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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
ATTEMPTED MURDER
And Suicide Of william Kelly, Of Gov.
ington, KY.
shoots His MiStress and Then Kills
HimseiE at Las Vesns, New-Mexieo.

LAS VEGAS, N. NJ, January 17.-This
morning VIM. Kelly, well known sporting
character, shot Rose Martin, his mistress,
and committed suicide by blowing out his
brains. They had been quarreling. Kelly
had retired, and Rose was sitting on the
side of the bed smoking a cigarette. Kelly
asked her to retire. She refused, when he
threw his arm around her, placed a pistol
to her breast, and fired, the ball
passing through her breast and
arm. He then fired two shots
into himself One in the breast passed
through and lodged in his arm, the other
In his right temple, which lodged ON the
other side, causing instant death. The
woman was not seriously injured. Kelly
Is from Covington, KY, where his people
reside. BE was about thirty years old,
and popular. The coroner's jury returned
a verdict of suicide. His body will be
shipped to his former home.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Miscellaneous Items

mIseeli0neOuS Items.
MATTHEW SMITH, Baltimore and Ohio
brakeman, while making a coupling, at
Newark, few days ago, slipped on the
track, the wheels of the engine passing
over his right foot, crushing it horribly.
ANDREW EGNER was pardoned few
days ago by Governor Foster. He
was convicted at the November, 1915,
term of the Hamilton County Court
of murder in the second degree, and sen.
fenced for life. This case was known as
the ''Tap-yerd Murder"
SECRETARY FoLGER, writing to Ito Presi.
dent of the Cincinnati Chamber of Com.
merce, says it is his intention to secure an
advance appropriation from Congress of a
portion of the amount asked for the Gov
ernment building there for the next fiscal
year, and to direct that work on the build.
ing be so arranged as to secure an early
completion of the first floor.
JOHN JEHU, of Youngstown, was caken
to the Poor-house a few days ago. Twenty
years ago he was worth 500, 900. During
the labor strikes he sold to the strikers $780,
COO worth of goods for which he was never
paid. Drink took the rest.
Mrs. ANDREW HAMBLEToN, wife of a
well known citizen of the village of Lafay.
cite, a small place six miles west of West
Jefferson, committed suicide by jumping
into cistern full of water a few days ago,
She leaves husband and three children.
Mr.. Hambleton lately purchased the dry
goods store of ]. F. Martin, of that place,
Two German lovers journeyed to Ciacin.
natl, where the young man died within a
fortnight. The distracted girl wanted him
buried decently, offering to pay the bill in
installments of two dollars a week. Before
she had paid anything she was courted and
married, and now judgment has been OBJ
tanned against her husband for the blrial
of the lover.
Mrs. ISAAC TIEBER, sixty-seven years of
age, of Cincinnati, cut her throat with a
butcher-knife, few days ago, and die d the
next morning. Illness and family trouble
is supposed to have been the cause.
THE case of Emma Wordsworth VS.. Ex-
County Commissioner Felix A. Harris at
Newark, charging him with having had
procured an abortion, closed Il few days
ago, the defendant being discharged.
JOHN HACKMAN, age about sixty years.
while trying to get on moving passenger
train at Van Vert a few day ago, fell be-
tween the cars and had a foot crushed so
that amputation was necessary
R. NJ. LAIN, farmer near Alexandria,
Licking County, suicided by cutting his
throat with a razor, onsthe 18th.
The damage suit of Frank Rector VS..
Harry Roclfred, proprietor of the Arcade
Hotel, Springfield, for the formers terrible
tumble down the elevator shaft, resulted in
a verdict for the defendant the other tlav.
JAMES HAWKINS, sen., Il prominent
pioneer farmer near Plattsburg, died few
mornings since. He came from England
in 1928. He leaves a large and highly re.
spected family.
ROBERT GORDON. born slave, died in
Cincinnati, recently, at the age of seventy.
Hwo, possessed Of property, and held liz
general esteem.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
What Constitutes a Carload.

Railroads do not exactly agree in
their rules and estimates, but it is gen.
orally conceded thas 5000 feet of solid
boards, IL, 900 feet of siding, $4,000 feet
of flooring, 10000 shingles, one-half
less hard lumber, one-quarter less green
lumber, one-tenth less of joists, scant-
lings and all other large lumber con-
stitute carload. These figures are
given by the Southern Lunbernrqn, and
approximate SO closely to the general
average that shippers will find them a
great convenience as matter of refer
ence.-ScteRtifc american.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
The Wages of Sin.

