The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-11-13


old man was about to vote a Democratic
ticket election day. John ]. Kelly took
the ticket out of his hand and profered
Republican ticket. A scramble and pro-
miscuous fight ensued. Kelly struck at
Officer Zimmerman, as he says, who hit
Kelly on the head with loaded cane.
Sequel: Kelly in drug store-cut, sewed
up-in ten minutes back to the polls as
lively as ever. No arrests. Laret in the
afternoon small riot broke out at Precinct
A, Ward 1S. Officer Zimmerman interfered,
when Pete Kelly, who had been haunting
the vicinity ever since his brother, John J.
Kelly, was clubbed by the same officer in
the forenoon, quickly stabbed Officer Hum
neman in the left side, the knife presum-
ably penetrating the lung. The wounded
man was Immediately carried to the Ninth
Street Station house, where his wound
was examined and temporarily dressed,
after which he was removed in a hack to
his home, Father Burke accompanying
him, under the impression that his wound
was fatal. Pete Kelly is member of the
Democratic Executive Committee of Ham
ilton County.
JOHN MEALS and Phil. Hennessy en-
gagged in political dispute on election day
in Cincinnati. Hennessy struck Nealis
several times in the face, when Nealis drew
a revolver and shot Hennessy in the left
breast, inficting a fatal wound. Hennes-
sy was taken to the City hospital and
Nealis captured and taken to Oliver-st.
police station, where it was found he
was shot in the leg, but when and by whom
he can not tell.
|, An inquest held on the body of John
Shatzer, the man who wes run over by the
| st. Clairsville train few mornings ago,
revealed the fact that he had been stabbed
| three times, once in the heart, and then
| placed on the railroad track. No arrests
have yet been made, though some are
suspected.
FLORA CAMPBELL, aged ten years, was
| left alone by her parents near q fire on the
river bank at Steubenville, the other night.
| 1t is supposed she fell asleep. Her clothing
caught fire and burned to shreds. When
rescued her arms, body and breast were
| terribly burned, from which she died next
| morning after great agony.
Ar Lowellville, in the eastern part of Ma
honing County, gang of young thieves
have been at work recently, sand bagging
citizens and causing reign of terror in the
community by their bold Iobberies.. The
| other night the store of Emil Landsky was
robbed of $500 worth of goods, and an ad-
| joining store of all the thieves could convey
away. The citizens organized a Vigilance
Committee and propose to make short work
of the thieves and sluggers.
BURGLARS entered the house of William
Alexander, living three miles west of Yel-
low Springs, at an early hour the other
morning and stole $132 in money, the re.
ceipts from the sale of his wheat. That
vicinity seems to be full of horse-thieves
and burglars at present, and as yet there Is
no clew to any of their dirty work.
w. A. MOORE, of Alliance,s employed a
brakeman on the Cleveland and Pittsburs
Railway, fell under moving train at Bay.
ard, twelve miles south of Alliance, thu
other night, and was instantly killed. Hi
| mangled remains were scattered along ths
track for distance of half a mile. Ht
| was unmarried.
1 A GIRL named Evilsizer attempted sui
eide at Caldwell, the other morning by cut
ting her throat in an clubhouse with
small penknife. About an hour after tn,
deed she was discovered, weak and helpless
from bleeding. She will recover. Cause
trouble over a theft she was accused of b,
the family with whom she was living.
JAMES DUNCAN is missing from Akron
Foul play is suspected, as he had a consid
cradle sum of money about his person.
PETER ScHNEPYER and Rudolph Wink
/ lers, two stone-masons, while at work OF
the new church in. the course of construc
tion on Walnut Hills, fell, by the breaking
| of the scaffold on which they were stand
ing, to the ground, distance of forty feet
Schnepyer received deep scalp woun,
and was also hurt internally. Winklers
injuries were also of an informal character
| Both men, it is thought, are fatally hurt
WILLIE, only son of S. R. Vanmetre, wa
seriously injured by the accidental dis
charge of a shotgun, in the hands of
youthful companion at Watertown, Wash
ington County, few days since.