The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-04-25

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keeper of the House of Representatives,
vice Donovan resigned. knight was a
Union soldier.
General
At Cincinnati, recently, a young married
man, Augustus L. Aull, shot himself
through the heart, in a fit of insanity.
At Norwood, q Cincinnati suburb, Ho-
ratio N. Burgoyne, died by hanging himself.
The deceased was q man eighty years of age.
home was at Laurel, Ind, and he was
well known in very part of his State.
During most of his life he had been actively
engaged in political affairs, and his adj
dresses and other labors contributed much,
on more than one occasion, to the success
OF the Democratic party, of which he was
always a stanch partisan.
A special from New Iberia, La, reports
the burning Of the sugar house n ginnery
of Devezir Oliver, near that place, and the
capture and execution by hanging of the
~incendiary, a colored man, who &C.
knowledged he had fred Gravemberg &
Fay's sugar houses some months ago.
Congressman Vance turned up, in San
Francisco, reported insane.
Mentionis made of the suicide Of Angus
tus Aun in Cincinnati. Another chapter,
even more painful than the first, has now to
be added. Aull had been lately married,
and was living with his wife, at No. 255
Clinton Street. Both were well connected,
and to all appearances had a bright future
before them. Early Monday morning Aull,
while still in bed, with his young wife beside
him, placed the muzzle of a loaded pistol
over his heart and pulled the trigger. In
half an hour he was dead. The terrible sud-
denness and awfulness of the occurrence
threw the wife into a paroxysm of fright
and grief, from which it was impossible for
her to recover. She was too much Frustrated
to give any testimony before the Coroner,
and that evening died. A sadderfate is not
often chronicled than that which in one day
overlook this young couple.
A special train Of eight cars, filed with
French families from New England manu-
featuring villages, passed through Nashua,
New Hampshire, bound to Manitoba, where
each family. will receive one hundred and
sixty acres of land from the Canadian Gov
eminent.
At Coal Creek, Ind, a mining town, seven
miles south of Covington, in Fountain
County, a militia company, composed of
miners who were in the strike a year ago,
we're drilling during the day, and at night,
while some Of them were in a saloon, with
their arms stacked in the corner, they be-
CANT engaged in an alteration with a negro,
who had been sent in for more liquor by q
party of negroes who were having a spree,
resulting in the killing of the negro. The
whites then moved through the streets,
shooting at the negroes on sight, killing two
more and MORALLY wounding another. The
Governor, in answer to a call for help, de.
clined until the Sheriff should signify his
inability to preserve order. The Sheriff has
since requested the presence of the Adiu.
tant-General, and made a requisition fol-
ammunition.
John Griffin, a seyen-year convict in the
Ohio P~enitentiary, from Stark County, com.
mitted suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
The Chicago Times, of a recent date
devotes thirteen columns to a painful
scandal involving the venerable Bishop Nc
Coskrey, of Michigan, who has been accused
by letters and other evidence, of getting him.
self into a scrape somewhat similar to thai
pf Henry Ward Beecher's. 1t is said the
Bishop viii resign and go to Europe.
At st. Louis, August Shattard, a French
man employed in Jos. Abrams's tin-shop OF
Broadway, had a quarrel with mis- employee
on the subject of SOM wages due him
Abrams left Shattard alone in the stor,
with the formers eighteen-mcnths old boy
who was helping himself to some food from
a pap-bottle. Shattered took the bottle anC
poured into it a lot Of muriatic acid, which
is used in soldering. The child drank of i
and Immediately fell in violent commissions
Medical attendance was called, but the lates
account the child was suffering terribly
and could not possibly survive the dose o
deadly poison.
A terrible assassination took place a
Richmond, Indiana, recently, in the shoot
ing of Charles Maule by his wife's brothers
BE was fairly riddled with bullets. The,
accused him of seducing his wife's sister
but on his dying bed the victim, on beinl
told that he could not recover, said: IA
hope to meet my God, they shot the wron
man. l never wronged my wife's sister, an
it was her constant anxiety on my account
owing to threats against my life, that mad
her crazy"
A horrible domestic tragedy took place i
Geauga County, Troy Township, on tn
18th, the victims being Mrs. Stroud and he
husband, Leonard B. Stroud. The husban
with a long butchers knife, disembowele
his wife and then cut his own throat. The
had not been living together, and had
difficulty about property. Stroud died frol
his wounds. The tragedy has created in
mense excitement in the township, an
much sympathy is expressed for Mr.
Stroud, who appears to have been highl
respected. She is about fifty years OLE
Stroud is not far from sixty. She was hi
second wife, and he her second husband
They came from the East a few years ago.
Peyton Chrisman, aged about ffty-fy
years, and son-in.law to old Simon Kentol
of renown in Ohio's early history, con
mitted suicide at his home in Range Tow
ship, Madison County, by taking morphin
Mr.. Christman was about to lose his sigh
and seemed to think death preferable
spending the balance of his natural life
darkness. He left a note to his friends, sa
ing he had taken sufficient morphine to ki
him, and, if it failed, he would try it agai
Fire Record.
Nurre's picture frame factory at Cinci
natl was a second time destroyed by fire