The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-07-24
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

for President, !
The Board of Directors of the Mt. Yer.
non, Coshocton and Wheeling Railway
Company have decided to complete the
survey through to Wheeling from Coshoc-
ton.
REUBEN PALMER was killed at the Drew
& Wasson Mining Company's Indiana.
Mine, Coalton, by being struck on the back
of the head by apiece of coal.
DENIS DOMAIN tried to escape from,
Marshal Maher, of Glendale, who was
taking him to the Cincinnati Work>house,
by jumping through the car window while
the train was going at the rate of thirty
miles per hour. He was instantly killed.
DANIEL HUGHES, a pioneer of Butler
County, died at his homo in Morrow, the
other day.
J.W. BooKwALTER, of Springfield, Is of
to Europe for long tour.
HENRY FRAZIER, wealthy farmer of
Hancock County, suicided with NOR
phine.
FANNY BEHLE, young Cincinnati girl,
committed suicide in fit Of dependency
by shooting herself with her brothers
pistol.
THOMAS JOHNSON, an aged and promi.
home while temporarily deranged, the
other day, and his remains were found In
cornfeld near that city.
MATHEW GROUSE fell from tree, while
| hunting a squirrel, near Findlay, few
days ago, and broke his thigh bone. He is
| in precauous condition.
DIR. w. Q. SCoTr, ex-President of Ohio
State University, has accepted the Presi.
| dency of Phillips Academy, at Exeter,
| New Hampshire. He was offered the chair
| of Political Economy in Adelbert College,
| at Cleveland, but the proposition came too
late, he having accepted the position
| named.
| The dead body of young German was
found in Burnet Woods Park, Cincinnati,
the other morning. His right hand still
grasped the SS caliber revolver with which
he had evidently ended his existence but
few hours previously. He was not idont'
flied.
CHARLES SEEfbAuH, aged forty-nine, a
laborer at the Globe Iron Ore ship-yards'
Cleveland, was killed the other morning.
huge derrick, weighing ton and half,
beneath which ne was at work, suddenly
| gave way and crushed him into shapelsss
mass beneath it, killing him instantly. His
head was literally nattened and both legs
were broken.
WILLIE KENDALL, twelve years old, was
badly injured at Portsmouth by the explo'
sion OF. piece of gas-pipe he was using as
| cannon.
THE other morning the lifeless body OF
Mrs. Mary Nick, aged twenty-eight, was
found in stock we'll on her husbands farm,
six miles south of Holgate, Henry County
She was subject to fits, and it is supposed
she took one while near the well and fei, in
She leaves husband and one child.
WHITE & MAINS, of thel Democrat al
Defiance, have begun the issue of daily
paper. Defiance now has three dailies with
population of 1000.
GEORGE WEIsBECKER, a former resident
of Tifin, and printer by trade, at present
Marshal of Chicago Junction, was STRUCK
on the head with couplin-pin by one Of
two men whom he attempted to arrest al
that place few nights since, receiving in
juries which resulted in his death.
ALL the leading dry goods. millinery and
fancy goods houses of Norfolk close theil
doors at p. n,., except on Saturday.
THE Henry Bill Publishing Company, O.
| Norwich, Conn.,, have been granted an in
junction in the U. S. Court against A. H
Smyth & Co., of Columbus, to. restrain
them from selling Blaine's "Twenty Year
in Congress"
A REUNION of the Twenty>flfth D. v. Y
/. will be held at Freeport, Wood County
short distance north of Findiay, Septem
Der %, and of the One Hundred and Twen
ty-third Regiment y. V. V. l. at Lakeside
August and 8. Most of the old veteran
have promised to be present, and severa
able speakers will deliver addresses Of
each occasion.
BEFORE daylight the other morning, W
G. Holmes, night clerk at the Tubbs House
at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station
Newark, hearing a noise in the dining-roopl
entered and ran into the ugly embrace of
couple of burglars. A large amount o
silyerware had been collected, and wa
about to be removed by them. A desperat
| fight ensued, which terminated in Holme
|, | being shot in the arm by one of the fellows
They then escaped without booty. Er
trance was gained by prying open bast
ment window. Holmes wound is nc
i, serious.
!, The ice houses of the Buckeye Brewin
Company, and j. W. .Wasson, of Columbus
on the river below Toledo, burned th
other day with loss of from $1,000 I
r $1,000. The sand scow Thatcher, tied
the dock, was burned. Loss, s., 900; no IL
surance. Lawrence Thompson, who ws
on the scow, is thought to be fatally Lurne,
and two other men, supposed to be OIL IL
g scow, are missing. The charred remair
< of one of the missing men were found G
the scow.
: The internal revenue receipts in Ohio f,
E.
District, 50, ,S26, ,123; Third District, $es, 8
(consolidated); i; Fourth District. s., GA (co
solidated); Sixth District, $1,0IS, "a
& Seventh District, S24 ,159 consolidated
Q Tenth District, S65s, 74s; Eleventh Distrie
0 I,122 ,a95; Fifteenth District, Ss,523 (consc
= idated); Eighteenth District, $7s5 1923.
II FRANK PAGE, aged thirteen years,
scholar in the Charity School, Masillo
made a slight cut in the palm of his han
with a pen-knife week or two ag
le 1t was seemingly trifiing injury, and +
If care was given it, but few days ago
n resulted in lockjaw, and the lad died
10 terrible agony.
the eleven-year-old daughter of Mrs.
r. Baughman, of Newark, was serious
. gored by vicious COW few days ae
!. Her condition is critical. She was saw
a from death by a number of section han
- coming to her rescue.
l. GARRETT LANE, aged seventy eight,
a Mt. Pleasant, few days ago, tumbled o
le | of his chair while he sat talking with
h friend, and was picked up dead.
I'd TWENTY "frst offence" young fellows
their teens, from the Ohio pen, have be
received at the Ohio Reform Farm Scho
Ir | Thew like the change and are doing we'll
l. THOMAS NJ. LEWIS, aged seventy-s
n, years, was run over by a locomotive
r Dayton and killed, the other day.
vs. The Canton Bridge Company is to
- ceive $27, 900 for bridging the Sciota Ri,
at Portsmouth. The foundation will CT
SIS, 600 additional.