The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-08-11
OHIO STATE NEWS.

took paris green.
DANIEL R. HEATH, OF Bellefoneaine, has been
adjudged insane.
THE price of gas, at Bellefontaine, has heen
reduced to e150 per 1000 feet
NEAR Deshler, Charles Boston was instantly
killed by log rolling upon him.
A NUMBER Of cases Of sunstroke wefe re-
ported on the 5th aud 9Th instantS :.
CHARLEY CREsAP, aged ten years, <Eas
crushed in a sand bank near Unionville.
CHARLES NALL, the ten-year-old son of q
widow lady Of Bronson, drowned while bath
ing.
A PONY engine at Akron, ran over and in
ptantly killed little daughter Of Frank Nc
Leon. r..
REUBEN s. GRIFFIN, the well-known and
popular lessee Of the st. James Hotel. Oincin-
matt, is dead.
oAMp-MEET1Nas are in full blast, and
thousands Of souls are being snatched from
the burning.
GEO. BURROWS, thirtesn-year-old lad OF
Couldn't swim.
MIoHAEI KnAass was struck and instantly
killed by the cars at Akron, last Week. Leaves
wife and seven children.
TIE citizens of New PhiladelpMr have
location Of rolllng-lnill at that place.
TIE ex-Soldiers' and Sailors Memorial Asko-
citation Of Clinton County, held q reunion oh
the 4th inst. Five thousand people were In at
tendance. E
JOHN BuRNzLL, Of Norwalk, at the village Of
Hartland, took paris-green, but emetics saved
bis life. He refuses to tell why he wanted to
be an angel
THULL HIGHLAND, o brakeman on the n. Y,
p and o. B. R. was instantly killed at War
rem, bythe breaking of q plank which was be-
ing used to push car.
JAMES MoANANY, Of Millersburg, asks for a
R-ov 4; 70 nafh MoAn
the grounds Of extreme cruelty, although she
is q very delicate woman.
MAYOR WOODWARD, of Kent, was arrested
last week and bound over in the sum Of $500,
charged with assault and battery on Richard
Field, editor Of the Kent Netos.
TIE conversions Of the Guernsey County
new Courthouse was laid at Cambridge on the
eth inst, by the Freemasons in the presence of
crowd numbering thousands.
MRs. JULIA FENToN, wife Of David Fenton,
Of orestline, aged fosty-aye years, suicided cid by
horribly mangled. nlhealth was the cause.
AT CI.ARKsFIEID, q few miles south of Nor
walk, James Lammen, well-to-do farmer OF
Castello, was killed by lightning while hitching
bis horses under tree. One Of the horses
was also killed.
JOHN IRwrN, aged seventy years, well-to-do
farmer living near Bellefontaine, was fatally
injured by falling log while pulling down an
old barn. His head was crushed, leg broken
and other injuries inflicted.
SAYS o Cardington correspondent; Jos.
Jewell while driving well Of twenty -four feet
on his farm, Eve miles north, struck q vein of
gas and water that spurts jet of water fifteen
feet high about once o second.
TEE cornerstone Of the new Masonic build
ing and Opera house, at Ironton. was laid. on
the 9Th inst, Charles E. Keifer, Of Urbana,
Ohio, Deputy Grand Master of the F. and A.
n, conducting the ceremonies,
AR1sHA A. WOODWARD, a resident Of Bellevue,
bad his phaeton, carriage and buggy completely
ruined by vandals who gained an entrance to
his carriAge-house. The vehicles were cut in
every way that q knife would cut them.
LACK of sufficient rain has done great dam
age to all the crops. Potatoes are poor, and
corn must necessarily be the same. There is
plenty Of corn tasseling that is not over two
and three feet high, and no matter how much
rain may now come, it can be but poor
yield.
GEORGE LAUaH1N, of Niles, Ohio, aged
khirty-two years, was frightfully mangled by
the cars at Canton. At the time of the acci-
dent the shifter was running on the main line,
and Laughlin was walking on that track. A
brakeman halloed at him to look ont, and, be-
coming excited, he stepped on the side-track,
and was run down by the two cars, which were
moving rapidly. He leaves family.
ExITRIAsunKR SULLIVAN, of Stark County,
has reduced the deficit against him, BY pay
ments to $1,012. IS. He has filed Q protest
with the Auditor addressed to the County Com
miggiOners In which ne states ne does not think
himself indebted to the county as shown by the
recent examination Of the Treasury that the
money he is paying in is all under his own
protest, and in case any error Is found in his
favor in the future, he expects the money to be
refunded to him.
AT HIcKsvmLE, Defiance County, Ann E.
Lynch, widow and mother of two children,
shot her 'neighbor Augustus Austin, who she
Gays was attempting to enter her house against
her will. She AYERS that she ordered him away
the third time, but that be persisted ip coming
In. Austin, who lived next door, told his wife
It was too hot to sleep In bed, and with that
went down stairs to sleep on the floor. His
body was left lying on the threshold Of Mrs.
Lynch's house until morning. Mrs. Lynch is
in jail.
JoHN JACOB WuER died at his residence on
West Fourth street, at Mansfelds, aged one
hundred and one years, one month and
twenty-eight days. He was born In Her
sian, Appenzell, County, June 4, 1850.
He served in the Swiss army duting the
campaign Of Napoleon in Austria. he
sailed for America May 19, 1917, and after
ninety days voyage, landed in Philadelphia. He
came to Mansfield in 1919 and took possession
of tavern, which has since that time been
known as the Wiler House, now one Of our best
hotels, and owned by Mr.. Wiler up to the time
Of his death.