The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-08

iOr the retention OF 6-20 bonds matured,
amounting to $4O,0o0,0O0. The amour re-
and paid for by gold check was
$SS,000,000. This included scattering bonds
OF ether calls that had not previously come
This amount, together with the coin
deposited in the Treasury by tie syndicate,
will enable the Secretary to place $45,00O,-
600 of 4 per cent. bonds in the public debt
statement lately issued. 1t is expected the
debt statement viii show a reduction of
about sS,00o,o00,
General
A man named Tabscott was shot three
times afew mornings ago, by Sheriff Flood,
of Clark County, Ill, at Darwin, on the
Wabash River, and died at four o'clock. He
was under indictment for robbery and re-
sisted arrest Tabscott was a noted criminal
and killed a citizen in Terre Haute, named
Alex. Thompson, some time ago.
The Chicago Savings Institution and Trust
Company. corner of Madison and Dearborn
Streets, has been put into the hands of W.
S. Henckley as receiver. This action was
the result of a bill and petition filed by a
deposition against CT W. Junge, its lead
ing man. It is stated on authority that its
liabilities are $4,000 and assets only 5000.
A passenger train on the Utah Central
Railroad, coming south in the forenoon, when
near Pennington, was lifted from the track
and turned upside down by the wind. Two
passenger cars and the baggage car were
urned over. Goals from the stoves were
scattered through the cars, but the fires were
put out before any damage was done. Sew
erd persons are badly hurt, but are e1-
pected to ecoyer.
A special from East Liverpool, Ohio,
says: Ralph Wintergill, of that place, cut
his wife's throat with a razor, causing her
death in few minutes, and then gashed his
own throat, severing the windpipe, and in
ficting a wound which will probably result
fatally. Husband and wife were about forty
years old, and have not lived amicably to-
getherfor some time past, owing to jealousy
on the part of the husband, who intimated
that the alienation of his wife's love from
him was the cause of the tragedy.
General Forrest, the Confederate soldier,
is dead.
John Welsh, of Philadelphia has been ap
pointed Minister to England by the Presi-
dent. He is a merchant of Philadelphia,
and a brother of William Welsh, late one of
the Board of Indian Commissioners. He
is about seyenty-two years of age, and has
made alarge fortune in the sugar importing
business. He has never held Office of any
prominence, outside of local Philadelphia
politics, and is better known to the public
as President of the Board of Finance of the
late Centennial Exhibition, and one of the
most active promoters of the success of the
exhibition. In politics, Mr.. Welsh has al
ways been a thorough going Republican,
supporting all the State and National meas
ures Of that party. Attic same time he has
never been identified with the Cameron
division in the management of State affairs.
President Hayes visited the Virginia State
Fair ON the 30th ult. He met with a cordial
reception at Fredericksburg and Richmond.
The explosion of a boiler in the saw-mil
of Shoemaker & Powell, at shepherdsburg,
Pennsylvania, killed the son of Mr.. Shoe
maker and a man named Bowers, and
wounded two Others.
E1-Mayor A. Oakley Hall has returned to
New York from his foreign tour. He says
$50 long as my brain will hold n I shall
resist every attempt to make it appear that
a former Mayor of this great city DELHI
erateIy planned and carefully executed and
profted pecuniariIy by a criminal conspir-
aey. All there can be to say about the mode
of my leaving is that no person whatever
knew OF it, directly or indirectly, and that
as I now know, l had not for a long time
prior been myself. With the strange
absence the ring troubles have nothing prox-
imately to do. OF course there has been a
great strain upon my brain and viii power
during the SIX years in which these treubles
have been uppermost in the public mind. ]
principally regret that so much romance
became necessary to invent, and espec.
tally to the disparagement of innocent in
d~i7iduals."
Earthquake shocks were reported. in the
New England States on November 4, early
in the morning.
Rev. Wm. h. Wyckof, Secretary of the
American Bible Union, dropped dead lately
in New York City, while taking his Gus.
tomary bath.
The wife of Stephen May, of Mechanics.
vile, New York, left her house, taking her
four children and throwing them into a
creek, and following herself. The eldest
child, aged nine years, got ashore, raised an
alarm, and the mother and one child were
rescued.
A brakeman in the Colinwood yards Of
the Lake Shore Railroad at Cleveland, was
literally cut to pieces by falling in between
the freight cars while they were in motion
When found he was dead. One arm lay out
eide of the track, cut completely off. His
brains lay scattered in a confused mass on
the crossties. His head was mashed into
jelly. The balance of his body lay inside
the track, one leg being severed from thu
body. 1t is supposed that a sudden move
ment Of the train threw him between tn,
cars while he was standing near the end O.
the cars.
Michael C~ayanagh, aged thirty-seven, O.
No. AZ Thomas Street, New York, a printer
on the Herald, was murdered the othe,
evening by Bridget Cruise, his paramour
They had quarreled being intoxicated, ant
the man left the house, followed by tn,
woman, who s~tabbedihim with a butchre
knife. The woman was arrested.
At Canton, Ohio, a few mornings since
J. b. Ecker, residing in the First Ward
built a fire in his cook-stove. Shortly aftel
there was a fearful explosion. 1t is sup
posed that some time during the nigh
powder had been deposited in the iue from
the outside by some malicious person. TIL
force was SO great that the bricks of tn
chimney were blown unfortunately. Tn
roof of the house was partly lifted and tn
upper end blown out Mr.. Ecker's littl,
boy, standing near the stove, was thrown