The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-21

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q clean breast of her guilt to her husbahu,
besought his forgiveness, and urged him,
for the sake of her honor as well as his
own, to kill the two men. Dockery, in
censed at the story of his wife, readily
agreed, and decided to lay in ambush for
the two men. Mapes and Cribbs were small
farmers, and great friends. They were in
the habit of leaving their work about five
o'clock in the evening and walking up the
road together. Neither was married. Dock
cry laid in wait for them, and, armed with
an ak, Drained both of them. and left them
lying in the road, where there bodies were
found the following day. Dockery escaped
TIE war which has been so bitterly
waged among the Chicago, st. Paul and
Omaha Railroads was ended on the 18th.
The precise terms of the agreement are
not made known, but they are believed to
be satisfactory to all the roads, and the
rates will be restored 10 flse;r fe+sia tssfss'
l~es ss9.saz HILARETH. q Philadelphias haais..
lon the l4th, entered suit against .Mrs
Cahili, rich widow, for breach of promise.
A EUROPEAN syndicate, headed by BENZ.
Newgas, of Liverpool, recently completed
| the purchase of one hundred thousand
acres of cotton lands in Arkansas and
| Chicot Counties, Arkansas, to be farmed
| on the syndicate plan. ~
THE cornerstone of the new Chicago
Board of Trade buildings was laid on the
18th.
Mr. WIN. q. LE1srER, of Bellefontaine,
Ohio, clerk in the Adjutant-GeneraPs
Office at Washington, committed suicide
on the 18th.
PATRICK SLATTERY, living three miles
south of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, shot and
instantly killed his step-mother on the
| 18th. He left note to his brother, saying,
Z" This is what drink has done for me, and
fed. The home had been the scene of tur-
moil and alcoholism for a long time.
EDWARD HANLAN, of Toronto, and John
| A. Kennedy, of Portland, Maine, on the
14th signed articles of agreement to row a
three mile, with turn, race for q, 500 q
side.
GoRDoN CoRw1TH, son of VIM. Corwith, 9
prominent pig lead manufacturer, of Chi
cago, was arrested on the 14th on an order
i from the Superior Court on the charge OF
obtaining $22,eO0 from A. Booth, Jr., under
| false pretenses. The latter claims that Cor
with represented that>he was member oi
syndicate which had an operation in
stocks on hand. Corwith promised to give
Booth a percentage of the profits, and thus
| induced him to advance the above named
amount from the elder Booths business, OF
] which he had charge during his fathers ill
ness. Corwith afterward confessed that he
had lost the whole amount on the Board oi
Trade in three days. He was released on
s25, 900 bail.
Two HORSES were killed and two houses
demolished by wild freight train at St.
Louis on the 14th; no person injured.
THE extensive depot and wharf, together
with sixty cars and ten locomotives of the
Manhattan Beach Railroad Company. at
Bay Bridge, N. Y, were destroyed by fire
On the 14th. Loss estimated at $500, 1000.
! A canalboat captain lost his life.
! The National Board of Health, on the
14th, appealed to different Boards through
out the country for authority to sign pc
tition to Congress, asking the reinstate-
ment of the Board in quarantine matters,
and for additional appropriations.
| A. P. RYAN, under Indictment at St.
Louis for swindling merchants of that city
out of $60O worth of goods, on the 14th
gave bond in $1,000 TO appear before the
Criminal Court.
Two colored youths, aged about fourtee n
were burned to death, at Memphis, Tenn,
on the 14th. They had made themselves
bed of excelsior in large box at the
rear of music store, and the suppositior
is the excelsior caught fire from cigarette.
l 81 o1r. h~f1 =,
could get out were literally roasted.
WHILE a number of persons were skating
on Abbott's Dam Falls, on the Schuylkill,
near Philadelphia, on the 14th, the ice gave
way, and Annie Casey, John snowden
Thomas Kindle and Violet Barker, chill
dren, were drowned. It Is feared other.
met similar fate. The four bodies were
recovered. ~ -
JOHN G. REID, eI-mail agent on the
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad, wa
sentenced in the Federal Court at Littl.
Rock, Arkansas, on the 14th, to three year,
in the penitentiary at Detroit, for robbinl
registered letters. @& ~ ~ - s.
"BUD" EeeLEsToN, local temperate,
orator, well known East and West, was in
stantly killed by a locomotive at the Balti
more and Ohio Railway Station, at Wash
, ington, D. c., on the 10Th. He was stand
ing on track, waiting for train, wheI
struck by the locomotive that was em
ployed in the yards. His body was horribl.
mutilated. a3ia
, The following murderers expiated thei
crime on the gallows ON the 18th: A
, Mansfield, Louisiana, Peter Thomas, TO
the murder of Dick Bright; at Deadwood
Dakota, James Leighton, of Ohio, for tn
murder of . Mexican in the spring of 1881
, at Galway. Ireland, Patrick Joyce, Myle
Joyce, and Patrick Casey, the three mel
convicted for participation in the murde
! of the Joyce family, at Maamstrasna; a
Scale, Alabama, John Jedd, for the mu,
J der of Lucy Lee.
GEORGE BAYARp and Gustave F. Per
1 mond, New York liquor dealers, charge
, with REFUSING revenue stamps, in connet
: ton with the prophet tor of Bush's distil
lery, on the 18th withdrew the plea of nc
guilty and entered that of guilty. Bot
were released on $75, 600 bail to appear fo
sentence. 1t is reported they have offere
to compromise with the Government
the payment of 800, 600.
TIE Hall Block, situated at the corner {
st. Clair and Jefferson streets, Toledt
Ohio, the finest business block in the city
, was totally destroyed by fire on the 15tt
r Total loss, $3.50, 600; total insurance, $500
3 900. The origin of the fire is unknown.
THE steamboat Kate Kinney, lying ,
: the wharf at Shreveport, Louisian,
= together with several buildings, were tota
= ly destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss @
!. the boat, $40, 600; on the buildings, $3.50, 90
4 JAMES BRENNAN, a laborer, choked 1
q death in dining-saloon in Brooklyl
r. New York, on the 18th. He had just sal
d he was good Catholic, but had Protes
n ant stomach, and would eat meat, but
n piece lodged in his throat and stranglt
t. him.
ls THERESA STURLA, who has been on tri
" at Chicago for the past three week
"a charged with the murder of her love
b Charles Stiles, was convicted of ma
le slaughter and sentenced to one year
le the penitentiary.