The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
THos. WILSON had his head crushed by
. falling timber, while engaged in tearing
down an old building In Cincinnati.
HENRY LANGMEYER, young man OF
Cincinnati, attempted to drown himself in
his fathers cistern, because he was not
permitted to go upon the streets after dark
THE property of the Scioto Valley Rail-
road in Franklin County, has been seized
by the Sheriff on an execution upon judg-
ment in favor of c. P. Huntington, of the
c. & o. Railroad, for $639, ,3O5.67.
A PETITION in error to the Common Pleas
Court in the case of Frederick Greiner,
sentenced to be hung in Franklin County
July "a, was filed in the Circuit Court. This
Court does not meet till September, and
some fears are expressed that this action
may result in arrest of execution of the
sentence. ..---ss
A. j. KARsHNER, stock dealer at Adel-
phi, Ross County, failed for $4,000.
FRANK MILLER, Fairfield, Green County,
will defend criminal charge Of beating
his horse to death.
STEVE HYLAND's jewelry store, lGraen-
vile, is closed for better understanding
between Steve and his creditors.
WASH. WIsEMAN, chronic wife beater,
was fatally assaulted by a courageous
nephew, Elmer Owens, at Coalton. The
boy was jailed.
THE yearly income of D. R. Locke
(Nasby) is said to be $125,000. He is build
ing largely in Toledo, and expects to see it
with population of 100000. :
NORTHWESTERN Ohio Volunteer Fire.
mems Association met at Van Vert, and
elected J. H. Foster, Van Vert, President;
G. B. Whitman, ST. Mary's, Secretary.
GEORGE KNEPP, aged seventy years,
while hunting ground-h hogs with a Cincin-
natl man near Bellefontaine, a few days
ago, was shot in the head. He had his head
in a hole looking for the "varmint," when
his companion, taking it for the animal,
blazed away with a rifle. The ball plowed
along under the scalp, touching the bone.
ABOUT dusk, the other evening, at Kettlers-
vile, six miles east of New Bremen, team
drove over a two-year-old child of Her
man Trust while playing in the road, kill
ing lit almost instantly. No blame is at
tached to the driver.
JAS. BUTLER, aged seventy years, was
struck by passenger train on the Pam
Handle Road at Paris Station, and Instant
ly killed. He was deaf.
4IIss KATE WILSON, living near Sparta,
received a shock from lightning which al
most entirely paralyzed her lower extremi-
ties. She is expected to recover.
j. w. CARNAHAN, who was arrested at
Fremont, and taken to Mansfield, charged
with swindling J. j. King, settled up and
was allowed to go.
BARNEY KRAMER was struck by c., n.
& D. train in Cincinnati, and killed.
GEORGE BLYEL. for the killing of Chris
tian Winters, at Dayton, was convicted of
| manslaughter.
THE Salvation Army has bugan sum-
| mer campaign at Dayton.
JOHN BosTLER, young man seventeen
years old, was killed by light extra on
| the Hooking Valley Railroad, near Grove
| port, the other evening. The accident was
not known until the train pulled into
Groveport, when blood was discovered on
| the wheels. 1t is not known how he came
to be run over.
HARRY, the six-year- -old son of Paul
Bloom, of Tiffin, fell from Rock Creek
bridge, and was seriously, if not fatally,
| injured.
The Jail at Portsmouth has at present
but one occupant.
| The Montgomery County Commissioners
have sold $4,000 worth of Poor Fund six
per cent. bonds to Splitter & Co., of Toledo,
| at premium of 1885.
| JOHN MoTTER, wealthy farmer near
| Findlay, struck his twelve-year- old son in
a fit ofanger, tn Iblow falling upon the neck
breaking it and causing almost instant
death.
THE Commissioners of the Ohio State In
termediate Penitentiary have submitted tc
the citizens of Mansfield a proposition tc
locate the prison there, if donation ii
made of thirty acres of land valued at $1O,'
600, and a two-years' refusal given of 15(
acres adjoining for $4,000, to be paid by
| the State. ------
GENERAL SAMUEL BEATTY, a distin.
guished volunteer officer of the civil war
died of apoplexy in an out-building OF his
elegant farm residence, three miles north
of Massillon, ON the 26th. He served two
years as First Lieutenant of Company K
Third Ohio Regiment, in the Mexican war
He enlisted company in 1861 and was the
first Colonel of the Nineteenth Ohio. He
was promoted Brigadier- General after the
battle of Stone River, and for meritorious
services at the battle of Nashville was ad.
vanced to Major General, under which
rank he served gallantly until the close ot
the war. He was Sheriff of Stark County
for two terms, from 1857 to 1861. His age
was sixty-f years, and he had been
resident of jackson, the adjoining Town
ship, for fifty y-six years.
HENRY SCHRAEDER, for the killing o.
Mike O'Donnell, in Cincinnati, was arrest
ed and is held for murder. The killing oc
Cured ten months ago.
THE debt of the State of Ohio on May 10
1885, was $4,0T0, ,229.1s.
SARAH MEGRUE, of Cincinnati, attempt
ed to commit suicide by taking dose q
Paris green.
SIMPSON & GAULT, manufacturers of mil
machinery, Cincinnati assigned for benefi
of creditors. Assets and liabilities abou
$4,000 each.
LEADING taxpayers and citizens of To
: ledo are signing protest remonstrat
ing against the proposed action of tn
County Commissioners, in proposing t
build a new 100000 court t-house separat
from the city.
WIN. KRUTCHENRITER was struck b.
lightning and killed at Nine-Mile, nea
Cincinnati.
The Superior Court of Cincinnati has de
cided that the acts passed by the late Leg
islature for the issue of bonds to pay def
ciencies in the City Infrmary Fun
are invalid, because they are special legis
lation. The injunction granted by tn
, court covers proposed issue of $297,s1S.
EDWARD SCANLAN was sentenced to thre
!. and half years in the penitentiary fo
burglary and larceny at Urbana. This
, the thirteenth man sent to the penitentiar
from Champaign County within the pas
eighteen months.