The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-15

.SDAY, JULY ID. 1886.
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
TuE twelve-year-old SON of Mrs Alice
Hartford, of Yellow Springs, fell out of
hammock at the Yellow Springs House,
breaking his arm in two places.
The Mahoning Natural Gas Company,
composed of Youngstown capitalists, has
completed the survey for pipe line from
It's gas territory near Sheffield, Pa, to that
city.
AT the Ursuline Convent, Toledo, Miss
Helen Prendregrast, Sister st. Theodore,
received the Black Veil, and Miss Mary
Brown, Sister st. Frene, the White Veil,
Bishop Gilmour officiating.
NEAR Gambler, the other afternoon, two
brothers named Biggs, aged twelve and
fourteen, were shooting at rats with revol-
fers, when one of the lads was accidentally
shot IN the head, producing probably fatal
wound.
The President has vetoed the bill provid-
ing for public building at Dayton
ARRANGEMENTS are nearly completed for
the Cincinnati Camp-meeting, to begin at
the Loveland Grounds July 90.
I A. WEKEL's barn burned near Lewisburg,
destroying nine hundred bushels of wheat
and eleven horses.
Mrs. UDELL, an aged lady, had her pocket
picked at the depot at Kent, Of pocket
| book con- aiming notes and checks to the
amount of $4,000, $50 in money and a rail-
road ticket.
JOSEPH WILLIAMS, a middle-aged man,
was badly crushed by the caving in of q
| sewer at Akron, the other morning. He
was saved from suffoca ton by heroic ef-
forts of his comp anions, but it is feared his
| internal injuries will prove fatal
THE safe.of the Beebe House at Elyria,
was blown open the other night, and $40
| stolen.
| On has been struck in the second well
bored at Piqua, at depth Of ], 200 feet
| GREENE COUNTY has sold $35, 600 in bonds
to replace bridges destroyed by the flood of
May IL.
shot a few days ago. Result, giving Find
lay the largest oil well as we'll as the
largest gas well in Ohio.
| CLEMENT BoGGs, twenty-one years of age,
was drowned while bathing in the Miami
river near Dayton.
| J. R. KEENAN,, of Norwalk, has been
chosen Superintendent of the Medina
| schools.
HERMAN KRAUss was seriously burned at
Tiffin, by the explosion of an alcohol lamp
THE Northwestern Ohio Gas Company has
| been formed, composed of tho Fostoria
Natural Gas Company and the Standard
Oil Company. Charles Foster will be
President. The pipe line may be extended
to furnish Tiffin and Toledo with natural
gas.
MAYOR FULTON, of Bucyrus, has issued
a proclamation to the effect that in the fu-
ture all saloons shall be closed on Sunday.
OWING to the illness of Captain Burrows,
of Warren, has postponed the third murder
trial of Webster until September O.
F. M. MARSHAL, freshman in Mount
Union College, near Alliance, was cruelty
hazed in an alleged initiation into secret
society, being bound hand and foot and
rolled over a barrel, kept on a cake of ice
for long time, tossed in anket and
branded on the back. The students
who hazed him will be expelled and prose.
cuted for damages.
SPRINGFIELD Irish Land League sent $500
to Parnell.
ROBERT Morrow, ex-Treasurer of Pick
away County, is dead.
TOLEDO sent eight crooks to the Ohio
penitentiary the other day for an aggre
gate of sixteen years.
missing several weeks from a good home il
Springfield.
i MISS josie GRUELICK, Seneca County
was killed jumping from her buggy behinl
a frightened team.
M. L. & SANFORD GATES, livery men o.
Mansfield have failed.
Mrs. Jos. RODGERS took an overdose Of
morphine at Elyria, the other night ant
died from its effects. Cause unknown.
SALOON KEEPERS of Ricbland County ar
taking steps to enjoin the county treasure
from collecting the Dow law tax.
BURGLARS raided several houses in Lon
don. few days ago, securing about $40
worth of silverware at B. A. VOLTS resi-
dence.
AN attempt was ma de to burn the hous
of Mrs. Byington, at Elyria, by saturatinl
the cellar with kerosene oil, which failed t.
burn.
DAIRY Commissioners Hurst and Talcot
have decided how different brands of chees
shall be labeled under the Ford law.
was decided by the Commissioners e. a
cheese made of milk wholly SKINNED mus
be labeled skins; but cheese made of mill
and part of which has not been SKINNED
need not be branded as skim cheese. Tn
, construction of the law by the Commis
sioners does not require any materis
change in the old method of labelin
among respectable dealers.
AT Springfield, Mrs. George Cromblt
1 holme, an aged lady, got up in her slee
about two O'Clock the other morning an
stumbled out of a second-story window
, Her means aroused her grandson, and th
: old lady was picked up and taken into tn
house. Her left arm was broken in tw
places and her spine injured by the fall.
The other morning two tank cars col
tanning oil exploded on the fats at the foe
of Harrison street, Cleveland. A ha
I dozen cars of coal ignited, and the burnin
, oil running down the river, set fire to tt
e certral way bridge, which was nearly col
4 sumed. A large tank of gasoline explode
also, and for a time it looked as if a teri
BILE conhagration was inevitable. The lol
will aggregate about $4,000.
ISAAC ANDREW, a farmer near Lima, W.
, horribly mangled by being caught in
, moving machine, and lived but a sho
: time thereafter.
WHILE bathing at Ludlow Falls, sou
distance north of West Milton, the 9th,
y night, Tony Hicks got into whirlpo
and was drowned. He was about twent
five years of age, and lived at Pickaway.
q Mrs. JENNIE LILLEY. chambermaid at I'll
J. Hotel Montreal, Toledo, was drowned fe
g nights ago. She had been to dance ar
IS returning to the hotel, which stands on Il
& banks of Swan creek, it is believed she 81
l. in the window, dozed off and fell into Il
creek, thirty feet below The woman WI