The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-07-03
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

girl, of Cleveland, was recently examined
by physicians to find out the nature of a
snalady her mother says she is afflicted
with. The other day the girl was in tho
office Of the Humane Society waiting thd
arrival of the deputy sheriff, who expected
to temporarily remove her to the county
jail as the popularity Of her ailment will
prevent any institution receiving her as AM
inmate. The girl for some time pasA
seemed to have a sort Of IN insane craving
or desire for homicide. She always wants
to injure or kill something or somebody.
No human being or living thing is.
safe In her presence and only
the other day she was discovered
mercilessly beating her little twd
and a half year old sister, and when she
was demonstrated with and asked why she
wanted to kill her little sister she simply
said: because l like TO-" She has a habit
of picking up flatirons, stones, bricks, in
fact everything that. she can lay her hands
on, for the purpose of throwing them at
anybody. She has frequently threatened
her mother and sister with a knife which
had to be wrestei from her by force. Her
mother is all right mentally and so are the
other children. Little Fannie has a bright
face, though wickedness is plainly written
thereon. She is troubled with epileptic fits
and the doctors say she will eventually die
with softening of the brain.
Mrs. MAGGIE BURNS, of Fem street,
Cleveland, was brought to deaths door as
the result of a cruel practical joke perpe-
trated upon her by three of her lady &C:
quaintances a short time ago. 1t seems
that a few weeks g Mrs. Burns had occa-
sion to go to town, and left her husband
and little son at home. During her alb
sence three ladies, named Aggie Jump,
Mrs. Callahan and Mrs. Pierce, called at
the house for a visit, and, not finding her
at home, decided to await her return. The
husband left to go to work, and, being left
alone, the three women thought it would be
an excellent scheme to scare Mrs. Burns.
The chairs aud tables were upset, and
everything put topsy turvy. A dummy
was fixed up, clothed in a suit of Burns
clothes and laid on the floor. The supposed
head was tied with a white bandage resting
against the sewing machine. Then they
secreted themselves. Mrs. Burns, whA is
of a nervous temperament, arrived homo,
and was struck speeches. with horror at the
scene. The poor woman, seeing the mani.
mate form and her child gone, immediately
imagined that her husband had committed
ouASAhOs luS bu0 aOuS6 OIL q u6lRn-
Dor, she gasped out that her husband was
lying dead and tainted away. A physician
was called, but she went from one spasm
into another. When she finally revived
sufficiently to talk it was found tina her
mind was entirely dethroned, and for days
she Lowered between life and death.
Although she is now considered out of
danger, the shock has left its impression
| nnnn her mind and Sha novar fr11-
recover.
A DISTRESSING accident occurred tho
other morning at Hawes' paper-mills, Day
ton. Joseph Disman, one of the foremen Of
the mills, seeing that the straw-cutter was
choked up, attempted to force the straw
through the huge feed rollers, when his
fingers were caught. His arm was drawn
in, and the fast revolving blades cut the
arm of, bone and all, in half-inch pieces,
which were drawn up in the elevators and
distributed through the mill into the pulp
watts. Disman's cries brought assistsnce,
but not until his arm was chopped of above
ihe elbow. He is still alive, and may re-
cover.
FRANK J. BIDDLE, an attorney at the
Hamilton County bar, has been sent to Jail
for contempt of the court in which Judge
Robertson sits. He designated the Judge
as a "disreputable occupant of the dis
graced wool-sack."
THOMAS BoLAND, a well known farmer
of Alexander Township, Athens County,
by the upsetting of his sulky, while train
ing a fast horse on the fair grounds at
Athens, the other day, had his left arm so
badly fractured at the joint that the neces-
sity of amputation is feared. His other in
juries, including a badly damaged leg, are
likewise serious.
JACOB. FosBINDER, aged twenty, while
tinkering with a piece of spouting at his
home in Mogadore, just east of Akron, was
struck by lightning during a heavy storm
and instantly killed, a few days ago.
Samuel Lutz, also of Mogadore, was
-everely shocked, but survived.
A NEW trial has been refused Valentine
Wagner, convicted for numbering his
brother-in-law at Mt. Gilead.
LOUIS RosT, an eleven-year.oldFboy, was
driving a wagon loaded with stone across
Wayne street, Lima, a few days since.
The wagon struck the gutter, and young
Rost, not being prepared for the jolt, was
thrown over the wagon, and both wheels
passed over his abdomen, the weight being
nearly a ton. He died about ten minutes
afterward.
TEE Republicans of the Twentieth Con
gressional District nominated Major Nc
Kinley for Congress on the first ballot
Judge C. L. Marvin was selected as Presi
Dental Elector.
A PORTION of Gould's Tunnel, on the Pal
Handle Railroad west of Steubenville
which was nearly completed, caved in thu
1 4%In~ n1,~s l.,-r,~ ,~lk -.- --I
boy. Four of the party were thought tt
be fatally injured, and the others badly
but not seriously hurt.
AT College Hill, Hamilton County, the
other day, Thomas J. Lindsay was severely
injured by a COW falling on him which b,
was milking,
PETER PICHREL, President of the FRS
National Bank at jackson, died with in
fammatory rheumatism. He was one o.
the Oldest inhabitants of the place.
AT the State Convention of laboring mel
at Columbus, M. D. Connolly, of Cincin
natl, was elected Permanent President; W
H. Kelly, of Columbus, Vice President; W
F. Lewis, of Shawnee, Secretary, and W
r. Eckley, of Dayton, Assistant Secretary
THE defaulting County Treasurer, NJ. C
KEENAN,, was sentenced, the other day by
Judge Sibley, of Marietta, to six years il
the P~enitentiary.
AT Denmark, the other day, the dead body
of Frank Brown was found in the rive
under a railroad bridge, and near him tn
almost ~lifeless remains of Edward Fllman
The latter revived sufficiently to state thu
he and Brown live1 at Monticello, lows
and had fallen from a freight train to tn
!, ground, over seventy feet below.
THE boiler in Vonbehrn & Shaffer's ore
mill, at Stryker, exploded a few days age
dangerously injuring eleven men.
: JOHN W. RAY was drowned a few day
, ago in Silver Lake, near New Carlisle
? while bathing.
A YOUNG man by the name of Franz
, Wildly. while working in a we'll saYantx