The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-12
OHIO STATE NEWS.

IHE WIG Al MI. fnllups, OF oualIsVue, III
missing, and no clue.
FoUR-FooT vein of coal has been discovered
at Centreville, Gallia County.
THE Republicans of Miami County will hold
their convention at Troy, May %.
FRANK SEARLE, aged 80 years, Of Wooster,
suicided with revolver. Dissipation.
JEwELRY to the value Of 81, 900 was stolen
from store of Charles Eglmes, at Marietta.
The Central Ohio Fair, at Mechanicsburg,
will be held September 13 to 16 inclusive.
MRS. SERvErus DAWSON, Of Mason, suicided
by severing an artery in her arm. Tired Of
The body of an infant was found floating in
the Mahoning River, near Youngstown, the past
week.
The mumps are 30 bad in portions of Holmes
County that the public schools have been dis
missed.
CHAs. WEBER, of the webber Organ Manu-
featuring Company at Wooster, has made an
| assignment.
MRS MARGARET McCADDoN, an old lady of
GAINESVILLE, died from injuries sustained failing
down stairs.
HUaH WARD, aged twenty-six years, of Kent,
while digging ditch, was suffocated by earth
caving in upon him.
The unreiling of the Mcpherson statue. at
Clyde, will take place July "a, the anniversary
| Of the death of Mcpherson.
CAPT. CRANMER, formerly owner of the
Walnut street House, Cincinnati, died suddenly
| at Lancaster on the 5th inst.
| TRAMPs fired the barn of John Howe, near
Akron, who, trying to save his horses from the
| flames, was himself fatally burned.
| AT YOUNGSTOWN Mrs. Larry Gilboy shot and
seriously wounded her brother Tom Flanagan
who was attempting to kill his father.
NEARLY two hundred teachers were present
| at the meeting of the Southern Ohio Teachers
| Association at Logan, on the 30th ult.
The two-year-old child of Frank Wright, at
Akron, fell into q bucket of lye, and was
scalded to death before its mothers eyes.
JAMES DOYLE, of Tallamadge Village, sui
cided at Akron, by taking strychnine He was
member Of q worthy family. Financial
troubles.
the Rowly House, Mount Vernon, blew out the
gas. When found he was unconscious, but not
past recovery.
DR. F. l.. Hickman, of North Baltimore, was
arrested at Fostoria for alleged forgery on sew
eral parties in Hancock County, amounting to
several hundred dollars.
The safe of Baka & Ridenour, at College
Corner, was blown open by burglars and 81 ,00t
taken therefrom. A reward of $3.50 is offered
for their arrest and conviction.
The Stubbs Sunday Law has gone into effec
in nearly every city and town in the State, bu
thousands of people still keep getting drunk OF
beer. Beer, however, is not intoxicating.
THE County Commissioners of Hooking
| County offer q reward of 5000 for the arrest o
| James Turney, colored, charged with outraginl
a sixteen-year-old girl of Range Township.
AT OGDEN FURNACE, in Hooking County
George Brooks and Scott Love got into diff
ficulty which finally ended by both gettinl
shot. Love fatally. Love began the trouble
! A FIRE at Warren, ON the Sd inst, destroye,
property to the value of $50, 900. The Doug
lass Machine Works Company were the heav
lest loosers-$60, ,000-with insurance at Sc SOC
WHILE the teacher was ringing the bell a
the South Side school-house, at Kent, the bel
| fell and struck Louie, an eight-year-old so
: of William Walter, on the head, crushing hi
skull.
MRS. CHARLES MAURY, young woman Q
| Canton, took an overdose of morphine whic
had been prescribed by her physician, an
! after lingering in three days agony, died frol
the effect.
JOHN YATES, of Brown County, a one-yea
| man. has been the recipient of Executive elem
| ency Since his trial evidence has come to hgh
that completely exonerates him, and for tha
reason he was released.
JANE G. HARDY, of Marion, has sued the
c., G. and I. Railroad Company for $10, ,0(
damages sustained by fractured arm, whic
, she received while passing around some freigf
cars, in the dark, and falling into ditch.
DIR. DAVID WATSON, aged sixty years, OF
of the best known physicians in Central Ohit
was thrown from his buggy at BellefontaiI
, was literally denuded, the scalp being torn dow
, over his ear.
, The body Of James Devro, laborer, vi
, | found in Walnut Creek, near Ashville. II
deceased was about ffty-ive years Of age, al
, has been missing since March II, st. Patrick
l Day. His remains were in an advanced sta
! of decomposition.
: MOST remarkable monstrosity Of the pc
: cine species is reported from Apple Cree
, Wayne County. It is large in size, has trul
= | like an elephant, mouth and chin similar to
: monkey, only one eye and that in the center
!, | the head feet like cow, and hairless ears.
o | is the property of John b. Fouts, and
i daily visited by hundreds of curiosity seeker
n The total valuation of the five leading cit
of Ohio, per report of the State Board
> EQUALIZATION, are: Cincinnati population 25
l. 6OS9 1924, 400, $40; Cleveland population 16
It | 142) S63 272, ,494; Columbus population 5
n 665l S24, ia, 169); Dayton population 3S,67'
n S16, ,627, 100; Toledo population so, 143), 81
!. 570,773. In these cities the number of inha
% tants per house are given as follows: Cinri
: natl, sos; Cleveland, 556; Columbus, g.
's Dayton. 5.43; Toledo, $40. Average, 5.3s.
o' WHEN seven prisoners in the county Jail
n Urbana were arra1gned for trial the discove
/ was made that one who appeared to be robr
= youth Of about twenty years Of age was
: Young woman in mans apparel She "
s, arrested as q tramp, and gives her name
ID Dora johnson, Of Cleveland, claiming as
es | excuse for wearing mems clothes that her o'
a. | wore out, and q young man In her compa
=, supplied her with the suit in which she "
80 arrested at Bellefontaine. She is suspected
TX being a female thief.