The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-10-18
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Iy, mas IounQ brennan q Co., proprleIorS
of the rag-house which burned ON Walnut
street, Cincinnati, culpable for the loss of
life that eechrred. A rigid enforcement Of
tho law requiring the erection Of fire Gsi
capes is urged.
AUGUST JOHNSON, a German carpenter
of Toledo, committed suicide few days
ago by hanging himself with a clothes
line. johnson had sunstroke last sum.
itier and has since been in poor health.
In the absence of Mrs. John lively,
living near Unity, Adams County, few
days since, her little child turned over
kettle of boiling fruit, and was so badly
scalded it died in few moments.
HARVEY SNYDER; manufacturer Of sash
and blinds and lumber dealer, at Cuya-
hoga Falls, Summit County; has made an
assignment to E. L. BabcocIs. Hstintated
liabilities $4,000, assets $4,000. Inability
to collect outstanding accounts the cause.
HARVEY CAsHATT, Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas of Franklin County, died at
his horiie dt Columbus. d, few mornings
ago, after an illness of about two wesks
He leaves a wife, but no children. Mr.
Cashatt was serving his second term as
Clerk. He was member of Company G.,
Forty-eighth Ohio, during the late war,
serving from the beginning to the ending.
He was born at Lynchburg, Highland
County; and was within two weeks of be:
ing forty years old, ai
Hon: T: G: SNYDER; State Representative;
was thrown from his buggy at Canton,
Stark County, the other night, and received
serious injuries.
AT Akron, Thomas Williams, alias
Wallace, has been arrested for forgery,
under an indictment returned about three
years ago. Williams then went Under the
fdifle Of Wells, and forged a note for $B5d,
signing the name of Joseph Rhodes.
JAMES L. VAN GoRDER, farmer of Shell
by County; was kicked in the stomach by
his h6fse tEs Sther day and died five min.
utes afterward.
ANTHONY LATHEIMER, aged fifty years,
of Oxford township, Erie County, fell in
the lake near sandusky a few days ago
and was drowhcd. It Is supposed be was
intoxicated when he fell into the lake:
Ell CARTwRfGHf, Of Gallons freight con:
ductor on the New York, Pennsylvania &
Ohio Railroad, while coupling cars at Ak
| ron few days ago, had his skull crushed
by the slipping of drawhead, his head
being catight between the bumpers:
A YOU'VE man named Benson Ayres;
| tweiity:seveh Years of age, left home near
Chesterville, Morrow County, few days
ago, and not returning search was insti-
tuted, and his body found hanging to the
| limb of a tree in the woods a mile from
hpn,ei He had deitberstsls eot,imitted srii-
eide, taking a halter strap, and after
| placing it around limb two or three times
and without tying it dropped his entire
| weight on it, and strangled, with his feet
on the ground and knees bent. The cause
| was considerable loss In shipping hogs,
which affected his mind.
JOHN RADFoRD, wife murderer, was
| hangedin Fremont at noon on the 18th. He
| spent his last night in telling dirty stories.
After he had been pinioned, and the rope
| placed about his neck, he noticed the
| father Of his murdered wife among the
spectators, and with a torrent of oaths he
| began to founder around the scaffold in an
attempt to get to him. He was seized by
the deputies. and it was some minutes be-
| fore he could be quieted. He dropped
through the trap with an oath on his lips.
JOSEPH AscHENBACH, who was convicted
at the May term, 1882, of the Court of Com
ffion Pleas of Hamilton County, and sen:
fenced to the Penitentiary for four years
for shooting with intent to kill, has been
pardoned by the Governor.
Mis-. SARAH KNEIsbv, by her attorney,
E. s. Wallace, has filed petition for di;
vorce from Jacob Kneisly, ON the ground
| of willful absence and neglect of duffy,
| The parties were married in Dayton in 1851
| ROBERT ALLEN, retired wagon maker
of Akron, aged fifty, in fit of temporary
insanity On the I2tf, hacked his hend with
| dull ak, infiicting score of wounds, and
cutting out pieces of the skull. Despond
ency over a recent spree cause the deed
| RICHARD gibson, while working in {
barn at Alliance, few evenings since
was pierced in the breast by pitch-fo fork a.
| it fell from the hay-mow ,and b1ed to death
| He was forty years old, and lived at Sa
linesville.
| ANTON KRAUS, a German, residing a
Bellaire, in good circumstances but melan
| choly, and under the impression that all hi
| friends were down on him, tried to commi
| suicide. He sliced the flesh all off his lef
arm and shoulder, but failing to strike al
artery tried to saw off the bone. He tainted
when one-third through, and his life wa
| saved.
COLONEL W. A. TAYLOR, correspondent
of the Cincinnati Ne,gs Journal, was al
rested at Columbus few mornings ag
and taken to Athens ON a charge of crimi
nal libel preferred by General Charles H
| Grosvenor. The matter complained of wa
| printed some weeks ago.
THE Cleveland iron men have receivet
information that the coke-makers of tn
| l. ,,,%4 l.,
to increase the price of coke thirty cents
ton on January 1, 1884. In case this i:
done, it is probable that the furnaces o
Ohio will depend almost altogether OIL
coal.
EDWARD BURGHAM has entered suit a
! Youngstown against Hiram Osborne
claiming $1,000 damages for false imprison
ment. Osborne charged him with horse
stealing, and he was placed in jail. 1t be
ing learned that he was innocent, he wa
released, and now wants damages from
Osborne. All the parties are well-known
Mr.. Edward Payson Weston, 1.-The
father of long distance pedestrianism, >
is about to undertake a remarkable fea
in connection with the work of the
Church of England Temperance Soci
ETY., with which he is prominently con
nected. He proposes to travel over th'
highways of England and Wales, OF
foot and in ordinary costume, fit,
miles daily for one hundred consecu
tive days, Sundays excepted. He will
travel only during the day time, and viii
lecture each evening ON Tea versu
Beer He will be accompanied b,
two friends and representative of th
press in carriage. Chicago Journal
One Mormon superstition is tina
children when i'll may be cured by tn
laying on of hands. More than tiv
thousand of the little ones are said t
have died in the last twenty-five year
who night have been saved by medicine
The laying on of hands is of no beneti
to child except when he talks back t
the old man.-DenUer Tribune.