The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-07-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

been completed by the Postofice authori.
ties. The changes in Ohio are as follows: !
The salaries of Postmasters at GAINESVILLE,
Flndlay, Mechanicsburg, Medina, Sidney,
Troy and Warren will each receive an in
crease of 500 to their salaries for the cur
rent year. The Postmaster at Middletown
receives 5000 increase. The offices at Carey,
Madison, New Richmo and Tippecanoe
City are relocated to the fourth class. Those
at Cardington and Fremont are reduced
two hundred dollars per mum, and
the following one hundred dollars: Ash
land, Ashtabula, Bellefontaine, Bellevue,
Berea, Bowling Green, Bucyrus, Canal
Dover, Celina, Chardon, Covington, Frank
lin, Garrettsville, Geneva, Greenville, HAM
ilton, Hudson, Kenton, Lebanon, Lection ia,
Lima, London, Lorain, Loudonville, Mari
eta, Mt. Gilead. Mt. Vernon, Jacksonville,
New Lexington, Niles, Oberlin, Orrville,
Ottawa, Piqua, Pomeroy, Ripley, Sandusky,
Shelby, Tifin, Upper S~andusky, Urbana,
Wapakoneta, Washington c. H., Waverly,-
Westville, West Liberty, Wilmington,
Wooster, Youngstown.
THE thirteenth reunion of the Butler and
Warren County Pioneers will be held in
their prove, near Monroe, Thursday, August
IA, 1884. The exercises will ommenc at
10 a. m. by music from the band. The in
vocation, by Rev. W. H. Sutherland, chap.
lain, will be followed by a salutatory ad-
dress by Hon. James Scott. In the after.
noon Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, will address
the pioneers. A recitation, HSeventy Years
ago. by Miss Julia NJ. Woodmansee, will
be followed by an address by General Jas.
II. Baker, after which social greetings and
a general good time. Adjournment will be
to the second Thursday of August, 1885.
GRANDMOTHER PETTY, aged n~inety-four
years, and living with her son, Thornton
Petty, ESQ.,, four miles of Barnes
vile, while walking across a room, a
few days ago, was taken with a ~fainting
spell, and fell to the floor, breaking her
thigh. Her injuries will probably result
fatally. She is said to be the oldest living
Methodist in the State, having been a faith.
full member of the church for over eighty
years.
THE Brier Hill Iron and Coal Company,
of Youngstown, which has been drilling
for natural gas to run. its blast furnace,
struck it at a depth of 1000 feet the other
day. The flow is steady and strong. The
drill will be sent still lower, as tits be.
lieved sufficient will be found to run the
manufacturing shops of the city,
THE Ohio Coal Exchange has decided to
import Swedes and Hungarians to take the
place of three thousand miners now on the
lockout in the Hooking Valley; also, to
start mining-machines.
ISRAEL IsHLER was killed near Hunts
vile, Logan County, a few days g by a
gravel bank caving in on him.
The liquor dealers of Niles positively
refused to pay the Scott tax unfit Treasurer
Hart shut them up. Seven have settled
and thrown open their doors.
BAILEY & Co., of Marlboro, Stark Coun-
| ty, proprietors of perhaps one of the most
extensive canning establishments in East
ern Ohio, have assigned. Liabilities and
assets not yet known.
A Two-YEAR-oLD son of Mis-. Earring, of
Mansfield, fell into a vaul a few days
since, and before he could be.rescued was
suffocated.
WILLIAM SHERWOOD was severely injur.
ed near Milan, a few days since, by falling
from a load of hay on a pitch-fork. One OF
the tines of the fork entered his side, and
his condition is considered critical.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred the other
afternoon at VOLTS saw-mill. located four
miles west of Nelsonvflle. The boiler ex
ploded. killing Barrack Wolf instantly and
seriously injuring three Others
CHARLES WEINRIcH, aged forty-five
years, was drowned at M~arblehead, near
Sandusky, a few days ag0. While chasing
a snake along the dock he fell into the
water and did not come up The body has
been recovered.
THE jury in the Gray murder case at
Warren has returned a verdict of man.
slaughter against Nelson Gilmore for the
shooting of James Clifford.
BEN LUsBIE, known all over the United
States as the lightning ticket seller, died at
Columbus a few days ago.
AT GOSHEN, Chas. Walker committed
suicide by taking morphine.
CHARLES TAYLOR, leader of a gang OF
burglars, has been arrested at Findlay.
Hon. B. F. HYATT, of Findlay, has been
appointed post trader for the Navajo In
dian Agency in New Mexico.
EMMA JADwIN, aged fourteen years, while
playing with a revolver at Logan, the
other day, shot herself in the head, dying
from the wound.
PRoF. MCFARLAND, of the State Univer.
sity, has declined the Presidency of the
Miami University.
THE editor and compositors of the Spring.
field Globe were arrested the other day fol-
Sunday labor.
WILLIAM MCDONALD, a pioneer of Colum'
bus, is dead.
THE Columbus Gun Club has organized
and elected officers.
j. w. SNIFFIN, a prominent citizen Of
Marietta, died at Battle Creek, Mich, the
other day.
WHILE driving a COW from the railroad
track near Mansfield, a few days ago., Mrs
Joseph Leuthner was struck by locomo
tive and instantly killed.
JOHN FILL1BAUM, a prominent citizen Of
Newcomerstown, was kicked in the breast
by a mule and almost instantly killed.
A BOY named Schneider was accidently
killed at Columbus, a few days ago, weaile
endeavoring to turn a handspring.
MISS HARRIET, daughter of Congress.
man Taylor, of Warren, was married the
other night to Northumberland Upton,
THE daily and weekly Herald at Fremont
has suspended.
Lieutenant Ruhlen, of the Ohio State Uni.
versity, have begun their annual inspection
of the railroads of the State.
JENNIE BAKER, the cook of the Spring
field station-house, made an Intellectual
attempt at suicide the other day by taking
laudanum.
A FIvE-YEAR-oLD son of Thos. Morrow,
living near Norwalk, had his leg cut off by
being thrown in front of a reaper.
Miss KATE BOIL, of Marietta, elope6
with Andy Goldman, of Portage County, il
her fathers absence at Chicago, the other
day. They were married at once.
PERSISTENT but unsuccess ful efforts havt
been made to burn the st. Nicholas Hotel
at Wilmington.
In exercising at Cleveland the othel
afternoon, Maud s.. trotted a mile in 9: 121a