The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-18
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
CHARLES SCRIBNRR, who has just been
convicted in the United States Court Of
robbing the post-office at Air Line Jin6:
ton, turns out to be Clarence Oft, who
escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary In
May. He was turned over to Warden Petry
the other day. 1sts=.ss--a ~--a4
A MAN, name unknown, was struck by a
freight on the Fort Wayne Road at Shreve,
and killed.
EMANUEL KNoBLE was fatally stabbed
by Augustus Hershour at Wooster. They
were engaged in a quarrel in a saloon.
JUDGE JONES, Chairman of the Ohio
State Board of Live Stock Inspectors, says
there are now no cases of pleuro-pneumo-
mia in Ohio.
JOHN LUGIBIHL was fatally horse.
kicked at Find1ay.
DAYTON now has baseball club on the
cooperative plan.
FIFTEEN families living on Cincinnati
Camp-ground, Loveland.
ladies under the auspices of the Art
School, Cincinnati, for the first time wit
messed an exciting wrestling match, on Mt.
Auburn.
A THIEF stole valuable mail pouch at
the Union Depot, Columbus, In the absence
Of the agent. -
j. G. THORNTON, Justice of the Peace,
was convicted of blackmail in the Criminal
Court at Greenville. The case has created
much interest, especially among attorneys,
as MIR. Thornton was a member of the bar.
The prisoner is now seeking bail, pending
the hearing of a motion for new trial.
LEE AND henry KINNEY, brothers, were
drugged and robbed of $50 at Youngstown.
SAM JONES, who has drank twelve bar
reis OF cider since last fall, dropped dead
at Akron the other evening.
A REWARD of $25 is offered for informa-
tion of Lizzie Engel, missing from Somer-
vile for several weeks.
MELISSA MERRMAN, Youngstown, sent
her sister, Mollie, to the picnic with her
affianced, John K. Mowry, and the tenn.
porary match was made permanent by
elopement. .>v
g. F. REED, wealthy Massillon merchant,
died after twenty -four hours welded
| bliss, leaving a disconsolate but rich
widow, nee Miss Butler, of New York, who
knew he couldn't live long, but insisted on
the splice.
PoRKERs valued at $s4, 600 succumbed to
cholera in Fayette County last year.
THE Newark Machine Company are NOV
ing their plant to Columbus, which is to be
their future home.
house, and came near DESTROYING it.
Moral-Don't interfere with the hen.
THERE were nine girl graduates at the
forty third annual commencement of the
Cincinnati Wesleyan College.
CHARLES LoNswAY escaped from the
Work-house of Hamilton County, although
nine shots were fired at him by the guards.
AT a meeting of the Board of Public
Works, Cincinnati, it was reported that the
Water-works Department had paid $65f
for an unsuccessful experiment in electric
light. FH-r'ts
AT the golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs
Jacob Ezekiel, Cincinnati, parents of the
sculptor of that name, thirty-nine grand.
children and one great grandchild were
present.
SUIT was entered at Steubenville agains,
the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis
Railroad for $40 900 damages for the kill;ne
of VIM. Davitt, brakeman on the above
by Davitt's administrator. Davitt wa.
killed in December, 1883, in that city.
CLARENCE OPT, the prisoner whose re-
markable escape from the penitentiary wa.
noted some weeks ago, was captured il
Toledo and returned to his old quarters.
A BURSTING emery wheel sent Jas
Blackensup, Wellesville founder, to hi
grave.
THE eleven-year- son of Samuel Cleck
ner, of Wellsville, fell off coal barge, ant
was drowned.
HIS name was Cowsucker; his home wa
Alliance; he fell from train and dislocatet
his knees.
GEO. GRAFTON, of Mt. Pleasant, was Sc
riously injured by tree falling upon him
and his recovery is doubtful.
CHAs. EVANS and Maggie Love, of Gran
dale, loved, eloped, were married, and ar
now enjoying 'evenly bliss.
JOHN HoAGLAND, aged seventy, of Dawn
committed suicide by cutting his throat
rather than go to the poor house.
MANUFACTURERS of the Mahoning Val
ley are considering the feasibility of erect
ing large steel plant at Youngstown, witt
, a capacity sufficient to furnish all the rol
} ling mills with billets for working into ba
and merchant steel.
THE buildings of the Canton Pane
Company were destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
THE Supreme Court of Ohio has decide
: that the Scott law taxes paid into the va
rious County Treasures are not to be re
: funded.
THE Board of Public Works, of Cincin
natl, refused to grant privileges to th
Mount Auburn Cable Railway Company t
construct a cable road on Sycamore stree
to the Geological Garden.
JOHN E. Logan, of East Liverpool, wht
with his family, sells crockery ware on
, floating boat, was drowned at Mingo juno
l tion the other evening. Hemissed his foot
=. ing and fell overheard.
WELLsvILLE colored people are to sbuil
a church.
TIFFIN and Cleveland are the only OH
towns which can boast of; female lawye
THE other evening six young men wei
= sitting on the railing of the oridge over tt
1 Marietta Mineral Railroad, at Napier
I sixteen miles southwest of Marietta, whe
sudden break let them fall to the trac
twenty feet below. John Welch was kille
and VIM. Barrett and Peter Reddy s.
verely injured.
y JACOB HEUBER, lunatic in Meigs Count
n jail, has an adherence of clotnlng, al
9 wears nothing but one Of Adam. Old suit
1T will be a surprise to most people
learn that a pig has any rights, but a Ju
4 tice in Hancock County has fined a ms
t $41.5O for cruelty beating one.
o MRS. ANDY TEvIs, wife of a respectful
a colored man, living near GAINESVILLE, elope
q the other night with Frank Brown, ag,
s twenty; the woman is forty.
r THE latest swindling dodge in the rur
r regions is for a neatly dressed young m,
d to knock at the door and ask to see Il
g lamps in the house; looks them over, shak
: them up, and states that he is State Ian
inspector, and then demands small fe
Look out for him.