The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-12
shot himself. Cause, probably fearing hi

trial.
DURING a recent heavy storm the light
ming struck shade-tree in the cornfeld Of
George w. Miller, one mile east of Mead
vile, Pa, under which his son, George Mil
Ter, jr., aged sixteen years, had taken shell
ter. Young Miller was killed instantly.
There were two marks on the face and one
near the heart where the fatal bolt had done
its work.
THERE are now upward of one hundred
thousand head of cattle in the immediate
vicinity of Dodge City, Kansas, some OF the
herd running high into the thousands.
| There is single herd numbering forty
thousand, another of twenty-one thousand,
and one of seventeen thousand. The Texas
drive to Dodge City this year will run close
on to two hundred thousand.
A REDUCTION of five cents per hundred
on first-class freight to New York went into
effect at st. Louis on the I'd inst, on all
the trunk lines, and reduction of eleven
cents on bulk meats. Live stock was also
reduced five cents per hundred to New
York, Buffalo, and Pittsburg, the rate estab-
lished being sixty cents to, New York, and
thirty. five cents to Buffalo and Pittsburg.
GREAT excitement has prevailed in Carter
County, KY, on account OF the conduct
duct of outlaws there, who have been roam
ing the county rough-shod, committing all
sorts of outrages and defying the laws. The
Light Guard Military Company, from Cow
ington, was sent to the county by order of
| II n L. oo,{ md
ture these bands.
ACCORDING to a dispatch from Phoebe
there is no trouble with Indians in South
east Nevada, but B. F. Holland, Agent in the
Maopa Reservation, and William L. Carter, a
blacksmith, were killed by band of four
horse-thieves. All the inhabitants of the
valley turned out in pursuit. One Isaac
McMannus was captured and wounded near
St. George. The others are supposed to be
hiding in the mountains near by.
On July 4, the body of William Cortaine,
of the Government Lake Survey party sur
veying the coast about Sanduskyj O., was
found in the lake near Port Clinton, few
miles from Sandusky. The indications are
that Cortaine was murdered and thrown
into the lake by party of roughs, who fol-
lowed him from saloon from Port Clinton.
Cortaine was twenty-seven years old, and
lived at Detroit, where he had wife and
one child.
CAPTAIN JOHN A. WEBSTER, senior officer
in the United States Revenue Service, died
July A, at his home in Hartford County,
Maryland, aged ninety-one. The deceased
commanded the famous six-gun battery on
Ferry Branch when the British fleet bonn
barded Fort McHenry in 1914, and repulsed
the enemy, who had passed Fort McHenry
during the night in barges and light vessels.
He was presented with several swords for
gallant services in this action.
THE st. Louis Republicans special from
Boonville, Missouri, says: News has been
received here of case of poisoning at Tip
ton, Monitau County, in which six persons
were given poison in milk while eating
breakfast. The unfortunates are c. c. Nc
Clay, wife and baby; Mrs. R. L. McCulloch
and baby, of Helena, Montana Territory, and
Mrs. Brown. About eleven o'clock those
who drank of the milk took very sick, and
are now in a very critical condition, with
out any hope of relief, as the physicians have
done them no good. A negro woman is sus-
pected, and is in jail to await further de-
velopments.
A DISPATCH dated July says: The in
dictment of the Louisiana Returning Board
has created much excitement in New Or
leans. 1t is said q movement is on foot to
secure the indictment of Stanley Matthews
and John Sherman as accessories before and
forgery, charged in the indictments against
| the Returning Board. The members of the
Returning Board say if the persons on whom
| they depend hesitate or fail, that no part of
the transactions which gave Louisiana to
Hayes will longer sleep in mystery. tits
believed that these indictments are the re-
| suit of some advices from very prominent
politicians in New York.
A Mt. VERNON, Kentucky, special to the
Louisville Courier-JournaI says: On mid
| night Saturday, June 80, nearly one hun
dred men attacked the house of James
Bethurman, a noted desperate. Bethurmsn
| would not surrender, and firing upon the
attacking party with his shotgun killed
Charles Burton. Though some fifty shots
were fired at him, Bethurman escaped. The
same party entered Mt. Vernon, and visiting
! the Jail took therefrom James Smith, An
drew Cummings, Kirk King, and ]. o.
Gibbs, all charged with robbery. Removing
these four mile from town they hung all
of them. There is considerable excitement,
| but no outbreak.