The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-11-20
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
A LARGE barn, with its contents, the
of DIR. Gandmeister, at Bellevue,
burned the other morning. Loss 5000; no
Insurance.
GEORGE IRONS, brakeman, fell under the
wheels of a train on the Cleveland and
Pittsburg Railway, at Summitville, and
was crushed to death.
r. BURGLARS entered the residence of Frank
Kerns at Ottawa, chlorformed the inmates
and robbed the house.
INcENDIARY fire in business part Of
Jeromeville, Ashland County, burned $2o.,
900 worth of property, insured for half.
THE general merchandise store of Rush
Mcdonald, Postmaster at Fort Seneca,
Seneca County, was burglarized a few
nights ago, and a quantity of stamps stolen;
also, 800 worth of notes, $500 worth OF silk
handkerchiefs, revolvers, pocket cutlery
and dry goods. The mail was not molested.
Access was gained by bursting the lock on
ting front door.
Two Cincinnati hackmen, Kavanaugh
and Finley, robbed Ely Carnes, of Loudon
County, Virginia, whom they were driving
through the suburbs, of $40. They were ar
rested and sent to the Work-house for nine
months.
JOHN ASH, who entered the Union army
as a drummer, and disappeared twenty
three years ago, returned to his home in
Dayton q few days ago. he had been at
sea. AS-a--
BENJAMIN SHoRTEN's decapitated and
otherwise shockingly mangled body was
found on the railway, near Bertha, the
other morning. He had money when last
seen, also revolver and pocket-book, none
of which was on the corpse. 1t is believed
he was murdered by tramps, robbed and
left on the track.
FRED WEIRETER, grocer of Dayton,
dropped dead of heart disease the other
evening.
WIS. SoUIREs & Co., grocers, of London,
have assigned.
THE store and Post-office of David Bea-
gle, of Touchdown, Hancock County were
burglarized the other night of $3.50 in
money and notes to the amount of 3,000..
A sIx-YEAR-oLD daughter of s. Kreig, a
farmer, living near Findlay, fell into cis-
tern and was drowned.
Hon. THOMAS K. JACOBS, well known
citizen of Lima, and ex-member of the
| Legislature, died the other night of heart
disease.
| MAUD s. will spend the winter in Cincin-
natl.
HENRY CoBLE, sentenced to be hanged
| August 1S for the brutal murder of his wife,
and who was granted new trial by the
| District Court at Springfield, has been al
lowed to plead guilty to manslaughter, and
has been sentenced to twenty years in the
| penitentiary, the highest penalty under the
law. -
GEORGE DECKER and William William.
son, who were arrested at Findlay on the
charge of making and passing counterfeit
money, have been bound over in the sum o.
| $500 each to await the action of the mex
| grand jury. Molds for manufacturing
spurious half dollars and a quantity of th'
counterfeit coin were found in their posses
sion.
THE body of an unknown man was fount
lodged in a pile of brush in the Ohio Rive
at Smiths Ferry, above Wellsyille, tn
other day. The body had been in tn
water long time, and was in terribl,
state of decomposition.
A SMALL quantity of oil has been discov
cred in a well near Bethel, Belmont County
| HENRY SCHARLING, a we'll do butcher
suicided on Superior Street Market, Toledo
the other morning by shooting through tn
head. The cause was excitement brough
on by the election.
THE Governor has issued the following
proclamation relative to the TROUBLES il
the Hooking Valley:
To the Citizens of Athens, Hooking and Pei
ry Counties:
Since August 90 a condition of things ha
existed in your midst nst most t1uS INJURIOUS haI
been made at night by bodies of armed me
upon mines and the dwellings of citizens
foIse TMo Rao vafsable ne hoppe1
have been burned. Seven cos
mines have been set on fire, of which six an
still burning. Three railroad bridges hav
been destroyed by incendiary fires, and tn
life of peaceable citizen, engaged in Law
tb@Y beeHY taRen No
has followed these crimes. Their perpetra
ors have thus far escaped with impunit.
No rewards have been offered by the ely
authorities for the arrest of the criminal
The people seem to have passively submitte
to practices which, # fn continued bns4 oTto1 w9n
intervention is solicited to put and end I
this state Of things Its Warmly Warmly Opposes 4 1e1
its necessity. At the instance of the Sheri
1 stationed a small force during part of q
| Quiet prevailed while the troops rename
.. | When the occasion for their use seemed
have passed they were removed. since tne
disorder and destruction have recommence
now appeal to every law-abiding citizen
assist the civil authorities in this emergenc
is your end duty y fbese ana year
am averse to the disuse of civil and the SUI
stitution of military methods. am col
5 vinced that if the citizens of the three cou
Q ties where these crimes have been practice
a would do their duty, would assist TO detee
arrest and punish the criminals, wou
order instead of passively acquiescing in /
}. breach, there would be no occasion for Il
4 State to send an armed man nan among aasg 70 70,
? interested i will not sustain the civil author
preservation of the peace, it will become n
duty to protect life and property and q
peace of your counties, which shall DO II
mand. Law and order must prevail in OH
Given under my my hand an and tt the g greet h sea-
this 11th day of November, A. D., 1854.
= [sEAL.l GEORGE HoADLY
8 JAS. W. NEWMAN, Secretary of State.
70 PEILP PATTON, an old and respected ci
izen of Wayne County, died the other d,
from the effects of fall received the we
before. His age was seventy three.
" JOE HARTMAN, of Fremont, who attemI
l. ed to chloroform his wife and child soI
70 time ago, had an examination, and w
- bound over to court in the sum of $500.
JOHN HEILEY, a miner in the Lake Vie
coal mines, situated a few miles belc
a Akron, was suffocated and died before he
J. could reach him. Kelley had set a bls
:. which failed to go off, and being detain
g in his room, by other blasts, around,
+ room was filled with powder smoke.
a CHAs. MCKEE, well-known farmer,
IL siding one mile east of Caldwell, W
|" kicked in the temple by mule the 9th
night, and seriously and probably fatal
injured.
VAN VERT is to have new afterno
Il paper, with capital stock of $4,000.