The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-08
OHIO STATE NEWS.

Hoe cholera has set in in some portions Of
The country.
The Ohio State Fair, this year, netted its
: managers $10,0
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY reports the potato crop
total failure.
GoTLEIB GRoBEI, German laborer, wa
drowned in the river, at Kent, while bathing.
HENRY WILSON, prominent farmer in
Champaign County, died last week Of cholera
merbus.
JOHN MAIDEN was killed by a passing train
on the Pittsburg and Erie Road near Clinton
Station.
MOSES BoLT was perhaps fatally shot, while
raiding melon-patch on the farm Of Eli Bar
rett, near Leesburg.
HoRsE thieves are doing q good business
about Piqua. The last victim is Jacob Nc
Moran, who lost fine horse and buggy.
CHARLES RooT, aged thirteen years, while
bathing in creek near amanda, Butler
9ounty, was struck by lightning and killed.
NEAR Wayesville John Everhart found a
pearl In the Miami River weighing twenty
seven grains. 1t is valued at from $500 to
e500.
JAMES Cow1E, of Pomeroy, employed in the
salt works, was struck on the head by o wind
lass, and received injuries from which he died
In few hours.
AT COLUMBUS, Daniel Nichols, aged forty
five, shot Russell Schoonover, aged twenty-five,
in the groin, producing q fatal wound. No
cause is assigned for the act.
JOHN HANEY, aged forty years, residing near
Delaware, is wanted by the authorities for
outraging Miss Amanda Oller, aged thirteen
years. while the family were absent.
Ar LoRAIN, B. Seekman, q German, slipped
on roof while carrying stone and fell forty
feet, striking on his face in car of bricks
he was probably fatally injured.
JAcoB GRAYBnL, employed in the livery
stable of Stoutenborough & Demise, at Frank
lin, was severely kicked in the stomach by q
horse . few days ago, from the effects Of
which he has since died.
THKRE have been good many forest fires
along the Lake Shore Railroad, ignited by sparks
from engines, owing to the dronth. Fires Of
this character, however, are reported from
along nearly every railroad in the country.
@. F. BAUMAN, landlord of the American
House, Lancaster, while trying to adjust his
chair for comfortable clean on the sidewalk
in front of his premises, fell over and broke a
rib, besides receiving frightful cash in the
head.
NEAR South Charleston, John Tilly fell from
9 wheat stack onto the feed board Of a threshinG
machine, his right leg going into the cylinder
which was In motion, and tearing it to shreds.
The machine had to be taken apart to release
him.
room-mate, Wesley McAfee while In bed asleep.
Kindig used dirk, which be bought few
hours before at pawn-shop, and nerving him
self with whisky proceeded to commit the deed.
McAfee's recovery is doubtful
CORRESPONDENTS all over the State report
the drouth as doing great damage Farmers
everywhere find it difficult to get enough water
for their stock, and in many town manufacto-
ries have to close up on account OF insufficient
water supply.
Two bows, Johnnie Miller and Willie Smelts,
of wellsyille, were sitting under large syca-
moro tree, when a decayed limb fell from the
tree and literally crushed Miller and md seriously
years, was the only son Of q poor widow woman.
ErNcr the appearance of smallpox in IRON
fon last May, there have been seventy-eight
eases and fifteen deaths. There are now thir-
teen cases in the hospital and i've In the city.
The latter are quarantined, and employ their
own guard, nurses, physicians, etc. strong
feeling of indignation prevails at the careless
MANAGEMENT to allow the dread disease to con-
tinue spreading, yet it appears that the Board
Of Health is now doing al in its power to pre-
vent It
Rev. GoHDoN MAcKET, pastor of the Little
Brown II. p. Church ct youngstown, is in q
peck of trouble. He is q single man, and
boarded with JEFF Meals, who, with his wife,
occupies the parsonage. Meals has very
pretty wife, and recently became jealous of
Mackey Words led to blows, and the preacher
got pair of black eyes. The preacher, then,
With the assistance of Mrs. Meals, put Meals
out of the house. and Meals went and slept in
the church, Mackey and Mrs. Meals remaining
In the house. The next morning, when Meals
attempted to enter his house, the irate parson
fred two shots at him, neither Of which took
sffect. A trial is In progress at this writing
and that Is the way the matter stands.
AT CINCINNATI the proprietor Of beer gar
dem, near Burnet Woods Park, named Moritz
Eichler, purchased of q shop keeper in the city,
Jamed VIM. Carroll, two barrels partly filed
with shells to be used about his premises. The
sheIls had been purchased by Carroll in New
Orleans. Eichler could not haul both barrels,
and it was proposed by Carroll that as one bar
rel would hold the entire lot, the shells all be
enptied into one barrel. Carroll said he was
tired seeing them about the place and had
meditated throwing them away. The amount
paid for the shells WAS $3.50. When one of
the barrels had been placed in Eichler's We
hicle. the other barrel was carried and its con-
fents emptied into it. When the barrel was
taken away bag was observed to be
on top Of the full barrel, evidently
having been in the bottom of the barrel
emptied. An examination proved it to contain
1900 in gold and silver. Both men claimed
the money, and the matter is now in the
Courts. Eichler claims that if the money is
not his, he having purchased the shells, neither
Il it CAROLS, he having also purchased the
shells of q New Orleans man. Carroll in turn,
claims to have sold Eichler shells and not
money.