The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-09-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The thirteen>year.old daughter Of Jacob
Hunkles in attempting to rescue her little.
brother from the New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio Railroad track at Snyder's Sta.
lion, one mile east of Enon, was herself
strdck by the east.bound passel. ger train OF
the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and
Indianapolis Railroad, breaking both arms
and collar bone. 1t is thought she will
recover.
THE other night near Columbus, John
Lewis. wealthy dairyman, was shot and
killed by Unknown parties.
In Cincinnati a few nights since, Matt
Williams, aged twenty -one, was shot dead
by Geo. Gilbert, aged twenty>one, both
colored, in ALI. Turner's dive, as the result
Of a quarrel over a woman named Alice
Porter.
THE Columbus Boot and Shoe Company
assigned, with SO, 900 liabilities.
DETECTIVE NORRIS was arrested at Nell
| sonville charged with stealing a revolver.
TIE coal mines at New Straitsville are
| closed for one year on account of the strike.
JESSE P. BRUSH, one of the New Lexing-
ton Guards on duty at Longstreth mines,
was accidentally shot by comrade and
wounded in the thigh.
THE mines of the Ohio Central Coal
Company have been ordered closed by the
receiver, owing to the unsettled condition
| Of trade, and will not be opened again till
the mining rate has been definitely estab-
lked.
At Millersburg, Thomas Harlan recov-
cred Judgment against the Trustees of
Washington Township, for the balance of a
bounty of $50 due him for enlisting in the
late war to the credit of that township. A
number of similar suits will be brought
against other townships.
HIRAM B.. WILSON, lumber dealer, Of
Cleveland, visiting at his brothers., in
Johnstown, Mich, drowned himself in Pine
Lake. He was partially deranged.
A MAN named Mead, of Carrollton, was
assaulted by two men, at Canton, the other
evening, and robbed of S., 200. The robbers
escaped.
FRED. GREINER shot and killed Maggie
Selling in Columbus because she did not
take kindly to his attentions.
THERE are eighty-four lfe-prisoneIs in
the Ohio Penitentiary.
TIMOTHY REED, seventeen years old, shot
himself in the abdomen while hunting
Bellefontaine. He died almest instantly.
CHAs. HICKMAN, living on John Kaull's
farm, near Mexico, Seneca County, was
killed in a strange manner. He was haul
ing q load of stone along the road between
McCutchenville and Sycamore, and in
crossing bridge it gave way, precipitat-
! ing him into the creek below, one of the
large stones striking him on the back of
the neck, crushing his skull and kill
ing him instantly. The bridge is an
old one, with span of fifty feet, but was
In constant use, load of stone having
passed over it but q few moments previous
to the accident.
In the northwestern part Of Belmont,
southern part of Harrison and northern
part of Guernsey Counties, sheep are
dying by hundreds from scarcity of grass,
due to drought and grasshoppers. Sheep
formerly held at So a head can now be
bought at ST..
The Ohio State Fair at Columbus closed
on the 9th. The attendance was very good,
and the fair was success in every respect.
The aggregate of entries was in excess Of
last year.
JOHN GRAHAM suicided in the Hamilton
County Jail.
JOHN McCULLoUeH, aged forty>five, an
old resident of Cuyahoga Falls, was ir-
stantly killed a few days ago by Pittsburg,
Cleveland and Toledo express train about
two miles north of Akron. Mccullough
was standing with his wagon on the track
watching passing train on the Cleveland,
Akron and Columbus road, about twenty
five rods distant, when he was struck. His
a.
was also in the wagon, and suffered frac-
ture of the skull, but will probably recover.
SECRETARY w. /. CHAMBERLAIN has
completed his tabulations from the returns
of the township correspondents and tha
August crop report of the Ohio Board Of
Agriculture. and gives the following fig
ures and estimates: For wheat, oats and
barley they are based on returns of actual
threshing up to August 1S by some 5000
machines. For other crops they are based
on estimates made by 1, 122 regular town
| ship correspondents. The estimates are in
| percentages, compared with full average
crop or condition OF growth: Wheat-Acres
| threshed, soc, ,430; bushels from the same,
/, 1896, ,906; yield per acre, 16K bushels; total
bushels at same rate, 43 ,982 ,969; quality, 10l
per cent. This is our largest crop
except 1880, which was 4S,540,000 bushels
The July 1st estimate was 50, ,1S7 900, but il
/ is yielding better than was anticipated
Oats-Acres threshed, 9s, ,454; bushels from
same, 3,169 $50; yield per acre, 31.2; total
bushels at same rate, %, So, $685. Barley
Acres threshed, 4,463; bushels, 123, ,155
yield per acre, 27.6; total at same rate, l.
004 900. Condition of other crops (per cent,
Rye, 92; corn, 70; buckwheat, 60; pota'
toes, 81; tobacco, 50; sorghum, &C; clover
seed, 4s; apples, IS; grapes, 90; pastures
SO. Stock-hogs; condition, "a; ditto, num-
ber, 76 per cent. Drought has been genera
and quite severe-twice during the sum,
mer for about four weeks eaci
time, ending the first time witt
generally rains from July % to July %
and by fairly general local showers from
August % to August 49, The July drough
was most severe in Northern and Eastern
Ohio, while the August drought was mos
severe in Central and Southern Ohio
Pastures are very short of feed for stock
The quality of the wheat is the best eve
threshed in Ohio. The years coming near
est to this years. yield of wheat is as fol
lows:
| Years. Yield-Bushels
'to,2IS, %