The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-11-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

DPTHERIA Of the most malignant type
prevails at Mt. Vernon.
A SENSATION has been produced at
Springfield by the discovery of natural
gas. 4.
CHARLES KINsLER, aged thirteen years,
living near Lancaster, died very suddenly
after drinking cup of coffee.
THE building occupied by J.. R. Nell
waine as store, at Mingo, was completely
destroyed by fire.
SYLVESTER GRANGER was found dead on
the highway, near Granville. Heart disease
Is supposed to have been the cause of his
death. tt.3 la
MAYOR TAYLOR, of Newark, thumped
Will Burton, correspondent of the Colum-
bus Dispatch, for some unpleasant crit
icisms. at.t ;5H.
AT Pomeroy, Frank A. Whipple, sa-
loom keeper, was sentenced to ten days in
Jail and fined twenty five dollars for keep
ing his saloon open on election day.
LARKIN McHueH, State Commissioner of
Labor Statistics, has secured specimens of
scrip used by coal operators in the mining
regions, and will bring suit and test the
practical workings Of the law passed last
winter. yr5
HENRY L. BAccN,who has swindled Ohio
and Pennsylvania farmers on Bohemian
oats" has been sent to the penitentiary
from Akron for seven years on plea of
guilty to forgery. -as:f
NATHANt G. FLEMING has commenced
suit in the Common Pleas Court, at New
ark, against Alden s. Howell for $4,000
damages for slander. The plaintiff al
lsges in his petition that the defendant ma
liciously charged him with having commit
ted forgery and also perjury. Both are
| prominent farmers. ,is,siii -
BLAcIUs SCHocK, aged fourteen, died at
Tifin of a fall taken while nutting.
| 8BUReLARs captured Elida, Allen County,
the other night. Got 500 in silyerware at
one house.
| WELL preserved skeleton of man was
found buried under a log in the woods near
Shelby, No clue yet. -. E,...
| c. G. RANKIN, Newark merchant, and
Miss johnson, society belle, were married
at Newark under depressing circumstances.
| Preparations. were made for big feast,
but the groom was taken suddenly sick
the invitations were recalled and the cere.
mony read by the invalid's couch, after he
had been carried from his hotel to the
brides home in a hack.
A TRAMP giving his name as John John.
son, aged about. seventy years, and claim.
ing to have friends at Circleville, who has
been at the Inhrmary several days, dropped
dead in the waiting-room of the Cincinnati
Washington and Baltimore Railroad al
Chillicothe, the other evening. He wa.
discharged from the Infirmary that morn
ing, and, as he had begged the au,hori
ties there for arsenic, which was denied
him, and was seen to take a powder of som'
kind while loafing about the Pheni1
House, it is believed to have been a case O
suicide.
THE clothing house of Weller & Co.
Crestline, was entered tine other night by
unknown thieves, and goods to the valve o
$500 stolen. The burglars also broke
large plate-glass in the front window o
Joseph Inns shoe store and stole two pair o
shoes.
rBowLING GREEN'S fourth natural ga
well has been shot at depth of 1900 fee
with charge of seventy five quarts o
pure ntiro-glycerine. just two minute
after the go-devil struck the nitro glycer
|
} and assembled over one hundred feet in tn
air. When the water ceased spouting
pipe was connected with the well and tn
escaping natural gas was ignited. Tn
flow of gas was so great that the flame
shot out twenty feet from the end of tn
, pipe. The well is decided success, and j
flowing out at the rate of 250000 cubic fee
of gas every twenty -four hours. Bowl
| inor 30
produce over a million feet of gas per day
: JOSEPH H. ANDERSON, of Newark, recov
, cred fifty dollars damages from banke
, named Franklin, for slander in alleging
dishonesty,
ON the 26th, Geo. Dolson, farmer. we
, riding horseback along the road near Tolt
do, when a party of hunters in the wooc
fired ,upon him. He fell from his hors
mortally wounded, and the hunters board
! ed their wagon and started for Toled,
] leaving the wounded man lying in Ii
! woods. He was picked up an hour after
wards and carried home, where his deaf
: is hourly expected. Dawson thinks I'll
. shooting was Intentional, as he saw til
hunters and they could not help seeing hin
= A Two-YEAR-oLD child of George Fin
in Fremont, the other morning. Mrs. Fin
had left the child in charge of the olde
ones while she went away to attend
some business, and on her retur
Z found them in search of the child. H,
: suspicious were at once aroused, and 81
8 looked in the cistern, where the child ws
seen floating.
! FREDERICK WEIGMANN, of Cincinnati
celebrated his 106th birthday at the res
: dencs of his stepson, Mr.. Chas. Schrode
: in indianapolis, few days ago. Weil
t mann was born in Westphalia, German
b October 26, 1873. He fought under the En-
2 peror Frederick William, is a veteran
8 Waterloo, and was ninety years of as
: when he emigrated to America. He enjo,
2 good health and full use of his faculties.
A SALOON row occurred the other mig
at Arlington, a small town in Hanco
!: County, which may yet result fatally. Tv
!. men, roughs, had come from neighborir
9 towns for the express purpose of raising
|. disturbance, and soon after their arriv
= there was free fight. In an effort to st,
t the struggle several good men were bad
= hurt The roughs were finally vanquishe
8 but two men were injured, perhaps fatal
9 and two more badly wounded.
= CHARLES LEECH was killed by a train
the B. & o. at Newark.
The residence of c. Derthick, a wealth
. merchant of Johnstown, Licking Count
. was entered and $500 in cash secured, b
:. - sides two notes for $500 each and a silv
i watch. This is the ninth time Mr.. Derthi
+. has been robbed in almost as many yea
. besides being twice burned out. No clew
" NOTHING has been heard as yet from t
three prisoners who escaped from the per
II tsntiary the other night. 1t is noticed th
the two guards who were on duty at t
gas-house at the time of the escape a
n taking vacation-whether it will be 10
a or short depends on circumstances.