The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-07-22
OHIO NEWS.

UHlU NEHSs
A CONVENTION of colored journalists
will be held in Cincinnati, Aug. 2.
VAN PE1T, of whisky crusade fame,
has been heard from at Cape Girardeau,
No., where he is under arrest for steal
ing wagon.
VAN VERT is exercised over q man
aged SO years. 1t is the intention of the
town to keep him alive for the Centen-
NAL at all hazards.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston,
has been elected President of Kenyon
College, and the Trustees have voted to
offer him salary of Sc, 600 year.
Two MEN, Lewis Gerwig, of Cincin-
natl, and Charles Church, of GAINESVILLE,
were drowned at the latter place, last
week, by the upsettipg of skiff. Both
were intoxicated.
THE recent heavy rains have so
swollen the streams in Southern Ohio
that railroad bridges have been carried
away on the Portsmouth branch of the
Marietta and Cincinnati railway, and
the track badly injured.
A DIFFICULTY occurred between the
pilots of the steamers Nail City and
barnard, on the public landing, at Gin
cinnati one night last week, in which
John Sullivan, pilot of the Barnard,
was, probably, fatally cut.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred at Mid
dleport on Friday of last week, supposed
to be the work of an incendiary. 1t
originated in wholesale liquor house,
and nine stores and three dwellings were
consumed. The total loss will amount
to about $40, 900; partially insured.
G. B. BALDWIN, of Mt. Vernon, late
Special Agent of the Postofice Depart
ment, has been rendered by Mr.. Athin-
son, the Commissioner of Pensolrs, the
position of Chief of the Special Service
Division in the Pension Bureau. Mr..
Baldwin has accepted the position.
The embezzlers of the Cincinnati
water-works funds are not to be pun
ished. Judge Cox has rendered a de-
cision that the crime for which these
defendants were indicted is not definitely
described in the statutes, and further
than to dismiss them from office nothing
can be done.
The new City Directory of Cleveland
contains 46, $50 names, an increase of l.,
24O over that CT last year. Estimating
for the population three and one-half
persons to each name in the directory,
small estimate, Cleveland has 163, 991
inhabitants. Estimating four and one
eighth, as Buffalo does, Cleveland would
have population of 1913, 1852; SO that
Cleveland has already outstripped
Buffalo, and is the second city on the
great lakes.
A LARGE concourse of people assem-
bled at Findlay, on Tuesday of last
week, to participate in the ceremony of
unveiling the soldiers monument, erect
ed by the Soldiers Monumental As
sociation of Hancock county. After a
grand procession, composed of military,
the Fire Department, and civic societies,
the dedicatory ceremonies began. The
orator of the day was the Hon. Samuel
F. Hunt, of Cincinnati. Gov. Allen and
ex-Gov. Hayes made preliminary
speeches, which were enthusiastically
applauded.
MARY KoEHL, young wooan OF Y
years of age, committed suicide neal
Reading, ten miles from Cincinnati, 6
few days since. 1t was evidently death
for love. The girl was highly respected
and was in love with young man, but
the difficulty in the case was that she
was Protestant and he Catholic. Aftel
her death a letter was found in her room
addressed to her lover, Ben Lichtenberg
Across the margin were the words &c.
die of love for you-without you can
not hye." Lichtenberg testified that h
would have married her but for his re
ligion. He said he had always treate'
her honorably. He is SO grief-strickel
that his friends are alarmed lest he vii
follow the example Of Mary.
IT has been for years the custom @
the life insurance companies to mark Of
as lapsed policies, all those on whic
the overdue interest of premium note
remained unpaid. A vast number of il
!. surances have been lost in this way bu
it appears that plucky party in Cincir
. natl has appealed to the law for protet
ton, and that the Superior Court of thi
city has decided IN his favor. The court
: following the example of the Appellat
s Court of kentucky, held that the moi
!, was evidence of loan made by the con
a pany to the poicy-holder, lien upo
y and secured by the value of the polio.
) but none the less loan, and though tt
o loan was given for premiums, the inte
l. est upon the note was not premium, an
g that failure to pay such interest did N
# legally vitiate the policy or cause i
r lapse,