The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-06

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STATE NEWS ITEMS.
THE Prohibition Convention of Meigs
County met at Pomeroy a few days ago, |
and nominated the following county ticket:
Representative, Rev. M. A. Harvey; Sher-
if, W. Il. Dutten: Commissioner, Morgan |
Lasher; Surveyor, j. b. Parker; Infrm- |
ary Director, William Mccain; Coroner, |
J. W. Hoff.
EDWARD JONES, agent for the New York |
Life Insurance Company at Youngstown,
has disappeared.
MARTIN CLEARY, Springfield black
smith, was kicked and severely injured
while shoeing a mule.
LOUIS LoUeHEAD, employed at the Globe
Mills, Norwalk, was caught in the rollers
and badly crushed.
JOHN EDDIE, seventy two year-old
wealthy farmer near New Philadelphia,
became despondent over domestic eddies,
and ended his life with suicide by the rope
route.
WIN. HATHAWAY, of Newark, hath a way
of setting down on the railway track while
in an intoxicated condition. The other
| night a train came along and knocked
William skywards, and his life Is despaired
| of.
MICHAEL RowEN, employed on the Gov
ernment Building at Columbus, died from
the effects Of heat.
| CAPTAIN BARGAR relieved General Wi
koR as Pension Agent at Columbus, Au-
gust 1.
JOHN LAYNE, a miner, dropped dead
from heart disease while at work in Q mine
at Coalton.
81 an explosion of powder in the New
port Mine, at Coalton, Levi Sty was fatally
injured.s
SPRINGFIELD survivors of the battle of
Chickamauga'area advising as to the feasi-
bility of forming an association to erect a
suitable monument on that battlefield.
In Cincinnati Henry Scherer, aged 80,
was killed the other morning by the deadly
gas in foulcistern. He had gone down into
it for the purpose of cleaning it. He leaves
wife and two children in destitute cir.
cumstances.
AN examining board for pensioners has
been established for Belmont County.
!
resolutions on the death of Judge Okey.
H. JORDAN, Dayton, has in his house q
mysterious trunk, which he is afraid tc
open. 1t was sent him without explana.
ton.
GRAssHoPPERs and crickets are getting
in costly work in Seneca County wheat
fields. In somel cases twine binders were
eaten apart, and the grain had to be re-
tied by hand.
, The army worm is skirmishing among
, the oat crops of Central Ohio and doine
great damage.
, THE property of the Dabney Salt Com
pany, of Pomeroy, amounting to S. 900, viii
! be about all the seasoning that is left t.
sprinkle among the sixty thousand dollar
: worth of creditors.
3 The fve-year-old daughter of Georg'
, Pease, while playing near cistern at Nor
walk, the other day, fell in and wa
drowned.
, Mr.. SAMUEL ARNOLD, of Ridge Town
I ship, Van Vert County, reports a yield o
022 bushels of wheat from nineteen acres o
n ground, making an average of 81 1-2 bush
t els to the acre. While this is perhaps al
Q exceptional yield, yet the yield is very goot
! ! all over the county, and in quality overrun
q q from one to two pounds on an average
Fruits of all kinds are scarce there thi
summer. The apple crop will be very short
but have fair chances for good crops o
!, corn and potatoes.
/. MARTIN SECHRIST, an unmarried maj
:. aged about fifty two years, while attempt
y ing to board a moving freight train at Up
= per Sandusky, the other evening, fell un
,e der the cars and had both feet below Ith
d ankle mashed SO that amputation is deeme
= necessary.
y THE price of barbed wire has been ad
Il vanced, and John ]. Smith, of Linden, Sen
8, eca County, wishes wire land all had ad
10 vanced clean off his place before his littl
4; daughter Annie ran against the barbe
:. % wire fence and tore out one of her eyes.
= 10. GARBAR1No, an italian fruit vendel
of Youngstown, who has become wealth
by swindling newly arrived Italians,
under arrest for obtaining money by falls
ia pretenses from 2. Dominick, to whom b
,f sold fruit stand.
ID JOHN RYAN, cigar-maker, fell from
Of third story window of the McNulty Hous
,e Ashland, fracturing his right ankle an
If sustaining severe internal injuries.
l. Mr.. HENNIs, farmer living five mile
in northwest of West jefferson, while eros.
q ing the Little Miami Railroad in a tugg
with his wife, at the edge of town, we
struck by special train running at tf
4. rate of thirty-five miles per hour. Tt
m buggy was wrecked and the occupants nal
L. rowly escaped instant death. They wei
ce carried to a house near by, where they r.
Ve ceived medical aid. They were seriousl
a. injured, but it is thought they will recove
ut THE Democrats of Noble County ha,
lg nominated the following ticket: L. v
ne Finley for Representative, P. McGovel
for Treasurer, d. Wheeler for Sheriff, v
w. Collins for Commissioner, G. Price I,
Infirmary Director, and DIR. Williams Fl
IN Coroner.
RS THIRTY-sIx THOUSAND DOLLARS LickiI
er County bonds were purchased by the Pc
rs ple's National Bank of Newark at a pr
az MUM of 50 $50.
y AT Fremont Casper Young became II
a volved in quarrel with Henry Rent
aged fifteen, when the latter stabb,
Young in the left thigh, severing an arter
It. His condition is very serious.
a, GENERAL indignation is expressed /
q. Springfield business men over the selectic
| VI Odi LII do q ouiodUIC DUO lOI Uuc uo
to Government building.
L. GOVERNOR HoADLY has issued a procl
rl nation recommending the people of Oh
~ to pay fitting tribute to General Grant.
THE other morning, while Mrs. Sus
to link and sister, of Lancaster, were driviI
,, out of town a mile or more, blacksnal
four feet in length fastened itself upon
III wheel of their cart, and so frightened MI
u link by its efforts to strike her at each re-
to olution of the wheel that she sprang to Il
nd ground, breaking limb twice between Il
.le knee and ankle, and so injuring the KIN
that she may lose the member, and at be
J may be crippled for life.
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