The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-08-17
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Collatcd and Compiled from oil
Quarters.
DOMESTIC.

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Quarters.
FIVE persons were drowned by the cap
sizing of boat at Nantucket, Mass.
A LAD named James Henry was drowned
in the Ohio River, opposite Cincinnati.
Patrick Mccarthy volunteered to dive for
the lad, and in SO doing, was also drowned.
The Society of the Army of the Cum
berland, through its Garfield Monument
Committee, has decided to give a National
Fair or Bazaar at the Capitol from Noyem-
Der 25 to December 8.
RUFUS HATCH and party of English and
New York capitalists. have purchased
100000 acres of grazing lands, lying be-
tween the Little Missouri and Powder
rivers, in Montana, from the Northern
Pacific Road, at 81 per acre, on seven years
time. As the grant to the road only takes
alternate sections, the syndicate will have
practical pasturage of 1900, 900 acres, as
1t win have the use of the intervening sec
tions of government land. 1t is proposed
to stock it with sc, 900 head of cattle. The
party, in company with Herman Trott,
Land Commissioner of the Northern Pa
ciic, are now en- route to inspect this pur-
chase
A. G. LEONARD, editor of the Cairo (Ill J
Gazette, was dangerously stabbed on a
steamboat, by G. w. Tanner, a colored
politician.
A MOUNT AIRY, N. c., dispatch of Au-
gust 8, relates the following concerning the
proposed tramp of six frolicsome young
IoIt
ladies arrived in this place to-dny, all
rugged out and equipped for journey on
foot through the mountains of this State.
The girls wear dresses even shorter than
the regulation walking suit, have KNAPP
sacks strapped over their shoulders, wear
broad d-bottomed easy shoes, dark hose, and
are fixed up for comfort. They propose to
take trip on foot through all of the
mountain counties of North Carolina. In
their baggage they have hammocks, which
will be used in case they will have to camp
out at night. The trip will consume about
two months, and cover district of six OF
eight hundred miles The girls are all
young, the oldest probably not over %
and the youngest 49,
HUNDREDS of letters received by business
houses at st. Louis from correspondents
throughout the South, Southwest and West
say that there never have been such crops
of corn and oats raised in Texas, Arkansas
Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, the In
dian Territory, Missouri and Kansas a,
those of the present season.
A SEVERE storm prevailed along the east
ern part of Massachusetts,, August s
extending into Maine. A number ol
dwellings and many barns were struck by
lightning and Destroyer, involving con,
siderable loss.
JAMES ROBERT ADAMS cashier of the
West End Hotel, Long Branch, killed
himself. Domestic trouble is the cause as
signed.
FIVE persons were killed in a railroad
accident near Pittsburg Station. Texas.
PAUL ToLLNER, at Chicago. murdered bis
young wife and then killed himself.
SAM MILLER, negro, was taken from the
Newman Jail, Georgia, by seventy masked
men, and hanged. His crime was that ol
attempting to outrage white woman, in
Campbell County.
GEORGE B. HAMILTON, aged n1neteer
years, who is bookkeeper of the Farmers
Bank, Wyoming, Illinois, has ahscondet
with $1,000 of the banks funds.
SUITS for damages amounting to $7OOOt
have already been begun by administra
tors of persons killed in the Scioto disas
ter against the Wheeling and Parkersburl
Transportation Company.
A PREMATURE blast at Cornwall, New
York, on the West Shore Road, killed fou
negroes and wounded several others.
The twenty. first anniversary of the bat
tie of Wilson's Greek Mo. J, where Genera
Lyon was killed, was. celebrated on tn
10th. General Pope and others mad
speeches.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, reported fifty case
of yellow fevebon the 9th.
CHARLES REcKE, of Union Hill, N. J.
believing his wife was unfaithful, followe'
her into the street and shot her. He thel
shot himself Neither wounds were seri
Gus, however, and his wife pre-
ferred charges against him, and he wa
bound over for. trial in So 600 bail.
ONE hundred and one business failure
were reported for the week ending Aus
ust ~.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, on the 11th inst
reported twenty new cases of yellow fevel
On THE morning of the 18th Alexande
Weller, q saloon-keeper at Evansville, II
diana, his wife and child, were all foun
murdered. The husband and wife wer
lying on the bed, and the little boy nea
them on the floor. The supposed Grim
nails are under arrest.
Two LITTLE little girls named. Meeha
blew out the gas and went to bed at Pull
man, Ill. Both were found dead.
HIRAM VEIswINTER and Robert P,rkt
undertook to shoot pigeon match {
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, on the 12t
inst. The former took true aim and she
his opponents head off.
INTELLIGENCE has been received of
bloody affray between the Hatfields an
McCoys on election day, in Pike Count,
Kentucky, in which Mccoy shot and CT
Hatfield, which resulted in death. Ha
fields friends then banded together, an
took three of the McCoys out and kille
them.
TWENTY-FIVE new cases of yellow fevt
were reported from Brownsville, Texa
on the 18th.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE select committee of the Senate,
investigate alleged improper use of mon,
to promote or defeat the Bonded Spiri
bill, report that the total raised to asst
the passage of the bill was s13 600, whi,