LANcAsTER, Pa, January 17.-Hattie
Schol1, daughter of a prominent citizen of
Lancaster, died this morning from an
operation, it is alleged, committed by DR..
Bruce. of Philadelphia. Joseph Stricken,
her alleged betrayer, is under arrest. The
girlin her dying statement said that four
other girls were under treatment at the
house in Philadelphia where she was opera
ted upon. DR.. Bruce was arrested to-
night. He was tried once on similar
charge, but acquitted.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
The Train Robbing Mayor.

LAREDO, TEXAS, January 2O.-Accordina
to the Mexican custom of dealing with of
henderson, higher grade the case of Pablo
Quintana, Mayor of New Laredo, Mexico
imprisoned at Monterey, charged with com
plicity in the recent train robbery on the
Mexican National Railroad, has been se
cretly investigated before Judge. Suffi
cient evidence was developed to hold the
culprit for final trial in the public courts,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
AnofherConfassion

JAMAICA, L. l., January 2O.-Edmunc
Tappan, charged with the murder of the
Maybee women, has made supplementary
confession in which it is said he acknowl
edged that he, and not his brother John
committed the crime, and indicated where
the property stolen from the Maybees can
be found.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

A GENTLEMAN writes to the Washing
ton Star: .'My stomach having been sick
ened by eating a very small bit of candy
recently, l took three similar bits, about
two-thirds of an inch square and q
quarter of an inch thick, put them in a
cup of water until dissolved, poured off
the slightly sweetened water. placed
the settings on Il piece of paper, and
let it dry. Rcsllt: About two-thirds
of the whole hard substance, like gyp-
sum, or plaster of Paris, or chalk, or
whiting or a mixture of all"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Panic in q Church.

PHILADELPHIA, January 2O.-During g
O'Clock mass at st. Charles Borromeo, 6
woman tainted. Several persons rushed
to her assistance and cry of fire followed
A large number of persons in the rear OF
the church and in the galleries rushed fo,
the doors, causing panic, which was in
creased by the arrival of the fire appa.
ratus. Several women tainted, and valu.
able stained glass was demolished by q
man jumping through it to the street.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Hanging in Wyoming.

RAwI1Ns, WY. T., January 19.-Leroy
Donovan, convicted of the murder of VIM
Leighton, at Rock Springs, in May, 1888,
was hanged here yesterday. Donovan
was twenty three years old, and was also
known as John Lee and by some supposed
to be the SON of John D. Lee, the Mormo N
OF Mountain Meadow massacre notoriety.
He killed Leighton for his money. Dono.
van is the first white man executed in
Wyoming by process of law.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Egyptian rebellion spreadine.

CAIRO, January 1s.-An official dispatch
states that the whole country around
Khartoum is in open rebellion against the
Egyptian Government.
ALEXANDRIA, January 1S.-Hght Egyp-
tian officials, including the Governor of
the town, were hanged at Ell Obeid, and
their heads fixed upon poles in front of Ell
Mahdi's residence 81 = -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

A CORRESPONDENT who attended re-
cent charity ball in New York, writes to
the Providence Herald: Il never saw
so many bare necks, so many long red
elbowy arms in my life. A woman in a
wet bathing-suit is an odd creature, but
the worst of them is beautiful in COM
parison with some of the nndressed wo-
men who paraded themselves on this
occasion ~
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

THE Federation of Labor Society, in
Washington, has appointed one man
from each trade in the city to look out
for the 'smashers" who approach igirls
on their way to and from work, and
when the masher is found ne will be
pounced upon and prosecuted in the
courts WaShingto7a Star.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

The newest nicely as to perjury is
found in San Francisco. One Perazzo
had been convicted of the crime, but the
Supreme Court reversed the conviction
on the gronud that the point that the
offender was sworn to testify to was not
material in the proceedings and there
fore his testimony could not be perjury.
N Y Sln.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

"A Biddeford (Me.) } gentleman found
in his wood-shed recently dead weasel,
with his tongue frozen to an ax-blade.
The AK had been used in cutting beef in
the morning, and the animal, in at
tempting to secure piece of the meat
which adhered to the blade, had sin
gularly met his death.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

AT a microscopic exhibition in Bos-
ton recently, the sting of honey bee
was thrown upon the screen, the peint
of which was SO sharp as to be hardly
distinguishable. At the same time the
finest of fine needles was shown, under
the same power of the microscope, and
the end of the needle measured five
inches across
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Cattle in Montana.

ST. PAUL, January 17.-Manager Cowles,
of the Concord Cattle Company, which has
herds on the Upper Tongue River in Mon
tana, says the stock is wintering in good
condition. He estimates the shipments. from
Montana next summer at forty thousand
hzxd. against thirty thousand this year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Rich Find in the Mails.

