The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-04-03
Miscellaneous Items.

A FEW days ago Charles Leroy, at Def
ance, took chloroform to escape the penalty
OF the law, and died on the 23d.
WILLIAM ]. STANTON was struck by the
engine of passenger train, few nights
ago, at Steubenville, and instantly killed.
MRS. HANNA WARD INGERsoLL, aged
eigbty-four years, died recently while eat
ing dinner at her home, in Fremont.
A PATIENT in the Insane Asylum at CO.
lumbus, crawled through the bars of a
window on the fifth-story, and leaped to
the ground, dying in few minutes.
FRANK j.. CHAMBERLAIN, of Cleveland,
has perfected an invention that charges
fifteen hundred shotgun cartridges per
hour. A company for its manufacture has
been formed.
WHILE the little son of Thomas Hodges,
living near Springfield, was playing in the
yard. the other day, he stumbled and
fell, striking his forehead squarely against
the edge of an axe, cutting deep cash clear
to the skull. The wound bled frightfully.
The little sufferer was Immediately taken
to a physician and the wound dressed He
is now out of danger.
The funeral of the late General Godfrey
Weitzel, at Cincinnati, was largely attend
ed.
BRoNNELL & BROWN, of Youngstown,
have leased the Ward Iron Company's
large mills at Niles, and will start part of it
up on the 25th. The mill has been idle
since Wards failure last July.
COLUMBUS expects to have a large new
hotel by next fall.
CHAs. RAsFoRD was fatally crushed un-
der mass of earth in clay bank at Akron
the other day.
H. BoPP, a convict in the Ohio Peniten-
tiary, died in barber's chair, few days
ago, from heart disease.
MISS ELIZABETH THORPE, one of the best
known pioneers of Clarke County, died a
few days ago. She was sixty-fve years
old.
In the case of VIM. Berner, on trial at
Cincinnati for the murder of VIM. H. Kirk
last fall, the jury, on the oath, returned a
verdict of manslaughter.
A CYCLONE struck near the town OF
Poland, Mahoning County, on the 26th
| completely destroying two barns and q
large number of smaller buildings
killing thirty sheep and scattering five
hundred bushels of oats over the township
The track of the cyclone was ten rods
| wide, and fences, trees and everything ir
| its path were swept away. Several per
sons were thrown down, but none fatally
| injured.
THE motion for a new trial at Mt. Gilead
| for Wagner, sentenced to hang July II, wa.
| overruled by Judge Dickey.
DURING general row between a lot o.
| Panhandle Railroad workmen at Holli
days Cove, the other morning, a maj
| named Foley was stabbed and fatally
wounded. Polk Joyce and two or thre,
others were badly injured.
| HENRY NIEBLE, well-known farme
living near Fostoria, suffered the loss of hi
right hand few days since, while sawin;
wood with a circular saw.
| THE Staubach Authorizing law, as
finally passed, fixes no additional compen
sation for Coroners, and puts the penalt,
on medical colleges for violation at 500 t.
$1,000 and one to ten years.
EPIzooTIc prevails at Dayton to a re
| markable extent, and is reported wors
| than ever before.
| CHARLES BUTLER, who recently mur
dered his wife in Indiana and escaped fror
Jail while awaiting trial, attempted, Will
drunk, to shoot a colored lad, the othe
day who was sent from West Jefferson t
return a team hired to convey Butler an
George Fleming to Hilliard. He shot at th
boy several times, but fortunately his air
was bad. He was afterward captured i
Hilliard.
JOHN w. SCoTTHoRN, of Hamden, Will
saving with buZZ-saw at the Wellsto
machine shops the other day, had his LEI
hand nearly cut off through the center.