The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-10
OHIO STATE NEWS.
vicinity Of


SCARLET FEVER still prevails in the vicinity Of
Marion.
The tallow mills, on the Whitestene Creek,
near Marion, have burned. Loss, $4,000; m
surance; S4,00 49,
THE infant child of George Anderson, at
Vienna Junction. fell into q tub of hot water
and was fatally scalded.
TIE grocery of n. E. Carey & Co., at Ma
poleon. burned. Loss on building, $500; on
stock, S6, 500. Fully insured. s1e5i-f
The Reform Farm has $50 boys who were
committed simply for incorrigibility, and 247
who were committed for various crimes.
SooTT YAReER, brakeman Of Alliance, was
killed at Leetsdale, Pa, by being struck by
passenger train while walking upon the track.
A. BACHELOR, for operating an illicit distil-
lery in Wayne Couny, was arrested last week
and taken to Cleveland by Revenue Collector
Barker. ~ -
SUPERINTENDENT RuTLIDaE, of the Carroll
County Infrmary, has been indicted by the
Grand Jury for committing assault and battery
on the inmates. s5s-s-5fs sgf
A. E. MERRILL has been appointed Receiver
of the American Sash-Balance and Lock Com
pany, of Sandusky, the largest institution of
the kind in the world.
JOHN RITTER, one of the proprietors Of the
large Touring mills at Lancaster, was caught by
shaft and instantly killed. The body was
mangled beyond recognition.
AT Belmont, a young man named George
YanCuren, aged nineteen, SON of Andy Van
Curen, Burr's Mills, was killed by tree falling
on him and crushing his skull.
A BLACKSMITH in New Rugle, Seneca County,
on wager of $40 that he could drink one
hundred glasses of whisky. suecumbed when he
had swallowed the seventy-seeond and died.
I Miss MARY SwALLEY, aged TWENTY-FIVE
years, residing near Kenton, while riding on
log on sled, which her brother was hauling,
was thrown on by the log rolling and crushed
fatally.
Ex-Gov. Soorr's bail (at Napoleon) is fixed
at 81, ,204. His bondsmen are VIM. Sheffield,
| E. !. Blair, s. M. Keller, d. Wilson, L. Trow-
| bridge, Jas. Lowery, A. NJ. Willard, and Jas.
G. Haley. nf Ht
! Ira UHLER, of Marion, who went to Califor-
| from. His son is very low with disease, and
| every effort to get tidings from the senior
Uhler has failed. 5af L5ls:l
LIS lCoshecton County (Sintor Township, .
| man named West, q husband, and the father Of
! three children, e1oped with the wife of his
neighbor,. who was the mother Of two children.
| 1t is thought they have gone West.
The Grand Jury at Napoleon have found an
indictment against Ex- Governor r. L. Scott, of
murder in the second degree, for shooting and
| killing Warren G. Drury, ON the morning Of
| the 25th of last December.
DOMESTIC troubles, eliminating in divorce
suit, caused Ferd Smith, Of Piqua, to attempt
! suicide by hanging. A neighbor saw him in
time to cut him down and save his life. He
was taken to the County Infrmary.
A BROKEN rail on the Wabash, st. Louis and
| Pacific Road, near Antwerp, threw the engine
and eleven freight cars into heap. Leonard
| Lang, engineer, and Chades Foster, brakeman,
were badly injured, the latter, it is thought,
i fatally. 5sN &7-c
| An investigation of affairs at the Reform
| Farm seems to indicate that contract system
| prevails at the expense Of the taxpayer and to
the benefit Of the managers. They are now,
| and have been, paying more for butter, meat
| and -four than the market price.
AT Steubenyille, four horses attached to .
1 wagon became frightened at the cars near
4 high. John Blackburn, the driver, had several
4 ribs broken, and received deep cuts on the
head. Two of the horses were badly injured.
HIRAM q. SEWER, living eleven miles west
of Tffin, had gone to the city to get his mar
riage license, and while attempting to board q
to return home, he slipped and fell under the
train, the wheels passing over and cutting on
| both his legs. He lived about an hour after
the accident. He made - verbal @ nv win be-
to have been married in a day or two. %
THE first section Of No. 2S, stock express,
| going east on the Panhandle Railroad, when
near Dinsmore Station, fifteen miles east Of
6teubenville, ran into wild train that was
| coming west. The collision resulted in the
killing of brakeman named A. J. O'Donnell,
| badly woundng Engineer Harry Steigal on
the body and leg, and also severely injurine
Conductor Hutchings. Both engines and 9
number of cars were totally wrecked, and Q loi
of hogs killed. -
THERE seems to be all sorts OF brutal people
| in the world. In the public schools Of Newark,
one of the lady teachers has been in the habit
of putting soap in the scholars mouths to pun
ish them for lying. She recently overdid her
self by putting ashes in the mouth of . boy
named Frank Gorby; which caused his mouth
to bleed and become very sore. The parents o.
the scholars have become cognizant OF the stu
alton, and are very indignant over the matter.
The affair occasions great deal Of comment.
A bloody and disgraceful fight occurred be-
tween some farmers of Rush Township, Tusca-
rawas County. An old feud has existed be-
tween the brothers, Benjamin and Josiah
Saunders, Stephen johnson, ii. Parish, and
Jake Edwards. On Saturday they came. to-
gether and the two Saunders boys attacked
i johnson, giving him q terrible beating.
sled standard was used and Johnson's head
laid open to the brain. He also received 9
dangerous cut over the face, and other serious
injuries Parish had forbidden Edwards tc
cross his premises, but on Friday Edwards
boldly crossed the forbidden ground, when the
two met. A fight resulted, and the sled stand
ard was again brought into use. Edwards
face was disfgured almost beyond recognition
and his head beaten to . jelly. At last &C
counts there had been no arrests.
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