NEW YORK, January Especial Officer
j. NJ. Wilson, of the United States Treas
ury Department, seized small package in
the mail from Amsterdam last night. 1t
contained diamonds valued at $40, 600.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

LAST year Uncle Sam shipped abroad
1928, 166, 1873 worth of stuff, imported
1920, 1872 1927 worth, and has slowed
away comfortable hundred millions in
his pockets. 1t Itwould seem that the
old fellow ought to be able to stand
treat to the untaxed cigars
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

VIENNA has society which renders
assistance to boys and girls who, on
leaving school, wish to enter any trade,
and who have no one else to help or adj
wise them. The children ere looked
after, both as regards their moral and
intellectual development.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

The young man Landeu, who died
of hunger and exposure at Lexington,
KY. the other day was son of the
President of the Kensington National
Bank, of Philadelphia, and was off in a
wayward freak for adventure.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

A GREAT many people imagine they
see joke in '.Europe's insult 10
American hog" But it is shown that
the exports of bacon from this country
TO France and Germany before its inter-
dict;on exceeded S7,000,O00 in value,
which is just about the value of wines
and spirit sent by those Nations to the
United States; so that retaliation can be
easily practiced.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

Joseph Reefe, German farmer,
living neer St. Louis, has complained to
the authorities that an invisible wagon
and q team ratified up to his gate in the
evening. He wishes to have the spirit:
arrested who are thus annoying him.
ST. JOuis Globe.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Mrs. Anna. Trion- u

Mrs. Anna Irion. whose home when
a girl was in Bucks County, Pa, was
the young woman who buckled the
sword of General Houston around that
veteran just before the battle of San
Jacinto. Her death in Bryan, Tex, was
a recent occurrence.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Selling obscene Pictures.

PHILADELPHIA, January 17.-John and
Joseph Suder and Jeremiah T. Wilson,
photographers, pleading guilty to the
manufacturing and selling of obscene pic
lures, were sentenced to each pay fine of
$500 and to imprisonment for one year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Attempted Suicide.

EAST SAGINAW, January 20.-Chas. L..
Dewaib attempted suicide in Chesaning
yesterday by stabbing himself with a pair
shears. He was under arrest upon a
charge of forgery. The wound is serious,
but he will probably recoYer
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Killed by Dynamite.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., January 17.-Colpep-
per Austin, while digging well in Union
County, was killed by the explosion of a
dynamite cartridge. Mack Chapman was
terribly mangled and is dying.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

The Chief-of-Police of Buffalo de-
fines suspicious person as "a man
standing on the street corner with his
hands in his pocket" Fold your arms
and lean against a wall if you want TO
pass for an honest man.-Det, oil Free
PfpeS
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Priest Dies on a. Train

BOSTON, January 1s.-Rev. W. j. Crom-
blehelme, of Ashton-under-Lyne collect
ing funds for the payment of the debt of
his Catholic Church, in England, was
stricken with paralysis on train, taken
to hotel and died.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

A FRENCH writer, who estimates that
the world contains 1873, 900 doctors,
complains that two of our most exasper-
ating affections, asthma and catarrh,
defy their utmost skill.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
No Socialism in America.

LONDON, anuary20.-Mr.James Brice, on
his return from America, has been explain
ing to Liverpool the beauties of American
institutions and the hopelessness of a So
cialists propaganda in a country where
everybody owns land
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

AT Andover, Mass, Jonathan Alb
bott owned large grove of pines, but
when recent gale threw down the
trees he took the event SO much to heart
that he hanged himself.-Bosto't Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
The gaton gtmnfrat.
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

"CIvnTzATIoN, on her luminous
wings, scars in the. direction of Reno,
NeY.," says the Sacramento Bee. THE
squaws in that vicinity have taken to
using face POWDER =
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
CrueI Shin Captain Fined.

NEW YORK, January 17.-Captain Joshua
Slocum, of Tie ship Northern Light, con-
victed of cruelty to H. A. Slater, a sailor,
has been sentenced to pay $500 fine.
The amount was paid and the Captain re-
laacad
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

The sale of secondhand food is an in
dustry conducted proftably by a Ger
man citizen of New York. He gathers
up that which is left over from meals at
the large hotels, and sells it to the
poorer classes at a nice though modest
profit. H. rfa.4=.s,szf5 -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

Systematic mining for gems and pre-
oious stones is carried on only at Paris,
Me-, and S ony Point, n. c., but they
are gathered on the surface in many
places, as sapphirs in Montana, moss
agate in Colorado and agate at Lake
Superior. Some eighty-eight different
minerals occur in the United States
which have been used as gems. Twelve
of these occur in the United States
only.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Ribbon wearers, Strike.

