The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-10-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

natl, was found dead in his store. Death
caused by mixture of alcohol and NOR
phia.
G. A. WELLS, carriage manufacturer,
Dresden, has assigned.
PETER YerNG, saloon-keeper, of Mas
sillon, was shot and killed by the accidents
al discharge of his gun.
AT Dayton, Harry Basher was run over
and fatally injured by train.
Sol. FIsEL, conductor, was seriously
crushed between cars at Youngstown.
DR.. SALAs PRoTEsMAN, of Kenton, prom
inent practitioner, died suddenly.
RorHENs HAYWARD, pioneer citizen of
Harmar, died the other night, his wife
preceding him to the unknown land the
day before.
PERE BRUNER was struck by the branch
of a falling tree, near Buckland, and
killed.
LOUIS KRAFT, of Marshallville, was run
over by train and killed near Orrville.
GEN. JOHN BEATTY, Columbus, succeeds
Joseph Perkins, deceased, of Cleveland, in
the board of State Charities.
FRED FISCHER, a lad, while riding with
wheels of the wagon and was crushed to
death.
ALBERT MUssELMAN was held up in his
own store at Musselman Junction, Ross
County, for $40 and two watches.
THADDEUs P. WALcUTT was found dead
In bed at Columbus. Heart disease was the
cause of death.
D JESSE SPENCER, a prosperous farmer
near Wiley Station, was run over by a train
and killed.
ISAAC HDDLEsoN's store, Alliance, was
gophered for 500 in cash, notes and Jew.
elry.
wanted at Coshocton for a burglary, COM
mitted two years ago, was arrested at
Newark.
MRS. BARBARA BIEHLER, Crestline,
spilled coal oil on her clothing while filling
lamp, and burned to death on striking a
match.
AT st. Paris Clem Leffel was killed by
the accidental discharge of gun which he
was removing from a wagon.
AT Lancaster Leopold Smelzer, saloon
keeper, was stabbed and killed. Gus
Wachter was arrested on suspicion.
JOHN HENKLE, foreman of the Ports
mouth Printing Company, which issues
both the Blade and Tribune, died the other
day, aged twenty mine, and married. He
| was wonderful printer. In October,
1882, on a wager, he accomplished the un-
precedented feat of setting 1000 ems in
nine hours. He was in every sense a mas
ter of the art
AT Coalton, c. L. Claar, merchant and
Republican, and James Karn, Democratic
Justice of the Peace, made a bet of five
| dollars on the result of tho election, the
loser to have. the privilege to choose be-
tween paying the money and wheeling the
winner a mile out of town and back in a
wheeI-barrow. The Squire lost, and he
| chose the wheel barrow act. Two O'Clock
| the other day was set for the performance,
! when the honorable court came out and
wheeled CLAIR down the Jackson road to
| the first mile-post, and return. Not less
than two hundred people turned out to see
the performance. Time, thirty seven min
| utes.
AT the steel works at Bellaire, Charles
Dunlap had one eye burned out and was
otherwise severely injured by liquid steel
| splashing in his face.
| LAFFERTY LINARD fell under the wheels
of an engine at Bellaire, and had a foot
crushed so that amputation of the leg be-
low the knee was necessary.
| SAM GRUNER, of Defiance, lost all the
fingers on his left hand in trying to load q
revolver.
| PRESIDENT BAILEY and Mr.. Bonham
have been selected by the Ohio State Board
of Agriculture as delegates to the Nationa
| Cattle Growers Association, which meets
at Chicago November 16 and II.
| POWERFUL vein of gas was struck a
Massillon at $50 feet. Caught fire anc
burned up the tool house and derrick.
Yellow Springs Educational Board will
endeavor to coerce colored pupils from at
tendance at the white school. as they hav,
one of their own. Colored parents say
"mix."
WILLIAM ACKERMAN and wife, of Lima
were chloroformed the other night ant
robbed of several articles from their room
1 FRANK GooDRuFF, Springfield, machin
ist, has gone to Germany after 500 90,
legacy.
NEWTON DAVIDSON was fatally scaldec
by bursting steam guage near Arnheim
Adams County.
"DEAD Mems corner" Cincinnati, fur
nished another chapter Of history, election
night, when Chas. Warman, aged twenty
eight, of No. 63 Oregon street, met hi!
death at the hands of some unknown per
son by being stabbed to the heart. TIL,
place referred to is a saloon at the north
west corner of Broadway and Sixth, KEEP
by Mrs. Mary Devote. Some thirtee1
years ago a man named Cash was mur
dered at the same place while a politica
procession was passing.
WHILE Thomas Gibbons, Anthony Barse
Joseph Moffatt and William Woodwork
employees at the Cherry Valley Company
furnace, Leetonia, were sitting talking
together within four feet of the furnace {
layer in the arch blew out. Anthony Burs
was facing it at the time, and several tons
of hot metal and coke and limestone burs
out upon him, burning him beyond recog
milton. The other three men were badly
burned, but will recover in time. All foul
are married men, with large families.
MRS. JOE. HUFFMAN, of Bettsville, Luca.
County, made an Intellectual attempt t,
commit suicide by swallowing idose o
arsenic and powdered glass.
| A MINER named Paul Schmidt was in
stantly killed in coal mine north of Can
ton the other afternoon. A ton of slate anc
limestone fell from the roof upon him
breaking his neck and crushing his body.
A THREE. YEAR-oLD daughter of Simeon
Simpson, Fairport fisherman, fell iuto
cisGern the other afternoon and was drown
ed. She had been in the water an hou
and half when found.
Ina row at Hanging Rock, the othe
night, Henry Mcknight was badly cut, ,anc
William Tanner severely bruised about tn,
head.
JUDGE ATHERToN, of Newark, has suec
the Catholic Columbian, of Columbus, fo
$4,000 damages for libel.