The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-04-05

anu new Ork hallrOau.
THE Philadelphia body-snatchers have
been sentenced to imprisonment for terms
varying from four months to two years.
INQUIRY into the fatal poisoning of six
lunatics In the asylum at Staunton, Va,
has been closed. Who put poison into the
medicine has not been discovered.
MRS. PHILIP JACOBS was assaulted and
robbed in broad daylight on one of the
principal thoroughfares in Chicago, few
days ago. Her injuries are fatal.
A MAN named NJ. H. Marsden, of Jeffer-
SON County, Mo-, was arrested in st. Louis
for stealing hogs few days ago. Officers
now charge him with arson and murder,
committed about a year ago in jefferson
County.
IT Is said in st. Louis that Mr.. Henry
Flad, of that city, has information that he
will be appointed by the President to suc-
ceed James B. Eads on the Mississippi
River Commission.
JOHN SHADowER, charged with ive muir
ders and several lesser crimes, has been
arrested and sent to Mississippi County,
Arkansas.
TIE Catholics of Memphis are much ex-
ercised over the action of the representa-
tives of the Kerr estate, who have fenced
Off forty acres of Calvary Cemetery, which
contains eighty acres. This is due to the
non-payment of $500, which the heirs
claim should have been paid long since for
the forty acres which were sold by them to
Bishop Feehan in 1866.
CHARLES Booth, German bookkeeper,
formerly employed by E. & H. T. An
thony, Of New York, dealers in photo
graphic materials, was arrested on the 29th
on charge of embezzlement Information
had reached police headquarters previously
that James A. Burnett, formerly cashier of
the same firm had been arrested in Colo
rado on similar warrant The defalcation
amounts to $13,6 $50.
The bodies of two colored men, recog-
nized as Henry Depugh and Henry Rose,
were discovered i'll hut on the Rocky
Fork, at colored settlement near Alton,
I'LL, few days ago. The head of Depugh
was almost entirely blown off. while Ross
was stabbed near the heart. The Coroner
inquest failed to elicit any clue to the
crime or perpetrators. Depugh was the son
of Rev. Isaac Depugh, well known color
ed Baptist preacher.
NARY ANN DooLEY, of Chicago, was ar
rested on her arrival at New York on the
30th, on the charge, it is claimed, of mur-
dering her mother by poison. About q
month ago her mother died under sus.
picious circumstances. She was supposed
to be worth $500, 200. No verified will was
found, but copy of an alleged will was
unearthed, and an Investigation was fol-
lowed by the flight Of the daughter and a
young man, supposed to be her suitor For
some reason the man was not arrested.
OFFICER KEARNEY, who arrested Guiteau
Immediately after the assassination, has
refused the offer of Western circus man.
ager to travel with the combination.
Kearney says: Il will not be party to
any. scheme which proposes to drag the
dead President into circus ring. Further
than that, my pride would not permit it,
if only for my children's sake.''
A CONDUCTOR on the New Haven and
Northampton Railroad has been found
guilty of manslaughter for causing col
lision by disobeying orders, by which three
lives were lost.
SEVERAL masked men went to the home
of Mrs. Joshua Hill, aged seventy, in At
lanta, Ga, a few nights ago. and criminally
assaulted her and her two daughters.
A FULL dress rehearsal of the passion
Play" was given at New York on the night
of the 30th. The theater was jammed. So
great was the crush the doors had to be
closed and hundreds turned away. The
play was given in full without police in.
reference, and received much applause.
Salmi Morse was called before the curtain,
and made speech, in which he said he
was happy and full of thankfuiness u
Quite sensation was caused by the drop
curtain almost taking fire from the foot
lights. A large police force was present.
The express train from Chattanooga on
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, went
over an embankment one mile below
Mason, KY, at o. clock on the morning of
the 3oth. The smoking car, coach, and two
sleeping cars were hurled from the rails
down the embankment with seventy-eight
passengers within. The engine and bag
gage car did not leave the track. The
smoker turned over four times, crushing
trees and telegraph pole in the descent.
One sleeper was burned, but among the
many injured, none were hurt by fire. The
other, after its fearful tumble down the
embankment, lay wreck, 130 feet from
the rails. The cause of the accident is at
tributed to heavy rains of the
night previous, which created moist
the track to become somewhat out oil
line, and coupled with the weight of the
train, added to its speed, caused the train
to be thrown from the track. In all proba.
bility the track slid slightly to one side
as the weight of the engine and train bore
down upon it. The engine and one pail
of trucks of the baggage car, however,
passed over without derailment. The cars
behind all went off, fairly stripping the
ties of the rails for some thirty or forty
feet. The front car, which was the smoker
went off the fill on the east side, while the
day coach and two sleepers went down or
the west side. There was no one killed
but at least two, and possibly dozen, wer,
fatally injured. Whether the trair
jumped the track or was thrown off by {
broken rail is in dispute. The most seri
ously injured passengers were left q
| Williamstown, and those able to trave
were brought to Cincinnati.
MRS. MEAKER, convicted of the murder
of her niece at Waterbury, VT, was hanged
at Windsor on the Both. Her crime wa!
committed in April, 1880. She died per
fectly composed and asserted her innocenc,
| to the last.
CHAs. WILLIAM BEAVER, oolored and aged
sixteen, was hanged in the Jail yard a
Leesburg, Va, on the 3Oth, for rape. Hi
victim was little white girl only ten year
of age.
C. G. MERKLE, the fugitive junior mem
Der of the embarrassed Pittsburg paper
house, was arrested in Cincinnati on the
30th, and S2s, 400 in cash and Government
bonds were found upon his person. Wher
he left Pittsburg he had between $50, ,o0
and $50, 600. He was given receipt fo
the money found upon him and allowed
to return to his hotel.
| ABROAD.
On the morning of the 9th a party o