The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-04

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White, Republican, Of Indiana, was the
other member. The committee passed a
resolution that the charges against E. B.
French, Second Auditor of the Treasury,
were not sustained.
General
Milo Ammons, a Universalist exhorter in
times gone by, living in the vicinity of
Monroe, Butler County, Ohio, is on trial at
Lebanon, on the charge of seducing, in 1867,
his niece, who lived at indianapolis, a girl
fifteen years Of age, and to whom was born
a child. The mother of the ruined girl
took the child at the hour of its birth,
reared it and has passed It off as her own
ever since, to hide the shame of her
daughter from the relatives of both families
and from the world.
"A New York special to the Cincinnati
Enquirer says: Moses A. Wheelock, who
has been widely known for more than
twenty years as President of the New York
Exchange, committed suicide here by shoot
ing himself in the head. His son found
him dead in his chair only a minute after he
had temporarily left his fathers room.
Blood was flowing from a wound in his
right temple. Last spring he was defeated
in the annual election. He has depended
for many years upon the salary of five
thousand dollars attached to the position,
and his defeat utterly crushed him. He has
since spent his days wandering around
Wau-street and the Stock Exchange, a mere
ghost of his former self. He had of late
drank heavily and his appearance showed
the pitiable change his i'll fortune had
wroughti in the a
A young man, August Ruaff, son Of a
wealthy German brewer, of Detroit, sui
cided by hanging himself in his fathers
brewery. He had been in poor health for
some time, and that is supposed to be the
reason for his self-destruction.
Colonel John L. Vance, of Gallipolis,
Ohio, has been adjudged insane and sent to
the lunatic asylum at Athens, Ohio.
William Vaughn was hung on Saturday
at st. John, N. B., for the murder OF Mrs.
Quinn on the 18th Of last February.
Louis Neir, fourteen years old, fell off a
train of ears ON which he was stealing
ride, at Bourbon, Ind, on Friday, and was
instantly killed.
Jehn P. Wilson, an incurably insane man
was attacked by IN old imbecile on the
County Farm at Grand Rapids, Mich, OF
Saturday, and beaten to death.
The grave OF Perry Bowsher, who wa
hung at Chillicothe, was opened by un
known parties and the body carried of
The coffin was left in the grave, and ha
been broken up and carried away in spin
tiers by curiosity hunters. He was burie'
at h~alf-past five o'clock and resurrected, j
is said, as soon as it was dark. Holes wer
bored into the end of the coffin, the lii
raised and the body hauled out. The gray
was left open, and the black cap whicl
covered his face at the execution hung nea
by on a tree. No attempt was made t
cover mp the fact that the body mad BEEF
removed and no effort has been made t
discover who did it.
A cold blooded murder was committed q
Mount Vernon, Posey County, Ind, Monda
night, by an unknown negro, the victir
being Annie McCool, a woman of doubtfu
reputation. Three negroes demanded &C
mittance to MISS McCool's house, and bein
refused, battered down the door, and whe
Miss Mccool and a companion attempte
to escape by the back way, they pursue
them; a revolver was used, the ball crasl
ing through her skull and causing instar
taneous death.
Edwin Hoyt fatally stabbed his father &
New Milford, Conn. Whisky was one {
the causes.
Mrs Syder, aged eighty, drowned herse
in Breakneek Creek at Kent, Ohio, becaus
her f~atherin-law would not give her mo
phine, to the use of which she was addicted
A report comes from Edwards Station,
few miles south from Columbus, Ohio, tn,
three self-binding resping machines, whic
were about to be delivered to purchaser
were burned a few days since by parties u
known. Thought to be Communists.
John Pancoast, a brakeman on the Broa
gauge road, was instantly killed at Man
field, Ohio, while switching cars near IL
stock-yards. he was standing between tv
cars, giving signals, when, it is supposed, l
lost his balance and fell under the trail
Almost the entire train passed over hir
serving the head from the body. He W,
aged thirty-two, married and lived at Ken
Ohio. His remains were sent to AshIan
Ohio, for funeral.
-Four large boilers in the puddle mills
the Chesapeake Nail Works exploded a fe
mornings since, at Harrisburg, Pa, wi
tremendous force. The mill was almo
enterely demolished. Chambers Bow
master, foreman, was horribly mangled al
instantly killed. Henry Neis, John Hes
George Frank and John Hebrick we
badly scalded and injured by the fyiI
debris. One of the boilers was carried ov
the adjoining mill, siyty-iye feet in heigl
and landed in a field about three hundr,
and fifty feet from the scene of the e
plosion. Another was blown through Il
top of the mill into a brick warehouse. II
third was carried into another warehout
badly damaging the building, and t
fourth boiler was entirely torn to piec,
Loss from $12, 900 to $4,000.
J. L. Milford, an old citizen of MIDI
town, Ohio, was terribly mangled and
stantly killed by being run over by a d
tached engine near the Short Line depot,
that place, late in the evening. He h
been temporarily insane at times duri
the past two years, and was evidently {
termined on committing suicide. When
got on the track he got down right in fro
of the engine and laughed at the engine
as 1t approached him. No blame is attach
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