The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-10


Elyria, by the stove at which he was work
ing bursting, a piece of which struck him
on the head. He caves a wife and family.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred at Green
Spring, near Tiffin, which resulted in the
death of two car inspectors of the Nickle-
plate Railroad, named W. C. Welty and
Peter Burgher. They were standing on the
track between two sections of a freight on
the L, B. & W. road at the crossing of the
two roads, when one section of the train
suddenly backed, striking the two men,
throwing them under the wheels, and crush
ing them almost into pieces. They both
died within a few hours. Welty has a wife
and four children. Burgher was a young
unmarried Swede.
AT Columbus O., Edna Darrah, aged three
years, swallowed a quantity of. b~isulphate
of mercury and will probably die.
THE Ohio National Guard number $50.
THE Supreme Court recently admitted
thirty-one new lawyers to practice.
D.. AMERMAN, of Alliance, was fired at by
a burglar angered at being discovered in
his nefarious work. This is the twelfth
visit for Mr.. Amerman.
STATE H~orticulturists at Columbus
oiOSoOu ". ILL LAY WILL, 4ECSloSuU, LII
Geo. W. Campbell, Delaware, Secretary.
THE Bohemian oats swindle is again
troubling the Buckeye farmers.
THE ~''pronouncing match" is putting the
old-fashioned 'spelling-bee" in the shade.
FARMERS from Montgomery County have
sent a committee to Georgia to ''spy out
the land"
THERE has never been but one man IN
dicted, tried, convicted and hanged for
murder in Erie County, and hat was in
1910.
dairymen of the Western Reserve to give
the oleomargarine makers another lively
tustle at the ext meeting Of the Legisla-
ture.
IN epidemic of puns may be expected
over the fact that Warren, the heart of the
Western Reserve, has blossomed out with
a green newspaper, the Tribune. 1t is a
one-cent daily, and is the midget Of the
Ohio press.
The registry law is unconstitutional. The
Supreme Cou decided the Daggett habeas
corpus case on the LIST. Judges Owens, Fol-
lett, Anterior and johnson were on the
bench when Chief Justine Owens announ-
ed that the decision of the Court was that
Edward Daggett be discharged from GUS
tody. No dissenting opinion was spoken,
and it is therefore understood that Judge
johnson, Republican, agrees with the three
Democratic Judges in the case, and that the
decision is unanimous. The discharge of
Daggett by the Court is equivalent to a de-
cision that the registry law for Cincinnati
and Cleveland is unconstitutional, as the
only ground on which Daggett's charge OF
habeas corpus proceedings was asked by
John Follett was the unconstitutionality
of the registery law, under which Daggett
was arrested and held in custody by Super.
iutendent of Police Hudson. Under this
decision Daggett will at once be discharged,
and the Democratic lawyers maintain that
the proofs of the Republican claims OF
fraud in Cincinnati are destroyed. The
Court said nothing concerning the manda.
mus case. Judge johnson states hat the
Court was unanimous in the decision. The
opinion, as written out by the Judges, will
hold the law unconstitutional chiefly on the
ground that it abridges the right to elective
franchise given by the Constitution.
AT Norwich the other night Mrs. Birdie
Schroyer, the young and accomplished
wife Of Solomon Schroyer, a well-to-do
young man, suicided by taking s~trychnine
The sad affair so deeply affected her hus
band that a few hours later he swallowed
several ounces of chloroform, with little
hopes of recovery. Mrs. Schroyer, it is
thought, committed suicide because of the
dissolute habits of her husband.
LAWRENCE SEXTON, thirty years of age
was adjudged insane at London a few day
l aOn He labor Dndar thu ho 11r1o;pa tior
that he slugged Sullivan and Ryan, and at
tempted to clean out the Central Banl
when the officials would not turn over thu
money earned in the mill"
DR.. BuERCHNER, a leading surgeon O
Youngstown, met with an accident a few
days ago that, it is feared, will be followed
I by fatal consequences. While engaged il
/ amputating the leg of a patient, injured
some time and in which gangrene had com
menced, the knife slipped, tearing his indie,
finger on the diseased bones. Realizing thu
danger of blood-poisoning he at ono,
poured nitric acid on the wound, burning
the flesh to the bone. Atlast accounts h
was suffering greatly, and it is feared thu
accident will prove fatal.
CosHoCToN citizens are organizing a com
pany to bore for natural gas.
URBANA has a Natural Gas and OIL Com
pany. The capital stock is $4,000 divided
into $25 shares.
The members of County and City Board
of School Examiners of the State viii
meet at Columbus during the last week O
December, with a view of formulating
system of work. The meeting will be at
tended by prominent educators and insti
lutte lecturers, and 1T is probable that action
will be taken to memorabilia the Legislator
to provide for County Superintendent o
common schools similar to the Indian,
plan. The meeting will bs largely at
tended.
TIE Ninety-seventh o. vi. held their an
nual reunion at GAINESVILLE, a few days age
STATE AUDITOR KIEsEwErTER was boun,
over to Court for $500, for shooting at W. j
Elliott, of Columbus, with intent to kill.
HENRY WILSON, a commercial traveller
was found dead the other morning. his hea'
wedged between the shaft and wheel of hi
buggy, while his horse was walking quietl
along the road near Canton. Foul play i
suspected.
KATIE italian, aged about thirty, livini
as a domestic with Judge VIM. H. West
family, Bellefontaine. suicided by drown
ing the other afternoon. She threw bel
self head first into the cistern. the mort
live at st. Paris.
FRANK KINGS midget baby, which weigh
ed only a pound and five ounces, and whic
attracted attention all over the country
choked to death at Springfield a few day
/! ago, having %strangled while sleeping.