The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-09-07
STATE NEWS ITEMS. !

gust 20, was attended by 5000 persons
The oldest person present was David Gray
aged 103 years.
ALEX McMANus, of Bellefontaine, bur-
glarized the saloon of s. E. Burns of three
bottles of gin, box of cigars,
a pound of tobacco and some candy, and
went down the railroad track to have. d
jamboree all to himself. He drank the
contents of one of the bottles, and by that
time was pretty full, and also by that time
train came along and killed Mr.. Nc
Mahus.
The funeral Of Miss Lou Ewing; who
was accidentally shot by relative in
Fostoria, was attended by 1000 persons.
The Tri-State Fair, opening at Toledo
September 4, will continue two weeks.
According to the programme, ''on Septem-
8 and will occur the grand military prize
drill, in which nine of the best eompaties
Id the country will take .ijart On Sep
tember a. mock battle, representing in
detail the battle of Franklin, will take place,
to be followed by dress parade, a review
of the troops by the Governor and staff,
and awarding Of the prizes, etc"
"a GOVERNOR ST. JOHN, of Kansas, writes
that he will be unable to visit Ohio during
the present campaign. He adds taking
this view of the matter: at seems to me
that there is no longer any reason for the
friends of temperance in Ohio to withhold
their earnest support to the Republican
party of that State. The fact is rapidly
developing that the Republican party of
this country is to be the great party of
morality, sobriety, and good government,
against the Democratic party, that seems
welded to the cause of free whisky"
SAYS Newark correspondent: "Webb
Barrick, the blind child-stealer and al;
legged horse thief, arrested in Mount Yer
non last week has been taken to Steuben-
vile. Little Eva Swan, the eleven-year-
old girl whom Barrick spirited away from
home, says that the brute treated her in a
horrible manner, compelling her to oc,
eupy the same bed with him and submit
to his beastial treatment"
WIN. McFEE was killed by the cars five
miles below Coshocton while lying on the
track in drunken stupor.
Mrs. MAGGIE COPELAND who was muir.
dered last week at her home at Kewanee
illinois, was resident of Unionport, JEFF
ferson County, this State, where she wai
married five years ago to Mr.. Copeland
She was the daughter Of George Frazier
Sylysnus r: Makison, a neighboring farm
hand arrested for the crime, has confessed
mis- guilt. The confession was brought
sonated Welch, bank robber. He re
NAMED through the. night in the lookup
getting the confidence of the murderer and
worming the confession from him.
DAVID HART, a coal miner, was instantly
killed and two others badly huff BY faliihf
slate, at Longstreth's mine, at Carbon Hill.
BURGLARS carried off $2Ss for Johr
Swallow, of Bellefontaine, but not unit
after Swallow shot at tthem-without effect
By a railroad accident at Napoleon
,aused by "a misplaced switch, John oonk
ling, engineer, and tramp who was steal
ing ride, were fatally injured.
CHARLES LOGAN, editor of a paper a
Logan, has mysteriously disappeared. H,
left home with 5000 for Cincinnati, Whsre
he told his wife, he was going to settle al
account at the type foundry. It appears
however, that J. s. Wingett, of Columbus
| saw him on the train from Columbus t,
Toledo, en- route for Detroit, Mich. Mr.
Wingett says he judged that Logan wa
ION a junketing trip"
NEAR Upper Sandusky two men, Johl
D. Wickiset and Charles Cline wefs en-
gagged moving frame s,hool-house O,
four trucks, and two of the rear truck
getting out of order, they were both ne
cessitated to get under the structure t
straighten them. While doing so tn
structure fell upon them, crushing an,
almost instantly killing them. Both me,
| leaves families
The Cincinnati Publishing Company
with capital of 5000, 900, has been incor
porated. the incorporators being r. M
Bishop, John Follett, George Hoadley, W
P Anderson, s. M. Barrett, Nathanie
Newburgh, II. Worthington, Alexande
Long, JOS Carbery, Chas. Reemelin, H. H
Hoffman, Joseph H. Wright, Adam A
Kramer, Julius Freiberg, and Jno E. Bell
of Cincinnati. and C. NJ. Clay, jr., w. C
P. Breckenridge, w. Lindsay, James W
Tate, J. M. Atherton, F. ]. McGibbons, NJ
! G.. johnson, John T. Underwood, an,
Garret T. Wall, of Kentucky. The article
of incorporation set forth that the compan
is formed for the purpose of printing an
! publishing newspaper and doing a ger
eral job printing and publishing business
the business to be done and the heao
| quarters of the company to be located i
Cincinnati. The newspaper to be publish
ed is to be Democratic morning daily
the quality of the Democracy of tn
Enquirer not being satisfactory to th
politicians interested in the new entel
prise. The papers were filed by ex-Gover
nor Underwood, of Kentucky.
THE body of Geo. Labor was found O.
the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad, ju:
north of Ravenna. His head was mashe
in and one hand nearly cut off, and whe
found the body was cold. 1t is suppose
he attempted to board freight train to q
home, and was killed by the train. Dt
ceased was shoemaker residing in Edir
burg, Portage County. He leaves
family.
ROBERT CAMPBELL, young man livin
five miles south of Dell Roy, in Carol
County, fatally shot himself in the nee
while out hunting. The accident occurre
while he was climbing fence.
HENRY HEILBERG, a farmer near Ma
poleon, was struck by q passenger trail
and instantly killed.
There is curious geographical fac
In connection with the Kootenai River
Its course is in the shape of a horse
shoe. 1t rises in British Columbia, run
into the United States, and waters
vast region, and then circles back to tn
land of its birth, and empties into th
Columbia in British territory Durin
its course it passes within half a mile c
Columbia, and canal of that distanc
over a grassy prairie would save it
course of five hundred miles befor
reaching its goal.
Mr.. G. S. Chestnut, of Anne Arun
del County, Maryland, last winter use,
rye straw in packing ice in his ic
house. Some rye grains were scattere
and fell between the cakes of ice The
sprouted. and now, as he is using tn
ice, he finds the roots, in some case
three or four inches long, have per
meated cakes of ice as solid apparent,
as glass. The roots, in their icy sol
| oro o1ivo on1 tho ,.ya &c