The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-06-17
EATON OHIO THURSDAY. JUNE " Es6
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


hill appointed postmaster.
SENECA COUNTY, has 1O,47 horses,
valued at $622, ,2S2 and 2,234 dogs, valued
at $233.
SMART confidence men have been trying
to work farmers near Tiffin.
The next Ohio Democratic State Con-
vention will be held at Toledo, August II
and IS.
WILLIAM WEBER, brother of ex-sheriff
Weber, of Cincinnati, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head.
THE post-office at Sutton, Guernsey Coun-
ty, has been closed.
SAMUEL B. OGDEN, brakeman on the New
York, Pennsylvania e. Ohio railroad, was
instantly killed near Urbana a few days
ago. He was in the act of jumping from
one caboose to another and missed his
step, falling under the train.
NEAR Ada, Jacob Patterson, seventeen
years of age, while out hunting accident
ally shot himself. The load of shot entered
the arm at the wrist and lacerated it in
horrible manner to the shoulder The arm
was amputated, and the young man is in
critical condition.
A FEARFUL typhoid fever epidemic il
raging at Bellaire. Over three hundred
cases are reported, with many deaths. The
terrible sanitary condition of the place,
together with the fact that the inhabitants
drink river water impregnated with gar
bage from Wheeling, W. Va, just above,
is the supposed cause.
NEAR Columbus, Arthur Miller, q re-
spectacle young farmer, fatally shot him
self at the residence of N. 8. Vincent,
whose daughter he was engaged to marry.
A CALL has been issued for the Prohibi-
tion State Convention at Canton july 2S
and 29
AN order for the sale of the Cincinnati
and Eastern railroad has been issued by
the Clinton County common pleas court.
CINCINNATI policemen who served in the
war will wear on the left sleeve of their
coats red tape in order to distinguish the
soldier element of the force.
GOVERNMENT officers from Columbus ar
rested near Straitsville. j. A. Brown and
George Miller on the charge of manufac-
turing bogus silver dollars and quarters.
Miller, alias Brown, is seventy-six years
old
The following Ohio postmasters were
nominated a few days ago: Reuben Stab
ley, Crestline; j. Wesner, Hickarville:
John d. Thompson, Mt. Vernon; Samuel 8.
Clayton, Ada.
The present numerical strength of the
police force of Cincinnati is as follows:
Lieutenants, 10; court officers, 8; sergeants
of patrol, IS; detectives, IL; wagons. Al ::
patrol duty, 235; station-house keepers, 20.
Total, 352.
Rev. VIM. 81. ROBERTS, Librarian of
Princeton College, has been elected to sue
ceed the late DR.. Eells in the chair of prac-
tical theology in Lane Seminary, Cincin-
natl. DR.. Roberts was born in Wales in
1874, came to this country in early life, and
graduated from Columbia College in 1858.
MRS. JAMES GUTHUREL was arrested at
Tif1n, at the instance of the s. P. C, A, for
maltreating an adopted daughter, aged
six.
A PLOT among prisoners to attack the Of
ficers and break out of the Dayton station
house was given away by discharged
prisoner.
BURGLARS entered the Nickel-plate Ele-
vator at Green Springs, Seneca County,
and blew open the safe with powder by
drilling hole above the combination
There was no money in the safe, and they
went away empty-handed.
THREE mad dogs have been killed at Tiffin
| within a week.
JACOB MCGRIFF, engineer at Hosafouse's
saw mill, West Sonora, was caught under
rolling log and seriously crushed.
A PANIC was caused at Catholic fair at
| Circleville by gasoline stove becoming
ignited A number of ladies tainted, but
nobody was seriously injured.
| The other evening as the south
bound local freight was running about
twenty-five miles an hour, three miles
south of Tiffin, on the l. B. & w. railway,
the engineer saw a small child playing on
the track a short distance in front of the
train. He reversed his engine, but the train
could not be stopped in time and the child
was struck and thrown against the fence at
the side of the track with sufficient force to
break one of the large boards. The train
was stopped, and the conductor picked the
child up unconscious. 1t was badly bruised,
and had two bad cuts on its face and neck,
but soon recovered consciousness, and at
last treport was still alive. The physician was
unable to determine whether it is injured
internally or not. 1t is a son of Joseph
Lonsway, who lives near the track.
The Hessian fly has been doing great
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dreds of acres of wheat and corn have been
devastated. They are also suffering con-
siderably from drought. Yearly all of the
| early wheat crop is ruined. In the northern
part of the county young grasshoppers are
| making their appearance in immense mum.
bers and are doing great damage.
AT GAINESVILLE Jesse Pickens, q lad OF
fourteen, struck match over a ten gallon
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looking into it, when an explosion oc-
CURED. The lad was burned badly about
the face. His elder brother, William, who
attempted d-to-extinguish tina -Aaxaas from
his brothers hair and clothing, was also
badly burned. Jesse may loose his eye.
sight
AT Knights of Labor picnic near Ak
ron, Perry S. Londers, while shooting at a
ing was accidental.
A PosT-oFFICE has been established at
High Water. Licking County, and Fred
Ross appointed postmaster.
Miss ANNIE ZERp, of picnic party, was
drowned in Congress Lake, near Canton.
The buildings on the new fair grounds at
Columbus, cost over $4,000.
A CARLOAD of insane, from the Dayton
Soldiers Home, left a few days ago for
the National Insane Asylum, at Washing
ton City.
A FoUR-YEAR-oLD son of William Adcock
employe in the Buckeye Works, and resid-
ing in the southern part of Akron, was
fatally shot the other evening by six
year-old playmate named Howard Rempis
The Rempis child had been left alone al
home, and discovering revolver in one Of
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aroused, and innocently pointing it at his
companion, the weapon was discharged,
with the result as stated.
THE Ohio Grand Lodge, Knights of Honor
elected list of officers, headed by Robert
McGee, of Kent, as grand dictator.
FRANK Brown, twelve-year-old boy
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