The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
General

General
General Cook predicts that there will be
NO trouble with Sitting Bull the coming
A motion for a new trial in the case of
Thomas c. Anderson, at New Orleans, has
been refused.
Thos. p. Cheney, Superintendent of the
New England Mail Service, is charged with
a number of Irregularities. Congress will
investigate.
Orris Winebar attempted suicide at
Mechanicsburg, by shooting himself through
the heart. A small notebook in his pocket
saved him.
The SignalS Service at Hatteras reports the
wreck of the German bark Philip Luppicich.
The crew was lost, and the body of the
Captain washed ashore.
g0n Friday night a band of masked men
took possession of a passenger train on the
Texas Central Railroad, and robbed the ex-
press messengers safe of two thousand five
hundred dollars.
An old lady named Parker committed
suicide at Fostoria, Ohio, Saturday, by
hanging herself with a shawl in an out
house.
In an alteration, Friday night, between
3eorge Elsnawgie n anne Noble, OF Mel
sonsiAe' onio' tne ia.eer was snos snlousn
the body, with probably fatal results.
Six men masked and armed boarded q
train on the Texas Central Road, at Allen
Station, Friday night, and robbed the ex-
press car of $500. 1t is said one Of the
robbers was killed.
A few days ago John Wharton, of North
Benton, Trumbull County, Ohio, committed
suicide by hanging himself to a sapling in
the woods. He was not discovered until
Friday evening.
II is renorted that VIM 9 Harhec for
many wears a notorious gambler of Cieve.
land. has fallen heir to $4,000 worth of
United States bonds. ON account of he
death of a relative In the Fast
Tba I;h.w;. .m;a..s.. -
toten . stronr LoiS af a. $500. -
Sorb Carolins 81 60 M~Snl
inc raised 70 nurcbase ! vessel ~ convey !.
large number of them to Iiber;a.
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carm; Illinois committed su;c;ds ond
twenty DAVIS after his father. Elijah Rrown
followed suit with a shotgun. after having
dug his own grave. Friday night. Mrs
Brown took laudanum and died from its
effects,
Al few weeks ago Emma Neal, daughter Of
respectable farmer living near Evansville,
Indiana, while in afeyer rose from her bed,
and, dressing, left the house and did not re.
turn and has since been missing. Saturday
her body was found hanging to a tree in tbs
woods near the CITY.
Abper Cook. a farmer. living FIVE mile.
fvor Datro;t 2f;oh;ran rms go = -.
wood-lot SATURDAY. pinned TO the ground
beneath an oak tree ton. nearly dead. n,
has been missed for two days. and IL is sun
posed he was caught by a falling tree II
such a way MS to render him senseless. at tn,
same time fastening him SO that he could
not get out,
Robert Walker Taylor, First Comptroller
of the Treasury, was Esricken with paralysis
on the morning of the 25th of February
in Washington, while at his desk. He wa,
carried home and died in the afternoon.
A train ON the Richmond Freder;cksbnrc
and potouac Ra;lyoad was wrecLod n 5
singular manner. a few nights since. and
W. C. Mainwaring, of Baltimore, kiIleda nd
anumber of passengers injured. The train
which was bound north from Richmond
Virginia, when near Milford, was observed
by the engineer to mysteriously increase
in speed. Upon investigation It was dis
covered that the two sleeping coaches or
Inc rear OIL the tram had become detached
ehiousn . ueiecuse coupling. Inc tran
was stopped, and the sleepers came dashint
dawn a neayy grade and telescoped thu
train.
Commodore D. Curtis, a farmer, fft!
years old, was shot through the head ant
klied, aTnis mousse near Mount Vernon, Ind.
[ecentiy, by nus stspson, aged thirteen
Curts was trying to murder his wife, ini
drunken SPREE and the boy got IKE gun AMI
snot MN.
There is q general strike at Ontario amon,
laborers on the Welland Canal for an in
from ninety cents a dsy to s1.2 r. !;