The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-05-07

law SO that assessments for street improve
shall be made on the abutting property after
the completion of the improvements. The
registration bill, which affects Cincinnati and
passed and becomes q law.
Mise nAne0us Items.
LEWIS W. WEBSTER, murderer of Perry
Harrington at Jefferson, is sentenced to be
hanged before sunrise, October 1.
Son of J. M.Williams, Chardon, drowned
in cistern.
JOHNSON hub and spoke factory, Ports
mouth, burned. Loss, $4,000; covered by
insurance.
POKE PORTS lost his right hand, near
while dynamiting fish, and
may die.
THE transfer of the Postoffice business
in Cincinnati from the old to the new
building was made on the I'd.
FRED. ROTH committed suicide in Gin
cinnati because his salary was too scant to
properly meet the demands of his increas-
ing family.
MRS. EMMA GRAMLIcH, who was sum-
moned as a witness in the Superior Court
of Cincinnati, dropped dead of heart dis
ease as she was about to take the stand.
ALLISON PHILLIPS, wealthy farmer re-
siding a few miles south of Tiffin, was
bunkoed out of $500 the other day by
steerers who followed Sells Bros. Show.
Phillips is sixty five years of age, and a
prominent member of the M. E. Church.
The police are making strenuous efforts to
capture the rascals.
THos. MCNAMARA, just closing his ap-
premiership as machinist, was killed in
the Bee Line shops at Delaware by a whirl-
ing belt. Home at Gallon.
THE skating rink at Massillon has been
placed in the hands of a receiver.
John YOUNG, employed at Schon's coal
works, Pomeroy, was struck on the head
with windlass and had his skull crushed.
The injuries are fatal.
A MAMMOTH tooth, weighing six pounds,
was found near Mt. Vernon. 1t is evident
ly that of a carnivorous animal.
CLARENCE NJ. SHAFER was shot and
killed by Riley Brown, with whose wife he
had been living for some time, in Columbus.
Mrs. Brown admits her preference for
Shafer.
A BUGGY containing Edward Anderson
and Benton Ballard was struck by an ex-
press on the N. Y, P. & o. near West AUS
tintown. Both were fatally injured.
MARY CONNER committed suicide in Gin
cinnati by downing herself in cistern.
" LEVI PERKINS, apioneer of Clarke Coun-
ty, died at Springfield, aged seventy three
years.
A FIRE in Cincinnati in thewholesale no
ton house of B. Weiss & Co. caused a
damage of $4,000.
JOHN PARISH, living near Fremont, dis
consolate over the death of his wife, took
dose of arsenic with suicidal intent.
THE Builders Exchange of Cincinnati
unanimously favors the appointment of an
Inspector of Buildings.
JOHN CHILDERs, farmer living near
Point Pleasant, W. Va, and en- route for
home from Cincinnati, attempted, in a
temporary fit of insanity, to drown himself
in the Ohio. He jumped from the steamer
St. Lawrence, lying at Cincinnati, about to
sail.
A CORPSE was taken from a vault in st.
Joseph's Cemetery, Cincinnati, upon a writ
of replevin sued out by the mother of the
deceased, who desired to have the remains
| inferred in Spring Grove Cemetery alons
| side the father.
ANDREW HERIFF, who voted for Andrew
| Jackson, was killed by fractions horse al
Ravenna.
HENRY KING, a Portsmouth machinist
was badly injured by being caught in q
| belt.
JUDsoN GREENFIELD's three-year- old
child drank carbolic acid at Edison, Lorain
| County, and died in spasms.
FROM the 1900 sets of telephones in
Ohio, which cost the Bell Telephone Com.
pany but $4,000 the company annually re.
ceives 100000.
| A SECOND cousin of President Cleveland
has been appointed as Government gaugel
| in the Sixth Internal Revenue District o
| Ohio.
| THERE is spring of water on the farm
of j. H. McCann, in Oliver Township
| Adams County, which is entitled to notice
Its popularity consists in pulsating ennis
| sion of its waters at regular in tervals-a
some seasons of the year every four or fiv'
minutes, and at other seasons each tel
minutes. The spring comes up between
two large rocks, and a pole thrust into i
will go down eight or ten feet. At eacl
pulsation it spouts out from four to ffiv
gallons of water, and then sinks back int
its bed until it has gathered a head, .whel
the same thing occurs again.
THE body of Charles Gerber was foun
near Miller's Island, near Dayton. He ha
been missing several days, and wa
drowned in the Miami River.
FRANK BEEL, aged twenty-six years
who was employed at the Cincinnati Coop
erage Company, was drowned in the Obi
River the other evening opposite the com
pany's shops. He was getting into ski
preparatory to going to his home in Brom
ley, KY, when he lost his balance and fe
into the river. Before assistance coul
reach him he drowned. Beel was partne
of and worked with Dlukosch, who wa
killed by an o. & NJ. engine about the sam
time. Both men left their work at tn
same time; and had just hidden each othe
good-by.
THE Adjutant- General has commissions
Frank Kelly as Captain of Company
Sixteenth Regiment, Bryan.
STEVE BUCHANAN, in the employ of IL
Youcum Ice Company, the other mornir
took a wagon load of ice to Mingo, sma
town two miles below Steubenville. Viii
there he drank heavily, and in attemptir
to drive his team back home drove over 6
embankment into the river. One hor
was drowned and the other badly hur
Buchanan made a narrow escape from b
, ing drowned.
, MRS. HAwLEY was arrested in Cincil
natl charged with the attempt to fire Il
: Palace Hotel.
LEVI HILL, of Maysville, committed su
eide by taking morphine