The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-04-26

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no change Of clothing being made. An old
insane woman was beaten with sticks and
tied with ropes. The witness had come on
from New York to give her testimony.
In the o. s. Court at Little Rock, Ark, a
few days ago, ex-U. 8. Marshall T. Brown,
jr., was convicted of perjury, having been
previously convicted of forgery.
Two steamers unloaded in Baltimore on
the 18th twenty-seyen hundred German i'm
migrants, and another steamer, also thronged
with immigrants, was laying in the bay. 1t
will require eight special trains to convey
them to their destination in the West.
CHRISTINE NILSSON and Mime. Albani
sailed from New York on the 18th, on the
steamer Gaelic. The former goes to her
home in Belgravia, London, which she will
leave about the end Of June for some Eng
lish watering place. Mime. Albani will ap-
pear the middle of May in the Covent Gar
den, London. They both return next fall
to America.
A DISPATCH from Ashland, Pa, on the
18th, says: "The most serious caving-in
accident that has occurred in the Anthra-
cite District for many years took place
here yesterday. About a dozen dwellings
Of miners, which stood almost directly
over the tunnel of the Philadelphia &
Reading Company, fell in with terrible
crash, and the household property and be-
longings were entirely destroyed. Fortu-
nately, no one was killed, but several were
injured"
NEAR Ozark, Arkansas, on the 18th, New
ton Gastin killed Mr.. Fitzhugh, who had
accused him of giving information that
Fitzhugh sold liquor in defiance of the
Three-mile law. He surrendered to the
authorities, and says Fitzhugh fired first.
Miss ARABELLA SNEDEKER, aged twenty
one, of Limestone, Marshall County, W.
Va, took trough on rats" few mornings
ago, and died the same evening, suffering
terrible pain and frequent convulsions all
day. She was to have been married to
Albert Grove, but he disappointed her.
BEGINNING May 1, a fast train will be run
between Cincinnati and New York, over
the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio and
Erie roads. The time-twenty-six and q
half hours-will be seven hours quicker
than the best time which is at present made
over that route.
A UNIoNTowN, Pa, dispatch of the 10Th
and her younger sister, Annie, were walk
ing down Main street, Dukes was going up
on the opposite side. When the young la
dies were just opposite him, Miss Annie
ran into the street and picked up cobble-
stone, (which she threw with Indifferent aim
at Dukes head, missing him. Dukes turned
around, saw whence the stone came, and
quickened his pace towards his hotel, where
ha nad xha nf ho off
Dukes is agent here for relative of his to
collect some rents"
GENERAL HAzEN on the 10Th telegraphed
to the weather observers in the West Indies
that after the Both of April no more reports
Of cyclones can be made, owing to the fail
ure Of Congress to make an appropriation
for the purpose. The stations there will be
abandoned.
THE advance statement, issued by the
Treasury Department, of domestic bread
stuffs exported for the nine months ending
March 81 last, shows an increase over the
corresponding nine months of the preced-
ing year of nearly $40, ,OO0, 900, the valuation
for the nine months of the current fiscal
year being over $167, 100000. Most of this
increase was in wheat and wheat -four.
The excess over last year in wheat was
over sixteen million bushels, and in value
nearly SIC, ,0OO, 600, while in wheat flour the
excess was nearly three million barrels;
and in value nearly $13, 900. In Indian
corn there was falling off of nearly sew
enteen million bushels, and in value a de-
cline Of nearly $10,000,000.
q. 8. MARSHAL LYMAN was attacked by
outlaws in the Indian Territory the other
day, while in charge of three prisoners.
He was killed and the prisoners set free.
AT Yankton, Dak., on the Goth, Miss Ger
trude Reese, young lady of twenty-five,
who came recently with a party of ladies
from Iowa to take up land, blew her brains
out, because of intimidation by two men,
who claimed to have pre-empted her home
stead.
THOMAS WILSON, President of the Min
neapolis National Bank, has been detected
In iason of long standing with the wife
Of wealthy merchant of st. Paul. There
is society convulsion in consequence.
Mrs. Wilson asks for divorce and 100000
alimony.
THREE sailors of the American bark Pi-
lots Bride arrived in New York on the
Goth, from Capetown, South Africa. The
Pilots Bride sailed from New London on q
whaling voyage on April q, 1880, and on
October 8, 1881, she was totally wrecked on
q reef near Desolation Island. Capt. Full
Ter and his crew, lacking four sailors who
were washed overheard, escaped with a
few provisions and reached land. After
enduring many hardships they were found
on the 9th of last September and taken to
Capetown.
STEAMERS started from Liverpool on the
Goth carrying for the United States and
Canada nearly three thousand emigrants.
It is estimated that they bring away capi-
tai to the amount of $500, 1000.
A NEW ORLEANS dispatch of the Doth
gives the following particulars of duel in
that city: "Several days ago challenge to
. duel passed between John Black and Emil
Konzelman, a shoe clerk. The men, with
their seconds and surgeon, met at the cor
ner of Broad and Esp1anade streets at mid
night last night. After settling prelimin-
aries, Black and Konzelman were placed
ten PAGES apart, and fired at each other with
revolvers known as British bulldogs. Kon-
zelman shot Black in the shoulder, and this
stopped further firing"
DURING the progress of a small fire in
Sacramento on the Goth, the roof of an ad-
joining saloon fell in, burying twenty men
in the ruins. Six of them, including the
keeper of the saloon, were taken out dead.
A FIRE in New Orleans on the Doth burned
out Boisseau b Martinez, hats Loeb,
Scheuer & Co., wholesale dry goods, and
Hansel & Co., saddlery. Loss estimated at
500, 900. Other losses by fire were Nc
Cready & Co.'s paper mill at Reading, Pa,
$4,000; Blandin's and two small residences
at Ft. Dodge, Iowa, $4,000.
The body of Maggie Hennecke, the young
girl who was supposed to have been alb
Quoted from her home in Milwaukee last
October, has been found in the river. She
was probably drowned accidentally. All
sorts Of clues have been followed in the ef-
fort to trace her supposed abductors. Two
man were at last arrested in Lincoln, Neb.,
who, upon proving their innocence, caused