The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-03
OHIO STATE NEWS.
JAMES oa1rs1r was killed at chfllicoths,

JAMES oaLEs1E was killed at Chillicothe,
while coupling cars.
| A LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE is investigating
| The affairs of the State Reform Farm.
SARA BERNHAREr played an engagement Of
| four nights at Cincinnati commencing on the
I 81st ult
| HuaH McGowEN, of New Hagerstown,
| slipped, fell and broke his neck, from which he
| died instantly.
THE Grand Jury of Carroll County returned
sixty-one indictments. They are mostly against
| liquor dealers.
THE trial of Thomas Hightower, for the kill
| ing of VIM. Newland, last September, is in
! progress at Kenton.
IDA BRIDwELI, young girl Of good family,
who has been living fast life, suieided at
GAINESVILLE last week.
ORMAND BLISS, living ten miles east of Lon
don, shot himself in the head with suicidal in
tent. The wound WAS not fatal.
AT Canton, the Grand Jury indicted Joseph
Kline for murder in the first degree. Kline is
charged with poisoning his father.
The citizens of Bellefontaine, a few days
! ago, held a nass-meeting to devise means for
the better observance of the Sabbath.
WILLIAM WILCOX, of New California, is in
jail for cutting his wife's hand off at the wrist
with an ak. The account says he was drunk.
FRANKLIN Houston, a well known and high
| ly esteemed young bachelor of thirty-two years,
Of Urbana, has been adjudged insane and COM
mitted to the Columbus Asylum.
BELLEFoNTA1NE people are good feeders. A
| correspondent says the combined weight of five
landlords is 1,2s4 pounds, and the combined
weight of three of them is 900 pounds.
Miss SARAH MITCHELL, daughter of Hon.
Robert Mitchell, of GAINESVILLE, has been ad-
| judged insane. When girl Miss Mitchell fell
INTO a cistern, since which time epilepsy has
| gradually developed.
WIN. HosEwoRTH, indicted for murder in
Marion County, has been granted a change of
venue to Hardin County, and his trial set for
| April 18th, at which time special term will be
called. Bail was refused.
A CORRESPONDENT relates that Dora Sever. a
| servant in the family of ]: c. Bloker, at San
| dusky, has slept eighty hours without waking.
The physicians say the cause is the suffusion of
| the brain with blood, producing congestion.
A MAN at Newark whose name is not given,
| attempted to shoot himself, and failing that,
! tried to hang himself. He was discovered be-
fore he departed this life however. and he is
| now m inmate of the insane asylum
The Free Press of Lancaster has been in
| dicted on three counts for criminal libel. The
| Free Press published a series of articles about
| the Court and the Court officers, and the Grand
Jury says that the matter SO published was
| hbelous.
REV. A. LEHMAN, Presbyterian pastor at
Dresden; while attempting to stop runaway
horse attached to q sleigh, was thrown down
and stepped upon by the horse. His face was
badly mutilated, and q part of his right ear cut
| OF by the horses hsof.
AT Marysvillea q special Grand Jury was i'm
| paneled to investigate the charges against
| Gaines, for the triple murder of Ophelia Clark,
| her niece, Maria Scott, and an adopted son OF
| Mrs Clark and returned three indictments
against him for murder in the first degree.
ROBERT GILES. of GAINESVILLE, was coasting
after night, and going at a high rate Of speed
faI anfl rhara he a
| going to land. Well, he had his feet spread
| apart, and in that way ranlright astraddle of q
tree, and it hurt him terribly. He is laid up in
! consequence.
| TWENTY FOUR young and middle-aged men of
| Williamsburg, Noble County, we're arrested and
thrown in jail at Caldwell, by the Sheriff, for
| playing five-cent-ante, whatever that is. They
| confessed their guilt to the Grand jury was
what led to their arrest. A fine of 80 and costs
was imposed on each man.
REV. W. s. BARTON, recently teacher in
Hooking County, has sued the Board of s: h1ol
Examiners for damages in the sum of $4,000
| for revoking his certificate on the alleg,
| ground of immortality. He claims no immoral
| ity was proved against him. The Board say
they are in possession of facts that will sustain
| their course.
JOHN CUMMINs the farmer in Licking County,
| says he does not understand why people should
| make fuss over the manner in which he pun
| ishes his boy. He confesses that he took the
| boy to the barn and split sapling, and placed
| it on the boys tongue, and drove tack through
the sapling, tongue and all, to keep it in place;
| he then tied him fast to the manger and i'd
| ministered most severe beating. He is out
| on bail.
An accident on the Cincinnati, Mount Vernon
| and Chicago Railroad near Millersburg last
| week resulted in the injury Of fifteen persons.
| While rounding curve the rear car struck q
| broken rail, resulting in it being thrown down
| a twenty-five foot enbankment, the other cars
having passed over safely. DIR, l. Firestone,
of Columbus, Louis Garnes, conductor, and
| Mrs. Lydia Wolf, of Canton, an aged lady,
| were dangerously injured.
JOHN BELTz of Steubenville, attempted to
horsewhip E. A. Elliott, a newspaper cores.
| pondent, for having published that he (Beltz)
| had horsewhipped his daughter Matte, fol
| keeI ing company with one William Ferguson
| who SUI sequently eloped with Matte. Elliott
however, was too feet-footed for Beltz and es-
capped punishment. The correspondent states
that Beltz also chastiZed his wife and sister fol
| interfering in the match in Mattie's behalf.
A CORRESPONDENT at Newcomerstown writes
| ga gentleman from Montana arrived here q
few days ago who is now on the hunt of young
man named Millburn, whose life has touch OF
| romance about it. He was born near Newcom.
| erstown, and when quite young his parents
died. He was then adopted by an uncle (his
fathers brother) who shortly afterward died,
| whereupon young Millburn was adopted by 6
| family named Howell, which family shortly
| afterward removed to Indiana. This was about
| nine years ago, and since that time no trace OF
| the Howell family or young Millburn can be
| found. The aforesaid gentleman from Mon
tana has been endeavoring to find young Mill
| burn for several years. as he (the boy) is the
only surviving heir to large and rich estate in
! Montana He has already spent thousands OF
dollars in the SO far fruitless search and offers
q reward Of 81, 600 to any person furnishing in.
formation as to his whereabouts"