The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-12-20
General

Ex-Governor Pinchback, of Louisiana,
has addressed an open letter to Governor
Nichols, ~resigning his place as United
States Senator from that State.
Gen. John NJ. Harlan, the newly appointed
Associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, met the other Justices in
the robing room on the 10th, and had a cor
dial welcome. He subscribed to the iron
clad oath. Judge Harlan then, after the
usual formalities, took his seat on the
bench.
As the train due at Columbus, Ohio, at
ten p. m, over the Short Line, was nearing
Lilly Chapel a few evenings ago, two shots
were fred at the train, though no serious
damage resulted. The first shot passed
over the engineers shoulder and out at the
opposite window of the cab, and the second
passed through the window of the car and
out at the opposite side, narrowly missing
the head of a passenger. The train was.
again attacked by a cowardly gang when
nearing ~Georgesville, and numerous stones
hurled through the windows, though no
passengers were injured. 1t seems to have
been an organized affair along the line.
George N. Lucus, a prominent railroad
man of Illinois, was found dead lately in his
private Office, at Aurora, Illinois, with a
fearful wound in the left temple. His
death is wrapped. in mystery, and it is
generally supposed that he was a victim Of
foul play, as there could not be found in the
room anything resembling a weapon which
caused the wound, the same being made
with a revolver, thus denying the theory
thathe committed suicide.
Considerable excitement was caused re-
Gently at Fort Wayne, Ind, by the freaks of
q man named Frederick Sheerer, who sud-
denly lost his reason, and threw his infant
child from the second story window, and
drove his family out of the house and de-
molished his furniture. He was finally cap
tured by a squad of officers, who placed him
in a cell at the County Asylum. His child
was fatally injured.
The California Assembly has adopted
unanimously the Senate concurrent resolu-
ton asking Congress to levy a per capita
tax of $3.50 on Chinese emigration. The
Senate adopted the joint resolution asking
Congress to enact the necessary laws to pro
vide for an international commission of the
United States, Great Britain and China, to
restrict Chinese immigration.
At a recent boiler explosion in Vincennes
Ind, at Clark L. Bucks foundry, John
Miller and James Coleman were killed
There were about thirty men employed il
the works, six or eight Of whom are vari
ously injured. One man had a leg broken
and others received scratches and bruises il
various parts of their bodies. The mair
building, which is a frame structure, wa
nearly demolished.
A Cincinnati stock-driver, named Fritsch
in a drunken mood, killed a crony of his
Jake Horn, in a saloon at the Stock Yards
by stabbing with q knife. After his arrest
when questioned about the matter, he sale
he killed Horn, +" only for foolishness." /
is considereda cold-blooded and unprovoket
murder.
The Newark IN. J.) Savings Institution
the largest and oldest in the city, chartered
thirty-three years ago, has just been takeI
charge Of by the Chancellor, on the petition
of its managers, to insure the equal dis
tribution Of the assets, and prevent unfair
ness from a possible ruin. The bank hai
about twelve millions assets, including
deprecated securities, and TWO Million
in government bonds. The deposits ar,
eleven millions.
Mrs. Beachie Hiatt, who lived some foul
miles from Stanford, Ky, was recent.
burned to death by her clothes catchin,
fire.
Thomas Behan killed Alonzo Beatty, il
a Nashville saloon, Saturday at midnight.
Mrs. Louisa Weber, wife of Oscar Web er
living at S22 Carr Street, st. Louis, cutth
throat of her infant, thirteen months old
slnity, at an early hour a few morning since
The infantwill die, utthe mother, althougl
she has three terrible gashes in her neck
made by a razor, will probably recover.
John Jones. c%olored, was hanged at MAI
lana, Arkansas, OF Friday, for the murde
of Joseph Colwell, colored, one year age
at Bradley's Landing. The rope brok
when the drop fell, and he was taken u
insensible and hanged until he was dead.
A dispatch from Osoeola, No., says a mo
of armed and masked men took possessio
of that town, arrested everybody oil tn
streets at the muzzles of revolvers and sho
guns; then went to the Courthouse an
seized all the tax books, for this and pa.
years, in the County Clerks Offices, an
carried them away. The trouble grew OF
of railroad tax which had been levied
pay certain judgements against the count
for past due interest on railroad bond
Several of the mob were recognized b
officers Of the law, and arrests will probabl