The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-04-19

& Cabell's dry goods store, Morrisburg,
Ontarioy so 600; buildings of the Knicker-
booker Company, Boothbay, Me-, $50, 900;
shipping at the Canton wharves, (Balti.
more) $4,000.
The Connecticut House of Representa-
tives has passed bill forbidding railroads
in that State from discriminating in freight
rates by charging proportionately more for
a short distance than a long one.
MRS. Rosa HOWARD, q nineteen-year-old
mother, living in New York, in q At of I'm.
sanity on the 11th, killed her infant baby
and severely injured herself in attempting
10 commit suicide,
NINETr.rnREE persons have been killed
by the Apaches since the recent outbreak.
OF this number twenty-seven were Ameri-
cans and the remainder Mexicans.
AT the general Railroad Time Conven-
tion in st. Louis, q resolution on standard
time was adopted providing that roads east
and adjacent to Washington shall run by
the seventy-fifth meridian or Eastern time.
Between these points and Kansas City they
shall run by the ninetieth meridian or CEN
tral time, or one hour slower than Eastern
time; west of Kansas City by the 10oth and
125th meridian or Western time, two and
three hours slower respectively than East
ern time.
In the Pennsylvania Legislature . bill
has been introduced prohibiting any at
tempt to personate, in any show or theat-
rical performance, any being recognized as
Divinity In the New or Old Testament.
PETER CooPER's will has been filed. He
leaves 800 900 to Cooper Union, and divides
the remainder of his estate, except S20O, 200
in special bequests, between his son and
daughter, Edward Cooper and Mrs. Abram
8. Hewitt. His estate is valued at s., 900 900.
ARMED tramps, twelve in number, cap
tured a freight train on the Chesapeake &
Ohio road, near Olympia, KY, on the 11th,
and ordered the conductor to take them to
Lexington. He telegraphed to Mt. Sterling
and had the gang arrested when the train
arrived there.
THE jury in the sensational Cougar
Mandler trial at Lafayette, Ind, on the
11th, returned verdict in favor of Mrs
Cougar, and gave her Judgment for 5000
JOHN LYON and Nathan Shifiey, residents
of Baltimore, were arrested on arequisitior
from the Governor Of Pennsylvania, and
taken to Pittsburg on the 10Th on the charge
of perjury.
CoUP, the CIRCUS manager, has brough1
suit against the Wabash road for $780, ,00l
damages. This suit grows out of the acci
dent to Coup'st show last August, while OF
route from Cairo, H., to Detroit.
A LEHIeH VAILEY train collided with I
Philadelphis and Reading train at poin
in New Jersey where the roads cross. On,
coach was burned and thirteen persons in
jured. The two trains left Bound Brool
together, and ran on parallel tracks to tn
scene Of the accident. The passenger
state that the trains raced over the entir,
distance.
HENRY OFTEN, whose son was accident
ally killed by Militiaman Murphy, when OIL
police duty at Cincinnati during the flood
was SO shocked by the occurrence that b
became insane, and on the 18th he died.
AN EARTHoUAKE shock, lasting fou
seconds, occurred in Cairo, Ill, on tn
morning of the 18th. Windows and ligh
articles ratified, and q frame house wa
shaken down.
THE steamer Flamborough of the Ber
muda line, which sailed from New York ol
the 18th, carried 1000 barrels of whisk,
from Pennsylvania and Ohio distilleries
The liquor is part of the non-productiol
| that has been manufactured in the past fiv
years, and which has been lying in bonde,
warehouses. The time has come when tn
Internal Revenue tax must be paid upon il
| and to avoid this distillers are shippin
| enormous quantities to foreign countrie
where it will lay in storehouses till needed
THE Delaware Legislature has passed
bill concerning murderers. If found in
sane, they are to be confined in Jail or tn
asylum. If sanity is regained they shal
i he liahla IN trial or SenfaDoa
HENRY D. McDANIELs has been nom
mated for Governor of Georgia by the Dem
ocrats.
STILwELL II. RUSSELL, late United State
Marshal for the Western District of Texas
recently tried and convicted upon th
charge of presenting false expense az
counts, was on the 18th sentenced by Judg
Turner, at San Antonio, Texas, to imprisor
ment for two years in the penitentiary a
Chester, Ill. 1t is estimated that Russel
defrauded the Government out of at leas
$4,000. His official bond, however, is good
and the Department of Justice expects t
recover the entire sum from his sureties.
| A $1,000 safe robbery was reported to tn
Chicago police few days ago. An inves
tigation went to show that the owner Of th
safe, John 81. Morrison, a carriage builder
had perpetrated the robbery with the ev
dent purpose of fraud.
| WALSH, the Irish Suspect" arrived 6
New York on the 18th from France. 3
states that he left England to put himself OIL
Of the power of that ''lying wretch" Carey
Hewould go back to Englandif he ethoughtf
would be tried by fair jury, but too man
were hanged in Ireland nowadays unjustl.
and he should expect to be made victim
although he was as guiltless as Gladstor
himself of the charges brought against hin
He considered the conviction Of those no
on trial foregone conclusion.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, in the suit of Pet,
Fosset, for false imprisonment, against Il
Roman Catholic Prefectory, the jury ga,
the plaintiff 1866.
/ A LYNCHBuRG (Va.) dispatch of the 12t
says: early this morning about one hu
dred disguised persons attacked the Jail
Wytheville, forced the Sheriff to surrend
the keys, and took VIM. N. Crockett fro
his cell and hanged him from the beam of
mill in the outskirts of the town. Crocke
was awaiting trial for the murder of JOSEF
Il. F. Hurt, in Wythe County. The murd
was cold-blooded, and Crockett would ha
been lynched at the time had he not escape
|
brought back for trial. After hanging hi
the mob riddled the body with bullets to
sure DEATH"
In THE case of the people of Long Islal
City against their Mayor, Henry s. Del
voise, verdict resulted for the city
$1OO,700. The Mayor was charged wi
wholesale embezzlement of the city's fund
N. W. MONROE and mother, of Halift
County, Virginia, were fatally poisoned
few days ago by an unknown person.
MATT. SIMMs, an accomplice in the mt
der of General Tucker, has been sentenc
to be hanged at Okolona, Miss, May 80.
r Two men named Sullivan and Fitzer N
a terrible death at Winslow, Ark, a fe
days ago,while engaged in moving a stea
shovel that was employed by the st. Lor
!, and San Francisco Railroad. They we
working near an embankment that h
D been excavated by the shovel, and, witho
3 moments warning, the bank gave wa
!. | falling upon them, One man was cover