The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-18
General

Fessler, the defaulting Treasurer of Stark
County, Ohio, has been returned to and
committed to jail at Canton for trial.
Robert Creighton, a very respectable citi-
zen of Guernsey County, Ohio, hung him.
self Friday forenoon. Financial affairs was
the cause.
Isaac and Eddie Marks, nine and seven
years of age respectively, were drowned
Saturday evening in Pope Greek, three
miles south of Aledo. Ill.
Bald Mountain, North Carolina, which
created such a sensation ayear ago, and has
been quiet ever since, has resumed its
rumblings, and great excitement prevails in
the neighborhood.
A son of Peter Richards, of Bedford,
Indiana, about ten years old, was drowned
Saturday morning, while bathing in a pond
near the town. Another son was rescued
just in time to save his life.
Augustus NJ. Jackson, the veteran of the
New Albany (Ind.) Ledger-Sandard, died
July Z, of liver complaint, aged ffty-seyen
years. He had been a resident for fifty
years, and editor of the Ledger and Ledger
Standard for twenty years. he had been an
editor for ABOUT thirty-fve years.
An extraordinary lynching occurred at
Paige, in Bastrop County, Texas, a man
named N. Howard, brother of Sam Howard,
now in Bastrop jail, being hanged for the
murder of Alexander, a farmer. The last
mentioned was a railroad agent at P4ige.
While walking from his house to the depot
he was set upon by a crowd of twenty-five
masked men, who murdered him. Twenty
seven shots were put in his body. Howard
screamed for help'and implored mercy, but
to no avail.
A shocking %coil-oil accident, resulting
from an attempt to quicken the fame in a
stove by the use of that dangerous fluid,
occurred in northeast Baltimore, Maryland,
lately, resulting in the death of one person
and the serious burning of two others.
The victims were Virginia Norman, aged
thirteen; Edgar, a babe twenty months old,
and the father, Joseph Norman.
A distressing accident, for which c~oal-oil
and human carelessness are responsible,
occurred on Compton Hill, in the sout
eastern suburbs of st. Louis, causing one
death and serious injury to four other per-
sons. Mrs. Elizabeth Riley poured c~oal-oil
on the kindling to make it go of, and it did
go off, setting her clothes on FIRE, burning
her fatally. Her husband AMI daughter,
who attempted to put out the flames, were
also dangerously injured.
On the 18th inst. lightning did much dam.
age in various parts of the country. At
Hartford, Conn.,, Hezekiah Shailor, of Shell.
don & Co., publishers, New York, was killed
by lightning. John Hancock, in charge of
aheard of cattle en- route north, was killed
bylightning about three miles from Camp
Robinson, Neb. His horse was also killed
at the same time. Lightning struck the
spire of the new church on Fifty-seyenth-
street, between Seventh avenue and broad
way, New York, killing Edward Whie and
Bernard Gray, who were at work laying
brick. White fell to the street, a distance
of sixty feet, and was terribly mangled.
By the explosion of a pudding furnace in
Philadelphia rolling mill, on Wednesday,
one man was killed and six others seriously
scalded.
Mike Shaw, the wife murderer, was
hanged at Milledgeville, Georgia, on July II.
His neck was not broken, and the body
writhed fearfully for six minutes after the
fall.
Hiram Fooks (colored) was hanged al
Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland
July II, for the murder of John Tyler, (col
oredl aged eighteen. Fooks died proclaim
ing his innocence.
The orangemen of Montreal, Canada, haG
determined to have a celebration on tn,
18th, but the city authorities opposed it OF
account of the threats of a riot from tn,
Catholics. The O~rangemen had col
iected for the purpose of forming, but
mob formed, and they finally gave up thei
procession in the face of receiving pro
lection from the authorities. They stipu
lated with the Mayor that he should dis
perse the mob in the vicinity of Tie hall
and place guards in the hall to protect il
Parades were held in Toronto, Philadelphia
and New York.