The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


MAX BuReE, aged ten years, while bath
Ing in the lake at Cleveland the other day,
ventured beyond his depth and was
drowned.
THE applications for injunctions against
City Comptroller Eshelby and Treasurer
Herancourt, of Cincinnati, to restrain the
collection of licenses imposed by the Rus
sell bill recently adopted by the General
Assembly of the State, were dismissed by
Judge Harmon on the 2eth land the tax will
have to be paid.
AT THE Tingley crossing of the N. Y,
P. & o. Railroad, two miles north of Mans
field, Richland County, on the 26th, the
south bound fast train ran into buggy in
which were seated VIM. Wolford, wife and
child. As result the vehicle was demol-
ished, the occupants pitched distance of
nearly twenty feet and seriously injured,
Mrs. Wolford sustained broken arm and
contusions on the body, while Mr.. W. was
crippled and covered with bruises from
head to foot. The child's in juries are in
ternal, and the probabilities are that it can
not recover.
The Treasurer of Hamilton County re-
| ceived fifty dollars conscience money few
days ago from some unknown taxpayer,
who thinks he made false return of his
property.
DR.. c. II. HALE, a notorious rascal, was
arrested at Cleveland on the Goth on the
strength of telegram from Toledo stating
| that he was wanted there to answer
| charge of sending obscene literature
| through the mails. The doctor is lecturer
| and dealer in nostrums and obscene publi-
cations. He was driven out of West Vir-
ginia some time ago, and left bad reputa-
tion at Toledo, where he had been operating
the week previous to his arrest.
| In the case of the mandamus of the State
of Ohio, ex rel. John F. Oglevee, Auditor
of State, VS.. w. s. Cappeller, Auditor of
Hamilton County, judgment was given for
relator on the 26th. This will compel the
Auditor of Hamilton County to pay the
| State nearly $4,000, and the City of Gin
cinnati, in case it's officers bring suit, can
recover nearly $3s,OOO from Hamilton
County. This decision of the Supreme
Court also decides that the Auditor of
State has right to correct and REVISE re-
| turns made to him by County Auditors and
| Treasurers.
THE eighteen-months.o old child of Joseph
Ammon, of Smiths Ferry, Columbiana
County, swallowed the contents of bottle
of strychnine the other day, and died in
fifteen minutes. in horrible agony. Tho
little one obtained the bottle during the
absence of its mother.
GOVERNOR FOSTER, few days ago, par
doned from the penitentiary colored man
named Richard Miller, who was sent up
from Clarke County at the October term of
court last year to serve one year for bur-
glary and larceny. Miller has been sick
nearly ever since he has been in prison,
and is now said to be in the last stages OF
consumption. His death is regarded as
only question of short time.
MAYOR STEPHENS, of Cincinnati, has
nominated C. j. Marshall for Smoke In.
spector, VIM. T. Smith for City Sealer, and
Henry Mulhauser for Director of the Work
house, and all three have been confirmed
by the Common Council. The new Smoke
Inspector is an old steamboat engineer
who has latter1y been employed as inspector
of boilers for insurance companies.
THE State University Board has submit
ted in writing to Governor Foster theil
reasons for deposing President Scott. They
affirm that he failed to carry out a resolu
tion of the Board; that he taught unsounc
doctrine in political economy, and that hi
withheld communications sent to the Board
dissents from these reasons in whole ant
in part. F~
CAPTAIN J. N. HORNE, the veteran leade
of the Barracks Band, at Columbus, diet
on the Doth of acute rheumatism. His fathe
was a leader of band in the British army
and was captured by the Americans il
1872.
H. C. QUIeLY, dealer in stoneware, ,Cleve
land, has assigned, with liabilities estimat
ed at 500 900 and the assests amounting t
$42, 900.
A NINE-YEAR-oLD son of Joseph Hur
singer living in Bellville Township, Sandus
ky County found flask of blasting powde
a few days ago, and proceeded to make
|. fuse with paper and bury it in the ground
lighting one end with a match. 1t did nc
, go off, and he got down to blow it, when
: exploded and burned his face terribly.
! is feared his eyes are destroyed.
, GEORGIA young son of Henry Y Yarbougl
} of Gore, Hooking County, fell in a tub {
| boiling water a few days since and wa
scalded to death.
Ex-PosTMAsTER KREBs, who was di
missed from the position of Postmaster a
Fremont, Sandusky County, for irregula
ity in his accounts, and afterward deserte
> his family by eloping with a young widow
5 was arrested in Indiana few days agt
$. and taken back to Fremont, charged wit
obtaining signatures to a note under falls
3 pretenses. Trial was postponed and tt
3 prisoner admitted to bail. His famil
g have ordered him not to come near I'll
! house. Mrs. Krebs, the deserted wife,
> nearly broken-hearted; the childre
' seem hardened toward him, and cling
o the mother. Krebs claims to have gone ava
: on legitimate business, but letter four
by his family explodes that assertion. tt
feeling of the public is very bitter, and
is condemned in the strongest terms for
q serting his family.
$ PETER CRoNE, residing at Massillol
i Stark County, was killed the other da
a while drilling for coal. He stood close
Il the rope holding the drill, which brok
= throwing the heavy spring-pole out
a place, striking him with great force upc
r the head. He leaves a family.
|, The train from Springfield to Kenton,
I few evenings ago, ran into herd of fiji
" cattle, near Springfield, and killed fv
% The same train, returning the next NOR
ing, ran into a hand-car, scattering sectit
men right and left, but killing no one. II
hand-car and tho pilot of the engine we
q demolished.
,e Two drunken men fought du
i with no other weapons than their fist
S. near Perth Amboy. The risk of the el
l. papement arose from their selection