The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-11
OHIO.

St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, April IL,
aged eighty-two years. He was born in
Carthage, Ohio, in 1894, and was son
of old Jacob White, long a judge of
Hamilton county, Ohio, and was the
peer and boon companion of Judge
Spencer and Burnet and men of that
stamp. He was a merchant of forty
years standing in Cincinnati, and was for
many years a member of the old house
of Glenn & Co.. when he retired in feeble
health to more genial cline in Louisi-
ana. Mr.. White is said to have built the
first brick house corner Of Third and
Broadway, in Cincinnati. He was a
devoted husband and father, and leaves
a wife, three SONS and two daughters.
A few mornings since, the guard on
entering the rooms of George Deschler,
an inmate of Longview Insane Asylum,
Hamilton county, found him lying dead
in his room, strangled. He had taken
off his drawers, tied knot in one leg
and placing the knot under his left ear,
had wrapped the drawers around hin in
such manner as to enable him to stran-
gle himself by pulling the legs of the
garment, after the manner of strangula-
tion by the bowstring." Hemust have
struggled violently and used immense
force, as he had pulled the extemporized
rope about his neck SO tightly that the
skin was torn deeply in several places.
George (Dutch) Davis, formerly of
Dayton, and prominently identified with
navigation on the Wabash Canal forty
years ago, died at Toledo not long since,
in his sixty-frst year. Davis resided in
Missouri at the outbreak of the war and
lost all his property owing to his Union
sentiments. Latterly he has been in
moderate circumstances.
Postmaster Van Tine, of Sandusky,
charged with embezzlement and robbing
the mail. was taken to Cleveland and ex-
amined before Commissioner White who
bound him over to the October term Of
the United States Court in the sum Of
$4,000. Bail was furnished by Van Tine
and his brother.
Mary Scheurmann, young German
girl, who works at a German boarding
house, in Cincinnati, complained few
mornings since, of feeling i'll and retired
to her room. Shortly after she entered
the room shegave birth to female child,
When on her way up stairs she had man
aged, unnoticed tosecure carving knife
from the kitchen. With an unnatural
and cruel fortitude, she drew the knife
across the baby's throat almost severine
its head from its body, as soon as it ut
tered the first cry of life. Throwing the
little bloody. unwashed body under the
bed, she endeavored to complete hel
fatal work by gashing her own throat
The wound she made must be about foul
inches in its surface length and deeI
enough to open the windpipe, but with
out severing the great blood vessels OF
either side of the neck. Her clothing
and her person were drenched with he
own blood and that of her child, and thu
floor was redeemed by that which fowec
from the wounds of each. The wount
is not necessarily fatal, and the girl is il
a fair way of recovery. Mary had al
ways maintained good character, 70
virtue. -
A man named John q. Norris, is car
rying on, in an elaborate, systematic ant
very extensive way, this kind of business
He advertises his hesdquartersat Spring
field and Cincinnati, and orders good
and products of various sorts from firm
| in various sorts from firms in all part
of the Union and Canada, referring then
to the bankers and other business me-
of the city. When the goods arrive the
are Immediately taken from the expires
Offices or freight depots, and transferre
to other parties for any amount Norri
or his confederates can get for then
Norris was in the Ohio Penitentiary, fc
swindling, nearly year, but was dii
charged through legal technicality, an
has been carrying on his business sine
on a larger scale than before. He claim
to have amassed forty thousand dollal
by this style of business. Many effpr
have been made by the Springfield new
papers and leading business men to e.
pose his practices and warn the publ
against him, but IN spite of these effor
he seems still to be doing very larl
business.
The particulars of a most horrib
crime, committed in the vicinity of Fo
est, Ohio, have lately come to light.
appears that not long ago, as Jot
Baumock, a farmer residing five mil
from town, was working in the field wi
his daughter, little girl of seven yeal
! and his SON, aged fifteen, he became e
! ragged at something the latter had don
, and raising a handspike, struck him ov
the head, knocking him senseless. Thin
+ ing he had only tainted, and fearful
, the consequences when his brutal
|. should become known, he struck hi
again and again, until life had becor
t entirely extinct, finishing by coveril
r the body in an adjacent log heap, al
t threatening the girl with like treatme
: unless she preserved silence. He tn
= gave out that the boy had run away, al
' nothing strange was thought of the ma
! ter until the little girl, in answer to
e question, admitted that she knew t
q whereabouts of her brother, but W
2 afraid to tell. Upon being question
!, closely she finally gave full stateme
Of the murder, but was not able to gi
r the exact locality. The whole neighb,
IS hood turned out, and after short scar
e found the body, partially deccmposed
d exposure. Upon suspicion being arous
] Baumock attempted TO escape, but "
I arrested and lodged in Jail.