The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-22
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Charles Gates, a lad, while swimming OF
Red Hook Point, Brooklyn, was seized bv a
shark, and his life barely saved by a boy
who hit the shark in the head with a stone.
His wounds are very severe, and it is doub'-
full Whether or not they will result fatally.
thighs WAS laid open to the bone,
from the hip downward, for a dis snce of
twelve inches. A portion of the hip-bone
was bitten of, and three arteries were
severed. There was also a lacerated wound
on The inner part Of the thigh, and several
bites on the side. At first it was thought it
would be necessary to amputate the leg at
the thigh, but it was decided this would not
have to be done. The boy was placed under
the influence of ether, and the most serious
wound was sewed up.
A few days since. dispatch was received
by Miss Ada Sweet, Pension Agent in Chi
cago, H., with the sad news that her mother
had been killed by the cars while walking
on the railroad track at Lombard. Mrs.
Sweet had been to the depot to see her
daughter offby the train and was on her way
home when the accident occurred The en-
gineer of the train saw Mrs. Sweet OIL the
track, and sounded the alarm several times.
Seeing that she took no notice of it, he re-
versed his engine and applied his air brakes,
but it was too late. The engine struck her,
throwing her several feet, killing her in
stantly. Mrs. Sweet was about fifty years
of age, and the widow of the late Ge eral
B. ]. Sweet, who was well known to the cit
zens of Chicago.
Cincinnati has voted in favor of the two
mil ion loan for finishing the Southern
Railroad.
On account of Catholic Orange riots in
Ottawa, canada, the authorities have been
compelled to call out the military.
The Greenback State Convention of Col
orado, which lately met at Denver, adopted
a platform arraigning the Democrats for the
advocacy and support of African slavery
teaching the wild and cruel fantasy
"that man could hold property in man.
and the Repub lean party for legislation in
the interest of the money power. 1t de.
mands the issue by the Government of abso.
lutte paper m ney as full legal tender for all
debts, public and private, in sufficient vol
0DnC " ~ ACCOo VI kAd0O, anu IL
payment Of the whole of the interest bear.
ing debt, and paid directly to the people,
without the Intervention of banks or
agents; the immediate repeal of the re-
sumption act, and all avs authorizing
ia iional banks; enactments by Congress
prohibiting any further issue of bonds, and
a constitutional amendment making such
issue impossible; an income tax on all in.
come above one thousand dollars. The
nominations were: r. G. Buckingham,
Governor; P. A. Simmons, Lieutenant
Governor; j. E. Washburn, Secretary; W
D. Arnett, Treasurer; G. W. King, Auditor
Alpheus Wright, Attorney General; A. ],
C~rittenden, Superintendent Public Instruc'
ton; h. C..Childs, Congress.
A few miles from Chillicothe, on Thurs
day, a horse bent on suicide, persisted in
occupying the Marietta Railroad track, in
spite of the whistling of the engineer Of
freight train No 7, and the train could not
be stopped in time to prevent striking the
horse. When the locomotive pilot struck
him the impetus OF the train was not suf
icient to hurl him from the track and dowr
the embsnkment. 1t simply lifted him
slis htly and showed him in front of the
locomotive. Finally the body of the horse
was turned l~engthwise with the track, thu
pilot ceased to be of service, the forward
wheels rolled on to the PROSTATE body, tn,
locomotive eareened and plunged twenty
five feet down the steep %declivity, followed
by all the loaded cars and seventeen empty
ones. The engineer was thrown forward
through his cab window, and landed OF
the pilot, terribly scalded on hi
legs and side and badly bruised
His fireman, an industrious young maj
named Pat Shayne, was in some wa.
jammed under the wrecked engine, witt
his head completely severed from his bod,
and two heavy iron trucks lying across hi
bowels, crushing his abdomen aud mutilat
ing his limbs in a horrible manner TIL
forward brakeman, named Mont Henry
long a resident of Loyeland, but more re
Gently of Cozaddale, on the Marietta, a hu
band and the father of three helples
children, was athis post on top of one of tn
freights, six or seven cars bach from tn
locomotive. As the cars plunged down tn
bank he went with them and was erushe
to death. Shayne was about twenty-five
years old and Henry about twenty-eigh
Shame was q single man. Betterton, it j
expected, will ecove
Fire Record.