The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-10
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

an analysis of some canned peaches pur-
chased in grocery in that place by 8 fam
lily named Pierce. Mrs. Pierce, her sister,
Mrs. King, and her three children were all
Frustrated after partaking of the peaches,
and had all the symptoms of poisoning.
1t is supposed that some Of the acid used
In soldering the lid of the fruit can on, got
into the fruit by mistake. A child named
James, of Linden avenue, was also poisoned
almost fatally by eating some colored
Christmas candy. Two of the first named
parties narrowly escaped death from tho.
effects Of the poisonous peaches, but will
probably recover.
A M1LE-LoNG trestle, eighty feet high,
will soon be completed in Fayette County,
on the line of the Columbus & Midland
railroad.
HE Governor issued an order the other
day, transferring Charles Wirth, John.
Einsel and Edward F. Huffman, convicted.
of robbery and sentenced to the Peniten-;
tiary for one year, to the Reform School,
These are boys who got to robbing and
committing depredations from reading
yellow-covered literature and with wit
Messing border plays.
dE OalO T1N0T IcdCucu ulSuCSo pOShe
at Cincinnati, on the 2Sth, forty-nine feet
61z inches. From that time it receded half
an inch an hour up to midnight of the 29th.
THE largest observatory dome in the
world is now being made in Cleveland, for
the University of Virginia. This dome
weighs ten tons and measures forty-fve
feet four inches &C the base.
W. P. HUBERT, millionaire of Cincin-
natl, was arrested for failing to clear the
snow from the sidewalk in front of his res
idence on Freeman street a few days since.
He was required to give bail, and in the
Police Court was fined S. and costs.
THIEVES entered the slaughter-house of
Charles Eckert, at Youngstown, few
mornings ago, and stole two beeuCs which
had Just been dressed. Tracks were found
to a neighboring house, but upon search
being made it was found that the thieves
had walked around the house, cast suspi-
cion on the owner of it, and then entered
the road and disappeared.
LAST July Gretchen Rummel, aged
eighteen years, daughter of barber liv-
ing in Munich, Bavaria, took $500 marks
her father had saved up, and ran away to
America. She went to Cleveland where
woman friend lives and found work as a
domestic in farmers family at Cola
mer. Recently she wrote penitent letter
home, by means of the postmark on which
her father traced her, and the other day
father and daughter set out on their return
to Europe.
MRS. THos. WHITE, of Hebron, was at
tending kitchen work the other day, and
her clothing caught fire. She ran out on
4he street enveloped in flames, screaming
for assistance, which soon arrived, and the
flames were smothered, but not before she
was severely burned. She will recover.
FRANK E. STONE, of Norwalk, was ar
rested and placed in jail few days since,
charged with placing distractions on the
track of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad be-
tween Havana and Pontiac.
THE body of a murdered man was found
hid near Spring Grove avenue, Cincinnati,
on the 256h, which was identified as that of
W. H. Kirk, horse-trader. His stable, in
the heart of the city, was searched, and
suspicion pointed strongly to his two young
hostlers, Joseph Palmer, mulatto, and
VIM. Berner, German boy, and they were
arrested, and jailed. On the 2Sth they
made full confession in the presence of
detectives and twenty others. Kirk was
killed in his own stable with a hammer,
and robbed of S245, and his body hid in the
hay until evening,w they hired a wagon
and hauled the body to where twas found.
A LITTLE four-year. daughter of
Alonzo Campbell, living at Wegee, few
miles outh of Bellaire, was left in a room
alone for few minutes, few days ago,
when she ventured too near the CRATE and
her clothing caught fire. Before assistance
came the little one was burned to crisp
from the knees to and including the abdo-
men. Death occurred in short time after
wards.
MRS. GLAscoE, wife of David Glascoe, a
coal-miner at Franklin, on the line of the
Central Ohio Railroad, met with seriou-
accident while attempting to build fires
in the kitchen stove a few days since. The
melting snow and SCOT had clogged the
chimney and the fire would not start just
as she thought it ought to, SO she took
some blasting-powder and placed it in the
stove to blow the SCOT out. When the ex-
plosion came the SCOT was blown out, so
was the top blown off the stove, and the
woman was wrapped in flames. Before
her husband, who was asleep until the ex-
plosion occurred, reached her she was bad
ly burned about the breast, and her face
was as black as coal-miner's ever gets
with the powder and suit blown into it.
Her injuries, while serious, are not con.
sidered fatal.
THE Ohio Liquor Dealers Association, in
their session at Columbus, few days since,
adopted a resolution declaring the Scott
Law unconstitutional and unjust, calling
upon the Legislature to repeal it and enact
"judicious and constitutional law" There
was conservative element in the conven.
tion which would have been satisfied with 6
repeal of the McCounelsville section, but
the majority took upon themselves the
credit of placing the Democrats in power
and insisted on requiring as their right ar
abrogation of temperance measures.
Mrs. AMANDA DELoNG, wife of farme,
living near West Jefferson,w was kicked by {
COW on the right leg three years ago, since
which time she has suffered intense pain
On the I'd her leg was amputated thre,
inches above the knee to save her life. Hel
recovery is doubtful.
FLOYD PETIT and Perry McClain, Will,
riding on coal cars in mine at Gore, few
days ago, fell on the track, and the car
running over them they were badly man
gled, but a physician says they will re
cover.
The Sheriff of Morrow took possession
of the new Jail building and Sheriff's resi-
dence recently built there, the litigation
connected Herewith having been lately de
termined. Possession was informally ia
ken by the Sheriff, on the 1st, and the thre
prisoners, including Wagner, the mur
derer, were marched from the old shell t
a substantial and safe structure.
AT Thompson, Geauga County, Hess,
school-teacher, punished boy by the nam
of Griffin, the other day. An older brothe
heard of it, and went to school, where h
pounded and kicked Hess till he was w
conscious.
WIN. THOMPSON, a bi akeman was killed
few nights ago by being struck by bridg
near Salem.
WILLIAM DUNCAN, a peddler, living
Monrceville, was struck by train Will
crossing the C. and P. Railroad track nes