The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-05-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

HENRY LACEY, an aged farmer, was per.
'hape fatally injured at Findlay, by being
ssrown from his buggy by a runaway
team.
HOSEA SoMERs, of Manchester, shot
George Lindsey, who got into too intimate
relations with Somers' wife.
; A FIRE broke out in the unfinished Sol. |
diers' Memorial Building, Toledo, a few |
days ago. The, building was under roof, |
but without windows, and the strong draft |
swept the fire from end to end, in an hour |
consuming everything combustible within |
the walls. The loss, which will be from |
$1,000 to $4,000, will probably fall on the |
contractors, who had allowed the |
insurance to expire only three days
before. The Soldiers Memorial Building |
was begun by an association of citizens |
and soldiers, who carried the work to the |
first story, and last year intrusted its COM |
pletion to the city. Contracts aggregating |
$23, 200, for inclosing and roofing the build |
ing had just been completed, and addi-
tional contracts for 5000 for inside work
had just been begun by the contractors.
AT a meeting of the Springfield Republic
cans it was decided to build frame wig
wan 70 by 200 feet on Market square in
which to hold the convention in june 1t
will seat 5000 people.
THE most of the jewelry which, in a
satchel, was stolen from the carriage of
Mrs. Breneman, while it was standing in
front OF Duhme's, Cincinnati, has been re-
covered. About a dozen persons-men,
boys and women-among them DIR. s. W.
Craig, Jail physician, and Pete Kslly,
w n v,rIi toio
all of them are under arrest.
FRANK j. UzndM, Summit County farm
er, is officially crazy on account of a tickle
sweet heart, who is now another's wife.
A RATIFIED heifer broke from her railway
boudoir at Dayton, and invaded a neigh
boring house, frightening an invalid near
ly to death.
PRESLEY SIcKMAN, near Tifin, drank a
glass of arsenic poisoned milk at the hands
Of a hired girl, who was employed for the
work by two male enemies and his ex-
wife, it is said. Will recover.
BURGLARS entered Bushong & Co.'s dry
goods store at North Baltimore the other
night and carried away about 500 worth
of silks and dry goods.
PATRICK HARTNET, Cincinnati wife
ed at the Penitentiary September 4, before
sunrise.
JOHN SPENCER, of Mingo Junction, was
probably fatally injured while attempting
to jump from moving train.
AT Bellefontaine, Mrs. Sallie Petty, aged
eighty -four years, fell and broke her hip
and sustained other injuries from which
she will die.
AT the Penitentiary, the managers have
| arranged for the execution building, and
set aside fifteen state rooms, for the plat
| form candidates. Guards Williams, of
Coshocton, and Gillaugh, of Greene, were
discharged for allowing two prisoners to
escape.
MRS. r. G. PURRINGToN, of Stantontown,
| was SO unfortunate as to meet with ter
rible fall, breaking both lower limbs. Her
physicians declare she will be cripple for
| life.
ONE of the frame walls of the new skat-
ing rink at Tiffin fell the other morning,
burying Frank Bloom, one of the propri-
etors, and H. C. Miller. The former sus-
tanned a sprained ankle, and the latter a
broken ankle.
| JOHN and Andrew Nicholson, near
Springfield, want the I. b. & w. to pay
| $1,000 for killing twelve horses.
Hon. G. G. COLLINS, ex-Mayor of Co.
lumbus, is dead.
THE reunion of the State Association of
Ex-Prisoners of War will be held at Chill
licothe on the first Wednesday and Thurs.
day in August.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES was drawn as 8
grand juror in Cleveland.
THE condition of the crops, etc., May
| in Ohio is as follows: Wheat acreage
93 per cent; condition, SO; probable tota
| bushels, with good weather till harvest
22,s73,530, as compared with five years
average of 4l,0O5,247. Rye, condition 65
barley, 40; meadows, 81, pastures, 70
Spring blowing done May 1, 60 per cent. o.
the usual amount at the same date.
THE Panhandle Railroad is appraised
for taxation in Ohio at 81, 900 per mile.
| Ex-PosTMAsTER s. B. PRICE, of Urbana
was arrested for embezzling 81 1903 from
the postal revenues.
AUGUST FISHER, of Cincinnati, cut hi!
throat with a razor, and his body was no
found until two days after the deed is SUD-
posed to have been committed.
Mr.. CHRIS. F. RoHRER, a prominen
farmer and business man of fremont City
has assigned to Abe Rohrer and Mr.. Johr
Weaver. His assets are $4,000 and hi.
liabilities about the same.
GRANT BRooKovER's room, in the Cam
| brian House, Lima, was entered by thievel
the other day, and $2S7 taken from
i his trunk.
MRS. BoLINGER, Delaware, was sent Il
the insane asylum just in time to keep hel
) from killing her babe.
THE State Board of Live Stock Commits
sioners met at Newark, the other day, ant
resolved to devise means of ascertainint
! whether any cattle were afflicted with con
tagious disease, and ipstituting quarantine
regulations in that event.
The jury in the murder case of Will N
Fisher disagreed at Lima.
, A SIX HUNDRED-DoLLARs supper was de
i voured by pig on one of the farms in Ros
o County, few nights ago. The anima
. came in possession of the costly meal a
j the expense of the owner, who, havin
d gone to feed his stock, accidentally droppe
from his pocket a wallet containing 81;
hundred dollars in greenbacks. He di
not discover his loss for some time after
q when he hurried to the pig, only to see on
of the hogs tearing and eating few re
naming fragrants of the lost money.
CHARLES MOORE, conductor of freigh
train fell under the wheels at Maysville th
: other morning while attempting to ste
e from low car to higher one. and suffer
= ed the amputation of both legs, one aboy
8 and the other below the knee. After fe
o hours of terrible suffering he died, leavin
g a wife and two small children at his la1
q home in Delaware.
r A SINGULAR discovery is reported Of
q Young lady on West North street, Spring
Il field. who felt a weakness in one of h,
# eyes and went to an eminent oculist, WI
d pronounced her blind in one of her ey'
O from birth, but she had never known it.
En- Comhes a Belmont County one-ve,