The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-07
the cities presented as quiet an appear.

the cities presented as quiet an appear
ance.
THE Durango (Col.) special of December
8, says: "Last night about eleven o'clock,
| while DR.. H. A. Clay, pioneer physician,
one of our most eminent citizens, was sit
| ting in his office, his partner, DR.. E.
Evetzky, entered, and without warning
| fired several shots at Clay, and then blew
out his own brains with the same revolver,
dying instantly. Mr.. Clay died this morn
ing. They had been partners for several
months, and were doing a thriving
business. No difficulty is known to have
| existed between them until yesterday,
when DR.. Evetzky received a severe cow
hiding from Mrs. Moore and Miss Haw-
kins, who accused him of talking about
| them. Evetzky was under the impression
| his partner, DR.. Clay, had something to
| do with his being cowhided, which it is
thought led to the fatal shooting
In THE sale of securities of the Illinois
State Savings Bank at Chicago on the I'd,
PRESIDENT, for three-quarters of million
dollars, was knocked down to a country
man for 1901.
THE continued depression in the iron
trade has caused a temporary stoppage of
work in the guide and bar departments of
the Allentown, Pa, rolling mill, throwing
three hundred men out of employment.
RECEIPTS from internal revenue taxation
have increased from $113, 100000 in the
fiscal year 1879 to $123, 600, 900 in 1880,
$135, 200, 900 in 1881, and to S146, 500, 900 lin
round fgures) in the fiscal year last ended.
1t is thought the subject of reducing taxa
ton Will soon receive favorable considera-
ton in Congress.
| A DALLAS, Texas, Special dispatch of the
Sd, says: "a gang of desperadoes have
been stealing cattle and committing other
depredations in the neighborhood of Co.
manche for some time past. One of the
gang was caught and hung near Coleman,
last week. Another was captured at Liepe
| Springs and strung up, and now word
comes that two more of the outlaws, nam
ed Terry, were forcibly taken from officers
Friday night, at Hazel Dell, and left dang
ling to neighboring tree. This is be-
lieved to have broken up the gang"
A coLoRED man of Memphis broke into
a house on the ID, in which his wife, from
whom he had been separated some time,
was living, and with butcher knife killed
a woman sleeping with her, under the sup
| position, as he says, that it was man.
BILL ALLEN, the negro who, on the 29th
| ult., after fracturing the skull of fellow
employe, shot dead Police Officer Wright,
was himself shot dead at Chicago on the
Sd, after seriously wounding a second Off
Ger. There was great excitement attend
ing his capture.
| In Lake Michigan on the night of the 1st
the steam barge G.. R. Peters was towing an
other barge, when suddenly the Peters
caught fire, forty miles off Milwaukee, and
before aid could be rendered sank stern
first, with Captain Olsen, Mate Larsen and
eleven others, composing the crew.
THE Cincinnati News the new Demo
cratic paper, made its first appearance on
the I'd inst. 1t will be published daily.
THE Langtry train, on the way from
New York to Boston, killed Arthur Lord
and Patrick Kane, boys, who were crossing
| the track in wagon at Thompsonyille.
A BLACK eagle, measuring seven and one
half feet from tip to tip of wings, was
caught alive in trap on the Kentucky
side of the Ohio River, the other day,
|
ROBBERS attempted to capture train on
the I'd on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Road, but after battle with the guard in
the express car, the train pulled out and
left the robbers in the lurch. The officers
of the road had been warned and were
prepared.
Mrs. LANGTRY's four weeks engagement
in New York City closed on the I'd. The
receipts were $61, ,sO3.13.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
GEORGE SMITH, of Buffalo, New York, in
suit for damages against the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad, on
account of injuries received at crossing,
owing to a fagman not being employed
there, was awarded SIC, 900.
INDICTMENTS have been found at New
Orleans against thirteen perpetrators oi
election frauds.
The Attorney General of New York, on
the 29th, decided to grant the application
of VIM. II. Cameron and Jay Gould to en-
ter suit to vacate the charter of the Mutual
Union Telegraph Company. The Attorney
General says: The increase of the capital
stock of the Mutual Union was not justified
by law, but is in direct violation of the
statute allowing the formation of tele
graph companies.
THE bill in the Vermont Legislature
making the enforcement of the Liquor law
more stringent was killed in the Senate OF
the 29th, and the Legislature adjourned
sine die.
THE counsel for Rev. Harvey, who wa.
convicted at Omaha, Nebraska, recently
for using the U. S. mails for swindlins
purposes, will raise the question of con
stitutionality of the law, and take the cast
to the Supreme Court of the United
States.
THE Secretary OF the Interior has decided
to locate the Government Industrial
School for Indian youths, for which appro
priation was made by the last Congress.
Lawrence, Kansas.
THURLow WEEDS estate is valued from
$500, 900 to 500, ZOO. After making mum
ber of minor bequests, the remainder o
the property is distributed among his three
daughters and six grandchildren.
REAR ADMIRAL WYMAN, U. S. N, wa
stricken with paralysis on the 1st, and wa
reported in a critical condition.
In THE billiard match between William
Sexton and Maurice Daily, at New York
on the 1st, for a stake of $1,000, Sextol
, was the victor, making 500 points to hi
opponents 456.
d THE contract for the Stating and galvan
lied work of the public building at Charles
E town, West Virginia was on the 1st award
!, ed Kniseley Brothers and Miller, of CHI
e cago, and for heating apparatus of the Pa
4 ducah building to Bartlett, Hayward G. Co
e of Baltimore. There we're a number {
v Western bidders.
!, THE Commissioner of the Public Raj
e roads, in his report of the financial cond
s ton of the Union Pacific Railroad durin
r the fiscal year ended June 80 last, show
e that the gross earnings were $24, ,094, 50
t against 500, 765, ,752 during the fiscal yea
+ ended June 80, 1881. In round figures tn
operating expenses during the year wer
|, $12, 900, 900; interest paid, $5,0OO0OO, an
e dividends paid, 81 100000.
H. B. DEMAN, claiming to be the brothe