The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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TIE body of Francis Rambo, an old and
successful business man, of Cincinnati, has
been found in the river near that city in a
very much decomposed condition. He dis
appeared seventeen days ago, and it is sup
posed that painful and incurable malady
drove him to suicide.
POSTMASTER KREBs, Of Fremont, was
found short in his accounts $4,000, by In.
spector Brown of Cincinnati, several days
ago. Mr.. Krebs immediately sold his build.
ing and made the amount good, and re-
ceived q receipt for the same.
PATENTS were granted to the following
Ohio inventors on the oath: Elroy NJ.
Avery, Cleveland, electric cut-out; VIM
F. Edwards, Cincinnati, shipping-tag; Jno
c. Ernst, Clevelend, screw hook; Benjamin
F. Flint Cincinnati, time-lock; Alexander
A. Griffith, Beallsville, road grader and
scraper; Woodbury. s. How, Cincinnati
assignof to s. s. White Dental Manufac-
turing Company, Philadelphia, arti,
fetal tooth; John F. Lamping, Gin
cinnati, stop and waste cock; Eman
uel Little, GAINESVILLE, automatic gate;
John Mcconnell, Cleveland, oil stove; Jno.
T.. Mead, Cleveland, feed water purifier;
Lewis Miller .and A. e. Ellinwood, Akron
wheel for harvesters; Oryille L. Parmenter,
Cincinnati, assignor to Lima Paper Mill,
Lima, egg and fruit carrier; William
NJ. Platt, West Liberty, grain binder for
harvester; Sanford P. Porter, West Rich
field, broom and dust-pan holder; Henry
C. Selden, Cincinnati, drilling apparatus;
William Shaw, assignor to White Sewing
Machine Company, Cleveland, shuttle
carrier for sewing machines; Seth 81. Smith,
assignor to Smith Manufacturing Company,
Delta, machine for cutting wooden
plates; Clarence n. Straight, Bryan, two
wheeled vehicle; Samuel G. Tatum, jr.,
assignor to s. c. Tatum & Co., sewing
machine treadle; Montgomery n. Watson,
Dayton, envelope.
ANDREW ZIEGLER, aged sixty-flve, was
found dead at his boarding-house at
Springfield a few days ago, lying in pool
of blood at the bottom of the stairs, which
were covered with blood, showing that
Ziegler had dragged himself down, or fallen
from the top. His clothes were saturated
with blood. The body when discovered
was still warm. A cash was found In the
dead mans left wrist fully two inches
deep. The old man had deliberately cut
the arteries of his wrist with suicidal in
tent, and had bled to death. No sharp in
strument, however, was found In the vicin-
ity of the corpse other than an ordinary
clasp-knife with no blood upon it. The
place where the suicide occurred Is kept by
John Helfeich, and is one of the hardest
places in town. There is said to be decided
air of suspicion connected with the matter,
but the theory of suicide is generally ac-
cepted. Ziegler is molder by trade, and
has been dissipated of late.
A RuFFIAN who was being pursued at
Milford Center few days ago, for the
theft of coat, jumped on the locomotive
of freight train on the Panhandle road,
and orfle-ed the engineer, at the muzzle of
a revolver, to .spull out quick" When the
train had run a safe distance from the town
he directed the engineer to sow up, when
he took to the woods.
5 Hoaa aDwIGHT CRowELL, Clerk of the Su-
preme Court, furnishes the following for
publication: "SUPREME COURT OF OHIO,
CLERKS OFFICE, April 26, 1ss2.-Io the At
torneys of Ohio: By the provisions of an
act passed by the General Assembly OF
Ohio, April Is, 1888, entitled AN act to
amend sections 455, 8,710, Gill and 6,S58 Of
the revised statutes of Ohio,' no petition in
You will hereafter forward with your peti
tion in error in addition to the papers men
toned in section 6,716 of the revised stat
utes, motion for leave to file proof Of ser
vice of notice of motion on opposite counsel
and 81 motion fee. DWIGHT CRowELL
Clerk of the Supreme Court"
UNDER the new law the motion docket o1
the Supreme Court of Ohio is restored, and
the business of the Court, which it was in
tended to facilitate, will be retarded more
than enough to balance the gain arising
from the establishment of the Supreme
Court Commission.
TWENTY-FIVE of the owners Of property
in which saloons are kept i'll Cincinnati
have notified their tenants that on account
of the passage of the Scott law they must
quit their premises.
AN $1,000 freight wreck occurred on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad
near Canton, Stark County, on the 9th
The third section of lot of west-bound
freights broke coupling, the caboose and
several freight cars being separated frCn
the train. The night was foggy, and before
the fourth section could be tagged it crash
ed into the caboose, piling the cars in 9
promiscuous heap. The engine rode through
the caboose and rested on the top of {
freight car. The engineer and fireman re
manned in the cab and escaped injury. A
railroad laborer known only by the nick
name of 'tBig John," who was stealing
ride in coke car, was crushed to death
The township authorities took charge of hi
remains.
CIV ST. CLAIR, colored barber, mad,
a murderous assault on his wife at Colum
bus few days ago. He entered the kitchen
door, where she was engaged at work, ant
| asked for a drink of water. While sh'
| was getting it, he struck her twice in tn,
head with the sharp edge of a hatchet. Th'
| woman fell to the floor, and st. Clair, sup
| posing that he had accomplished his work
| pulled a razor from his pocket and cut hi
| own throat. The wind-pipe was severed
| and apparently one-thi,d the thickness o
his neck laid open. He was taken from hi
self-made slaughter-pen and transferred t,
the City Prison, where the wound wa
sewed up, but the physicians have no ide'
that he can recover. The woman's wound
were dressed, and it is believed that sh,
will not die. st. Clair had been havin,
| trouble with his wife for a long time, ant
| she had applied for a divorce and refuses
| to live with him.. 1t is related that he hat
attempted her life on several occasions be
fore. He formerly lived in Philadelphia
and is man of about fifty years Of age
wiliIe his wife is about thirty-fve.
| From statistics furnished the Stat
Board of Agriculture it is shown tina
tobacco is raised as farm crop in sixty
| fnnr cnnnties of Transatlantic leavin.