The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-04-17
Miscellaneous Items.

YOUNG Andrew Hull came to the front
again the other night by stealing horse
belonging to a colored man named David
Johnson, of Van Vert. Young Hull is the
same lad who was picked up in Cincinnati
some two months ago, where he had wan
dered away from home or was stolen by
Gypsies. This is the third horse he has
stolen and is as yet only ten years of age.
The authorities are on his track. Not long
since he. caused considerable excitement in
Van Vert by attempting suicide by drown
ing during high water.
THE case of the Commonwealth against
DIR. J. Walker Davis, indicted for the MUIR
der (by poison) of Lowry Munday, was
called in the Criminal Court at Versailles
on the 9th. The case excites great interest,
especially among insurance companies, as
the deceased carried policies of insurance
on his life amounting to $25 900. The array
of counsel on each side is brilliant.
CHARLES SHARP, of Williamsport, Ash.
tabula County, was arrested by United
States Marshal Odell on a charge of fail
ing to pay the special tax for the sale of
liquor. Sharp had hearing before Com
missioner White, of Cleveland, the other
day, and was bound over to the District
Court under $500 bonds.
A DANGEROUS crook, in the person Of
Geo. Brady, is under arrest at Columbus.
| He has made confessions which will give
him a term at least in the penitentiary. He
has done service in Pittsburg, Buffalo and
| other places.
GEORGE HAYES, the fifteen-year-
old son of Timothy Hayes, of Cleve-
| land, while standing in front of a stall at
the driving park the other day, was kicked
in the face by a vicious horse, and, it is
| thought, fatally injured. He was picked up
| insensible and taken to his residence
GEO. GEHRING, prominent young man
| of Cleveland, and a student under DR.. G..
| g. E. Weber, took strychnine few days
| ago by mistake for quinine, and his recov-
| cry is doubtful.
| WILLIAM CoWELL was arrested by J. l..
Nieman, Marshal of Cleve, for drunken
ness, and upon slight pretext was so
cruelty beaten by the officer that he died
from the effects. Nieman was hurried to
jail at Wooster, and narrowly escaped
lynching.
AN order has been issued by the Adjutant
General of Ohio relieving Colonel F. B.
| Mott from command of the Fourth Reei-
ment 0. N. g., for disobedience of orders
during the riots in Cincinnati. Similar
charges are preferred against Lieutenant
Colonel Phillips, of the same regiment.
! EoLoM HOFFMAN, of Painesville, regis
| tered at a hotel in Buffalo, March 81. The
following day he left to visit friend across
Buffalo River, and has not been seen or
heard of since. A trunk and valise bear
ing his name remain at the hotel.
| The Judiciary Committee of the Senate
have agreed to recommend that further
consideration of the bill limiting the de-
fendant in criminal cases to six peremptory
challenges be postponed until next
January.
The cow of Mrs. Geo. Crumps, Marys-
vile, became enraged while being MIXED,
and drove her horn through both cheeks of
the milker.
JUDGE D. D. L. CowEN, of st. Clairsville,
formerly one of the leading citizens of the
State, died few days ago, aged fifty-eight
years, after long and lingering illness.
The shortage of the absconding railroad
agent at Mingo Junction was $4,000.
A MAN in darlington is the possessor of a
common brass pin, value twenty cents
which he has worn every day for TWEEN ty
four years.
JUDGE WILLIAM HELFENsTEIN, of Day.
ton, died at Durango, Mex, few days
ago.
WIN. BLAKELY, charged with being one
of the lynchers of Richard Hickey, at
Rendeville, has been convicted of man.
slaughter, at New Lexington.
HUGH McGUE, of Milan, aged sixty-seven
years, died very suddenly a few nights
since. He retired in usual good health
The northeastern Kentucky beekeepers
held a convention in Covington on the 9th
The grain dealers of Central Ohio organ
lied an association at Columbus, recently
With James P. McAllister as President and
]. W. McCord as Secretary.
THERE are eighty-one school districts in
Hopkins county and 5,933 white and "a:
black children within the school age.