The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02
WEST AND SOUTH.

On complaint of the Pharmacy Commits
sion, R. D. Townley, Of Allerton, Ia. was
recently convicted Of violating the liquor
law and fined 500 and forever debarred
from doing business as a druggist in the
State.
While T. Z. Stevens and son. twenty
years of nge, were filling drill hole in
the Plutis mine, near Idaho Springs, Col,
with giant powder, the charge exploded,
killing the son instantly and fatally injur-
ing the father.
At Chenoa, Ill, on the 23d a freight train
on the Chicago & Alton railroad ran into
a freight train moving slowly in the same
direction, wrecking an engine and twenty
cars Thomas Kelley, the conductor of the
forward train, was badly injured and may
not recover.
A freight train on the Mobile & Ohio
railway was wrecked by a misplaced
switch, near Mobile Ala, on the 23d. W.
E. Cole, q passenger in the caboose, was
seriously hurt, and Conductor Frazer was
slightly injured
A malignant and fatal type of diphtheria
is reported to prevail at Logansport Ind,
and vicinity. Within a short time fully
one hundred children, many of prominent
families, have died. The disease has also
broken out in Rochester, Fulton County,
and the epidemic is spreading.
Mrs. Kate Cutting, the divorced wife of
A. K. Cutting, who achieved notoriety in
Mexico recently, was married at Kansas
City. Mo-, on the 23d to Sterling Matson,
a resident of that city.
Ten weeks ago the schooner Annie B.
Hoffsess with a crew of six men, left
Mobile, Ala, with lumber. She has not
been spoken since and is thought to have
foundered.
The powder mills at Plattville, Grant
County, Wis, containing twelve thousand
pounds Of powder, blew up on the 18th.
The engineer, who was the only person in
the mills, escaped without serious injury.
The explosion shattered windows in houses
miles away.
Squire William Shoemaker, a veteran of
the war of 1912, and perhaps the Oldest
citizen Of tho county, died at his residence
near Chestnut Mound, Tenn, on the 25th.
From reliable data he was believed to be
about one hundred and two years old.
While en- ronte in freight car with bis
stock and household goods for Wright
County, Ia, on the 25th, NJ. V. Seevy, of
Libertyville, ILL.,, was suffocated by the car
taking fire from his lantern.
While husking corn in field near Edna,
Mo-, a few days ago, Taylor Mckinney and
his three sons were prostrated by stroke
of lightning. One Of the sons, Luther W.,
| aged sixteen years, was instantly killed,
and another probably fatally injured. The
father and third son escaped with slight
injury.
| During the recent blizzard in Dakota two
children named Meisal were frozen to death
ten miles north of Maudar, while looking
for lost stock. Two young men, brothers
named Sims, were frozen to death while
returning from work At Sanborn Mrs
Joseph Hazeltine was lost in the blizzard
and when found was so badly frozen that
her recovery is doubtful.
| F. Accord, defeated candidate for sherid
of Monroe County, NO, at the recent elec
ton. became respondent over the result
and suicided by cutting his throat at St
Louis on the Oath.
The American Poultry Association will
hold its annual exhibition in St, Louil
from Dsoambar 10 30 ~,