The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-19

Of employment by this fire. A dwelling
house belonging TO the same gcnti einan'
valued at $4,000, was also burned at MI uers-
port, on the saturday previous.
A WEI TINE AT ToLEDo-HEAvY Los SIS.
The telegraph brings us unpleasant re-
ports from Toledo. The Maumee, opposite,
was gorged with broken ice and the lower
portions Of the city flooded. Yesterday
forenoon Cherry street bridge, upward OF
three-fourths of a mile In length, gave
way. and nearly half of the entire structure
was swept out. There were five persons
on the wrecked portion, all of whom es-
capped on the ice. The damage to this
bridge will probably reach fifteen thousand
dollars. The steamer Belle was hoated of
and probably lost.
,TuE GLoRIoUs 22D."-Huston Hall will
ring with melody by the American Min
strels.
The Hughes Murder at Cincinnati
Case, the young fellow-not yet seventeen
years old-has made a tolerably full con-
fession of the circumstances and the man
ner in which he and his elders in the crime
-George Goetz and Alex. olus-murdcred
young Mr.. Hughes. We have never heard
Of a more deliberately planned and execu-
ted crime. We append a portion as re-
ported in the Cincinnati papers:
"when Mr.. Hughes came up In the bug
Nv, going the way we were going, a little
boy was In sight; the man had a blanket
over his knee; IL was n small grey horse
and an open buggy, | think; Aleck kept
getting behind. andGcorge said he thought
Aleck was afraid. Aleck ran up after a
while, and said there was a man in a buggy
coming behind us, and that this was ms
good a time as any | said, "No, 1t Is too
carly The boy was now about two hum
ldred wards behind us, going into the gate
of "A house; George said, "Pull your pis-
tolls" Before this a hay man had passed
us. His wagon was empty, and George
wanted to stop him. | suppose he thought
he had the price of his load of hay with
him.
George said he would stop him and ask
him to let us ride, and that | should hold
the reins while they knocked him in the
head and took what he had. Blu he would
not stop for us; he whipped up his horse
and drove on. Aleck pulled his pistol and
George caught his horse. The man said,
What are you stopping my horse for and
George said, Don't run over a man. The
man replied, Il didn't think you were SO
near. George had hold of the horses head,
and said, .Aleck. go for him. The man
said he had no money, and commenced
shouting for the people In the house.
When he saw our pistols, hesaid ne didn't
care a d-n for any such things as those
AIeck and | shot ut the same time. | shot
twice, and Aleck shot three times; George
still held the horse. | fired at the man.
breast. | did not see the man fall out of the
buggy. George ran and said, Run, sam.
here they come from the house, | hallooed
to Aleck to come. He said he wanted to gel
the money. never looked back till we got
to the top of the hill. We hid two box o
cartridges under the rock. | put fresl
loads in my pistol, in case we should be ar.
rested ON Suspicion
Young Case then proceeded to relate 10Y
they crossed the hills to the South, unit
they struck the pike that finally led then
to the covered bridge across Mill Creek
near the Ohio how they went to the Ham
ilton & Dayton depot and separated. George
going one way to pass the night with wo-
man and to arrange to prove an dttGL, ant
Aleck aud himself proceeding in a street
EAR to the corner of Third and Vine, and
thence across the river to their homes.
MERCHANTS HOTEL. CINCINNATI.-Messrs
Galleher, Nelson & Co., the deservedly pop
ular proprietors of this well-knOwn Queer
City institution. have, us their card an
nounces, made full and ample preparation
for the custom which regularly tends il
that direction, on the opening of the spring
trade. The old "DenniSOn House. was fa'
nous in its day and re-modeled and ex'
tensively enlarged, as it nowi is, as the "Aer'
chants Hotel" so centrally situated and Sc
well kept, its enviable reputation is bount
to increase. We know whereof we speak