The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21
OHIO STATE NEWS.

MR.. THOMAS PowERs, pioneer of Wooster,
lied last week of old age.
WIN. SIBmA, grocer of West Brownfeld,
was gored to-death by cow.
THE ten-year-old son of G. G. Large, of
Byesville, drowned while bathing.
In MUsKNGUM COUNTY, the past year, there
were 413 marriages, 462 Births and 465 deaths.
AN ELEvEN-YEAR-oLD son of David West, ct
Mount Gilead, was kicked to death by o horse.
ARTHUR AKINs, of Bryan, is under arrest ut
Goshen on the charge OF stealing seven
horses.
JOHN BRuNER, near Caldwell, fell before
mower in operation, and had his left hand sew
cred at the wrist.
NEARLY the entire flock of sheep belonging
to Daniel Sucker, near Millersburg, we're killed
by bolt of lightning.
FRANKLIN WALTON and wife Ella, of Belle
fontaine, want SIS, 900 of Mrs. Maria Thomas
Orahood for SANDER.
R1sI.AY & wH1TT1ERs planning mill at Holgats
was struck by lightning and burned to the
ground. Loss, $4,000.
THREE large wheat stacks belonging to John
McGarry, in Noble County, were struck BY
lightning and consumed.
A BUILDING owned by Jas. Avery, and occu-
pied by j. N. Sawyer Sons, as q flour and
feed store, burned at Newark. Loss, $4,000.
JAMES BoYD, a well known farmer near
Plaine City, fell in front of mower and was
LYMAN PAINE, pioneer of Painesville, left
home to pick blackberries, and was subse-
quently found dead in the patch. Heart dis
ease. /;
Hon. JOSHUA HANNA, eighty-seven years old :
pioneer of Wooster and wealthy in this worl DIS,
goods, died of hemorrhage of the bowels last
week.
ABRAHAM MILLER, a farmer in Jersey Town
/ ship, near Newark, was struck by lightning
| while driving a reaper and instantly killed.
Both horses were killed.
A.TERRIFIc wind and rain storm on the 18th
did much damage to property at Youngstown;
Trees were uproooted, houses unroofed, and
| two houses were blown down.
INoEND1ARIEs burned the steam separator Of
Kester, Crawford d Moon, near New Vienna,
last week. They also destroyed the usefulness
of the engine by carrying OF Pvrtiens OF ~
EMMA McALINDA, at Canton, aged seventeen
years, was struck by lightning while standing
at window in her fathers residence. She is
paralyzed, can not speak, and viii probably
die.
NEAR Etna Station, on the Iron Railroad,
Charles Bowman, resident on Cannon's
Greek, deliberately laid down on the track and
let train pass over him. he leaves wife
| and child.
THE peach crop in Ross County, it is ssid,
: viii be almost complete failure. The late
dry weather is the cause. There will be fair
crop of seedlings, or common stock, about .
half crop of plums, and plenty of apples.
DAVID Cross, farmer near Maysville, lost
considerable fence, number OF shocks Of
ing cigar from his mouth while passing
through his field. Moral: Never throw cigar
away.
FIVE prisoners escaped jail at Cincinnati at
midday last week by prying on q paddock,
climbing up forty-foot smoke stack and slid.
ing down lightning rod A number Of per.
sons saw the fellows sliding down the rod, but
say they took them to be lightning rod men.
IT WOULD be almost impossible to detail the
incidents in the State consequent upon the m.
tensely hot weather we have been having
Almost every village and hamlet and country
road has had its case of fatal sunstroke, while
| the number of prostrations from heat are al
most innumerable. In several places mercury
on the 11th inst, was reported to have reached
108 degrees in the shade.
AT EVANSVILLE Sadie Williams, young LADY
about twenty years of age, whose house is in
Wildwood, in the Seventh Ward, drowned her
self in Licking River. She told her mother
she was going to drown herself, and, leaving
her house, started running in the. direction OF
the Licking Bridge, her mother following. The
mothers efforts we're fruitless, for, upon
reaching the bridge, the girl threw herself
headlong in below the bridge, where the water
is twenty feet deep. Insanity was the cause.
The body was recovered.
The Jury in the Kline murder case at Can
ton rendered verdict Of guilty of murder in
the second degree, after having deliberated fol
nearly twenty-four hours Joe Kline was
nervous, and when the verdict was read his
face flushed and he seemed relieved. Defense
gave immediate notice Of q motion for new
trial, which will probably be overruled. Ont
of the jurymen remarked, speaking OF thu
, long time they were out, "You know we haf
, sick man on the jury" Had it not been fol
his illness Kline might have got it rough
, GOVERNOR FOSTER addressed the Governor
of other States and Territories on the subjec
of holding day of National thanksgiving 70
! the recovery of the President. Response
, acquiescing have been received from ever,
State Columbus correspondent says
, Letters from every imaginable source ar
} accommodating, each containing some sugges
} ton relating to the National jubilee. Octobe
10 has been suggested, it being also the cen
tennial of the surrender of CORVALLIS o
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