The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-08-17
OHIO STATE NEWS.

TELEGRAMs show that heavy rains nave
fallen throughout Northern Ohio every
day for nesrly two weeks. doing great dam.
age to crops. In many localities the hay
crop will be a total loss. Wheat in shocks
and stacks has been so wet that it is begin
ming to sprout and spoil. The oat crop is
nearly ruined in several sections and much
damaged everywhere. Corn is seriously
injured, though that planted late is least
affected.
THE colored journalists of Ohio have
formed an Association.
Mrs. THOMAS RIGeER, of Napoleon, was
taken to the asylum for insane at Column
bus last week. Cause, religious excite
ment. 7
Two MILES north of Deshler, Henry
County, two sons of Nicholas Dennis, aged
and years, were lying on the floor play.
ing with a revolver. when the weapon was
discharged, the bal. entering the Aessis=ssss
the younger, killing him instantly.
Brother BARNES, at Dayton, breaches
twice day, it is said, with as much zeal as
he did month ago, and has worked up
quite revival. He averages q dozen or
more confessions daily, and annoints twice
as many. -.
SEYMOUR NEwLIN, q negro, is in Jail at
Bellefontaine for attempting to outrage
Lizzie E. Shoemaker, aged 13, near. Rush
sylvania. Lizzie, with two younger sisters,
were blackberrying, when she was attack
ed. The screams of the three attracted at
! tention, and the fellow was caught.
The Auditor of State has issued circu-
lar which shows the total number OF
horses in Ohio in 1881; to be 7O7 ,O25, and in
1882 to be 714,5s5. Total number of cattle
in 1881, 1888, 462, and in 1882, 1,51s, 755.
Total number of mules in 1881, %, 3,O7s, and
in 1882, 22s91. Total number of hogs in
1881, ,923, ia, and in 1882, 4,594, GOT. To-
tai number of sheep in 1881, 1, 1885, ,770, and
in 1882, 1,624,O77. 1t will be observed that
there has been decrease in everything
except horses.
Mr.. THos. J. LENHART, formerly resi-
dent of New Philadelphia, but for the past
year or two of the West, accidentally
killed his own little boy in the following
singular manner: He was moving heavy
.iano box, and the little child in crossing
the room ran in under it just as he had
raised one end. Mr.. Lenhart's strength
failed him just at the fatal moment when
the child was under the box, and he was
compelled to let it drop. The child was
crushed into a shapeless mass, nearly ev-
cry bone in its body being broken. The
remains were buried at New Philadelphia
on the 5th inst.
IT is proposed, instead of the semi-an-
nual meeting of the Ohio Department.,
Grand Army of the Republic, to hold sew
eral one-day camp fires, beginning at Ham
ilton, August "a.
THE grand stand at the State Fair
Ground, Columbus, burned few days ago.
1t will be rebuilt at once.
THE anniversary of the Emancipation
Proclamation, September %, will be held
at Bellefontaine, by the Third, Seventeenth
and Twenty-seventh United States Colored
Volunteers Speakers from Nashville,
i Louisville, Columbus and other places, are
expected to be present. .->.--5-
BELLEFoNTA1NE, where Telephone Ex.
change has just been established, is al
ready complaining of it being big mon,
opoly. Users are required to pay quarter
ly in advance.
COMMANDER C. IT. CLARK, Department oil
Ohio, G. A. R., has issued General Order
No. II, postponing the camp-ires provided
for by General Order No. IL, except that
at Hamilton August "a, and announcing 8
meeting to be held in Columbus, at City
Hall, August 80 and 81. The officers and
comrades of every Post are cordially in
vited to attend these meetings, which oc
cur during the State Fair.
A DISPATCH from Dayton, August9, says
''Rev. Geo. Barnes, the Kentucky evangel
list, closed his fruitless meetings here las
night, and to-day, with his family, left fol
Indianapolis, where he opens revival to-
morrow night
I E. PETERS, near Circleville, had thre,
} large stacks of wheat to burn, caused b,
the carelessness of his children.
, JACOB STALL, farmer living near Halls
vile, Ross County, fell from stack of ha,
and broke his neck, resulting in instan
death.
E. J. WARING (colored), editor Of tn
Atro-America,,, printed at Columbus, ha
been appointed to a 81, 600 clerkship in tn
f Pension Office.
f FIVE freight cars broke loose on the u
, grade of the l., B. and w. Railroad int
S Bellefontaine. and started back down III
S grade, and after running about half mil
e and reaching high rate of speed, the
3 train coming round curve. Fourtee
!. cars and an engine were completely dc
< molished.
Mrs. BURNEs, an old lady of Carrolltor
! was instantly killed by falling from :
: wagon.
i JAMES D. CABBAN, Superintendent of tn
: Wakeman Schools, Huron County, on
: visit to Michigan, wrote his wife fro1
| Ink hot ha II
leave for home that night on the steame
4 City of Milwaukee, since which nothin
il has been heard from him, and his wife
r Frustrated with grief.
/ AN insane man was found wanderin
a about the streets of Canton and remove
c to the County Infirmary. 1t was asce
t tanned that his name was VIM: Iller, an
that he had wandered away from the hon
!, of his mother, in Massillon. Iller is
resident of Cincinnati, steamboat eng
c neer, and until recently on the Ohio Rive
The first of August he was beaten an
d robbed by highwaymen at Delaware, sin'
when he has been bereft of reason. H
/. wife and mother have taken him back I
J. Massillon, where has been living since r
" ceiying his injuries.
An employe in a New York brew
/ cry challenged friend, who was the
" drunk, to a drinking bout, and I'll
friend died after imbibing innumerab
y glasses of beer The Coroner's Jul
d censured the employe and he was a
n rested What he thought was "fun
at first he now finds to be a very ser
ID Gus matter, us the District Attorney ar
Il the Grand Jury see nothing funny