The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-06-26
EATON. OHIO. THURSDAY. JUNE 26, iss4
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

NEAR Fosters Crossing; James Clark, q
farmer; was accidentally and perhaps
fatally shot by hunter.
AT Chicago Junction, near Norwalk;
Owen Clark was run over and killed by
train while walking on the track.
A SHOOTING ARRAY occurred the other
night at McCays, Jefferson County, in
Which Wmr Mcdonald and Frank Masterson
Msfe sh6t; the FORMER Probably fatally; the
latter not serious. The fracas commenced
from a stone being thrown at the residence
of an old man named Hiram Weir, who
came out and fred two shots from shot
gun, with the above results. It is not
known yet if the parties shot were gtiilty
of the stone throwing or not.
A LAD named Solomon Coon was drown
ed while bathing near Nelsonville.
A CHILD of George Perry, living near
West jefferson, ehoked to death on a pea
nit shell.
GEO. B. MYERS, New York tea fhsr.
chant, hanged himself to a bed-post while
visiting F. E. Tracy, at Mansfield.
MISS WINNIE BRopE, aged about eigh-
teen, living near Windham, shot herself
through the heart, a few days since.
WHILE tying vicious bull, Jacob Myers,
farmer living near Gallon, was gored In
such a horrible manner that his life is de-
SPARED of.
JOHN JOHNSON, charged with train
wrecking, had a preliminary examination
at Loveland, and was remanded to jail in
default of $1,000 bail.
CAPTAIN JOHN J. Downs, an old captain
On the lakes, drowned himself at Toledo.
He was suffering from ill-hea1th and mem
tai arrangement.
F. II. FLICK has been commissioned
Colonel of the Fifth Regiment. This is the
regiment over which there was so much
controversy relative to the election of a
commanding officer.
HUGH MACKINAw, aged ten years, was
drowned at Steubenville while bathing.
His body was recovered.
ARTICLES incorporating the Central
Union Depot and Railway Company, of
Cincinnati, with capital stock of 5000, 200,
have been filed at Columbus.
WHILE crossing the B. & o. Railroad
track, near Havana, wagon was struck
by locomotive and young son of Henry
Coy was instantly killed.
JIM CLIFFORD, in Jail at Lancaster,
charged with assisting to lynch Richard
Hickey, escaped with the assistance of
outsiders. 1t is supposed the jailer was
drugged.
Ar a meeting of the Ohio Bar Association
| at Columbus, on the 10th, eulogies were pro.
| nounced by Governor Hoadly and others
| on the late Justice Swayne. Resolutions
expressive of the feeling of the Bar were
adopted and ordered spread upon the
| journals of the Supreme Court and Supreme
Court Commission.
THE jury in the case of T. c. Campbell
the attorney in the noted Berner trial in
Cincinnati, charged with attempting tc
bribe a juror, disagreed, and were dis
charged.
| C. W. RICHARDSON, convicted Of murder
in the first degree, in Cincinnati, was sen
fenced to be hanged Friday, September 26
JOHN BUCHANAN, charged with the muir
der of Samuel Bowling, at Steubenville
after preliminary trial was remanded t,
| Jail on a charge of murder in the first de
gree.
BELLAIRE has new foundry company
the Ohio Valley; capital, 1000.
IT is now thought the Tirnmons poisoning
case, at New Holland, was suicide ant
not murder.
BUTLER County Agricultural Society vii
place improvements on their grounds t
cost 5000.
| A THIRTEEN year old daughter of Georg
Campbell, Lima, was run over by stree
car, and probably fatally hurt.
The residence of w. P. Brandon, Wells
vile, was entered by burglars few morr
ings since. After chloroforming the entir
family the audacious rascals ransacked th
the whole house. Brandon's pocket-bool
containing $50, was taken from under hi
pillow. The family did not recover fror
the effects of the drug until aroused by th
neighbors late next morning. No clew I
| the thieves.
The other night at Gallon, while friend
were keeping vigil over the remains {
Jacob Meyer, the man who died from il
juries received by being gored by bull,
thief entered the stable in the rear of tt
residence and stole horse belonging {
the deceased. VIM. Christman was arres
ed next day for the theft. The horse wa
found in the possession of Christman's sol
ALoNzo MoLEN, a well-known citizen an
! postmaster of Felicity, is dead. Mr.. Mole
was a lifelong citizen there,an served h
country honorably during the war {
Lieutenant in the Fifty-ninth Regiment,
v. 1. For many years he was Master
|
buried with Masonic honors.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL E. B. FINLEY h.
issued an order for the First, Sixth, Sc
enth and Thirteenth Regiments and Il
Second, Fifth and Eighth Batteries to e
,, camp as a brigade at Springfield from Ju
IA to 81, Colonel John c. Entrikin, of t
! Sixth Regiment, commanding.
, CAPTAIN JOSEPH w. DERACHT died
l n.1l l., -
three. He was the youngest son of one
i the oldest families that emigrated fro
= | Paris, France, and founded Gallipolis
! 17s9
: AT Toledo the proposition to issue t
E city bonds in the sum of $3.50, 1000, to
+ expended in city parks, was submitted
popular vote the other day, and defeat
by over 900 majority in a light vote.
8 JAMES Cook, a colored man, was drown
/ Just south of Bellaire under such S,
e picious circumstances that George Johnst
e an ex-policeman, now lies in Jail on
1 charge of murder in the first degree.
; WILL KARR, young druggist, of Gle,
: land, committed suicide the other evenin
by taking opium. :Ie was married about t.
years ago, but did not live happily wi
|, his wife.
FREDERICK HoLFoRD, Springfield, has
e mare, Nellie, who is forty-three years o
r and still good roadster. He claims tt
n there is no other mare of her age dol
|, active duty.
ISAAC H. TAYLOR, of Carroll County, "
n nominatd for Congress by the Republics
of the Eighteenth Ohio District, in cow,
tion at Steubenville, on the sixty-foul
It ballot. John R. Roller, of Youngstov
le was chosen Presidential Elector.
FARMERS of Hancock County, are maxi
20 serious complaints of rust in the whe
70 but the yield is expected to be up to
general average.
The Malta Planning Mill was destroy
De by fire few days ago. Loss, $1,000;
IN surance, ST 800.
is PETER .BoMMERT, of Sandusky, "
m killed few days ago by being thro
from his wagon with runaway team
tached.