PATERSON, N. j., January 1s.-One-half
of the twelve hundred weavers here are on
a strike, and are parading the streets with
a band of music, endeavoring to get out
those in.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

The hunters for the S12S,O00,000
estate in England are variously desig-
mated by the papers as Masher, Moser,
Mosier, Mosher and Maser. Luckily,
nothing of this will imperil their getting
the 212s, ,G0O, ,00G. Detroit Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

DENNIS KEARNEY, the ..Sand-lot ora
tor, is fighting the aristocracy in d
fashion more deadly even than making
speeches. He is selling pies at San
Francisco health resort.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

The official report of the committee
appointed to investigate the earthquake
on the Island of Ischia fixes the NUM-
Der of persons killed at 2,313 and of the
seriously wounded at 762.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

ENGLISH sparrows are tough little
creatures, but the cold weather in New
England was little too severe for them,
hundreds being frozen to death.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

= A LONDON authority on the effects of
tea and coffee calls tea the sstobacco
of women" but it requires less
digestive power than coffee, which,
however, is abetter stimulant, and one
that is good substitute for spirits.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
A CLOTH saturated in cold water and
laid before the bed at night is suggested
as sure cure for somnambulist.

:, CUsroM-house statistics show that
over $1,000, 900 worth of eggs were in
ported into this country the past year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

On the oath of a bright nine-year-
old hoy in New York, woman was
tentenced TO three months, imprisonment
she other day for stealing q baby car
riage.-M Y. Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

a. THE Modocs now number twenty-six
families of los persons. The Govern
nnent furnishes them with implements.
supplies and an instructor in lagricul-
ture, and they are fast becoming farm
Z. !
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Nothins Singular About it.

SALT LAKE, UTAH, January ia singu-
lar suicide occurred near Salt Lake this
morning. Daniel Morris, aged eighty -four,
a Mormon polygamist, with three wives,
after reading the Governors message,
went to shed adjoining the house and
lung himself.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

In spite Of the great doubts felt as to
the solidity of the soil upon which the
Washington Monument is building, it is
reported that it lacks only one sixty
fourth of an inch of being plumb. Z.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
Priest Arrested for Drunkenness.

New York, January 1s-The Rev. Flor
ence Mccarthy, lately sued by lady or
ganist of his church at Brooklyn, for an at
tempted indecent assault, was charged in
the Harlem Police Court to-day for being
drunk and disorderly while riding in "a
sleigh with female, and fined $40.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

.ie! The United States Senate now has
eight men born in Kentucky, theilargest
number from any: State. Ohio has
seven. New York six, Ireland three and
England and Scotland one each.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

The Indiana Farmer says farm b and
earning S12 month, including board,
washing, etc., will generally have more
money at the end of the year than if he
made that amount per week in the city.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

DEsPIsE not the day. of even SO small
a thing as o collar button. One. Brook
lyn man shot at his krother-in-law the
other day, but the bullet struck the lat
ter's collar button and q Life was
saved eF,3f
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

From the published reports of the
various asylums in the United States it
appears that within the last ten years
the number of insane persons has nearly
doubled
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

"A letter addressed to Widow
Smith, Richford, Vt.," threw the post
master into % panic, there being eleven
widows of that name in Richford.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

--Vennor. goose-bone, muskrat, corn
shuck and all may as well be laid on
the shelf as relics Cincinnati Com
naercial Gazette.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

-Monsignor Capel says it is q rare
thing to 5nd beauty OF countenanee in
a woman allied with great strength y
soul -inssliectual power
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

The claim is made for Cleveland,
O., that it shows lower proportional
death list for 1888 than any other city
in the Union.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

Mr.. Tennyson's wealth in property
is said to be between $1,000,000 and
81, 100000.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24
HOADLY'S INAUGURAL.
Address Of Ohio's New Governor on
His Induction into Office.

Condemns the Insa anf'y d dse and Favors
an advise y Pardon Board.-Scott Lnw
should be Amended and Tax Gradu.
ated.-Ofher Topics Discussed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-24

Innocence is like polished armor, it
adorns and it defends. Snoth.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-07-17
Wonderful Cures.

The press of the country...is constantly
FLEA with wonderful cures which have
transpired through the agency of same
medicine in their immediate neighbor-
hood. Some of these have some founda-
tion. but great number have no better
basis than the Tightly imagination of the
writer. The following case,s however.
is without precedent, and anyone is given
the privilege!of writing to the subscriber
and finding if he tells the truth.
ERIE. Pa.
DR.. HARTMAN-I cannot but feel it my
duty to express to you, before your de-
parture from our city, my thanks for the
great benefit L received from the use of
your medicine, Peratasa. One bottle placed
me square on my feet, after sickness of
four weeks, which confined me to my bed
and then left me lame and crippled. Three
days from the commencement Of the use
of your remedies, the cane was dispensed
with. and in week l was perfectly WE'LL
n. J. WRIGHT,
Business agent Evening Herald. Erie
For a pamphlet on the Ills of Life, y
address DIR. S. B. Hartman & Co., Colum-
bus, Ohio. they will send it free of charge