The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-04
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since. POSTMASTER Nantlne ana the route
agent were in the Office; thirty-eight
registered letters were lying on the desk.
The postmaster stepped out, and was
gone ten minutes, leaving the route
agent alone in the room. When he re-
turned he missed the letters, and saw the
route agent going out ofthe door. This
is the story told by the postmaster. The
route agent denies having touched the
letters. Very singularly, the postmaster
has taken no legal action in the matter.
The affair causes considerable excite
ment at Sandusky, as post Office matters
have been in bad muddle for some
time.
+. An order has been issued from the
lAdiutant- Generals Office attaching the
Emmit Guards, of Dayton, to the
Fourth Battalion and designated as Com
pany C. The Adjutant- General has re-
ceiyed notification of the organization OF
the Malvern Blues, of Carroll county.
The officers are as follows: Captain,
David E. Roatch First Lieutenant,
Louis P. Pellon; Second Lieutenant,
John Richards. A new company has been
organized at Bellefontaine, called the
Lawrence Cadets. Captain, Arson @.
Knapp; First Lieutenant, Alfred En-
glish; Second Lieutenant, Fred. P. Starr.
A young man named Jesse Mullen,
aged about twenty-five years, was found
dead in the front yard of Mrs. Deremer,
in Harlem township, Delaware county.
The testimony before the Coroner's jury
went to show that a few days previousto
finding the body, the deceased was seen
in company with two men named George
Hursey and Alonzo Bachelor, going
along the road and up to the house Of
Mrs. Deremer that there was no one
home excepting her daughter Anna,
whose reputation is not of the best
character. The three persons named, it
is stated, gave contradictory evidence,
and post mortem was held. Upon the
removal of the scalp it was made evident
that the deceased had received severe
blow on the right temple and also upon
the back of the head. The jury brought
in verdict that the deceased came to
his death by violence, and that Anna
Deremer, George Hursey, and Alonze
Bachelor were concerned in the perpetra-
ton of the violence as accessories. They
were Immediately ordered under arrest
and held for examination.
A man registering himself as w. B.
Frawder, Dayton, was found dead in his
bed at the American Hotel, Toledo,
few days ago. 1t was supposed, from in
dications, that he had committed sui.
eide.
Anthony Griesbaum was fatally in
jured, recently, by being caught between
two cars OF the Cincinnati, Sandusky &
Cleveland Railway, at the depot in San
dusky. Three ribs were broken and
driven through his lungs. Griesbaum is
ffty-six years old, and has wife and
four children.
A German named Andreas Hardy,
sevsnty-five or eighty years old, was run
over and killed at the Cincinnati Stock
yards, by switch-engine No. SO, of the
Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad. The
old man was quite deaf and near-sighted,
and while picking up coal along the
track, failed to see or hear the approach
ing engine. Both legs were cut off be.
low the knees, and his head was mangled.
He was killed almost instantly. Hardy
was atone time school-teacher at Lick
Run, and lived somewhere in that 10
cality.
At Glendale, in Hamilton county,
John Palmer was shot by Michael
Fegarty while returning home from a
ball. at two o'clock in the morning.
Fogarty concealed himself behind tree,
and fred at his victim while walking
with a lady and agentleman. The wound
was pronounced dangerous by physi-
clan. Fogarty had just been pardoned
from the penitentiary, to which he had
been sentenced less than a year previ
ously for mortally wounding man by
the name of John Malloy while firing al
Palmer. The original feud was about q
woman.
/ Cincinnati Commercial: Four or five
little boys were at play clambering about
pile Of hickory logs belonging to Bus
Gle & Wuest's hub factory, No II Bur
rows alley, running from Race to Elm
streets, between Second and Pearl. The
logs. had been carelessly piled against 8
| light board fence, and, with the weight
of the logs, the side toward the alley
gave way. Three Of the boys escaped in
| jury. One was rescued with one of hi
legs caught under fallen log. In ex
Treating him it was discovered that an
other lay down under the pile. with the
whole upper part of his head cut off
Death had been instantaneous. Th,
whole mass of brains lay in clot on tn,
pavement, with portion of the skull
and scalp. The body of the boy was car
ried to the house Of his mother, wife o
John Kilcoyne. No. 101 Cherry alley
The father, who labors in the country
left home Monday morning to return
Saturday night. u 3
M. T. Dwight Eells, a prominent citi
zen of Cleveland, also prominently identi
fed with the Lake Superior iron-ore in
terests, died very suddenly there, few
days since, of paralysis.
A large warehouse, owned by Theo
dore Mayo, south of the depot at Lima
was entirely destroyed by fire the othe
afternoon, with 5000 bushels of cat
and 1,700 bushels of wheat. The loss i
estimated at between IS, 600 and SO, 900
Insured in the Knox Mutual, Ashland
Mutual, and Lycoming, but the amount
could not be ascertained. A very higt