The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-01-01
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
MINE INSPECTOR THoS. B. BANCROFT,
submitted the tenth annual report of his
department to the Governor. A supple
mentary report containing the statistics of
the mineral productions of the State for the
year ending December. 81, 1884, will be is
sued. The effort to procure statistics of the
production of limestone other than that
consumed in the manufacture of iron has
been abandoned, as no correct statements
of the amount used in making lime or for
building purposes could be gathered. Be-
tween February Is and April II the mines
in Medina, Portage, and majority of those
in jefferson, Stark and Columbiana Coun-
ties, fifty five in all, were visited by Mr..
Austin King, Assistant Inspector. He also
gave his attention to a number of mines
in Wayne, Tuscarawas, Belmont and Car
roll Counties, while the inspector gave such
time as he could spare from his Office du-
ties to those mines that demanded imme-
diate attention in the Counties of Athens
Hooking, jackson, Perry and Meigs. There
are 332 mines in this State coming under
the mining law, and 1857 others not employ
ing the requisite number of men; any one
of the latter, however, being required to be
inspected at the request of the miners en-
ployed therein, and the work of in
spection was therefore found to
be very onerous until the passage
of the law providing for the appointments
of District Inspectors. In conse-
quence of the increase in the force of the
department the Inspectors have been
enabled to visit all the working mines in
the State once, and those needing it have
been visited three, four, and in some cases
five times, and in less than six months
there have been erected forty y-three venti-
lating furnaces and ten fans, where no
means of artificial ventilation previously
existed. There are Civ an complete list of
all accidents and their results, whether
fatal OF otherwise, and full description of
the different mines of the State. The re-
port is very voluminous.
THE Trustees of the Dayton Asylum for
Insane submitted their thirtieth annual re-.
port to the Governor. The following sum-
mary is given: On November 10, 1888. there
were in the asylum COL patients: admitted
during the year, 1888; total number under
treatment, 7s9; discharged during the year,
200; leaving in the asylum November 10,
1884, $3.50; daily average during the year,
597. The total amount of the current ex-
penses for the past year was SLOT ,2T4.77 [;
per capita cost, $179.6s; per capita cost per
week, $3.45. The appropriations asked for
the coming year are: Current expenses,
$s1, 900, and for the quarter ending Novem-
ber 10, 1886, $4,000: officers salaries,
S., 100; ordinary repairs, $1,000; Trustees
expenses, $400; travelling expense, officers,
$500; library and pictures, 500; additional
water heater, $500; horses and cows, $500;
carpets and furniture, $1,000; covering
steam main, $3.50; painting walls, $500; rent
of plow and pasture land, $3.50; boilers and
enlarging boiler-house, s., 200; new refrig-
orator, etc., 81, 700; new clothing-rooms
ST 100; water closets and traps, ETC., 5000;
planer for machine-shop, $500; buggies and
wagons, 500; fencing, $500. The question
of repairs and improvements is discussed
at length.
FREDERICK BARIENBRoCK, the father >oi
seven children, sent thirty EIGHT caliber
ball crashing through his brain. For sew
| eral days he had been complaining of feel
| ing poorer, and was noticed by his wife to
| be acting strangely. He some years ago
owned a Touring mill in Dayton, but more
recently was located in Tippecanoe City,
where he owns some property. The coun-
| terfeiters recently arrested there were cap
| tured with some of their stock in trade in
| his house. Since then the police have been
| watching him. This, with ill-health and
| financial embarrassment, is the cause of
| the rash act. He shot himself in his bed
while his family were at supper. When his
/ wife ran to his room she found him lying
on the bed with bullet-hole through hi
head, and blood and brain ooZing there
| from. He evidently died instantly.
PROF. T. c. MENDENHALL, of the Ohit
State University, who has accepted posi-
tion in the Signal Service at Washington
has written letter to President Godfrey
| of the Board of Trustees, in which h.
states he does not leave the institution be
cause of any dissatisfaction with the pres
ent administration.
In Harmar, Christmas, the two-year-ol
child of William Price fell into a tub O
boiling water, dying next day in grea
| agony.
THE fifteenth annual report of the Obi
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home a
Xenia has been submitted to the Governor
There are 642 children in the Home, 40S boy
and 234 girls. There are in County Child
rens' Homes, and maintained at the eX
pense of the State, eighty-six in addition
who are distributed in eleven counties
The per capita expense has been $141.24
against 1920 last year. There was dis
bursed during the year $136,64 .S3; balanc
on hand, $44,0S1.2G.
THE Widow Halderman, of Mineral Point
indicted for taking the life of her in
FAINT child, was, after trial, convicted c
manslaughter.
A SALooN-KEEPER named Disagree, {
Berlin, while drunk abused his family, an
almost Immediately afterward accidentl
fell down stairs and rolled into the yar(
where he lay all night and froze to death.
GUARD YOUNG, OF Mt. Vernon, Kno
County, has been discharged by the peni
tentiary officials for fighting with anotae
guard at the Prison Christmas morning.
A CARNIVAL of crime is reported fror
Columbus. Small burglaries, petty thievin
and two or three highway robberies hav
occurred within the past few days. Ladie
have been robbed on the most prominen
thoroughfares.
MRS. C. P. CULVER, of Gore, Hockin
County, died very suddenly the other ever
ing of heart disease. She attended he
sons wedding few days before in Loga1
and he was summoned home from hi
bridal tour to attend the funeral of h
mother, whom he left in such good spirits
few short days before.
G. DICKENS and Jacob Cole were sleepin
in the store of Walker Marsh, at Eifert
Station, the other evening, when the build
! ing caught fire. Dickens, unable to find th
door, broke his way through the wall. B
the time he had rescued his companion
was found that he was SO burned and suGc