dose of sulphate of zinc for salts. After she
had taken it she smoked pipe, which acted as
an emetic, and saved her life.
MANY families along the Tuscarawas had to
be rescued in boats during the high water.
Thousands of acres were submerged along this
| stream, and trains were stopped by the washing
away Of bridges.
MRS. EMEIIA JETz, while cleaning q window
in the second Istory of the house of Charles
| Leighle, corner Plum and Liberty streets, Gin
| cinnau, lost her balance and fell to the pave
ment. Her skull was fractured, and she died
in a few moments.
DAVID DELAUaHTNR and wife, living about
five miles northwest of West Alexandria
while out sleighing, smothered their infant
aged about six months. They did not find il
out until they got home, when the mother weni
to warm the child and found it dead.
NEAR Granville Frank Henthorn, aged 2s
years, was felliug o tree. The tree fell in
contrary direction from what he expected it to
and in his effort to save team of horses,
limb of the falling tree struck him on the hesC
and instantly killed him. The team escaped
injury.
HENRY GILBERT, owner of the saw mill foul
miles north of Clyde, while walking upon a los
that was being sawed, fell, and the saw GU
through the top Of his head as far as his ears
with brains. He was thirty years old and wa
to have been married the following week..
THIEVES attempted to steal the corpse O
Abner G. Shafer from the family residence, OF
George street, near Baymiller, Cincinnati, las
week. Mr.. Garrison, who was sitting in an ad
joining room, heard noise, and on opening
the door, observed q man standing over th'
| corpse with o lighted match in his hand. HI
bounded out the window and was of in an in
slant.
THREE miles south of Sandusky, Mr.. Manley
wealthy farmer, one son and daughter aIt
Miss Huber, daughter of neighbor, wer
| poisoned by arsenic which some one admin
fstered in the coffee. The Manleys will prob
ably recover, but the condition of Miss Hube
the correspondent gave as hopeless. Exner,
nephew Oh mduieg, WHO WAS SuSpecI6Q, na
} fled, but why he administered the poison is no
known.
, IT would be almost impossible to convey Al
Intelligent idea Of the extent of the damag
done throughout the State by the late hig
waters. ALI the streams, without exception
even including the most Insignificant creeks
overfowed their banks, particularly where the
pass through bottom lands and the extent Q
I | the injury to wheat, outbuildings, stock an
1 fences generally cannot be estimated. Suffc
it to say there has been nothing equal to it fo
the past thirty years.
, FRANK HARPER, about nineteen years of agt
was employed about Coshocton for sever,
8 | months. Bad company had the usual influenc
upon him, and he was arrested for theft froI
, | his employer last fall and confined in jai
After his release he left and was heard no MOI
7 of until last week, when he was again arreste
t for theft in Uhricsvllle, and q search bein
| made it was discovered that Frank was woma
/, in mans Dress No explanation is given. Sh
! is now in jail awaiting the action of the Gran
Jury.
CASE Of domestic infelicity took peculi,
t turn at Marysyille the past week. For SON
2 time the wife of William Bancroft has bee
r | suing for a divorce, and having some meaI
of her own, and her husband being inclined
!, tipple more or less, and hence having, as
Il usual thing, nd money wherewith to buy b
: whisky, she offered him 5000 to let her g
= the divorce, which he accepted, and while 81
: was getting the divorce, he was enjoying
huge drunk. No sooner had the divorce bee
granted and her recreant lord sobered up, hoy
/ ever, than she requested that they again
g married; she couldn't think of being alone
d the world; and they went forthwith and wel