The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-08-10
OHIO STATE NEWS.

state Super1n tenQent OF insurance. per
tanning to fire insurance companies, has
been issued, and shows, among other
things, that since the department was or
ganized in 1872 the total receipts of the
department have been 1925, 1870 and the
disbursements have been $96,526.45, leav-
ing net balance of revenue to the State
of s129, 227. .25.
MARY CoYLE, a woman of bad repute of
GAINESVILLE, suicided by the strychnine
route. She was known as Maude Elliott,
and was aged twenty three years.
THE Board of Managers of the Soldiers
Home have announced that the Central
Branch, that near Dayton, is, or will be as
soon as those now on furlough return, full,
and no further admission of inmates will
be made. This information is obtained
from ex-soldiers residing in that city who
have recently sought admission. They
have been informed, however, stl,st tx
will be received and furnished transfer
and transportation to one of the other
Homes. Being men of families, however,
this would work great inconvenience, if
not hardship, to them, and SO they are
forced to get along without the benefit of
the Home.
STEPHEN HAYES, Dayton molder, aged
twenty-six, drunk and jealous of his wife,
attempted to kill her by stabbing her with
a large pocket-knife. He cut her ten times
in the breast, neck and back, and once on
each wrist. He was arrested and she was
taken to the hospital in a dangerous con-
dition, though she may recover. Hayes
has served two years term in the Peni-
tentiary, and married her ON his release
three years ago. She was formerly vari-
ETY. actress, and went under the name of
Millie Birch, and played in Cincinnati.
DELLA CLOSE, the fifteen year old son of
Wesley Close, of Dunkirk, was cut almost
in two by buzz saw.
NOAH BLossER, brck-maker of South
Lima, was cut in twain by switch en-
gine.
BURGLARS carried away $4,000 in notes
and a sum of money from the residence of
Henry Ernhart, a retired capitalist of
Canton.
THE reunion of the First Independent
Battery will be held at Odell Lake, near
Gallon, August % and q. A. F. Reed,
Corresponding Secretary, at Gallon, d esires
each comrade to be present, and solicits
the address of those comrades who may
see this notice.
TIE barn of Thomas Rogers, in Orange
Township, Hancock County, was struck by
lightning, and Thomas Cleary, who was in
the barn at the time, was killed.
The Hancock County Agricultural So
ciety has purchased seven acres adjoining
the present Fair Grounds ON the west from
Colonel A. 2. Dyal.
CAsrAR CAsPAR, German tramp, was
killed by the cars at Hamilton.
The barn of John Ackerman, near New
Vienna, was struck by lightning, and with
its contents was burned to the ground.
Loss, $1,000.
A BRAKEMAN named Connor, on The
Dayton & Michigan Reed, was killed at
Hastings. The body was taken to Lima.
WV. SMITH, travelling salcsman for Har
ycy's wholesale house, of Newark, was
reported missing on the Sd, with about
81 ,000 in money collected, and S400 in
notes.
A CLOUD BURST at Zanesville damaged
several thousand dollars worth of prop
erty.
TERRIBLE SroRM.-Tbc storm on the 4th
inst, in the Hooking Valley, did damage
to property to the amount of $150,000 to
100000. A Shawnee correspondent says:
sThe volume of water came rushing down
the valley at height of seven or eight feet
and carried everything before it. Several
houses were lifted bodily from their foun-
dations, and carried in some instances com
pletcly away. The railroad between Corn
ing and Rendvillc is washed entirely away
and cars loaded with coal and iron were
thrown over. A lumber-yard belonging
to Jones Brothers was washed away. A
building belonging to Michael Foley wa.
swept from it's foundation and
placed in the middle of the street
A dwelling house containing a woman and
four children was taken boldly down the
valley, but fortunately lodged against 6
bridge, where the woman and children
were taken out. Later the bridge gave
way and the house was torn to atoms an6
carried down with the water. A great dca
of stock was drowned" A Massillon cor
respondent reports several railroad tracl
washouts, and a number of bridges gone
A washout near Clyde threw the train into
a ditch, and Chris. Link, of Tiffin, wa.
drowned. A correspondent at Rend's says
t'At this place and Corning about dozer
houses were swept away, and many NOR,
moved from their foundations. All The
bridges are swept out and the greater por
tion of the track between here and Corn
ing is swept from the road bed
A Tif1in dispatch of August 4, says
"Terrible floods have occurred in thi
county. Bridges have b, en- swept away
wheat from fields, and many mill-dam
lost. The south-bound passenger nigh
express on the I. Z. and w. Road wen
through a bridge near Green Springs, on,
coach and baggage-car and tender bein,
precipitated down the embankment fift,
feet. Roger Link, of this city, was drowned
Twenty others were injured, some Sc
verely."
A BRAKEMAN named Boyd, of Racine
was killed at Weavers Station. He hat
been braking only one day, and was no
quick enough in his work.
Mrs. CATHERINE MERRILL, an estimabl
lady of Upper Sandusky, Wyandot Coun
ty, was taken to the insane asylum las
week Her husband was killed by hi
brother few years ago, and the wayward
ness of one of her sons, coupled with this
unbalanced her mind.
There are but few places IN the
United States where water is more valu
able than petroleum. Garfield, the'neW
Pennsylvania oil town, is perhaps thu
only such locality. There is no water
and the supply for human existence has
TO be broug ght from a spring some dis
tance from town. 1t costs sixty cents ;
barrel, while oil is only worth fifty-siX
and the water renders will not give ;
barrel of wat~f for barrel of oil.
Much of the dist1stc for farmin!
which fatally attacks many boy, is tn
result of the mismanagement whicl
makes work oppressive and hateful b.
causing needless exposure to strains q
exertion OF extremes of weather.-M. I
Tribune.
Tho common nt1iictiOn eyneripnce,