The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-08
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Thy trustees of Marietta College have re.
fused to admit lady students.

fused to admit lady students.
GEORGE RossMAN, prominent farmer OF
Salem Township, Wyandot County, fired
his residence and outbuildings and hanged
himself.
AT Crestline burglars went through the
of Louis Schick and stole notes
to the value of $4,000, S75 in money and
two silver watches No clew.
OFFICER SpRosTY shot his pistol, as he
says, In the air to frighten boisterous
crowd of men at Cleveland. The shot took
effect in the body of Arthur Thomas, ia
tally wounding him. Verdict, accidental
shooting.
JACK KEEF, a Wooster sport, was shot
and killed by Moran in bagnio recently.
The shooting was the result of q quarrel
about one of the inmates. Anderson es-
capped.
The store of Masters & Miles, az Edison
was burglarized of merchandise to the
amount OF $50.
MICHAEL MORGAN, miner at Sch1ck's coal
works, Bellaire, was fatally crushed by
falling soapstone. He leaves a widow and
nine children.
A RIOT occurred at Darbyville a few
marshal impounding live stock found run
ming at large. The mayor was waylaid at
night and severely beaten. The marshal
attempted to arrest the Darling boys on
warrants. A fight ensued, and an assist
ant marshal fired on the crowd with shot
gun. One of the Darling boys was killed,
and his two brothers and a sister were
wounded.
BLooMvILLE's saloons are now all closed
under the Prohibition clause of the Dow
law, and it is pretty certain that the vii
lagos of Republic, Bettsville, Attica and
Melmore will follow suit
A LITTLE child of Martin Gardner fell
into cistern near Ashland and was
drowned.
The Governor has pardoned from the
penitentiary William J. Hall, sent up from
Hardin County in 1888 to serve three years
for perjury. He had only two months to
serve.
FOUR persons travelling in a two-horso
covered wagon, robbed Samuel Strouse, of
Tiverton township, Coshocton County, of
all the money he had on his person.
JOHN SHEATs was horribly mangled by
his team running away with a reaper, near
Six Points, Wood County.
four, just as his father was turning a cor
ner IN field with reaper, ran in front of
the machine, fell down, and before the
horses could be stopped his left foot was
severed near the ankle.
ABOUT 200 Columbus saloon-keepers are
resisting the Dow law, and have brought
suit to restrain the treasurer from col
lection. Judge Wylie allowed tempo
rary injunction. Only 100 dealers have
paid.
The Coshocton gas and oil well has been
abandoned, after drilling 2, ,1OS feet at cost
of So, ,25O.
DEGRAFF and Rushsylvania, Logan Coun-
ty, have passed the ordinance prohibiting
saloons within their corporations. This
will remove six places, which, however,
will be run outside of the corporate limits.
RUDOLPH and VIM. Elbert, cousins, aged
nineteen, were drowned in the Scioto
river, in the northern part of Columbus,
while bathing. Neither could swim, and
! one went down the other attempted to as.
sist him, and both lost their lives
A NUMBER of small boys climbed on to q
farm roller that was being hauled through
the streets of Portsmouth. Willie Calhoun
son of Willis Calhoun, fell off and was SC
badly mangled that he died.
JAMES DUNN, ex-inspector of the Cincin
natl police, has been sentenced to the
work-house for sixty days for assaulting
while drunk, an inoffensive citizen.
CHARLES CLOSE, a prominent citizen ot
Bellevue, was fined IS and costs for girdine
| a tree, the property of neighbor. Clos,
claimed the tree shaded his garden.
A PosToFFIcE has been established al
| Phila Thea, Mercer County, with P. Rim
nae as postmaster.
MARIETTA COLLEGE has conferred the de
gree of LID. on Governor j. B. Foraker
GENERAL j. W. FULLER's Ohio Brigade
will hold a reunion at Mt. Vernon, Knox
County, September l and 2.
A CLEVELAND woman who owns a build
| in which there is a saloon, has brought
| suit under the Dow law against the saloon
keeper for failure to pay his liquor tax.
: DAVID j. DAVIS, of Youngstown, has be
gun suit for $4,000 damages against tn,
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for kill
| ing his three-year-old child.
THE Bellaire, GAINESVILLE and Cincinnati
| narrow gauge has been placed in the and
| of a receiver.
SPRINGFIELD saloon-keepers get arount
the law by selling ''cold coffee" and ''colt
tea" for beer and whisky at lunch counter
after the night closing time has arrived.
JOHN THOMAS, aged twenty four, engi
neer at the Combria Coal Mine, in Minera
Ridge, Trumbull County, was lowered int,
the mine the other morning to make SOM
| repairs. Some time afterward, when th
carriage was hoisted, it contained John
dead body. He was subject to fits, and
is thought he was seized by one while il
the carriage, and was drowned by tn
water at the bottom of the shaft. Hi
father was killed at the same mine abou
a year ago.
A LIGHT flow of gas was struck at the ga
well, Sandusky. few days ago, at tn
depth of 1868 feet. There was great excite
ment and several other companies are b
ing formed. The we'll will be shot, an
hopes are indulged of big flow.
| CHARLES SHUMAKER, of Toledo, was ser
ously wounded at Perrysburg by the acc
dental discharge of gun in the hands of
man named Lausker. They were on fisl
ing jaunt.
A wELL-PREsERvED piece of human fles
is living at New Holland, in the person c
Mrs. Margaret Arnold, born in August
County, Va, July 4, 1777. She was marie
eighty-five years ago, and now lives wit
her youngest son, who is sevent,-two year
old, and sprightly as a spring chicken. Mr.
Arnold has two sisters living in Iowa, on
of whom is 112 and the other JOG years ole
an average for the three of 1O9 years.
VALUABLE driving horses belonging t
George s'tanberry, Jacob Nader and Wn
! Mccoy, of GAINESVILLE, have been stolen. N
trace of the thieves.
I GRAssHoPPERs have been doing muc
damage to the crops in Moorefield Towr
ship, Clark County.
| A sIX-YEAR-oLD son Of W. M. Ferrymal
of Vienna Cross Roads, Clark Count,
dropped dead the other day of suppose