The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-30
OHIO STATE NEWS.

"SnA VIA eAe UseoA0UoAAb ~ aAACs Vtllo LIE
begun.
THOMAS HAUK, . young man, suicided at
Lisbon, by shooting.
HENRY TEIFENBURcH, German, suicided by
drowning at Carlinville.
The Akron MaIleable Iron Works COMPANY
has made an assignment.
DRs Brown and Aldrich, two physicians Of
Defiance. are down with smallpox.
TEN-oENT subscription list for Sergeant
mason's family has been started at Fremont.
SAMUEL @. TERRY, an old citizen of Steuben.
vile, suicided by cutting his throat with PEN
knife.
GEORGE Cole, of Gallon, brakeman, died
from injuries received from falling under q
train.
WOOSTER has abolished her Board of Health
on the grounds that, "as luxury it was too
| expensive"
LAWRENCE FINLEY, young carpenter of
Ashtabuls, Was killed while working on tres
tleaesr Niles. So
1zesn I'm zzS1znaxn, q nan Iue, Haneoch
County, aged seventy years, was last week mar
| ried to his fourth wife.
| YOUNG man named Champman, living near
| South Charleston, while fooling with revolver,
accidentally shot his brother in the knee.
A WOOSTER correspondent says the farmers
In that section are complaining Of the appear
ance of grasshoppers, fully one-third grown.
ALBERT HoeE, who was tried at Bellefon-
taine for the killing of Charley Martin, has
been sent to the Penitentiary for term of
| fifteen years.
THE storm did more or less damage all over
the State. Land slides, fallen trees, trestles
| washed away, wrecked buildings, etc., are re-
ported from many quarters.
ALBERT KELLER, = farmer living north of
| Massillon was gored by an enraged bull in the
| femoral artery. His condition is critical.
| THE0ROTn RRATN auic ida5 AZ
| Mansfield by hanging. He left q note which
| said: "What am doing here intended to do
In Germany. The reason why no one needs to
know"
The body of Joseph Taylor, the young man
who fell from New Bridge, near Hamilton,
four weeks ago, while engaged in repairing the
same and was drowned, has been found. 1t
was in an advanced state Of decomposition.
BENZ. SHAUvER, well-known farmer living
near Rushsylvania, three weeks ago started on
| . visit to relatives, and has not since been
heard from. He was man Of excellent habits
and it is feared he has met foul play.
g. B. Berry and Frank Wilson, of Lorain,
were capsized by their rouSoat striking snag,
and Berry swan ashore with great difficulty,
but Wilson was drowned. He was aged twenty
three years and recently from New York.
JOHN p. FoRaY, young married man of
Bellefontaine, suicided by taking morphis.
He was Q man Of good family, in good circum-
stances and with pleasant domestic relations,
but was Respondent, and committed suicide
because he had sold his homestead farm, had
sickened Of his bargain, and could not induce
the purchaser to resell to him. He leaves q
wife and two children.
ANOTHER confession by George Ellis, of Ash
land (Ky.) murder fame, is now in the hands
Of Governor Blackburn. in which Ellis retracts
all the testimony to which he swore at the trial
of Neil and Craft, and upon which testimony
chiefly they were convicted and sentenced to
be hanged. The confession is attested ty
County Judge W. B. Kinkead, of Lexington,
and sworn to before Watts Parker, one of the
firm Of Morton Parker, attorneys. Mr.. Nor
ton was Captain Of the Lexington Guards at
Ashland. The confession was made to L. B.
Brown, of Catlettsburg, counsel for Neal. he
exonerates Neal and Craft, and does not ac-
count for the murder and outrage. He also
pleads innocence for himself.
A SPRING VALLEY correspondent says: +" Ou
citizens were awakened ut midnight by cries OF
distress, and by the light of the street-lampl
could see mule dashing through town, drag
ging 4 man by the saddle stirrups. Persons
followed on horseback and afoot, and by the
lanterns were enable to follow the trail made
by the man in the road, and by fragments OF
, clothing here and there. About one and q
quarter miles west of town they found him al
the house of Mr.. Lucas, near which he had ex-
tricated himself, and was still able to get to the
house. He proved to be Charles Allen, an es
timable young man who lived at P. A. Alexan.
der's, near where he WAS found. The flesh waf
torn from his arms and body, exhibiting bonei
and tendons, but his head was not injured. HI
was thrown from the mule one and Q quarter
. miles north Of town, and dragged two and
half miles on graveled road, over bridges
railroad tracks, hills and gullies, wearing
| great part Of the clothes from his person, al
| well as the flesh from his body; vet he il
! thought to be in fair way to recover"
AT ANNAPOLIS, q small village in the West
| ern portion of Jefferson County, lived one l.
D. Speck, his wife and hired girl named MARY
johnson. Mrs. Speck complained to her hus
band that his conduct toward the hired girl wa
not of becoming character, and in fact, she
attempted to otlige Miss johnson to leave the
: place, but johnson would not, and upon he
complaint to Speck, Speck set upon his wifi,
. | and gave her . f1ogging. after which he put he
and her infant child out OF the house Tn,
night was very cold, and having no place to 60
Mrs. Speck, with her child, took refuge in tn,
I loft of q stable on the premises. By SOM
t means the neighbors learned of the affair
: turned out to search for the wife, and fount
l her and the child in the loft nearly frozen
They were very indignant at the treatment sh
had received, but did not do anything tina
night further than to compel the husband II
admit her to the house. Afew nights afterward
however, five men disguised negroes ap
peared at the Speck mansion, took the brut
{ and the johnson girl out into the yard, an
not being able to procure any tar, smeare
them all over with syrup molasses, then thre'
on feathers, and the couple soon looked hk
two mammoth fowls. The people are maxim
|. tends to shortly leave the neighborhood.