The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-18
a NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
r CHARLES MASON committed suicide as
Venice, Erie County, by taking aconite.
Financial embarrassment was the cause.
Deceased leaves a wife and two grown
children.
OvER $4,000 worth of hogs have died
from cholera in Madison County this fall
and the disease is spreading. Farmers are
selling at any price to save at least some
thing from the wreck.
THE Connotton Valley Railroad station
at Navarre was robbed of $500 the other
night, the burglars having successfully
worked the combination of the safe.
A FARMER belonging at Miller's Station,
twenty-eight years of age, while intoxi-
Gated lay down on the track at Cadiz juno
ton, and had both legs cut off by afreight
going west.
AN unusual occurrence happened in the
Common Pleas Court, the other day, at
Steubenvile, Judge Hance presiding. A
divorce was granted to Emma Rine from
Joshua Rine. Their marriage had been q
forced one, Rine never living with her.
Entering suit for divorce, he agreed to
marry her as soon as the divorce was
granted. The minister and friends were
present, but the expected groom failed to
appear. When the Judge heard it, he
found the woman in tears. and Indignantly
destroyed the copy of the decree and or
dered the clerk to expunge the record from
the docket ON the ground Of fraud on the
part of Rine. Both Judge and attorney are
indignant.
CAPTAIN JAMES l.. RUFFIN, ex-Chief of
Police of Cincinnati, well-known through
out the State, died at his home in that city,
a few days ago, quite wealthy. He had
been suffering from two paralytic strokes
for over six weeks. He leaves no children.
His wife survives him.
JACOB WANNAMAKER, a brakeman on the
G. & P. Railway, fell between two cars
near Bridgeport, and was killed.
MIR. GEORGE RUST, while at work in the
/ Ohio Oil Mill in Harshmanville, was struck
with a heavy lever that was caught in a
rapidly revolving spur-wheel. 1t struck
him in the face, breaking his nose and SER
iously decorating and bruising his face.
A NEWSPAPER controversy at Defiance,
which has existed for six months, culmin-
ated in a personal encounter the other day,
between the editors, but the interposition of
friends prevented any blood-letting.
ALFRED W. B~EARDsLEY, an inmate of
the Soldiers Home, Dayton, was picked up
dead on the Eaton pike, near the institu-
| ton, the other morning. He was foundl y-
ing in the middle of the pike. There were
no marks of violence OF his person. He
has a wife and child living near the Home,
and spent part of the evening with them.
| Where he went to from there is not known.
His death is supposed to have been caused
by exposure in the rough weather.
AN organized band of thieves is working
Ironton.
THOMAS DETER, a young man nineteen
years of age, was run over by a train of
cars at Cleveland and cut to pieces. Sup
posed suicide.
BURGLARS broke into E.. w. Roberts
hardware store at Shelby, and got away
with 500 worth of cutlery.
A REDUCTION of ten per cent. per ton for
mining screened coal has been ordered at
Bustard's shaft, Steubenville. Miners are
digging at seventy cents per ton. They
had just returned to work after a long
strike.
THos. PRICE was crushed to death by a
fall of slate in the Dabney coal mine, near
Pomeroy.
AT Akron, a few days ago, a special
Grand Jury returned an Indictment of muir
der in the first degree against Robert Nc
Lister, who, on the evening of November
90 last, shot and killed Joseph Welsh in q
saloon in Dennison.
GOVERNOR HoADLY has decided not to
interfere with the death sentence of John
B. Hoffman, convicted at Cincinnati of the
murder of his son..
HIRAM, a young son of Frank Andrews
of Champion, Trumbull County, fell into q
cistern the other night and was drowned
before help could arrive.
THE body of VIM. Batson, of Newark
who has been missing since November 30
was found floating in the Licking Reser-
voir, that city.
A ARMER named VIM. Leshner, living
FIVE miles from Dayton, was awakened by
a great noise in his hog-pen, the Other
night. He got up and went out with revol-
yer in hand, and discovered a large animal
in the pen. The hog was killed, his head
being torn nearly off. Leshner fired two
shots, when tho animal turned on him
Leshner escaped TO the house, got a shot
gun, and fred from the door. The ANNA,
returned to the hog-pen and killed two
more hogs. Leshner had no ammunition
and while moulding bullets, the neighbors
who were also aroused by the noise of the
pigs, came to his rescue. Tho animal fec
to the woods. As nearly as could be seer
in the dark it resembled e panther. Foot
marks this morning were undoubtedly those
of the cat tribe. The country is being
secured for the animal.
AN additional charge has been flee
against T.. c.. Campbell, ESQ.,, on trial il
Cincinnati for disbarment for unprofes
sional conduct, alleging that he aided on
of the Berner jurors to elk g his bondsme1
and escape from the jurisdiction of thu
Court.
BURGLARS entered the clothing store o
j. C. Bryants, at Dresden, the other night
and carried away between 5000 and 500
worth of clothing, shoes, etc. This is tn
second time they have visited him within
the past two months.
The condition OF County Treasure
Greene, of Sandusky County, is not inn
proved, and at times he is very violent
Application has been made for his admis
sion to tho Asylum at Newburg. Tn
County Commissioners have appointe'
Frank j. Gietzel as Treasurer, and an ex
animation of the books is being made. I
is believed that Greene's accounts with tn
county arc all right.
A FARMER named John q. Shontlemye1
aged seventy mine years, was killed a
Findlay, a few days ago, by a train on tn
Lake Erie and Western Railroad. 1t i
thought he threw himself in front of tn
train which was J-1puinp at the rate n
fifty miles an hour.
REUBEN R. SPRINGER, C~incinnati's grea
ph~ilanthropist and founder of the Cincin