The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-08-30
STATE NEWS TITS.

MRs. CATHERINE WEAKLY, willow OF e.
T. Weakly, of New Carlisle, Clarke
County, died a few days ago at the age of
sevcnty-three. She was a member Of the
Piol.eer Association, of which her husband
was the first and only President. She was
the mother of eight children, of whom six
are living. she was born in Germantown,
and went to New Carlisle in 1855.
The receipts on the several canals of the
State for the month of June was $19,515,
aad for July $i4.Se7. The increase for
June was on account of water rents.
About $66C00 is realized annually from
this source. s--s-a
SILAs MAEc1ANr, manufacturer of ice
machines in Cleveland, has made an as
signment. Liabilities 100000; assets esti-
mated at $150,00o.
DURING the prevalence OF heavy thun-
der-storm at Victory, Sandusky County,
the other day, the grocery store of Sharpe
& Schmidt was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground. Two adjacent
buildings, owned by the same firm, caught
fire from the store and were also con-
sumed.
DURING thunderstorm at Akron, Sum-
NIT County, few days ago, Catharfne
lightning and instantly killed. Her cousin,
Amy Bird, hearing of the accident, was
Frustrated and her recovery is doubtful.
Cora, the nine-year-old daughter OF Geo.
Wrenn, of Canaan Township, Monroe
County, was killed few days since by
farm wagon passing over her head.
MICHAEL RYAN, aged thirty-five years,
unmarried, in the employ of the Cleveland,
W po;1
Alliance, Stark County, was run over by
switching engine few mornings ago, and
almost instantly killed.
"A DISGUSTING case of miscegenation was
bf5ught to light at Springfield a lew days
ago by the arrest of negro named George
Slaughter charged with debauching the per-
sons of little white girls. When arrested
he had two fourteen-year-old white girls in
his bedroom, where, it was brought out at
the trial, they had voluntarily entered. The
Mayor fined the negro heavily.
THE Cleveland express on the Pittsbnrg
g. Lake Erie road ran into freight
train at Hazleton Station, two miles
east of Youngstown, few evenings
ago. The freight train and the passenger
engine were telescoped. A switch had
been misplaced and the express ran into
the freight, which was standing on side
track. Jouis Kuntz, the fireman, was fa-
tally, and a number of others seriously,
injured.
WHILE II. E. Shull, carpenter, was
working on the City Hall Tower at Canton,
Stark County, few days ago, he made
misstep and fell headlong to the ground
below. When picked up he was still alive,
but died within an hour after the accident.
He leaves wife and four children.
PRIVATE ALFRED LAUFNER committed
suicide at the U. S. Barracks at Columbus
few days ago, by taking about an ounce
of carbolic acid, used as disinfectant. He
had been insane for some time, and was to
have been taken to the asylum at Washing
ton, D. G. Laufner is the man who jumped
from third-story window in Cincinnati
about a month ago, while on visit to his
mother, who is widow, residing in that
CITY,.
BARBARA SUCHER, a servant girl em-
ployed in the family of Halsey Draper, at
Norwalk, Huron County, was fatally
burned few days ago by the explosion of
coal oil can from which she was attempt
ing to fill the reservoir of a gasoline stove.
ED. KEMP dunned Fred. Oattlee, at the
latter's home, on Brechsville Road, near
the city limits of Cleveland the other day
for forty-five dollars, owed two or three
years. A quarrel ensued, ending in Oatt-
lee firing four bullets into Kemp, inficting
probably mortal wounds. One ball went
nearly through his head.
AN old man named Wood Seeds, who re-
sides near Shadeville, Franklin County,was
run into and fatally injured on the Hook
ing Valley Road near Columbus,a "a few days
ago. He had been to the city, and was
going home in his buggy when the accident
occurred. The track is obstructed by corn.
fields at the point where the railroad and
the highway cross.
Two maiden ladies, Lottie and Emily
Littlefield, who had been committed to tine
Muskingum County Infirmary at GAINESVILLE
attempted to make their escape from a
room on the third floor of the building al
midnight of the oath. Making rope out oi
| a sheet, bed comfort and an old dress, they
secured one end and dropped the impro
yised escape outside. Lottie, aged fifty
years, started down first, but being very
| frail, lost her grip and went headlong down
to the ground, thirty feet, and was
instantly killed. Emily, who is sixty
years old, ignorant of the terrible
fall of her sister, followed but she, too, fel
about twenty feet, sustaining severe ant
possibly fatal injuries. When discovered
by the Superintendent of the Institution
the poor woman held her dead sister in hel
lap, begging her to wake up and speak t.
| her. The two women were among the old
est citizenssof GAINESVILLE. They had seel
better days, but in some way not known tx
the public are supposed to have lost a con
siderable sum of money. Their only rela
tive is A. J. Andrews, prominen
an l well-to-do lawyer, but he declined t.
assume the care of his aunts land they wer
taken to the poor-house as the only resor
for aged, INDECENT and decrepid old people
Two hundred female operators employed
by Black & Hoffman, at Toledo, struck
| few days ago for an advance upon the max
ing of sundry garments. The firm resisted
the demands of the women for several days
but finally acceded their terms, and the op
perators Immediately returned to work.
LOUIS SELsER, a wealthy farmer residing
in Portage Township, Summit County, wa
fatally shot few mornings since unde
peculiar circumstances. He was sitting il
wagon watching for rats, when tn
weapon was accidentally. discharged, tn
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instant death. Deceased was forty-foIl
years Of age, and leaves nine children.
In Mexico nearly every one is
smoker. The school children who hav
done well in their studies are rewards
by being allowed to smoke cigar a
they stand OF sit at their lessons. Th
schoolmaster is seldom without ciga
in his mouth. In the law courts all pei
sons commonly enjoy their tobacc
freely, and even the accused in Grim
lnal trial is not denied this indulgence
but is allowed, if his cigarette goes ou
in the heat of the argument, to light
again by borrowing that of the office
who stands at his side to guard him.
Although Chicago won't believe il
st. Louis, as city, lies in an atmo:
phere of poetic legend and story