The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-10-26
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Collated and compiled from all
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In THE recent Jeanette investigation
st Washington an interesting feature of
the proceedings was the introduction in
evidence of the log book of the Jeanette
and the original muster rolls and charts,
with the tin cases in which they were car
ried hy Captain DeLong and party through
their desperate md hopeless wanderings
through Siberia.
The details in regard to the tragedy at
Minden, Kearney County, Nebraska, on
the 10th. show that there were four horse
thieves in Minden with herd of twenty
two stolen ponies Two of them were eat
Ing supper at the Prairie Home hotel, where
there were about twenty gentleman and
lady guests and most of them in the din
ing-room. Sheriff Jack Woods, of Gull
bertson. Hitchcock County, Nebraska, who.
bad followed the thieves, walked into the.
room and said 10 the thieves, eThrow up
your hands, They replied by shooting
him dead, two bullets entering his body.
Deputy Sheriff P. B. Killen, of Kearney
County, Nebraska, who, with his wife, sat
at the table facing the murderers,
told his wife to run. Thereupon
one of the thieves shot him
dead. They then shot a mail-carrier
named Collins, who died soon after. Rush
ing into the street, they mounted their
horses and fed, leaving the town in the
widest excitement A pursuing party was
soon organized and started in pursuit. The
thieves were well armed, with two revolvers
each, and knives. "A heavy reward has
has been offered for them.
T. W. SAuPE, sR., a German gardener,
living in the suburbs of Cincinnati, shot
and instantly killed his son William on
the 18th, and Immediately thereafter cut
bis own throat from ear to ear. The inabil-
ity of the son to pay the old man $3.50
which he owed him was the cause of the
deed.
F1FTY-s1x new cases of yellow fever and
three deaths were bulletined from Pensa-
cola on the 18th. Total cases to date,
l,7s3; deaths, 147.
A WArERrowN ID. T.) dispatch Of the
18th says: THE worst prairie FIRE ever seen
In this locality is raging A two-year-old
daughter of d. 7. Governor was caught on
the prairie and burned to DEATH"
JOHN A. CocKERILL has been released at
st. Louis on bond of $4,000. A warrant
has been filed against him, charging mur-
der in the second degree.
A CHICAGO speculator, on the 18th, said
"Corn is very high, but there is really very
little of it in the country. A year ago
there were %, ,0O0, 900 bushels of corn in
sight. OF course, there is prospect of q
big crop right ahead, but until that begins
to move I do not look for lower prices"
The sum of S.. 700 was collected in six
minutes by the st. Louis Merchants Ex-
change, on the 18th, for the benefit of the
family of Col. A. w. slayback, who was
killed by John A. Cockerill.
REV. Nh. ToMPKIEs, his son and daugh-
ter, have gone crazy on religion, and been
taken to Jail until their reason is restored.
His son is especially violent Mr. Tomp-
kins is engaged IN praying day and night.
JAMES 81. COREY, proprietor of the Belle.
vue Hotel, at Long Branch, who demanded
$500 from two sick guests to permit them
to remain in his establishment, has been
indicted. The indictments are for robbery
riot, extortion, assault and battery, and
maintaining nuisance.
TIE Secretary of the Treasury has issued
call for the redemption of s15, 5,oOo,0 600 o.
bonds of the five-per-cent funded loar
of 1881, continued on three-and-a-hah PEI
cent. from August IL, 1881.
In consequence of spiteful construc
ton of the ruling of the Supervising In
spector of Steamboats,, that tugs must no
carry passengers under penalty of $500 TO
each passenger carried, it is said that thre
deaths from drowning occurred at Chicag
recently.
JOHN D. DEFREEs, ex-Public Printer q
Washington, died on the 10th at Berkele.
Springs, Va
A SERIOUS defect has been discovered Il
the reapportionment of the State of Ten
nessee, which omits three counties. Sec
tary Henderson, of the Republican Ne
tional Convention, expresses as his belle
that this will vitiate the title of every Cor
gresham elected under the new law.
WALLACE A. CURRY, Station Agent of tn
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad q
Clarksfeld, was recently bound, gagge
and robbed of s4O0. He afterward al
knowledged that he himself did the dee
for the purpose of robbery,
r. o. SroRRs & Co., manufacturers {
woolens, at Dedham, Mass, failed on th
18th. Liabilities $43o,Ooo; nominal asset
e225, 600.
Ar Philadelphia, on the 10th, a warrsr
was issued for the arrest of Elliott Clarl
managing editor of Pennsylvania Conserp,
soY of UnipersG. Education, ON the chars
of fraud and embezzlement Clark hi
absconded.
THE hair of A. B. Cornell, who has bee
In Jail at Leavenworth, Kanas, for son
time past, under Star-route indictmeI
has turned from jet black to pure white.
TIE Board appointed to consider an
audit the various claims arising out of Il
Illness and death of President Garfield, Q
the 18th, received from DR.. Hamilton,
New York, claim of $25, 900, for profe
sional services. ~
Miss IDA GRAVES, aged nineteen yeal
was shot dead at her home in Mariett
Michigan, on the evening of the 18th, I
her fathers hired man. She had refus,
his hand in marriage earlier in the afte
noon. 49,
THE slander suit. of Marie Prescott, Il
actress, against President Dousey, of u
American News Company, has been deci
ed by the jury awarding Miss Presc
$500 damages.
INTELLIGENCE was received on the 10th
the contemplated uprising of negro
against whites in the neighborhood Of
ford and Admission, Alabama. All
citizens have armed themselves, and t
greatest anxiety Is said to prevail.
CHIEF ENeINEER MELVILLE sent in his
port on the 18th, to the Secretary of t
Navy. It is graphic account of
Jeanette expedition from the time VIII.
after parting at dinner, the crew separat
into three sections, and this report, the
fore, supplements the ships log and
Longs own minutes, all Of which We
preserved. and thus completes the histc
of the ill-fated expedition. The report
accompanied by carefully drawn cha
which shows in detail the wanderings
the explorers.
FIVE horse thieves, who stole thirty
horses and mules from eight freighters
williams, Arizona, several weeks ago, "
surprised in Tigeras Canyon, thirty mi