The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-23
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DURING the week ending November IL,
T2S, 400 standard silver dollars were placed
in circulation. In the corresponding period
last year but 444 600 were circulated.
TIE vote in North Carolina is SO close be-
tween Bennett and Dockery, for Congress
man-at-large, it will probably take the Off
cial vote of all the counties to decide the
result = GO W f7
On Red River, few miles from Texar-
kama, Texas, ON the 11th, Charles Hewey,
jr., after quarrel withtwo brothers named
Butler, started for home, He was pursued,
the Buffers following him to negro cabin,
where he had taken refuge, and kicked the
door down. Hewey had double-b -barreled
shotgun, and killed both brothers as they
crossed the threshold. Hewey was wound
ed in the arm by d ball fred BY q man who
came with his assailants.
CHIEF Brooks, of the Secret Service of
the Treasury Department, has received q
sample OF the counterfeit Bland silver dol
lar, which is being extensively circulated,
especially in the West. The coin is very
heavily plated, resists acid tests, unless
deeply cut before applied, has ring sim
liar to the genuine, and is of the exact
weight Officers of the Department con-
slider the counterfeit one of the most dan
gerous that has yet appeared.
THE Grand Jury of the District of Col
umbia, on the 14th, returned true bills
against B. F., Hackman and Henry Reed,
of Washington, publishers of the Sunday
Chronicle, for publishing libel on Alonzo
Bell, late Assistant Secretary of the Inter
ior, on April 25, 1882, and against B. F.
Bigelow, late teller of the Bank of the
Republic, for the embezzlement of $25, 900.
In the latter case there are seven separate
counts. s8
Ex-CoLLEcroR of the port of Perth
Amboy, Charles II. Houghton, convicted
of transmitting false vouchers to the
Government, has been sentenced to fine
of $500 and the costs of prosecution.
LORENZO Dow CROCKETT, cornterfeiter,
one of the late notorious Biebusch gang,
was sentenced on the 18th to five years in
the Illinois Penitentiary.
ELLERy ALBEE, defaulting cashier of the
Ashuelot, N. H., Savings Bank, has been
sentenced to ten years in the State Prison.
SERGEANT BETz, of Troop L, 4th Cavalry,
United States Army, was found dead at a
house of ill-fame on the night of the 14th,
at Leavenworth, Kansas, but it is not known
whether he was murdered or committed
suicide.
JOHN BURGESS, Government Inspector of
Steamboat Boilers, is on trial at Montreal
on the charge of causing the death of Will
he
steamer Richelieu at the time of the recent
explosion. Felgate. owner, and Erechette,
engineer, of the Richelieu, will be tried on
similar charge.
THE following story, from Wash <gton,
Pa, has been circulated by the Western
Associated Press: Richard Hoffman, of
Somerset Township, has been cripple for
years, being paralyzed in his lower limbs
so that he was compelled to use awheel-
chair. On the 9th he crawled behind a
barn, and while engaged in prayer he
heard voice say: /" Arise and walk"
He obeyed the command, and has been
walking ever since.
NEWS has been received of disastrous
railroad accident which occurred on the
Alton Road, near Oak Grove, Kansas, on
WIS
backing up from Grain Valley to Oak
Grove it,eollided with a hand-car on which
were four men. The men on the car
jumped and escaped, but the construction
train of five or six cars and caboose, was
ditched, and brakeman named Corcoran
and five section men were killed, and eight
or ten others wounded.
THE trial of Judge J. d. Norwood for
killing L. J. Polk, lawyer, at Floyd, La,
in July last, was concluded on the 14th
and resulted III verdict of acquittal.
The jury were out but few minutes
THE dead bodies of two men named
found on the streets of st. Joseph, No., on
the morning of the 14th, both having been
shot through the head. The supposition
prevails that they were killed by two
strangers with whom they had been
gambling few hours previous and from
whom they had won money. No arrests.
THE Vermont House passed bill COM
muting the death sentence of Almon T.
Meaker to imprisonment for life.
A SPECIAL dispatch of the 18th gives the
following details of terrible tragedy near
Earl Park, Indiana: Jasper Spaulding, a
well-to-do farmer, residing three miles
from Earl Park, on the Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, st. Louis and Chicago Railroad,
during temporary fit of insanity, first
murdered his wife and child, and then
himself. It appears from the report of the
Coroner's inquest that he ate his break
fast, and harnessed his horses preparatory
to going to work before committing the
awful deed. The weapons used were q
singletree and a razor, the crazed man first
telling his victims with the singletree and
then cutting their throats from ear to ear
with the razor. The bodies were found
lying in the kitchen, in close proximity to
each other, the father lying over the wife,
with the razor just beneath him. It was q
CHASTITY sight, the mother of Mrs. Spauld
ing being the first to discover the bodies
Spaulding had just sold his farm and de-
posted the money in bank.
Mrs. E. K. HART, sister of the late Oliver
P. Morton, of Indiana, died of paralysis il
Keokuk, Iowa, on the 18th, aged seventy
three.
On the 18th, the body of DIR. J.G.S. Mohl
was found in his office at Chicago. He hai
evidently been dead some days Their,
were no marks of violence, and the caus,
is unknown.
BURGLARS entered the residence of VIM
A. Pool, Clerk of the Superior Court o
Alexander County, North Carolina, on tn,
10th, bound and gagged him, and mad
their escape with 300 belonging to tn
county.
THE negotiations which have been pend
ing for several months between the West
ern Associated Press and the New Yorl
Associated Press, eliminated recently il
New York by unanimous agreement fo
a Joint management.
F. N BAssETT, stenographer to Postmas
ter General Howe, has been appointet
Chief Clerk of the Postoffice Department
and B. 8. Boswell has been appointed sten
ographer vice Bassett.
TIE crew of the missing boat from tn
steamship Westphalia landed at NeI
Haven on the 10Th, and reported that tn
other steamer with which the Westphali
came in collision went to the bottom wit
all on board.
THE Prohibitionists of Chicago hav