The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-30

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Common school fund 3s,s21s
Total Dol, Al IL
There was received on account of gem
eral revenue fund Isl, ,626 81
SINKING i'oioao ~
Total receipts, including balances. 81, ,210, 1896 %
Disbursements made as follows:
From general revenue fund @ SsS ISS 81 al
From common school fund. 1,6oo,ss4 so
Total disbursements IS, $50 21s %
Balances remain in the Treasury as
follows:
General revenue fund 1885 20
Sinking fund. 20s s92 70
Common school fund 1927 "a
Total balances 6i0,l76 50
LEONARD DIoKERHooF, clerk for Barber
& Son, commission merchants, of Canton,
Stark County, indo rsed a check for $463
with the firms name, on the Goth, had the
check cashed at the Farmers Bank, and
skipped the town. Dickerhoof is an old
employe, and was intrusted with the col
lections. While engaged in that work he
obtained the check which the cashier of
the bank, knowing the position Dicker-
hoof held, readily paid. Dickerhoof is
native of Greentown, Stark County. The
i police authorities of the State have been
notified.
AN OLD umbrella-mender, giving his
name as Henry o. Mccoy, claiming Allie
ghany as his home, was found wandering
around the streets of Wellsville, Columbi-
ana County, on the Goth, in terrible con-
dition, with both cheek-bones shattered
and his nose almost torn from his face, pre-
senting CHASTITY spectacle. When ques-
toned relative to the manner in which he
received the injuries, he claimed he was
cut with knife by some unknown person
The statement, however, is discredited, and
the supposition is that he was struck by
some train. His injuries may result ia
tally.
As Mrs. CATHERINE ELLENwoop, q
sprightly old lady, over eighty-five years
old, living at Belpre, Washington County,
was returning from Parkersburg, w. Va,
on the 23d, with several bundles of dry
goods on her arms, she was accosted by q
nice-looking man, who offered to carry her
bundles. On asking if he lived in Belpre,
and receiving an afirmative=feply, she
handed him the goods. When the ferry
boat landed on the Belpre shore the man
escaped, took with him the goods, about
$50 worth, and since then Mrs Ellenwood
has not seen her accommodating friend.
=. The Norwalk News Company, of Nor
walk, Huron county, capital $1,000; the
Jacksonville Coal and Coke Company, of
Jacksonville Perry County, capital $780,
600; the Athens Floral Company, of Ath-
ems, capital $4,000, and the Sutherland
Mail Addresser Company, of Cincinnati,
capital 500, 900, were incorporated at Co
lumbus on the oath.
REASON NJ. YOUNG, a wealthy and infiu-
ential farmer of Union Township, Knox
County, became violently insane ON the
Goth, and attempted to kill one of his
children with a club. The Sheriff, under
orders from the Probate Court has arrested
Young, who will be kept confined in Jail
until place can be secured for him in the
Columbus Asylum.
Miss CASSIE ARMSTRONG, aged about
eighteen years, resident of Van Vert,
met with painful accident the other day
while visiting in Darke County. While
riding in a spring wagon she was thrown
out, the wheel shaving her ear off close to
her head. She returned home with her
ear in her pocket.
JACOB P. Stock, of Sandusky, was fatally
injured on the oath, by being struck on
the head by an iron roller weighing forty
pounds, which fell from scaffold while
Stock was passing beneath it. A hole three
by four inches was. broken in his skull,
pieces of bone being driven to depth of
one inch into the brain.
SUIT has been brought by the Treasurer
of Hamilton County against the First,
Third, Fourth and Merchants National
Banks of Cincinnati, for taxes amounting
to $121, ,115. 1t is alleged in the petition
that false returns have been made by these
banks for taxation.
FANNIE CRE1GHRoN, residing near Lith-
, opolis, fourteen miles south of Columbus,
was fatally shot with shotgun on the
21st, by an unknown person. She killed
her husband and served a term five years
ago. This second assault was caused by
the strong feeling in the neighborhood
EMMA L. PAYNE, of Gallon, Crawford
County, has filed her application for di.
vorce from her husband Homer W. Payne,
and asks for the custody of their child.
The complaint is for gross neglect of duty.
,, Both parties are from prominent families.
DOUGLAS CREvIsToN, convict at the
State Penitentiary, who ran away from
the prison stable April Z, was arrested al
Bellefontaine on the oath.
AN unknown fatal disease is prevailing
among hogs in several portions of the
State.
W. s. JOHNSON, ticket agent of the Co
3 lumbus, Hooking Valley and Toledo Rail
road at Union Furnace, few miles from
+ Logan, has absconded with about $4OO oi
the Company's funds. Detectives are on
, his track.
GEORGE ALLEN BEELER, aged twenty-si1
0 years, living in Milan, Allen County, at
tempted to commit suicide on the 23d by
9 cutting his throat with a pocket-knif
d Prompt medical aid saved his life. Tenn
porary insanity the cause assigned.
b DANIEL OGBoRN, a Kansas horse thief
!, was captured at Columbus on the oath.
b 1. N. COLLINS, convicted and sentenced al
: Van Vert recently for illegal voting, ha.
been pardoned by the Governor.
q MRS SUSAN CANE was struck by passen
4 ger train on the Scioto Valley Road a
: Circleville, on the oath, sustaining the
; fracture of an arm, an d was otherwise Sc
:, verely bruised.
. MANAGER JAS FENNEssY, of the Coliseum
Theater, Cincinnati, pleaded guilty tt
giving performance on Sunday, and as il
was first offense, he was fined $50 an6
, costs by Judge Higley of the Police Court
;. PIERCE & HAMMER, of Dexter City, Noble
County, have made an assignment. Lila
bilities $4,000. Assets $4,000