The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-04-20
OHIO STATE NEWS.

JoHN HULL, brakeman, was killed at Mari
eta.
oBEnLN is enforcing an iron-clad whiaky
ordinance.
GEORGE JACKSON, . brakeman, was killed at
Ravenna.
FRANK JONES, near Painesville, was seriously
gored by q bull.
ONO wants law that will spot o lobbyist
| and put him in jail.
WIN. COURIER was fatally kicked by Morgan
stallion at Unionville.
JOHN MoGwIN, q tracklayer, WAS killed by
the cars at Painesville.
BUSINESS is getting good at Fremont-two
new banks within week.
JOSEPH DAVIS, miner, was killed at Niles by
| large stone falling upon him.
THOMAS JAMES, q young man Of Findlay, had
one hand taken OF by . buzz-saw.
THE jewelry store of R. B. Mckee, Lima,
was robbed of 81, 500 worth of goods.
AT Gallon Fred. Miller's two-year-old child
| fell into q cistern and was drowned.
ISAAC BURr Of Cleveland, bridge workman,
was killed at Canton by the falling Of beam.
JAMES EDINaToN recovered 81, 500 damages
| against the city Of Newark, sustained by gas
/ explosion.
WILLIAM PHMPoT, young man of Summer
field, Noble County, suicided by shooting.
/ Tired of life.
MARTIN KK1LEY, an old resident of Van
Vert, made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide
| by the razor route. satl
JAMES BIBLE, aged seventeen years, was
caught in the beltiug in Kings scissor factory,
ut Paineyille and killed.
A NEW bank has been incorporated at Free
mont, with Ex-President Hayes ct the head OF
the list Of ineorporators.
JOSEPH FtsHzHs prominent farmer near
New PhiladelphgsYha has made an assignment.
Liabilities, s15, 900; assets, $4,000.
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Thomas Welch, at Carlisle & Connolly's coal
bank, Toronto, killing him instantly.
MRS. DH. A. e. CoLE, of Blackleyvllle, nine
miles from Wooster, was fatally burned by her
dress igniting from the kitchen stove.
WHISKY and beer saloons in Ohio that can't
afford to pay $500 year tax and shut up their
doors on Sunday, will have to shut up shop.
Wh. McGnL, recovered . Judgment OF
a, 600 against the city of Steubenville for
injuries sustained by falling into hole in the
street. .fs
Ar RtsHyttiLE, VIM. Norton accidentally
shot Samuel Wright while capping his gun,
from the effects Of which Wright died the fol-
lowing day.
LIGHTNING rod swindlers are again operating
In the State, getting contracts in writing which
finally merge into promissory notes. Beware
Of these scalawags, s...l--
Miss CEcE1tA FLAKE, o school mistress al
Bronson, had her left eye gouged out with q
sharp pine stick held by boy named Eddie
Maui, whom she was castigating.
WIN. KIUDINa, farmer, when driving home
In the afternoon from Fostoria with his little
daughter, was followed by three men, who
knocked him seneleEs and would have taken
his money ($108) but for the screau1s of the
little girl whose voice attracted the attention OF
workmen who were near by.
1t Is regarded as strange hat two member
of the Ohio Legislature, Wright and Block
- I.s -. II
@. Watson, lobbyist, for 'ffraudently corrupt
, ing them when Alex Sands and Albert Meter
the capitalists of Cincinnati who we're supply
: ing Watson with the wherewithal, should es
, cape. Are not Sands and Meter guilty as well
! NoRTH SPRNaFIELD. Summit County, i
an old and wealthy resident with his sister-in
law who for the past two years, has been act
T ing as his housekeeper. Meyers wife was ad
q judged insane and sent to an asylum two year
\ ago. Prior to taking his departure, Meyer
J sold property to the value Of $4,000.
= PETER GREATHoUsE, a we'll known youn
4 man of Lebanon, who, one year ago, became
convert of religion, and has since devoted hi
I time to studying for the ministry, attempte
y J, suicide few days ago by shooting in the righ
= tempt Greathouse attended q spiritualist
= = seatice given by Mr.. and Mrs. Baldwin, of Cir
% cinnati, and was told by Mrs. Baldwin while
- her clairvoyant state, that he would eyentr
2 ally become r1cn, DuL ultln1aCely Ole IN war
~ ~ and alone. This was more than Greathout
u u could stand, and SO he attempted to end b
q existence.
a THE Ohio crop report for April has been pr
a pared. 1t shows we had 13S, ,000, 900 bushe
"a less wheat to export from the crop of 1881 ths
a from that of 1880 that our real surplus is O
If ready more than exhausted {; that what we e
"a port from now till August must be a squeezir
g Of the sponge that the fact that ocean stear
Is ers are paying q premium on wheat to use
re ballast shows the export stock is exhausted
ir that the present probabilities for winter whe
Of States are better than year ago, but not
1r good two years ago, and that prices are like
ir to remain firm even after harvest. The Seer
th tary does not regard the effects Of the hea
ia freeze as alarming, though 1t may diminish Il
to general average some three or four per cent.
he AT Eaton, eight miles southeast Of Elyria,
BE well-to-do farmer about forty-fve years of &c
e, | named Thomas Fshburn, made an assault
Il. his wife with stick Of stovewood and beat b
n over the head SO severely that she died with
nd an hour. The man made his escape before
could be arrested, going across fields, but "
found q mile away with his throat cut and Al
the arteries of both wrists. In his hand W
clenched q common pocket-k knife with which
,o did the work. Three years ago Fishburn "
e sent to an insane asylum, from which he "
es discharged improved six months later. L,
as summer he left home in the busiest seasc
he going to Michigan, where he hired out Of
i'm farm hand. Weak in mind, and jealous of ]
ws wife's devotion to her children, was the car
Of his crime.