The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-06-03
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


THERE are intimations that the grass-
hoppers will prove q serious pest in Ohio
this year.
W. 8. SHELLY has been appointed post
master at Woodsdale, Butler County.
THE name of the post-ofice at Regel,
Darke County, has been changed to Lights
Vile.
AT depth Of /, 100 feet natural gas was
struck at the well which has been drilling
at Mansfield for several weeks past.
The official report on an examination of
the records Of the Hamilton County Infirm-
ary shows very bad management, includ-
ing extravaganza leading to deficiency in
the cash account of nearly $4,000.
GIBSON, wErsTEIN & Co., Cincinnati,
dealers in tin plate and metals, have made
an assignment. Assets s35, 900; liabilities
$4,000.
Four children were badly poisoned at
Cardington from eating sour dock which
they mistook for radishes. Blood vomit-
ing cured them.
JOSEPH WALKER, q wealthy bachelor Of
Youngstown, aged eighty years, strangled
to death on small piece of meat.
NATURAL gas employed in burning pot
terry at East Liverpool is pronounced q
great success.
The "biggest thing on record" of its
kind is an oil well at Cameron, Monroe
County, which yields 5000 barrels of oil
per day.
Ar Youngstown, Mr.. Hughes, farmer,
was gored deep and tossed high by bull,
which wouldn't lead, coax nor drive.
h. j. FREE, who tagged the B. & o. fast
train on account of the tornado, near
Iifin, has been offered $500 or a life pass
| over the road. Though poor, he has ac-
| cepted neither.
WHEAT is being destroyed by the Hessian
fly In the vicinity Of Findlay.
| AT Findlay another oil we'll on the Elge
farm, 1.26s feet deep, is greasing the pockets
of its lucky owners.
| MRS M. g. KENT, of Kent, was horribly
burned by the explosion of gasoline
stove.
A TERRIFIC hail-storm, ice falling in
chunks, killed small stock and played
havoc with buildings in the neighborhood
of Sandusky.
A. d. DRAYToN, of Springfield, purchased
a hne spring chicken in market and took it
home for Sunday dinner. Three little
eggs, without shells, were found in the por-
tion Of the bird usually devoted to that in
dustry. They were put in q skillet to be
fried with the dismembered chicken. Just
then peculiar thing happened. The eggs
acted decorously until they struck the bub-
bling fat-then they exploded with three
separate cracks like pistol shots and flew
out OF the frying-pan with such force as to
strike the ceiling. Had they been dyna-
/ m fhou
plosively. The cook was badly burned by
the explosion.
The striking German printers of Cincin-
natl will issue a daily newspaper, called
the Zeitung, Independent in politics and
devoted especially to the labor interests.
The hardware rstore of Il. N King, at
Arcadia, was robbed the other night of
goods to the value of about $50, besides .
small amount of money.
LEWIS SNowDEN, a notorious colored
man, was fined fifty dollars and costs and
placed under a $500 bond to keep the peace,
at Mt. Vernon. He threatened to shoot
Samuel Bartlett, a local horseman.
AT TOLEDO, John Medland, fireman of
the coal gang of the Lake Shore railroad,
cut his throat and drowned himself in q
mud puddle.
THE City Council Of Massillion accepted
the bid to place sixty lights of two thou
sand candle-power each on the streets, at
$40 per light per annum.
CLEVELAND papers are agitating free
baths for the city.
| A POsT-oFFICE has been established al
Whitney, Belmont County, and A. j. Full
ton appointed postmaster.
JOSEPH PoMroco, a young apprentice in
the employ of the youngstown Lumber
Company, had his left hand cut of and
arm badly mangled while working buz,
saw.
THE State of Ohio has secured a loan o.
$3.50, 900 in New York
ABOUT a dozen students of Heidelbers
College, Tifin, have been arrested for haz
ing.
SINCE October, 1885, the Methodist Episco
pal Alliance has enrolled 1,562 scholars IL
the Sunday schools of Cincinnati
AN insane man named q. O. Wallace, con
fined in the Mt. Gilead Jail, hanged himsel
in his cell with sheet from the bed
The Hessian fly and cut-worm are re
ported as playing havoc with crops in Fay
. cite and Allen Counties.
The boiler of Breckman's factory, nea,
Lima, exploded, killing the engineer ant
fatally injuring two sawyers.
: ONO credit is still pretty good in spit.
, of the cloud on it's legislative proceedings
The State loan has just been taken at 81.
; per cent. interest at par.
The terms of three presidential postmast
ers in Ohio will expire during the month o
: June as follows: Akron, June 81; Crest
line, June IA, and Lancaster, June %.
A HUNGARIAN laborer, aged thirty, name,
Michael Uretta, was killed at tho furnac
of Andrews Bros. & Co., at Hazelton, nea
Youngstown, by being crushed under
freight car.
Rush, Tuscarawas County, and j. P. Deem
! | commissioned postmaster.
THE Cincinnati Saloon keepers Asse
, citation will test the constitutionality Q
the Dow liquor law, the successor of tn
famous Scott law.
A SON of Policeman Gehlort, of Cincir
, natl, confesses having dosed his father
{ family with rat poison. The victims ar
5 not yet out of danger.
, AUNT BECKY PENCE, the oldest residen
of Hooking County, is dead; age, nearl
ninety years. She is said to have been th
first white child born in the county.
FRANCIS MUIR HY will inaugurate serie
, of temperance meetings at Urbana soo1
COLONEL w. ]. WHITE has been re-electe
superintendent of the Springfield school
. All the former teachers were retained
Il PROF. EMERSON E. WHITE has been cleo
q ed superintendent of the Cincinnati publ
= schools, to succeed Mr.. John B. Peaslee.
9 AT Findlay burglars entered the Lal
s Erie and Western ticket Office during tt
t absence Of the night operator, and receive
r for their labor S27 25. They were detecte
i in the act, but made good their escape wit
1 their booty.