The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-30
District in New York, his average being

District in New York, his average being
ninety-eight.
AT Lafayette, Indiana, John Lockstand,
an old citizen, fell from a third story window
of a hall, where he was listening to a con-
cert, and was killed.
Lately, near Sheridan, Nebraska, a young
married man named Weber, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed. He was herd
ing cattle at the time. His horse, standing
near, was killed by the same flash.
At Memphis, Tennessee, a few days ago,
Stack Foster, a colored man, was arrested
for the murder of his fat~her-in-law, near
CORTLAND, Alabama, a few weeks since. He
escaped, and enc of the arresting officers
fred at him and killed him.
4 The ceremony of unwilling a monument
to the memory of Colonel Robert L. McCook,
of the Ninth Ohio, took place at Washing
ton Park, Cincinnati, on the sd of August.
Addresses were made by Stanley Matthews,
Rev. NJ. Lilienthal, and others. The cere-
mony was avery imposing one, and largely
attended.
On Tuesday, August 81, a man entered a
brokers Office in New York City, and rep
resented that he had $4,000 worth of st.
Louis County bonds, which he was willing to
dispose of at a considerable reduction.
After close scrutiny the bonds were pro
n%ounced genuine, and a check for $4,000
filed out to be handed to the man, when
Detectives Pinkerton and Conner entered
the office and arrested the seller of the
) bonds, who was recognized by them as {
: prominent member of the gang of banl
: forgers who had been successfulin various
swindling operations. The bonds proved t.
} be skillfully executed counterfeits of tn,
issue of st. Louis County bonds, of $4,000
: of the year 1858, and to run for twenty-five
years. The man gave the name of Hustled
Several other arrests were made of me-
+ charged with completely in these forgeries
Dispatches from New York say the fraudr
lent issue probably amounts to S150,00t
The original bonds are for $4,000, date
e 1858, and number from 1913 to 1888 il
elusive.
The President and party returned t
Washington from their New England triI
on August "a.
It Several members of a notorious gang
horse thieves, who have been operating i
e Western Missouri for several months pas
d were captured a few days since c~onceale
1t in a wheat stack, three miles from Coz
"a cordia. Several horses in their possessio
were also secured. Two of the thieves wei
a taken to Brownville, where the last ro1
i berry had been committed. Another OIL
5 was lodged in Warrensburg Jail. 1t is sal
the gang to which these men beloI
" have fifty horses now on hand, have stole
over three hundred since last May. N
N merous parties are implicated, and 9th
10 arrests will be made, and the gang, it
h hop ed, entirely broken up.
At Philadelphia, Sunday, August 26, W
IN liam Wunder, after nights debauch, kill
n his wife. At Hartford, John Cornell kill,
his brother-in-law, John Mahoney. Bo
~ were drunk.
"a AT London, Ontario, Saturday night, A
- gust %, Alex Drummond, a boarding hou
= keeper, fatally shot his wife.
Ezekiel B. Worthen, jr., fatally shot
70 wife Saturday night, August %, at Lowe
Mass. She left him some time since on
90 count of alleged abusive treatment. ]
"A called Saturday night to induce her
"A return, and on her refusal shot her. ]
>, was arrested.