The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
CROP statistics of Ohio for the United
States Department of Agriculture, Septem-
ber 1, shows: Corn, average condition, 105
per cent; wheat, when harvested, %; rye,
80; oats, 10S; barley. 70; buckwheat, o.;
potatoes, 95.
ScorT SIGLER, Jas. DeBoard and Isaac
DeBoard were arrested near Freeport, on |
an alleged charge Of car-breaking.
LIBERAL contributions are being made |
from all parts Of the State towards allevi- |
ating the distress caused by the Washing |
ton G. b. tornado.
AT Glenford, burglars robbed Zartman's
store of 5000 worth of goods.
Statesmen for goods manufactured at the
Ohio Penitentiary are reported to be trav-
cling over the State offering rates with
which no legitimate manufacturer can
compete.
MIcHAL WAGNER died at New Riegel,
aged 102 years.
THE nine months lockout of glass-houses
at Bellaire is ended.
CONRAD WINTER, aged seventy five
years, a prominent citizen of Lancaster, 10
dead.
BILL BRIGHT camc back to st. Clairsville
to repossess bis wife and baby, whom he
hadn't time to take when he skipped for
forgery eight years ago, but finds his
whilom bride known as Mrs. Anderson,
with no divorce recorded. Bill is in jail
on the old count, his wife sees where she
made criminal mistake, and Anderson
fears Bill will press his prior claim.
THREE suits for libel, aggregating $4,000,
were filed against Charles Roland, editor OF
the Greenville Democrat
WHOLE of Adams County has but thirty
three saloons.
SrEuBENvILLE will pave part Of her
streets with fire brick.
TOLEDO invested in 100000 of the new
postal cards as starter.
HUNDRED and Thirty second reuned at
Bellefontaine; 200 present.
PesreFFIeE at Springfield will take care
| OF Lagonda hereafter, and the postofdce
there will be vacated.
| TWENTY-FIVE carloads of butter and eggs
and twenty carloads of peaches passed
through Mansfield in one day.
| SEVENTH Day Adventists will hold a gen.
eral State convention at Springfield, for
two weeks, beginning October /.
| JOHN v. CLUxToN, Cedar Mills, Adams
County went crazy by losing $4,000, sell
ling goods on crop prospects. Asylumed at
Athens.
THE sale of the Bankers and Merchants
| -. Ix1f fha RQ mid a X.
tending from Steubenville to the State line,
in Preble County, from Freeport to the
State line of Indiana, and from Eaton to
Cincinnati, was held the other day. The
wires were bought by Ed. Stokes, of New
York, for $65, $50. The appraised value was
500, 900.
POLICEMAN Al. FEELEY shot Thomas
Burke seriously at Bellaire; woman. Feeley
fed.
Two Dayton girls, both under twelve,
have been picked up for extensive, long
continued shop-lifting. One is respectfully
connected.
: DAYTON Christian women have founded
} widows home, that would honor larger
and richer city. Eighteen inmates a,
present.
George Harmon, Hancock County, have
. fallen heir to Sc, 900 cash claim due from
Holland government.
JAMES WARNER, wealthy Mahoning
farmer, was drugged and robbed OF So'
, and a watch by the acquaintance" racket
5 at Youngstown. -
JACKSONVILLE Ne,os is responsible for thu
!, statement that no business failure has oc
f Cured in that town during the long stag
nation of mining interests that begal
June 10, 1884.
The other evening as Tom and Charlie
. Blake, brothers, were returning home from
. Dexter, in state of intoxication, they be
: came very stupid and sat down on tn
]. railroad to rest. Their younger brother
e who was with them, becoming tired of hi
|. fruitless efforts to take them home, lef
. them and went on, thinking that, as the e1
r press had gone south, there would be n
danger. He had gone but a short distanc
a when he met freight train. He at
2 tempted to reach his brothers, but failed
: : The train caught them as they were lyin
on the track, killing one instantly and s
mangling the other that he died in a shor
time The bodies were taken on board th
y
are of respectable family and of hig
!. sional drunk.
e AT Cincinnati the other morning, Re'
s E. Stehle, pastor of st. Joseph Cathol
# Church, was awakened by the crying of
child on the door of his residence.
l. opening the door he discovered two bo
y babies wrapped up in a large basket.
d note in German was attached to the clotl
# ing saying that the children had not bee
e baptized, and requested him to administ,
q the ordinance, which he did, and the
sent them to the Belts Street Hospita
The boys are apparently twins and abo'
l. three weeks old.
= OHIO CRAWFORD, a sixteen-year-old 8;
o of Benjamin Crawford, of Columbus Grow
u was killed the other morning while playiI
q in the planning mill of Arnold Bros, of tn
e place. He was caught in the belt of Il
:. sand-papering machine and mashed all
1t pieces on the line shaft of the mill, nothir
+ being left but his mutilated bones al
h. bruised flesh by which young Crawfol
Is could be recognized.
is The W. G. Rogers Company, Cincinnat
" manufacturers of boots and shoes, ha'
st made an assignment. Assets, estimate
$4,000; liabilities, $4,000.
T, GorTLEIB STEINLEY, of Neville, wad
into the Ohio River the other night, a,
then shot himself. Dissipation the caus
A RAIN and wind storm struck Plain Cit
u the other night, completely demolishil
5. the carriage factory of E. H. Dry, fill
m with work, doing $1,000 damage. Sever
f. dwellings were unroofed and windows to
/, out.
# AT Columbus, Cynthia Morris, girl w
,s has been in the station house number
=, times, and who was released on the OF
= committed suicide in the evening by TAXI
i morphine. She was found in an out-hou
= | Mac Go, Sfraaf