The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-29

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adopted at once.
In the recent storms there were 2,i47
shade trees destroyed in Washington city.
The new census of Washington ID. C.)
District amounts to 161, 1856 population. By
the ems of 1870 it was 131, ZOO.
General
About nine o'clock in the evening, August
Is, John A. Leete registered at the Aston
House, New York, and was assigned a room
on the third floor. At the desk he appeared
to be laboring under some excitement.
About half an hour after going to his room
the loud report of a pistol was heard from
Leete's room, and the crashing of a bullet
through the door, accompanied by lou"
cries from the room. Several officers were
summoned, and they burst in the door, and
Immediately a bullet whizzed past them,
and the party inside slammed the door in
their faces. Another attempt blythe officers
to get in was met by another bullet, but
both shots fortunately missed. The officers
then made a combined rush, and over
powered Leete before he could again fire.
Leete was a witness before the Potter
investigating Committee. He was terribly
excited, and said there was a conspiracy to
kill him. and he meant to kill the first mai
Who entered his room. He fred, he said, in
self-defense, as he heard some one trying to
enter bis room.
The Third Parliament of the Dominion OF
Canada has been dissolved. Nominations
take place on the 10th OF September, and
the elections on the 18th, except in Man
itoba, where the nominations take place on
the 10th.
Mrs. Thompson, wife Of Samuel Thomp-
son, a farmer residing FIVE miles east of Nc
Conceivable, Ohio, lately killed her child,
three months old, by cutting its throat wi b
abutcher-knife, and afterward cut her own
throat from ear to ear, bnt it was thought,
would recover. Insanity is the supposed
cause.
VIM. Todd and Mike Murphy, two youths
OF Lima, Ohio, whose tastes for desperate
adventures have been stimulated by dime
novel-readlng, were arrested recently by
Officer Roush while in the act of robbing a
farmer on the highway two miles in the
country. They had demanded and received
part Of his money, and while searching for
a roll of bills he had thrown into q fence
corner when stopped by the robbers, the
officer appeared and arrested them. Their
ages are fifteen and nineteen years.
At Bos on O'Learyr finished his 400-mile
walk in 122 hours at 10 :10 o'clock Saturday
night, having twenty minutes to spare.
The Tennessee Democratic Convention at
a. 80 D. m Saturday, on the twenty-second
ballot, nominated Judge Albert s. Marks,
of FRANKLIN County, for Governor. The
n minee is the present Chancellor of the
Fourth Chancery Division, having just
been elected for a term of eight years.
The Government is extending its facili-
ties for obtaining more direct and more fire.
quent reports of operati MS along the Rio
Grande border. A new telegraph station
has Just been established at Salamanca, on
the Rio Grande, about one hundred and
sixty miles from the mouth, between Laredo
and Rio Grande City, from which intelli'
gence of observations will be promptly
forwarded to the authorities at head
quarters.
The Einstein Brothers, boot and shot
dealers and manufacturers, Of San Fran
cisco, have suspended. Their liabilities
were estimated a 100000, half of which i,
due to Eastern creditors. The assets con
sist Of the stock of goods, factory and out
standing accounts. The real estate is sup
posed to be heavily incumbered. The fail
ure is due to heavy losses in stock specula
lions, carried on by two members of tn,
firm in the firm name, but in opposition tx
the wishes of the other members, and with
out tn ir knowledge.
A terrible tragedy was enacted at tb,
Girard House, corner Broadway and Biddl,
streets, St Louis, after one o'clock Satur
day afternoon. Joseph P. Colcord, at on,
time a very prominent lawyer and prose
cutting attorney of one Of the courts, ane
subsequently a member of the Legis AZURE
shot a woman, said to be his mistress
named Lily Gibbons, with whom he wa
living at the Girard House, and then sho
himself. The woman received three wounds
one directly through the body near tn
stomach, one in the mead and the third i
the shoulder. Colcord was shot in tn
right temple. Both died almost instantly
Jealousy and whisky are thought to be th
cause of the act. Colcord was a very diss
pated man for a number of years, and it
said forced his wife to leave him, after whic
he took up with this m
There have just come to light at Chicag
the particulars of a d~efaloation by Charl,
w. Angell Secretary of the Pullman Palat
Car Company. From an interview with NJ
Pull man the following facts are learned
Mr.. Angel is a man forty years of ag
agreeable in manner, and exceedingly cor
petent for the position he occupied. b
social relations have until recently been
the very best character, and by-yeai
of good conduct he has won the e.
tire confidence of the company an
of his associates in business. At abor
the usual time for his summer vac
ton, he proposed to meet Mr.. Pullmt
in New York, as he (Mr. Pullman) W
about returning from Europe, and START
Tast for that avowed purpose. Mr.. Pullm'
reached New York on q steamer on the Z
inst, but failed to meet Angel. The ia
was deve oped that Angel had disappear
with funds and securities of the compan
The amount taken, although considerable,
not sufficient to occasion the company al
embarrassment, nor to interfere with
regular business or dividends. The pos
Bile maximum of the loss sustained is $12
0O0, part y in cash aud partly in securities
the company, which were in his custody
Secretary.
Chas. F. Hane, cashier of the Exchan
Bank of Canton, Ohio, was found in
unoccupied room in the Trump Block a (,
mornings agc, in a dying condition. It "
at once discovered that the unfortuns
man had taken poison, supposed to
morphine. The cause of the rash deed W
perhaps ever be a mystery, as no letter
explanation has been found. The deceas
was of a melancholy turn of mind, and
laie apparently Respondent, caused mos
by poor health.
A remarkable suicide lately occurred
st. Louis. A German named Caspar NJ
kamp, believing himself haunted by the "a