The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-06-24
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
DR.. LEONARD is violently opposed 10 the
Dow liquor law.
EDWARD MIsER accidentally shot his little
boy near Mt. Vernon.
WIN. P. Fousr, Cardington, was arrested
for embezzling the pension of his brothers
widow.
NEW buildings for Heidelberg College,
Tlffin, and Wittenberg College, Springfield,
were dedicated few days ago.
BASED on the City Directory Columbus
has 79, 900 inhabitants.
JOSEPH BIRD, of Lima, was killed by the
kick of a mule.
GRAssHoPPERs threaten the destruction of
crops in Warren County.
HEAVY contracts have been awarded for
supplying the Dayton Soldiers Home with
provisions.
The total valuation of the taxable per-
sonal property of Coshocton County is
s., 40S, 1852, falling off of $73, 900 from last
year.
FINDLAT has decided by a large majority,
In a popular vote, to bond the city for
$40 to lay mains and distribute natural
gas for fuel.
FIVE hundred dollars has been subscribed
for grand celebration July 8, and dedica-
tion of new courthouse at Millersburg.
Hoadly, Foraker, Geddes, Wilkins and Nc
Sweeny have accepted invitations to be
present and speak. A dozen bands and
military companies will be there.
DIVINE to the decision of the Supreme
Court at Columbus the other day in sus-
tanning the validity of the actions of the
State Senate since the ousting of the four
Hamilton County Democratic Senators,
the Liquor League of Cleveland decided to
offer no further resistance to the Dow
liquor tax law, and all saloonists are
hustling to the treasurer's office to pay
their taxes
PRoHIBITIoNIsTs meeting at Warren
nominated Charles E. Holt, of Ashtabula,
for Congress, and listened to a speech by
DR.. Leonard against the Dow liquor law
THE other morning a three-year-old son
of Simon Halter, four miles west of Can
ton, fell into a tub of boiling water and
was scalded to death.
IT is announced that if the people of Gin
cinnati do not come forward more literally
10 the support of the free kindergartens,
the work must be abandoned
CONTRACTS have been signed for the erec-
tion of an immense arcade building on
Euclid avenue and Superior street, Cleve-
land. The building will cover seventy-five
thousand square feet of ground, and will
contain two hundred store-rooms.
GoRsUcH, the Cleveland Socialist, and
companion of Parsons, has been compelled
to leave Salineville, where he had been
staying for some time making speeches. A
committee of citizens warned him.
LIEUTENANT AUGUSTUS P. BLAcKsoN,
Sixth Cavalry, is ordered to inspect and
report on the encampments of the four
brigades of the Ohio National Guard, on
June % to July 6, July % to %, August 8 to
10, and August IL to 10. The place of camps
will be designated by the Governor of Ohio.
AT Mingo Minnie Austin, aged eighteen,
shot herself with a revolver because her
mother refused to let her attend a lawn
fete with her lover. The bullet took effect
in the head and produced instant death.
MARTIN o. VAN FLEET, the defaulting
county treasurer, of Norwalk, arrived in
that city few days ago-accompanied by
an officer. He had been rusticating in
Canada. The prisoner was jailed.
old daughter of ]. W. Butterield, foreman
of the State Journal job rooms, was acci-
dentally shot by Jacob Felber, aged fifteen.
The boy and his sister were in the rear of
their residence shooting at mark with a
22-caliber rifle. Miss Butterfield, who lives
in the house adjoining Felber's, was in the
back yard, and one of the bullets struck
her, entering the left side of the head above
the ear. 1t is thought the wound will prove
| fatal.
M c. LILLEY & Co., of Columbus, have
been awarded the contract for furnishing
| uniforms for the National Guard. The
price per uniform, including cap, is $S.31.
AT Wellsville, the Ohio Valley Natural
Gas Company are extending their pipe line
on Commerce street, and the other night,
as an experiment, lighted the gas near the
residence of Mr.. Dell Peck. The roaring of
the immense volume of gas and the light
from the flames scared Howard, his two
| year-old son, who was not we'll at the time,
and, with a piercing cry of Mamma, don't
let them burn me" was seized with convul.
sions and died in few minutes. The suf-
ferings of the little victim, while brief, were
terrible.
| STATE SENATOR W. W. CoNKLIN died at
Marion, few days ago, aged eighty-seven
years.
JOHN CARoTHER, a farmer, in Tallmadge
| Township, Summit County, the other day,
after applying the torch to a brush pile,
/ sprang upon the burning limbs to press
the pile down closer, to insure better and
more speedy fire. In this act one of his feet
became fastened in the crotch of a heavy
limb, SO that he could not extricate him
self. The flames darted up and about him.
His cries for help brought the hired man of
a neighboring farmer to the scene, who on
arriving, said to Mr.. Carothers: If you
will pay me that five dollars you owe me
will help you out" This Carothers refused
to do, when the hired n an went away, say
ing, "All right; if you won't pay you may
burn" Carothers' clothing soon caught
fire, and his legs and arms were being badly
burned. He tossed himself about vio-
lently, and finally freed himself, though
not without suffering very severe injuries.
AT Dayton, Luther NJ. Frank, the thir-
teen-year-old son of Judge j. L. Frank, was
killed by being hit with baseball. He
was engaged in a game and was at the bat.
just as Harman Scheible, the pitcher,
threw the ball the attention of young
Frank was directed to some other point,
and the ball struck him in the region of
the heart, causing death almost instantly.
FosToRIA is to be supplied with natural
gas.
ASSESSORS returns show that Greene
County produced 369, ,749 bushels of wheat
| lS3 439 bushels of oats, 2, ,569, $50 bushels OF
corn, 312, ,4S7 pounds of tobacco, made $40,
600 pounds of butter, produced All, Ass
dozens of eggs, 129,355 pounds of wool
owned $3.50 cows, 2,754 dogs; $500 hogs
died valued at $685. ,3s6; TAI sheep died, 291
cattle died, valued at s6,51S; 1913 horses
died, valued at slS,56O.
died at Berlin, aged 1O4.
The post-office at Oro, Belmont County