The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-03

A letter from Tompkinsville, Monroe County,
Kentucky, gives the particulars of q fiendish
murder there. Some hours after dark large
stone was thrown against the door of q house
occupied by James Fellers, aged thirty-seven
years. As Fellers opened the door flash and .
report was heard. He staggered second and
then throwing up his arms fell over dead. An
examination showed that Feliers had been shot
through the heart. Thirty-seven slugs and
shot were found in his body. A son of the
lead man observed William Smith trying to es-
cape. The lad subsequently secured his arrest,
and Smith is now in jail, charged with murder
in the first degree. The wife and daughter of
Fellers have been arrested as accessories to the
crime. The wife is a pretty woman, twenty
four years of age, and the step-daughter
nineteen. The man Smith ran off with Fellers
wife year ago and hard feeling has existed
between them ever since. The wife is educated
| and good-looking, but bears bad character.
1t is thought that the daughter will be acquitted
t-zaKnf PeFssns rsFs5n m She FIanes.
A four-story building at East Liverpool,
Ohio, occupied by Sloan Bros drug store, and
J. Kaufman, grocer, burned at an early hour
on the morning Of the 23d Of February, and in
| it perished eight persons. The upper stories OF
| the building were occupied by ]. Sloan and
family of seven persons, and the fire was first
discovered by Mr.. Sloan, who woke all, and
picking up little daughter three years old,
told them to follow. The stafrways were by
this time burned away, and escape by that
means cut of. Turning to the front OF the
building he told his wife with babe in her
arms) and children to follow him, and leaped
to the ground. The wife and children we're
either overcome by the flames and stifed fumes
from the drug store, or failing to get the
children to jump, preferred death with them.
Mr.. Sloan hoped by jumping first to be able to
catch the others and break the force of their fall
and although breaking his leg in the leap, hob
bed around crying out piteously for the others.
The building was a perfect fire trap, having
numerous elevators running up through the
fourth floor, which opened up an inviting path
way for the fiery fiend, and nearly every floor
being filed with hay, the flames spreading with
frightful rapidity, and in twenty or thirty min
utes the entire structure was consumed. Wher
the ruins were searched, Mrs. Sloan was found
with her babe In her arms, and both burned
nearly to a crisp. Around them were huddlet
the bodies of the other five children, all having
hustled into one corner, and died as close t.
the mother as they could cling Mr.. Skeels wa
sleeping in back room, and possibly neve
knew of the danger until escape was Impossible
From the position of the bodies it was eviden
that Mrs. Sloan had evidently essayed to follo'
her husband, but had been prostrated by tn
smoke, or went down in the crash which 10
lowed an explosion of powder in the store bt
low. The bodies were charred beyond recogn
ton, those of the grown persons being guesse
by their size, while the child burned to cris
on the breast Of its mother, makes hers tn
only identity certain. The origin Of the fire
not known.