The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22
MEWS IN BRIEF.


AOCAes ISSe SAtc
The Joint commission of the two Houses re-
its session on February II, and pro-
ceeded to the counting of Electoral votes.
The four votes of Florida were given to
HAYES and Wheeler; the eleven votes of
Georgia, to Tilden and Hendricks. Next
followed in succession the State of Illinois,
with twenty-one votes for Hayes and
Wheeler; Indiana, with fifteen votes for
Tilden and Hendricks; Iowa, with eleven
votes for Hayes and Wheeler; Kansas with
five votes for Hayes and Wheeler; Ken
lucky, with twelve votes for Tilden and
Hendricks. Then came Louisiana, with its
contesting Electoral Colleges. The GER
tifcates and accompanying papers were
directed to be sent to the Electoral Com
mission.
At Urbana, Ohio, a fire which broke out
in the shed of K~ullingcamp's bakery, laid
the whole building in ashes. The livery
stable of Charles Ganson was next con-
sumed. Then followed the liquor store of
Gugenham & Gardner, the billiard-room of
B. Christiancy, the grocery of c. Stockard,
and many other business houses. The fire
was in the center of the town, and destroyed
the principal business portion of the city.
9he Vest.
A number of reports of Indian depreda-
tons have been coming in from small towns
adjacent to Deadwood, until these rumors
assumed Al alarming aspect, and the SUBJ
stantiated news of simultaneous attacks in
different directions leads to the belief that
the Indians are surrounding that vicinity.
Volen's large cattle train was captured en-
tire, near Bear Butte. Fletcher's herd of
mules was also attacked in the same vicinity.
Montana Rancho, a short distance from
Deadwood, was attacked at about the same
time, the Indians capturing all the stock.
Wigginton's herd of horses, which was near
Crook City, were all captured, Wigginton
was wounded and his assistant killed. Con.
siderable stock in the vicinity of Spearfsh
was also run of.
The following dispatch was received al
Salem, Oregon:
SALEM, OREGON, February II, 1877.
To the Agent of the Associated Press:
I desire to state through your columns that
have never sent to Governor Tilden any telegram
signed " Cable" or " Governor" and deuounc,
all such pretended kilograms as base fabrications, a
far as 1 am concerned; and 1 have never used
cipher, nor any fictitious signature, in a letter o
dispatch, inmy life.
L. F. GROVER.
At Minneapolis, VIM. Il. Side, Assistan
Cashier of the First National Bank, of tina
city, was shot in the head and MORTAL,
wounded, by a young woman named Kat
Noonan. Side wa young man highl
connected, and the affair creates a grea
deal of excitement. Miss Noonal
claims that Sedle had seduced and then de
serted her. The shooting occurred on tn
street, in front of the Nicollet Hotel, an,
was witnessed by several persons. TIL
woman was Immediately arrested, an,
betrays nc remorse for the deed. Sidle die,
soon after II o'clock this morning.
The South.
About noon, on February Is, in an altel
cation in his Office with a man who is III
known to the police on duty in the Stat
House, Governor Packard, of Louisiana
was shot in the knee cap. The party VIII
did the shooting was fred upon by q bystal
der and rounded in the arm. There was 4
blood drawn by the bullet said to have bee
fired at Packard. The result is only a sligl
bruise. Weldon, the man who did IL
shooting, claims to be the son of a Luthera
minister in Pennsylvania. Being asked b
motive, he replied, " only patriotism" f
had only been in New Orleans twenty-for
hours.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Inquiri
made at the Office of the Philadelphia Pr.
disclose the fact that Wm. b. Weldon, Il
person who gained admission to the Exec
tive mansion at New Orleans to-day, up,
the pretense that he was a correspondent
that journal, and then shot Gov. Packal
has no connection whatever with the Pre-
and nothing is known of him at the office
that paper.
A Mobile dispatch says that Weldc
who attempted to kill Packard, was ney
known to take any part or interest in pc
tics. An acquaintance says he has not be
in a condition of responsibility for me
than a week. He had been in Mobile sin
last October, in the employ of P. h. PepJ
& Co., until about ten days before his
tempt at murder. He is regarded as insa
in Mobile. Judge Whitaker, of the
perior Criminal Court, at New Orleans,
a charge to the Grand Jury, recommend
the indictment of Weldon.
General Brepitfes.
On the 18th, at Fort Wayne, India
Sheriff Munson arrested James Hartm
Walter Dunham, and Perry Tracy, on
charge of numbering James O'Brien on
night of November IL, or the morning
November Is. O'Brien's body was for
in the canal, and the Coroner's jury for
thathe had been robbed and pushed into
canal. No clue to his murderers was
tanned until a few days since, when evidel
came to light which Enthusiastically fast
the crime upon Hartman, and shows
others to have been accessories.
William Green, convicted of the muir
of his half brother, Samuel Marshall,
hung in Pittsburg at noon on the 18th. :
crime was committed at Mansfield, Pa,
the evening of September 4, 1875. The
cution took place in the Jail yard, and alb
n hundred persons were admitted.
twelve o'clock the doomed man was tai
from his cell and led to the scaffold by
Sheriff and his deputies. On the scaff
he spoke a few words, and exhorted th
present to put their trust in God, as he
done.
An Ownesboro, Kentucky, special to
Evansville Journal gives the partieu
of the suicide of Hon. james L. Johns
of that city, formerly member of Cong
from the Second District of Kentucky.
placed the muzzle of a rifle over his b
and pushed the trigger back with the ram1
The deed was committed in the mornin
So'clock, and was caused by mental dep
sion, arising from i'll health.
A special from New York to the Gin
natl Commercial has the following:
Purser of the steamship City of RichmC
in which James Gordon Bennett sailed
Europe, says that Bennett and Howl
Robinson boarded the City of Richm
from the Herald yacht at Sandy Hook. ]
Bennett was already in the steamship,
the party made the voyage TO Liverpool.
DR.. w. Pollard, an apothecary, for the
four years at the Central Hospital for