The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-09
IMPORTANT EVENTS
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DURING the week ended October 21 there
were e5S, 900 standard silver dollars put in
circulation by the mints In the cores
ponding period last year but AGA, 497 stand
ard dollars were issued.
AT a meeting of the pedestrians of the
recent contest in New York, the manage
ment announced the receipts as $26 373,
and expenditures s2f, ,443, leaving balance
of $4, 299, less than fifteen percent, which
went to the management. This left 1893,
and stakes to be divided. Fitzgerald re-
ceiyed S3.649, Noremac. 81, 149, Herty $599.
Hughes refused to take his award, 500.
]. 4. ARcHULETTA, Justice of the
Peace and prominent banker and mer-
chant at Conejos, Colorado, shot and
killed Deputy Sheriff Dlancett, at Farm
ington, New Mexico, few days ago. On
the Soth crowd of Mexicans took Archu-
letta from Jail and lynched him.
THE reports as to the condition of the
corn crop made to the Department of Ag-
riculture indicate an average yield
throughout the country of twenty-five
bushels 10 the acre..
IN An equity suit brought by Lotta, the
actress, against B. F. Randall, cotton bro
ker, of Fall River, Mass, for money loaned
for business purposes, the Auditor of the
Supreme Court makes an award for plain
tiff of ST., 900.
A SPECIAL agent of the Department of
Justice has been sent to Georgia to investi
gate the alleged Irregularities ip the ac-
counts of General Longstreet, United
States Marshal for the Northern District
of that State.
On the Goth, in the suburbs of Hot
Springs, Arksasas, while party of drunk
en- hoodlums were sitting up with the
corpse of Edward Murphy, lamp was up
set and exploded. The drapery of the
couch containing the body ignited, and
before the flames were extinguished the
corpse was burned to crisp.
On THE 31st, Alexander Dalton, Frank
Henry and Charles Blake, soldiers from
Leayenworth,- Kansas, while gathering
walnuts near the barracks, got into quar-
rel with a lad named Joseph Hammond,
which ended by Hammond being fatally
shot. Citizens captured the soldiers and
they were lodged in iail.
SEARCH among the ruins of the Park
Theater (Eew York; fire, failed to discover
the remains Of Leo. tho missing stage car
penter. Clark, assistant stage carpenter,
died of his injuries.
w. B. ScULLy, q noted horse trainer, was
shot and instantly killed by man
named Hooker Stiyers, at Paris, Ken
lucky, on the 31st.
PATTI arrived at New York on the 31st. :
IsADoR CAzAT, employed by the st. Louis
and Iron Mountain Railroad machine
shops, at Argenta, opposite Little Rock,
Ark, was discharged recently, and the
matter prayed upon his mind to such an
extent that on the 31st he committed sni-
eide. Bis son, bent upon avenging his
fathers death, visited the machine-shops
and not finding the master mechanic who
had discharged his father, shot and killed
George F. Barnes, the clerk. Young Cazat
was arrested.
NEAR Sparta, Tenn, on the 30th, George
Swift, while endeavoring to escape from
officers, who were trying to arrest him, was
shot and killed.
ARTICLES of agreement have been signed
between Joseph Acton, of Philadelphia
and Clarence Whistler, of Kansas City, to
wrestle. catch-as-catch-can, in New York
City, December 1s; stakes, 81, 900 side.
CHRISTINE NILSSON claims to have lost a
case containing her costumes and some
jewelry in the recent theatre fire in New
York.
SEVERAL families of colored people, num-
bering fifty persons, of all ages, sailed from
New York on the 31st on the ship Moravia
for Liberia. When they arrive there each
family will be given twenty-five acres of
land and shelter and provisions for six
months, after which they are expected to
become self-supporting.
BosroN is excited over the alleged mis-
management of the estate of John Howes,
we'll known character of South Boston,
who died fifty years ago, leaving property
now valued at $500, 900, part of which was
left for the support of the Congregational
Church.
AN APPALLING quadruple tragedy oc-
Cured in New York City on the 31st.
Mrs. Seguin, aged thirty-six years, wife of
DR.. E. C. Se- -uin, a noted physician and
authority on nervous diseases, took her
three children, two boys and girl, aged
respectively six, five and four years, to an
unused room in the fifth story of their res
idence. deliberH tely shot them to death,
and then committed suicide 1t is stated
by intimate friends of the family that Mrs.
Seguin was subject to spells of the most
depressing melancholia, and on the morn
ing preceding the horrible deed she ap-
peared to be unusually depressed, and
complained of feeling sick. Not much at
tention, however, was paid to her com
plants, her husband thinking it was moth.
ing more than her customary indisposi
ton, and left the house to visit his pa
tients. Mrs. Seguin then dressed the chill
dren and took them to the vacant room
put of hearing and sight and
committed the awful tragedy. When
found they had been dead two hours. The
insane mother had blindfolded them an6
tied their hands behind their backs with
cords
In the absence of Curtis Lapman ant
his wife, living near Troupsburg, New York
on the 1st inst, his house was burned, anC
with it two of their children.
THE Alhambra Theatre. New York, wa
destroyed by fire on the 1st.
THE railroad agents have agreed that TO
visitors to the Triennial Conclave o
knights Templar, at San Francisco, mex
August, the rate shall be one fare for tn
round trip from any point east of the Mis-
souri, River to Kansas City or Council
Bluffs and return. The rates west of tn
Missouri River will be agreed upon at
future meeting.
A COLLISION occurred on the 1st betwee
Lehigh and Susquehanna and Delaware
Lackawanna and Western train at damon
Crossing, twenty-five cars being throw
from the track and the engine demolished
John Glynn, watchman, was killed, an
several train hands injured. The wrec
was caused by negligence of the watchmar
JUDGE HAYES, in the District Court a
Davenport, Iowa, has decided the prohib
tory amendment unconstitutional.
RowDYIsM is SO rampant and highwa
robberies so frequent at Quebec, the pres
advise citizens to go armed, the author
ties being powerless to protect.
DURING last spring Frenchman name
Goodenough left Greenville for the wood
at the head of Moosehead Lake, Maine
Nothing was subsequently heard of hir
until few days ago, when q skeleton ws