The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24


The American Art Union, of New York,
has filed articles of Incorporation. The OBJ
5ect is to promote interest in the fine arts,
and for this purpose it is proposed to estab-
lish galleries for the exhibition and sale of
pictures, to publish engrayings, and estab-
lish benevolent fund for the benefit of
artists.
HENRY FLEMING was hanged at Pittsboro,
Calhoun County, Miss, on the 18th, for a
murder committed two years ago. An i'm
mense crowd witnessed the execution.
When at the gallows he attempted to kill
himself with a small pocket-knife, and in
ficted a wound in the throat. but it was not
fatal. His neck was broken by the fall,
and the death struggle lasted but an in
stant.
F. B. TUFTS, E. ]. Foster and Gordon R.
Cumming, clerks in the employ of Le-
Boutillier Bros, dry goods, New York City,
were arrested on the 18th, charged with
stealing money from the firm. When they
sold goods G. o. d. they collected and ap-
propriated the money to their own use.
TUFTS and Foster were caught in the act by
the detectives, and they implicated Cum
ming. They began their peculations on
May 8, and continued them. The loss to
the firm is believed to be quite considera-
BILE.
MISS PHOEBE W. COUSINS, of st. Louis,
has received q very handsome gold medal
lion from leading citizens of Omaha as an
acknowledgements of her efforts in the
women's cause in Nebraska during the last
political campaign. " ts5- So
HARRY F. WATSON, of Boston, who shot
May Appleton few nights ago, has been
held in $40, 900 bail. The woman is in pre-
carious condition, with slight chance for
her recovery.
The private bank of Eugene Angel, of
Lansing, Mich, closed its doors on the 18th,
owing to run upon it, amid considerable
excitement. 1t is stated that the city treas
urer, E. c. Wood, is short in his accounts,
and that the troubles of the bank have con-
nection with him, growing out Of an effort
to tide him over his troubles.
THE Citizen, published at Chicago, by
John F. Finerty, member of Congress from
the Third Illinois District, printed an, edi-
torial on the 18th headed, Boycott the
Pope" in which, speaking of the Pope's
circular to the Irish Bishops, says eff the
Irish people submit cravenly to this latest
Italian lash, they will forfeit the respect of
the world at large. But what are they 60
ing to do about it? may be asked. We re-
ply, let them hold public meetings through
out every diocese in Ireland, pass resolu-
tions strongly denouncing any more of his
holiness unholy interventionAin Irish poll
tics, and tell him once for all time, firmly
and respectfully, to mind his own business,
as the head of the Catholic Church. They
might supplements this action by resolving
not to contribute single cent of Peters
pence while Leo XII. occupied the papal
chair"
CHARLES F. KRING, whose remarkable
success in fighting the law and escaping
punishment Tor the murder of Dora Broem-
ster, eight years ago, which has been writ
ten up and published time and again, and
who was released from prison on bail about
three weeks since under decision of the
United States Supreme Court, died on the
morning of the 18th at st. Johns Hospital
in st. Louis of internal hemorrhage.
A NEW YORK dispatch OF the 18th says:
"Alice Zimmerman, the young and cultured
wife of Frank Zimmerman, the artist,
killed her twelve-days-oId daughter and
attempted to kill her mother. Some days
before her confinement she took an aver
sion to her husband, her mother and
friends, and when her baby was born she
declared she hated it. Twice since her
| sickness she has attempted suicide. To-
| day she induced her mother to leave the
room, and then plunged the scissors into
the infants neck. She immediately at
| tackled her mother, but was overpowered.
| She will be sent to an asylum"
ROBERT B. MORRILL,, ex-chief auditor of
| the Philadelphia Gas Trust, was arrested
at his residence in that city few days
| ago on warrant issued last January.
Morrill, has been out of the city for some
time, and had only recently returned. He
| was held in $4,000 bail, to answer in court
| to the charge of embezzling funds of that
| institution.
MRS. LYDIA E. PINKHAM died at her
home in Lynn Mass, on the 18th, aged
sixty-four years. She died wealthy, her
patent medicines netting her a profit of
$500, 900 per year.
SEVENTEEN gamblers and lottery dealers
pleaded guilty at New York ON the 18th, in
the general sessions, to charges of gaming
and selling lottery policies. Eight were
sentenced to the Penitentiary for from ten
to thirty days and to pay fines ranging
from 81 to $50. Eight were fined 800 each,
| and one $50.
|
clone of terrific force on the 18th, causing
great loss of life and much damage to prop.
erty. Fully one hundred and fifty houses
and barns were blown down. The loss OF
/ life is estimated at twenty, and the number
of injured fifteen, many seriously. Later
in the day the same storm struck Harvard
| Illinois, demolishing number of houses
and killing several persons. Springfield
as at Harvard. A large amount of prop
erty was destroyed, but so far as heard
from no lives were lost. The house of E.
F. lies, two miles south of Springfield, was
completely demolished. The barn, p bricb
structure, one of - the largest IN the
county, was also demolished. A fam
lily named Booker occupied the house
and one child was seriously injured
The track of the tornado took it through
the settlement of Round Prairie, four miles
east, and it is reported several houses were
demolished and several persons injured
Van Nostrand's house was demolished, anC
the inmates more or less injured. Wood
ruff's house and barn were destroyed, ant
young man and lady badly injured. De
struction to telegraph wires prevents thu
transmission of greater details. 1t is feared
later reports will reveal much greater
loss of life and property.
DIR. j. NJ. BYRD, prominent young
physician of Paulding, Miss, shot anC
killed Captain w. NJ. Brame, ex-Sheriff o
Jasper County, in the streets of Pauldint
on the 18th. They began firing almost sim
ultaneously, about forty yards apart, ant
advanced close enough for Brame to strik
Byrd with his stick. Both parties ex
hausted their pistols. Brame died almos
instantly from shot in the right side, bu
Byrd was uninjured, except by the blow
from the stick. A feud had existed between
them for some time. Both parties belonge,
to prominent families.
The jury in the Jere Dunn case for tn
killing of James Elliott, the pugilist, a
Chicaiso, returned a verdict of not guilty ol
the 18th, and the prisoner was immediatel..
discharged. The verdict was received wit