The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-03-12
Skating RinEiets.

Tiffin is on the verge of q roller rink sensa-
tion, so the Press says.
While roller skating at Coshocton, O., Mon
day, Miss Lucy Fritz fell and broke her left
leg.
Mansfield wants to get rid of its high school
teacher Make a roller rink professor of him,
and he will soon disappear.
Marshal Grafton, of Forest, Ohio, is lying at
the point of death, from injuries received at
the skSting rink in that place.
Leading physicians agree that the use of
the roller skates greatly enlarges the ankles.
Girls, &bu should remember this.
A young rink enthusiast in Camden pur-
chascd'a neck tie at rs cents on the credit of
his parents, and sold it for 25 cents to raise
the admission to the skating rink.
Miss Mary Collins, a schoolteacher at Wash
ington, C. H., fell while skating at the City
Hall Rink on Monday evening last, and broke
her arm.
Miss Ollie Frederick, the young lady who
fell while roller skating at Columbus last week,
can not recover. Her physicians say that her
injury is a fracture of the base of the skull.
A rich young heiress of Monroe, Pa, eloped
with a roller rink man. The professor in this
case has a wife and daughter who appeared in
Monroe the day after the elopement.
a professional roller skate ~"artist" in Penn
sylvania has mashed the hearts of twenty diff
ferent girls, and might have dcne better had
not some one exposed him as a State prison
convict.
The Greenville Adrocate says a stabbing
affair occurred at one of the Kinks in Green
vile, Ohio, between two boys fifteen years of
age. One has skipped to evade punishment
for his crime. Oh, the deadly rink.
The Enquirer of Saturday last gives an ac-
count of a skating rink scandal at Mt. Ster-
ling, o., replete with enraged parents and
shot guns. The lady in the case is described
as being the belle of the town. The devil
seems to be loose in all these institutions.
Miss Della Hunt, aged %, dropped dead at
the Dime Roller Skating Rink at Detroit,
skating and started to go towards the front
door on her way home. Suddeu!y she fell TO
the floor face downward and expired.
The wife of a respectable, Woodworking,
Richmond, Ind, mechanic, when refused in
diligence at the rink every night, packed her
trunk and boarded the train for her mothers
saving: ~ don't want any more more Smith ;"
1t was her firtations that Eli objected to.
The daughter of a well known local politi-
clan of Columbus, was found in a house of as
signation with a lawyero of that city. She met
the gentleman at the rink, accompanied him
to a restaurant, where she was drugged and
afterwards taken in an unconscious condition
to the place where found.
1t transpires that Osborne, the roller ska
ting Professor who inveigled that Bucyrus
heiress into a clandestine marriage, is a
shameless rascal. Indifferent mothers and
fathers all over the country are allowing their
daughters to "take lessons" from just such
adventures, and exposing them to like dan
gers-or worse.
Ollie Elliott, of Richmond, Ind, who recent
ly camc to the fore as a rapid roller skater,
since when he has vanquished about every
competitor whom he has met in rink contests,
was badly disabled at the Main street rink Oh
Thursday night last. He and Jas. Martin
were just starting in the first of three races
for the championship of the city and a SAC
purse when, in making a grand stride for the
lead, and the inside of the track, he was Sc
badly wrenched and sprained that he had to
come of without making a lap.
A recent dispatch from Cleveland savs:-
"Mrs. Jay Rix, the handsome wife of a we'll
known Cleveland citizen of the Eighteenth
Ward, clipped last evening with Mark Lester
an instructor of the Armory roller skating
rink. Mrs. Rix, who has always been greatly
admired for her beauty, began attending the
rink about two weeks ago. Her husband, who
permitted her to have her own way regarding
all amusements, took no notice of the fac
that the instructor was in the habit of escort
ing his wife home from the rink. She invited
Lester to call about a week ago, and he be
came acquainted with the husband. Las
night she left home, ostensibly to call upon
neighbor. Not returning, the husband wa.
very much alarmed about her, but though
she was spending the night with relatives
This morning he was handed a note sayin.
I briefly that his wife had eloped with Leste
and bidding him farewell.