The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-06-10
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

q hooVy Irosb IN many parts OF
Hoime County on the morning of the
4th.
AT GAINESVILLE, Lewis Pickens was SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary for
robbery.
CURLEY MCGUIRE was fined five dollars
and sentenced to five days imprisonment
for stealing a guitar from the Clifton Hotel
at Orrville.
GEORGE ~HEADINaToN, a Mt. Vernon
shoemaker, fell down q flight of stairs,
striking on his head, sustaining injuries
which are expected to prove fatal.
DIR. E. WILLIAMS has been elected presi-
dent of the Cincinnati Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals.
LIQUOR sellers all over Ohio have decided
to contest the Dow law and held a meeting
at the other night to unite on
action to defeat its operation.
WHILE working on a high scafold at
Newark, Alfred Pierce was p~recipitated
to the ground by the giving way of the
scaffold. He is in a dangerous condition.
A arrived at Sandusky a few
days ago from Duluth with eighty thou
sand sacks of Minnesota -four for Belfast,
| Ireland.
The name of the post-ofice at Clinton
Valley, Clinton County, has been changed
to Midland City.
81 MERRIMAN, policeman, Steubenville,
was shot by his wife, the ball entering be-
low the left eye, glancing and passing
through the left ear. The wound is not
dangerous. She didn't know it was loaded.
NEAR New Holland, lives Mrs. Marga-
ret Arnold, who will be 100 years old next
month. She has two sisters in Iowa, one
liz, and the other 1O6 years of age.
AT the meeting of the National Stove
makers Association, at Cleveland, the
prices of stoves were advanced seven and
one-halfp per cent.
WHILE at work in a saw mill at Center
burg, Frank Mckay had bis right leg brok-
en- by being caught in the log carriage.
The bone were crushed between the knee
and ankle.
DAYTON has over. three hundred liquor
saloons, which have been listed under the
Dow law.
THREE carpenters, named John Roup,
Walter Jones and F. M. Rainey, the latter
from Akron, jumped from the roof to the
~scafolding of Alfred Hooper's new resi-
dence, Massillon, at quitting time the other
evening, and fell with it to the ground, a
distance of sixteen feet. Roup had several
rlDs broken, and is supposed to have re-
ceived internal injuries of a fatal charac-
ter. The other two were seriously, but not
dangerously, hurt.
THE town of Conner and vicinity. about
i've miles north of Lima, is greatly. excit-
ed over the presence of a case of small
pox in the very worst form.
JACOB BOYER. living east NJ M.r;,,
while walking on the Bet Line tract w.s
run over by the local freight. HE Ieft 80
and right leg have been amputated. Age
ffty-fve. He will probably die.
On the morning of Nav q D.r;d n
Scott, of Dennison. Tuscarawas Conntv
was missed from his home sinca wh;oh
time nothing can be learned of bis wha-a-
abouts. He is a man tbirtv-fve no.rso ~
age, five and one-haf feet biob wo;eht
14O pounds, dark mustacbe. brown hair
and was accompanied nv a hr;ndla L.
ANY one knowing ANYTHING as tn his ubere-
abouts will confer a favor on his distress
ed family by addressing VIM. p. Scott
Dennison, O..
The penitentiary managers. at thai,
meeting a few days ago, paroled the fol
lowing prisoners: James Cayanaupb
rankin County, nine years for robbery:
VIM. Leonard, Franklin, six wears for lar.
ceny; John Laird, Darke, blackmaiIinp.
Luk Davidson, Perry. robbery. Rachel
Kelly, alias Mary Moreland. HamiIton
grand larceny; Geo. Bronson. Wood horse
stealing; Henry W Swords, Scioto, assault
with intent to rape; VIM. s. Virgins, Cuya-
hoga, arson.
The question of Sabbath observance is
agitating Canton to a remarkable extent.
For several years past Congress Lake and
Meyers Lake, two pleasant picnic grounds
near that city, haveb been Meccas for Sunday
pilgrimages. The other night the nastors
of the city held a mammoth meeting in The
FIRST Methodist Church, at which the sever
est structures were pronounced upon this
ungodly way of spending the Sabbath day.
The Law and Order Society will take steps
TO prevent these Sunday excursions to the
lakes, while many citizens, especially
w~orkingmen, will resist the endeavor to
deprive tnem OF their chosen method of
enjoying the day or rest.
WILLIAM NORRIS, a laborer at the Lead
vile shaft, near Youngstown, while at
work at the top the other morning, ar
ranging a pump, lost his alance and fell
to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 100
feet. When his companions reached him
hroLen and ,af. 80 navne oeen
inc the tinhers IN 81" 49, $50. erusneu oy SUITE
ceased was 6ftv-fo,r Ia ne
a large family. "es
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ponS Il 'our'een'n regiment.
JOHN WENTRINGHAM, of Plymouth, made
thirteen and bos aad u 49, CO.
three sons. In conseouenca Of tho daad ~
wife has become insane and w;u ha 60
to the asvlum-
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