The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-11-18
OHIO ITEMS. :

GEo. JACOBS shot and killed himself
at Cardington, one day last week, while
intoxicated. Pa
THE machine factory of Steptoe 6
Mcfarland, at Cincinnati, was partially
destroyed by fire last Saturday. Loss
$5, 900.
JOSEPHINE EARLY, of Cambridge, has
obtained a Judgment in the Common
Pleas Court against Herman Shultz fol
$500, under the Adair Liquor law.
By runaway-at Dayton, afew even.
ings since, two gentlemen of that city,
named Allen and Anderson, were
thrown from their carriage and fatally
injured.
MICHAEL CLARK, an inmate of the
Soldiers Home, at Dayton, committed
suicide at that institution last week, by
cutting his throat with pocket knife
Cause, dependency.
A TERRIBLE murder was committed at
saw mill six miles northwest of Piquf
on Monday last. Two men beat q mar
named Snap to death with clubs because
he came to collect rents.
HUeH EVANS, the iron-iawed man oil
Barnum's show, is in jail in Cleveland
for illegal voting. He hangs while tC
a bar by his teeth every day, for his OWL
and fellow prisoners amusement.
TIE local sensation in Columbus, las
week, was the fact that Councilman
Chris. Lewis, who has some reputation
for muscle, had his visage badly dam
aged in saloon alteration over throw
of dice for a mug of beer.
TIE body of Minerva Davis, colored
woman, was found in an alley in the
center of Piqua one morning last week,
with her throat cut wide and deep. The
Coroner's Jury returned verdict charg
ing her husband with the crime.
A MAN named John Perkins, employe.
in Jennings saw mill, three miles from
West Jefferson, went to the latter place
the other day, became intoxicated, and
was found dead near the railroad track
next morning, with his head terribly
mangled.
VIM. MoRRAN, who feloniously en-.
tered the residence of Abraham Hivling,
at Xenia, in July, on the day of Bar
NUNS show, has been sentenced by
Judge Barlow to four years in the Peni-
tentiary. He seemed to like the pros
poets.
JACOB OsrER, cf Tiffin, committed sui.
eide, shooting himself through the heart
last Thursday night with an army mus
ket. The charge which was common
marble and chunk iron, passed complete,
ly through his body and lodged in the
ceiling. Family trouble is the supposed
cause.
KILOGRAMS received at Columbus
state that most of the miners in the
Hooking Valley left their work and are
on strike. They demand an increase OF
ten cents per ton for mining coal. The
indications now are that their demands
will be refused by the operators.
Ar Springfield, David Over had been
missing for several days, and on Satur.
day last cannon was fred at the spot
where he was supposed to have sunk IN
Mad river. The experiment was sue
sessful, as the corpse was raised to the
surface. An inquest was held, and the
jury found that he met his death by fall
ing into the water.
THE City Council of Lima have issued
circular calling convention of dele
gates from cities of this State to meet a
Columbus on Dec. 8, for the purpose o.
devising some means to wipe out the sys
tenn of tramps which is becoming sc
general throughout the country. This
meeting will memorialize the Legislature
to pass a general law to that effect.
THERESA SwIsER, a servant girl, dice
at boarding house in Columbus, severa
days ago, quite suddenly. Her remains
were buried, but her friends, suspecting
foul play, had the body resurrected, and
Coroner's Jury made an examination
of it, and returned verdict that JOSEPH
P. Tussing, the girls former lover, was
the cause of her death, using foul meani
to accomplish it, as she refused to marry
him. Tussing has disappeared.
AN important railroad change will soo1
occur at Cincinnati. The Erie and At
lantic and Great Western will do bust
ness between Dayton and Cincinnati owe
the Dayton Short Line, c., c., G. ant
l., instead of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton, as at present. This will b.
done by means of a transfer of cars
freight and passengers from broad t.
narrow trucks at Dayton and from mar
row to broad. This change is due II
the common interest in stock in the two
roads.
| A DISTINGUISHED Ohioan has passet
away. Judge Thomas L. Jewett died a
the st. Nicholas Hotel, Cincinnati, Oh
the I'd inst. He was the senior brothe
of Hugh J. Jewett, President and Re
ceiver of the Erie railroad. He wa
about sixty-fye years of age, born il
Hartford county, Maryland, of Quake
parents. He came to this State early il
life, and passed most of his years of &C
tivity in Cincinnati, Steubenville bein:
his home. He was lawyer of promi
nence, and was at one time a Judge i
Steubenvllle.
DURING Capt. Boyton's journey dow
tho Rbina from RoG1a fo Strocb11ror n