Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-01-14

no uluerence. L have known quito q
number of very excellent schemes that
have tailed. Jay Cooke has oone. INT
the road will yet be built, and Mr.. Bovsn
Will live to read his articles in its advo-
cacy, with much satisfaction and right
THE CARNIVAL OF CRIME.
Is crime, like cholera, epidemicP II
would seem so. One murder breeds an.
other. The pistol, knife and bludeeon
have been very busy from the day before
New Years till now, and the police re-
ports show no abatement even yet .One
frenzied man shoots his wife, cuts the
throats of his four children, aud then
kills himself which last murder was fhs
only one that the world need be thank.
full for. The number of grog-shop homi-
cides New Year's.eve and the night fol-
lowing was frightful. Aud what is sin.
gular. it keeps up steadily. But the most
TERRIBLE MURDER
on record was that at the Westminster
hotel, Saturday night Romaine Dillon,
a wealthy and frst-fsuily. bachelor of
fifty, shot a gentleman named DiIleber
on the corridor of the hotel, after mo-
ments alteration, the victim dying in q
few hours The singular thing about It
is, that the parties had no quarreI-iu-
deed they scarcely knew each other.
Dillon was offended with Dilliber for
walking in the corridor-understand
they were both boa-ders-and had shown
his displeasure all day. Meeting Dill
Der that evening, he ordered him to get
out Of the corridor, which Dilliber re.
fused to do, whereupon Dillon drew his
derringer ard shot him. Now the facts
come out. It appears that Dillon has
been insane for yesrs-that when he
was boarding at the Brevoort Houss he
was in the habit of quarreling with the
boarders on the most absurd pretexts
which created such fear of him that the
managers were compelled to get rid of
him lie showed murderOus propensi-
ties then, but never q word was said
about 1t, and he went to the Westmins-
ter. Since he has killed man the pro-
prietor states that this lunatic has been
for year in the habit OF ordering peo.
pie away from the house; that if any
one walked in the corridor in front of
his room he would peremptorily order
him away, and if he declined to obey, he
would shoot at him as coelly as Though
he were dog. But never q word Of all
this was said to any one by the propr lie.
tor. The Dillon family are profoundly
grieved that poor Dilliber was killed,
but they were always afraid that some,
thing of the sort would happen. They
always knew that poor RomaIns was
crazy, and they kept away from him, hu t
they never said anything about it, for the
subject was painful to them OF course,
Dillon will be put in an asylum, but had
1 the making of the laws, I should pro-
vide for the punishment ofseVeFal other
parties. The proprietors of the BreVoort
and Westminster hotels would go up for
not putting this murderous lunadc where
he could harm no one. Then I would
send up the entire Dillon family for moi
letting the world know that their brother
was crazy. and always had been. and
that it was dangerous to have him run
ming loose.
THE TROUBLES OF MILLIONAIRE.
You have all heard Of "Vinegar Bit
ters." The proprietOryor one Of them,
is . man named Walker, who married q
wife in California In making and sell
ing this herrlble-tssting medicine. "Dr, =
Walker has amassed large fortune, for
kis "bitters" tasted so badly that people
supposed there must be virtue in them.
/ But. .%DrR Walkers love for Mrs. Wake
did not increase as his luere- In fact b
got to despitefGHy using her, so SD
claims. He refused to allow her none
a. she desired, and, as she fqrt her aver
he Beecherized spd squ4ndered th
ducat that sho uld have been her com
to 1T up on other women. She drags hlE
into court, and swears that he is squal
dering his fortune at the rate Of 500 pc
6ay, and that if he is not restrained b
will run it all out Now comes Walker
story. He AYERS II at he Is not onl
chaste, but fastIdiO usly so; that n
Walker is a naughty woman, who make
appointments with othe men, and DO
not in any sense live to the agreeme
she made when she took him for bett
or worse. And so the courts have 60
"Dr." and Mrs. Walker, and the ,laWyel
will have fat picking. Both are able t.
CAV, and if the profits of Vinegar Bite
are not distributed among the lsga ] n
\ tern ;ty, all precedent Is at fault.
THE LAST FRAUD
~ntile circles Is {
latelV-GiscoVered defaleation OF -
with, the confidential maa Of Ba5bitt. u
soap manufacturer. B eckwlth Ma
the habit of paying out $500 and en-
tering the payment as for S1s,OOC
pocketing the difference. This lit
game went on TILL he ha ] stolen owe
$5O0OOOl Bsbbitt and be Quarreled on
day, and Babbitt Olsen arged him-nc
for. the theft, for he knew othing aboI
that-and Beckwith went into hidinl
Babbitt's suspicious were not arouse
for three months after BeckWith's d
parture. when an inYe stigation was had
and the stealing was unearthed, and Beck
with arrested. What Is curious about
1t, is the fact that business man Ike
Babbitt should permit delsleatiens to 50
great an amount to 60 on 50 long with
out any ones kno wing anything about
II. He was in the habit Of going away
from his business for months. leaving
cheques signed in blank, which Mr.. Beck
with filed up with any amount he say
fl and appropriated the money g b
pleased. ~ -
This was paralleled few months ago
by a young man in the employ of& well
known importing house. he was on :
salary of 81 800 year. but nevertheless,
he kept three horses and two women
and ran through with e150,O00 Of n
employers money in three years. Whel
the defalcation was discovered the young
gentleman was safely away, and the arH
could not settle their business WiGhou
Il
hun. So they got into correspondent
with him, and iorgaVe him on condition
| that he would return and so explain his