The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-04
ONO STATE NEWS.

A WOMAN named Martha Sullivan Is In jail
at Mount Vernon charged with horse stealing.
JOHN d. BoYKRs of Rome. Ashtabula Coun-
ty, suicided by shooting. Financial troubles.
A YOUNG girl named Drees, at Lima, was
fatally burned while trying to light fre with
kerosene.
A M1srn named VIM. schemslin, was killed
by falling slate In the Peacock coal mines, near
Pomeroy.
FINES aggregating $500 hare been assessed
twelve saloonists in Bellefontaine, for selling
liquor illegally. -
W. SuL1cK, Township Treasurer at Nndlay.
was robbed by burglars OF $1,000, $l, 400 o.
which was township fands.
Amos GARyEn, aged thirty years, OF Deers-
vile, Harrison County, shielded by hanging.
Unrequited love WAS the cause.
Jons NIFrL1s, near New California, scratched
his hand on thorn bush while grubbing, ana
died two days after Of acute inflammation OF
| the hand. = ;.
"A LITTLE girl named wilson, in Hazslso4
| County, was attacked by ferocloue dog eno
| horribly lacersted. The dogs teeth penetrated
the stomach in several places.
JAMES LoNa, of Lebanon, brakeman on the
| Cincinnati Northern Railroad, was fatally M
jured near Cincinnati by lumber falling from
the car on him while switching the car.
RoBERr EBNsw1TER, mail-carrier between
| Utica and Cenferburg, has been arrested by
Special Agent Brown and taken to Columbus
on the charge of robbing the mail he con-
| fessed the deed.
A ACKDARvmLE correspondent says Mr.. Robert
Kendall, q farmer living 1--WE miles west OF that
| place, has monstrosity in the shape OF
| woolly calf, now five weeks old and attracting
considerable attention.
DANIEL. KELLER, living four miles west Of
Celina, died from an injury be received on the
right temple week previous. while practacng
boxing with boxing gloves. Keller was Large,
muscular man. he leaves wife and two chill
| dren. =
THE BODY of Thomas Ford killed near Niles
/ by q falling tree-was stolen from the box IN
| which it was placed for burial before the under
| taker had time to get it in the ground. he had
no relatives and no effort was made to recover
the body. l3 ssisI4si -
THE Sheriff Of Ouyahoga County and eix
Deputies were arrested by Deputy United States
i Marshal odell, of Cleveland, for breaking iato
the mill of the Falls River Company and re.
| moving goods and machinery in the custody OF
United States Marshal Goodspeed.
| Rev. F. J.. CATHER, Of Wooster, sued the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railway
Company for damages sustained in the loss OF
trunk while in their charge, which he ayerred
contained several valuable sermous. He was
awarded $40 damages in the Common Pleas
Court.
WHITE BEAR, an Indian Chief Of the Ghey-
enne tribe, Wyoming Territory, Is at Uhricks-
vile, and will remain until the oath OF May, as
| which time he will attend the Gnadenhutten
celebration Of the Moravian Indian massacre.
He is Just the advance guard, and says many
others will come soon.
WILLIE EWING, of Dunkirk, fifteen years Of
age, uns fooling with pistol, which he thought
was not loaded, but which proved to be heavily
loaded with fine shot, and in, his careiessnesg 4
went OF, sending the entire charge into tn
face of his sister, Miss Florence Ewing, infict
ing serious and perhaps fatal, injuries. SOM
thirty shot struck her In the face. II
MISS Nora LAWRENCE, OF Mentor, Will
cleaning out closet, found package labele<
, "msdicine," which she threw into the stove
Instead of medicine the package contained gun
powder, or aonne other explosive. The resul
MAS an explosion which shattered the stove
II wrecked the furniture in the room, and badl
burned Miss Lawrence. Her injuries, It !
; thought, will prove fatal. sies8
SAYS Mount Vernon correspondent: Mr1
Jacob Myers, wife of well-known citizen Q
! the First Ward, has become insane on -accoun
of religious excitement, and. during the paa
week has made several attempts on her life
An inquest de lundtico will be held and the M
!, fortunate woman taken to an asylum for treat
ment. The cause of her trouble Was femal
evangelist named Mrs. hobinson, VINO nell
forth at the Methodist Church during the paz
winter. She told Mrs. Myers that she was nc
doing her duty; that she should 60 among be
, acquaintances and use every persuasion to II
duce them to "g give their hearts to Jesus.
Mrs. Myers was of q retiring disposition, br
l highly sensitive nature, and the importunine
of the +" female evangelist so preyed upo
> her mind that she threatened to kill her hui
, band If he did not '.join the church:
thoroughly did the evangelist ingratiate herse
in the hearts of her congregation that on ID
departure, few weeks since, band OF wome
followed her to the depot, shouting and sing
ing gospel hymns.