The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-01-08
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


PHILIP PROFIT, boot and shoe manu-
by hanging. His estate is reported to be
worth $4,000.
GOVERNOR HoADLY has been petitioned
by a delegation of colored men from Spring.
field to recommend the repeal of that sec
tion of the school law which provides for
separate schools.
RUTH GILL, the beautiful daughter of
John Gill, a prominent grocer of Cleve-
land, was accidentally shot and killed by
Walter Grosshart.
THE young son of Samuel Shrakes was
drowned at Dresden, by breaking through |
the ice on the canal.
AN order has been issued for a reduction |
of ten to fifteen per cent. in the wages of |
employees of the large steel works at Co. |
shocton. Six hundred men are affected.
CINCINNATI Masons of the Scottish Rite
propose to erect a building to be devoted
especially to the work of the order.
A PECULIAR and painful accident oc-
Cured to Mr.. Walter II. Tarr, notion
dealer, of Cincinnati. The gentleman was
using chloride Of potash lozenges for a
throat affection, and had taken two of
pocket. He stopped down to button his
shoe when the friction caused the substance
to ignite. In the space of about two sec
onds hole about a half-foot square had
burned, and part of his flesh had almost
baked In extinguishing the blaze Mr..
Tarr's hands were also badly burned. The
doctor who was called stated that it was
one of the most peculiar accidents that had
ever came under his notice.
DR.. J. D. PERKINS, Major J. B. McDon-
aid and seven other gentlemen of Bellefon-
taine, have entered suit against Colonel F.
| S. Case, County Treasurer, to recover about
| 5000 paid under the Scott law.
ROBERT LIGGETT, carpenter, aged about
| fifty years, while repairing the roof of
| two-story building at Dennison, fell from
the roof, a distance of twenty feet, injuring
| his spine and sustaining other injuries from
| which it is feared he will die.
| s. E. CURTIS, the Bloomingburg saloon
keeper who was recently fined and impris-
ened for violating the six O'Clock ordinance,
proposes to sue the authorities for false inn
| prisonment, claiming he did not violate the
| ordinance.
In Shelby County, in the year 1884, $50
| marriage licenses were issued, 730 deeds re-
corded, $50 mortgages recorded, and 239 of
the latter Cancelled. The number of burials
in Graceland Cemetery, the one in general
use, was fifty -four.
FRED. PATTERSON, son of Captain Pat
terson. of the Soldiers Home, while going
to Dayton the other night, was stopped by
a highwayman, who demanded and re-
ceived his money, fortunately not large
amount.
THE Briston Tunnel, on the Newark and
Shawnee Branch of the B. and o. Railroad,
near New Lexington, was fired by in
nariecendi, and all trains stopped. The
fire communicated to coal vein, which at
last accounts was burning fiercely. The
tunnel caved. Loss estimated at $4,000.
SMITH DREssEY, of Paris, while engaged
in cutting timber, was terribly injured by
falling limb.
THE Lima Choral Society captured $500
in prizes at the Eisteddfod, Which was held
is Columbus New Years Day.
MRS. LAMAR LovELAND, of Madison,
committed suicide at Pittsburgh. Pa, a
few days ago. She took strips of cloth
and fastened them to the end of a short
stick, inserted the other end of the stick
over closed door, locked the door to pre-
vent intrusion, and inserted her head in
the moose at the loose ends of the cloth
thus settling down into comfortable sui
, eide
BENJAMIN SHERIDAN, in jail at Macarthur
on charge of horse-stealing, confesses tc
the stealing of six horses and two mule<
during the past three years.
DAVID PARKER, one of the early settlers
of Hancock County, is dead. He was ove1
eighty years old.
/ SHERIFF ELECT A. B. RANKIN, of Fayette
County, has filed his bond, the sureties rep.
, resenting nearly million dollars.
A BOY named Harmed, while practicine
! ! with target gun at Mansfield, missed hi.
/ mark and hit boy named Harmon in tn,
head. The wound is not considered dan
, | gerous.
: THE extensive saddlery hardware works
of Elbel, Gillian & Co., of Canton, caugh
fire the other night and are now in ruins
= The building destroyed cost 100000. Th,
1 loss of Elbel, Gillian & Co. will reacl
100000: insurance, 100000. Two hundred
men are thrown out of employment. Th
works will be rebuilt.
= THE Postoffice at CLardon was robbed /.
few nights ago. The safe was opened an,
. 5000 stolen. The burglars also made an at
; tempt to rifle the safe of o. II. Pitkin
: | jeweler, but it proved Intellectual. TIL
l front doors were blown open by powder
: but the inside door prevented going fur
ther.
MITCHELL MORELAND, aged fifteen years
at McComb, was seriously injured by til
explosion of fusee cap, with which h
was playing. He suffered the loss of
thumb and finger. and the total loss G
y one eye.
ALLIE ALEXANDER, aged twelve year.
= while jumping on the hind end of passin
. wagons, a few days ago, at Defiance, fe
9 from q wagon load of wood. The hin
d wheels of the wagon passed over his body
o just above the hips, breaking hls back. h
can not live.
WHEELER &c Co., boot and shoe dealer
Alliance, assigned. Liabilities, $4,000. NJ
: Wheeler is one of the bondsmen of c.
Greiner, defaulting School Board Treasu
e er, to the amount of $4,000, the payment
Is which led to the assignment.
A PANIC was caused during the progre:
of the preliminary hearing of the Wi
: murderer, Watt Henry, at Akron, tt
other day, by the report that the buildir
= was about to fall. Upon inspection it Wa
found to be in a bad condition.
CONRAD KUNKIE, Jacob Kapes an
Richard Synan were each fined by Juds
s Phillips, at GAINESVILLE, seventy five dolla
A and sentenced to imprisonment for tt
# days for violating the Sunday liquor la,
st VALENTINE FoUTH was struck by
s switch engine of the L. & N. Railway,
it the freight yard of the company at Gil
s. cinnati and instantly killed.
N A MAN giving his name as Frank Stum
D. was arrested in Cincinnati, having in b
l. possession $40 in ten-dollar counterfeits
d the Third National Bank of Cincinnati. I
/. is supposed to be member of the Og
s. counterfeiting gang.
JOHN LEHMKUHL and John Keown. pri