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

LAooOohOAI o0OPhSo e"S SStAh Nv
Gallon, requesting the Ohio Congressman to
use all honorable means to prevent any re-
duction of the duties on wool or wooden
goods. The preamble r~ecites that the ex-
listing wool tariff has been on trial for nearly
eleven years, and under its operation sheep
breeding and wool-growing have been profit
ably extended into every State and Terri
tory Of the American Union, and it has
proved alike beneficial and satisfactory to
the farmer, wooden manufacturer and con-
sumner, and afforded the latter cheaper
wooden goods than at any former period.
General
At Philadelphia by the fall of a s%caffold,
recently, Frank Petit was killed, and Neil
Mclaughlin probably fatally injured.
While Mrs. Walcott and Mr.. Shewell were
engaged in a scene in "The Exiles," at the
Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, Mr.,
Shewell tripped and fell against the lady
who was seriously stabbed by the poniard
she held in her hand. The doctors fear in
ternal hemorrhage.
The steamer Magenta exploded near
Scarboro, N. Y, recently. A scene of the
widest terror followed, and when the steam
cleared away there were seen lying in the
forward cabin, near the stove, directly in
front Of the engine-room, the bodies of q
dozen men. The steam on the floor still
created a light vapor, and the surrounding
wood work was dripping from its nearness
to the exploded pipe. Two were dead, and
eight were badly and tive fatally scalded.
Hon. John L. Vance, of Gallipolis, on his
way to Washington, arrived at Cincin-
natl. Three hours after arrival he was in
receipt of q note written in a scrawliDg
hand, left at the hotel by some one I'M
known, stating that a member of the old
Fourth Virginia Regiment, was lying sick
in C~oyington, and asking assistance ofhim.
At six O'Clock in the evening he left the
hotel for C~ovington, and nothing from that
time was heard of him. 1t is mysterious
case. The superstition is, that he had been
decoyed by an enemy and murdered.
Amob broke into the Jail at Littleton, w.
Va, afew nights ago, and dragging outJ ohm
Wallace, the murderer of Miss Church, they
took him a few miles up the railroad and
hanged him to a tree.
An Abbeville, Ala, a dispatch tells the
story of the hanging of Jerry, Isaac and
Jacob Childs, negroes and brothers, for the
murder of Mrs. Yon in 1875. The execution
was witnessed by about ten thousand peo-
pie. Jerry said all were innocent, but that
Isaac HALLS, the prosecutor, knew who
XII led Mrs. Yon, for he had offered him
Jerry 800 in October previous to her
death, to kill her.
In the great international pedestrian con-
test, lately closed in London, a six days
walk; Vaughan completed his 500 miles at
1888, and gave up the struggle. O'Leary
walked until 8: 10, when he had made $50
miles and two laps, 440 yards further than
the best performance on record. Brown
walked till s 80, scoring ATT miles and two
laps. Ide also walked till $3.50, scoring 405
miles and four laps. O'Leary was then de-
clared the winner amid the playing of Ma
tional airs, and boundless excitement and
enthusiasm.
At Columbus, Ohio, recently, a father,
aged sixty-fonr, shot his son through the
heart, and then blew his own brains out,
and all ON account of a partnership dispute.
George Weinman, and George M. Weinman,
his son, had been partners in a certain
pump which the son had invented, They
had been quite successful in the manufac-
ture, but otter disagreed as to methods.
The other day they had an unusually pro-
tracted quarrel. The father secreted him.
self in an old frame building, by which the
son vent home. The son came-by in COM
pany with his friend osgood. The father
fired; one ball passed through the sons
heart and another through the shoulder.
With the words, "Oh God, Osgoed, I am
shot" he fell and instantly expired. In about
a minute another shot was heard, and run
ming into the building the crowd which had
gathered found the old man a sickening
sight. The whole top ofhis head was blown
of, and one eye hung on a rafter fifteen feet
away.
Three Mollie Maguires were hanged at
Bloomsbury, Pa, on the 25th of March,
for the murder Of Alexander Rea, in
October, 1868. They met death firmly,
and made no confession. In October, 1868,
nearly ten years age, these men, named
Hester, Tully, and McHugh, conspired to
rob and murder one Alexander Rea, Super
intendent of acolliery near Mt. Carmel, Pa.
Rea was paymaster of the mines,
and had started, with what his murderers
supposed to be a large sum of money, to pay
the monthly wages Of the men under
his charge. He was waylaid, robbed, and
murdered. In 1876, Hester, Tully, and Nc
Hugh were arrested On information giyer
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the Schuylkm County prison for a petty
offense. They had two trials, and eacl
time the jury brought in verdicts of muir
der in the first degree.
By an explosion of dynamite in a TUNE
boring at the Gunpowder Waterworks il
Baltimore County, Mo-, two men wer,
blown to pieces and two others MORALLY in
iured. Some of the shattered pieces o
bones and flesh were blown one hundred
feet by the force of the explosion. An in
quest failed to discover the cause of the &C
cident, and verdicts of accidental death
were returned.
Comptroller Kelly has sent a communities
ton to Attorney General Fairchild, urgin,
the release of VIM. NJ. Tweed. Kelly say
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General would release him if he would max
full confession of his misdeeds, and sui
render his property, induced Tweed's cor
fession and the profer of a surrender of tn
property.
William R. O'Donohue, Secretary of tn
Treasury under Riel, chief of the insurre'
tionists in Manitoba in 1871, and most activ
participant in the revolt, died in s
Joseph's Hospital, st. Paul, Mimi, Marc
26. He was the brains of the rebellion, an
was the only one of the leaders not pa
doned by the Canadian Government. q
was utlawed, and has since lived in Dakot
County, Minnesota.
Joseph and Teek Brassel, brothers, age
twenty-three and twenty-one years, respe
lively, were executed in Cookvine, Tenn
on March 81, for the murder of Russell All