The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-29

the supposed boy was girl She gave her
name as Mary Gilick, and said she had
worn boys clothing and worked as boy
for eight years under the name of John
Paxton.
The New York Herald Commissioner,
appointed to distribute the fund collected
for the food sufferers, gave the citizens of
Portsmouth $500, and those of Ripley ST.,
500. Smaller amounts were distributed in
ther towns above Cincin natl.
Gov. PArTIsoN, of Pennsylvania, has
fixed May "a for the hanging of Silas Gray,
of Westmoreland County, for the murder
of Mrs. McCreedy in 1877. There are
grave doubts of Gray's guilt.
THE new Western Union Telegraph
Company of Illinois, has begun quo ,Uar-
ranto proceedings against the old. Western
Union Telegraph Company, to show by
what right it undertakes to transact tele-
graph business within the limits of the
State of Illinois. p
A DECISION was rendered in the District
Court at Cleveland on the 21st, which in
validates thousands of certificates of citi-
zenship held by foreign residents. Great
excitement prevails. ft 4
The Merchants Exchange Committee of
St. Louis, appointed to take care of the
Mississippi Valley, will issue addresses to
Chambers of Commerce of all the cities in
the great valley to agitate the matter of
the improvement of the Mississippi.
HELENA, Ark, is hopelessly in debt and
wants to surrender its charter. The in
debtedness, with the exception of about
$4,000, is bonded railroad grants, and
mandamuses are about S425, 900. A citi-
zens' meeting, held few days ago, ap-
pointed committees to confer with the
bondholders and secure a compromise, if
possible.
The Eremains of the late Charles Soehner,
of Indianapolis, were cremated at WASH
ington, Pa, on the 22d.
WooDFoRD and Clark, who robbed the
county safe at Forsythe, Taney County,
Mo-, few days ago, have been captured in
Stone County, and about half the stolen
money recovered.
A PARTY of Americans from the Provi-
idencia Mine, Sonora, were attacked by
Mexican rustlers in camp few days ago.
One American was wounded, and the 9TH
ers retreated, being outnumbered. The loss
of the Mexicans is unknown. as -- "a
A LITTLE girl of seven years, daughter of
VIM. Schaefer, Wheeling, w. Va, was
fatally burned on the 22d by an explosion
of oil, which she was pouring out of can
| to start a fire.
AT Willow Hill, ILL.,, few days ago,
burglars blew open the safe of w. F. Mason,
| and secured 81, 300, most Of which was
county taxes. They missed package of
$500.
An explosion of gas occurred at Packer
Colliery, No. 2, of the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company, at Lost Creek, Pa, on the 22d,
by which Martin Toohey, John Murray,
VIM. McAndrew, James Litchman, VIM.
Litchman and a Polander, name unknown,
were severely and perhaps fatally burned.
The two Litchmans, father and son, are
| not seriously injured. / 2rfe 81
Ar Brackettsville, Texas, on the 22d, M.
| Andrado killed his wife and fatally wound
ed Ambrose Sato, her alleged paramour.
The Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago
Railroad depot, at Bucyrus, Ohio, burned
| ON the 22d. Several hundred dollars worth
of freight was destroyed. Other buildings
reported burned were: The residence of
George Shook, Versailles, Ind, loss So, 900;
residence of John T. Bishop, Findlay, O.,
So, 600; Rainwater's grain elevator, Dallas,
Texas, $15, 900; the Fountain Cotton Ware
/ house, Augusta, Ca, $500, 600; Eureka
| Cotton Mills, Mt. Airy, n. c., $1,000; frame
barn and cattle, shipman, ILL.,, $125, 900.
BY the burning of frame barn in Ship
man, Iowa, on the 22d, one hundred and
| thirty-fiye head of cattle were smothered,
and in prairie fire near Arkansas City,
Kas., fourteen hundred sheep were roasted
alive.
Rev. s. B. HALLIDAY, assistant pastor of
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Church,
Brooklyn, celebrated, a few nights ago, his
! golden wedding, and was presented with
purse of 81, 600.
TIE McCoot family, consisting of two
brothers, three children, and the mother,
sought refuge from the flood in Helena,
Ark, some two weeks since. In less than
ten DAYS both men and the three children
died of something like pneumonia. The
mother is not expected to survive. They
hail from the mouth of st. Francis River,
seven miles above Helena.
JOHN B. MARsroN, interest clerk of the
Equitable Trust Company, Of New York, i:
defaulter to the amount of $4,000.
A TEAM attached to hearse ran away In
Pittsburgh, on the 23d. The hearse was
wrecked, and the cadayer thrown into the
gutter.
4 A MUsKoGEE, I. T., dispatch of the 23d
says: "a bloody affair has occurred or
the border of the Seminole Nation. Brady
Bretney, Eli Perryman, Billy Grimmit
and an Indian were engaged in game o
cards, which finally ended in a free fight
in which the Indian killed Bretney
and Perryman; Grimmitt, who tool
no active part in the fight, was acci
dentally killed by one of the three during
the shooting. The next morning two
brothers, named Nose and Gabriel Mar
shall, friends of the dead men, followed
the Indian, who had fled, and coming III
with him, riddled his body with bullets"
LEE DEMEREsr, prominent crook o
Central Illinois, and at one time membe
of the notorious Lizzie Barton horse THE
gang, of Illinois, has been sent to the Stat
Prison in Illinois for two years for forgery
THE jury in the case of VIM. w. Scott
the last of the bond-robbery cases, whicl
have been on trial at st. Joseph, Mo-, fo
several weeks, disagreed on the 23d, AM
we're discharged. Nobody has yet beel
convicted of stealing these bonds.
THE Freeport Ill, Grand Jury on the %
indicted Casimlr Knecht, one of its ow
members, for selling beer without license
The repository and grand altar of th
Brooklyn Cathedral were destroyed by fir
I on the 23d.
q JOHN F. BURRILL, an embezzler of Ma
+ sonic Grand Lodge funds in Illinois to th
{ amount of $4,000, has been sentenced t
e five years in. the penitentiary.
PETER WARD, farmer living near Scrar
= ton, Pa, killed his mother-ln-law fe
i days ago. He said she made his life mi
Q erable.
MR. BLANCHARD, an Iowa editor, was a
J. rested in Hot Springs on the 23d, charge
e with writing letter to his paper slande
q ing prominent citizens of that city.