The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-03-19
Miscellaneous Items.

Mf9CelI0nGOu8 Iu0mBs
JOHN O'BRIEN was convicted In Cincin-
natl of bigamy.
ARTHUR MCCULLOUGH, entwined by
red-hot bar in Dover rolling-mill, near
New Philadelphia, had the nerve to un.
wind it with his bare hands and save his
life, though he received fearful burns.
SHERMAN ZIMMERMAN was caught in a
saw at a sawmill near Akron, and sustained
injuries from which he died.
JIM DUNN, Sergeant of Police, who shot
and killed a man named Shannon, in Gin
cinnati, during the election excitement,
and while Dunn was drunk, was acquitted
of manslaughter.
THE other day while John Murphy was
Telling timber in his woods, about seven
miles southwest of Bucyrus, he was crushed
to death by falling tree.
A LADY named Incoe was struck and in
stantly killed by an Air Line passenger
train few miles west of Boonville, on the
18th. She was walking on the track, and
was unseen by the engineer on account of
| curve in the road. The danger signal
| was instantly given, the air-brakes set and
the engine reversed, but owing to the heavy
grade the train could not be stopped in time
| TO prevent the accident.
HERMAN OHLEY, of Sandusky, has filed
| in the Common Pleas CotiEt of Erie County
| petition for damages against A. E. Mer-
! rill, Probate Judge; John Strickland, ex-
Sheriff, and E. B. Sadler, ex-Judge.
Plaintiff charges the defendants with false
imprisonment, and AYERS his damages to be
$4,000.
SHERMAN ZIMMERMAN, aged eighteen
years, fell on circular saw at Tinker's
Creek, near Brecksville, the other evening.
His left arm and leg were sawed. He died
soon after.
| DYNAMITE was thrown on the roof of a
house in Nelsonville, where some imported
miners were lodged. The building was
badly damaged, but no person injured
| GEORGE BOWERS was caught on a shaft
at the Portage street railroad works at Ak
ron, and had one arm pulled out of the
socket. He died soon thereafter.
WIN. A. CARPENTER, of Urbana, at
tempted to commit suicide on account of
being arrested for keeping a gambling
house.
THOMAS MCGUIRE committed suicide in
the Ohio Penitentiary by hanging.
A DISTRESSING and fatal accident oc-
Cured at the Gibson House, Cincinnati, the
other evening, in which Joseph Bohlman, g
young man, twenty five years of age, lost
his life in a very singular manner. Bohl
man was sent to repair the escape pipt
running from the laundry of the Gibson
House to thereof, He was assisted through
the trap-door and was about to walk to tn,
pipe when the accident occurred. The en-
gineer who was following behind Bohlmal
was about to warn him not to come in con
tact with the electric wires when he hearl
fall. He looked out and saw Bohlmal
lying fiat on the roof. He clambered ou
and found to his horror that the man wa
dead. 1t seems that Bohlman while walk
ing on the roof had slipped, and to keel
from falling had grasped the electric wire
The current struck him, and his dealt
must have been instantaneous.
The other evening fire was discovered is
suing from the rear, near the roof, of tn
United States Hotel, Steubenville. At tn
time the windwas blowing aMarch gale, IAN
with the difficulty in getting water, on &C
count of the cold weather, the fire was ex
ceedingly disastrous. The block consist
/ of Mossgrave's three-story hotel, Coch
rane's dry goods house, May Bros cloth
ing house, Maffat's dry goods store, Haw
, kins dry goods store, Vierling's hat stor,
and the Western Union Telegraph ofic
: which was destroyed. Mrs. Mossgrav'
, wife of the proprietor of the hotel, was cal
: ried from the building in an insensib
? | condition. The east wall fell on Brad
: Bickerstaff, fireman, who was instantl
killed. George Dickson, Cleveland & Pitts
burg Railroad agent, coming out OF hi
room in the third story of the hotel, WI
! blinded by smoke, and, not finding til
} stairway, fell through a skylight to tt
ground floor, fifty feet, mingled with rul
/ bish, but he recovered his presence of mir
a and escaped. He was slightly cut. Lo
about $135, 200.
THos. SCOTT, aged eighty five. residir
!, five miles east of Mount Vernon, in Monr'
, Township, suicided by hanging himself
I q tree in a strip of woods about half mi
n from his home. He had been sufferil
a from mental alteration for some time, al
q was kept under surveillance by members
= the family, but escaped their vigilance, wi
;. the above result.
Q JOHN NEIpERHAUsER. of Akron, ag
e sixty-five, dropped dead of heart disea
: the other morning. He became exhaust
9 by the constant care of his sick wife al
It child.
n THE Sippo Valley Glass Company,
= Massillon. has assigned. Liabilities abe
$50, 1000, assets S14, 900.
CHARLES CARTER, an employe of t
9 American Press Association, at Cincinna
j. has been arrested, charged with robbi
q mails.
a A "BELL1Ne" party near Bloomfield 81
L paper wads through the window of
g house containing the wedding party, a
one man (Mr. MerriD was killed.
MRS. LUCY ADAMS, who went to War;
in 1914, died of pneumonia In her ninet
first year, a. few days ago.
|. HERMAN SCHROEDER was killed by ia
ing from the roof of a house pm Wall