The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-10-04

to her mothers home, vowing she
would never live with him again. Both
husband and wife left the city by the after
noon train on the C. & NJ. v. Railroad, and
alighted at Delcarbo. They proceeded
across the fields to the residence of the
widow Lacock, mother of Mrs. James, one
mile east Of Roseville. The last seen of
them they were walking along together ina
lane leading from the Athens road to the
farm house. About eight o'clock in the morn
ing, the bodies of both were foundi in afence
corner, within three hundred yards of their
destination, the husband with a bullet hole
in his breast, the wife with one in her
temple and another in the region of the
heart. They were locked in each others
arms, the wife tightly grasping a revolver in
her left hand.
John s. Morton, President; B. F. Stokes,
Secretary, and Samuel P. HUM, Treasurer
of the Market Street Railway, Philadelphia,
and George Vickers, private Secretary to
Morton, nave been arrested on a charge of
conspiracy to cheat and defraud the Com
pany. The arrests were made at the insti-
CATION of the new President and Board of
Directors. They were taken before a Magis-
trate and held for a hearing. Samuel P.
HUM, failing to give $780, 700 bail, was locked
up, and so was Vickers, who could not
furnish $40, 900 bail. Morton entered $4,000
bail for his appearance, and Stokes was held
on his own recognizance.
Amiddle-aged gentleman, supposed to be
A. P. Baldwin, of Akron, Ohio, committed
suicide on the Panhandle train, between
Columbus and Cincinnati, a few nights ago.
in the closet at the rear of the car. A min
ute or two after he entered several of the
passengers heard q loud report, sounding as
though a torpedo had been exploded on the
track, but took no further notice of it.
When the conductor came back through the
train he opened the door of the closet and
discovered a pool of blood OH the floor, and
the body of a man, face downward, lying
in it. Several passengers came to his as
s~istance, the door was forced open and
the man dragged out. A terrible cash
across the throat was revealed, completely
s~evering the w~ind-pipes, while a hole in
the right temple just above the eye showed
the determined way in which he had AIKEN
his own life. The handle of a razor was
seen sticking out of the pool of blood as
it had fallen from his hand, while, upon
fishing around in the blood, a Deringer
pistol was found shortly afterward. 1t was
evident that he had grasped the razor with
his left hand, cutting his head half way
off, while at the same moment of time, he
fired the shot from the pistol in his right.
The Republican Convention of New York
made the following nominations: For Sec.
rotary of State, John C. Churchill; Con.
%troller, Francis Sylvester; State Treasurer.
VIM. L. Bostwick; Attorney-General Green
vile Tremaine; State Engineer, Howard
Soule.
A terrible accident is reported on the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, at Rocky
Hill, Warren County, KY, killing Charles
Wilson, engineer; Thomas McCrea, fire
man; Mccormick, of Greensburg, Indiana
brakeman, and wounding slightly seven 9th
ers. A. L. Church, conductor, was badly
bruised, but able to crawl far enough for
ward to flag a south-bound passenger ant
avert a collision. A number of race horse
were on the train. Several passengers wer
wounded.
The Chicago Times Decatur special say
that two freight trains on the Toledo, Wa
bash and Western Railway collided near tina
) place. Two engines and fifteen cars wer
reduced to ashes. A tramp who was steal
ing a ride was burned. The loss is estimate
at $780, 900.
, Colonel David H. Armstrong, an old cit
zen of st. Louis and a Democratic leader i
Missouri for the past twenty-five or thirt
t years, has been appointed United State
Senator by Governor Phelps, to fill vacanc
caused by the death of Lewis Bogy. Colont
I Armstrong is at present Viee-President
the Board of Police Commissioners of tn
city.
S The laborers on the Kansas Central strucl
t recently, because they were not paid the
wages. A disturbance occurred among ii
strikers, and while the officers were attemp
ing to arrest the r~ingleaders, one of then
: VIM. Hartman was shot by he Sheriff
posse, and died in a few days.
. An Enquirer dispatch of a late date say
that Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay, formerly Ministt
r to Russia under President Lincoln's A,
e ministration, shot and killed a negro ma
e Perry White. The affair occurred on IL
farm of General Clay, six miles from Ricl
5 mond, KY.