The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-09-16
WEST AND SOUTH.


At Liberty. Va, on the 7th two young
men named Wilson and Fizer quarreled
over a mulatto woman. Wilson shot Fizer
fatally and it is supposed shot the woman
also, her body being found in an orchard
near the house, with bullet wound in her
head The young men are highly con-
nected.
At meeting of the trustees of the Chi
cago University, held in that city on the
7th, it was formally resolved to terminate
the corporate existence of the institution.
After a great many efforts it was found
that the claim of the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, of Maine, of 100000 and
interest could not he raised.
Mayor William Mckinley was renomi-
mated for Congress on the 7th by the Re-
publicans of the Eighteenth Ohio district.
The Riverside glass works at Wellsburg,
W. Va, burned on the Sth, causing a loss
of $4,000 and throwing 800 men and boys
out of employment.
At the convention of the National Tele-
phone Association in st. Louis on the Sth
the present officers were reelected to servo
for the ensuing year, except that Henry
Metzger, of Pittsburgh, was substituted as
vice president for g. F. Durant.
Edgar Reed, for many years general
baggage agent at the Union Depot, Chat
tanooga, Tenn, was stabbed to death on
the Sth by two brothers named Brewer,
who were employed by the State road.
The cause of the murder is unknown.
The Texas Prohibition State Convention
met OF the Sth and nominated the follow
ing ticket: Governor, E. L. Dohoney Lieu
tenant Governor, s. G. Mullins; Attorney
General, B. F. Williams. The platform
denounces both regular parties as in league
with the liquor traffic.
The bodies of John and Bridget Enright
were found in an advanced state of decom-
| position in a room on Twentysixth street,
Chicago, on the 7th. They were a newly.
married couple and had been suffocated by
coal gas.
Two sections of freight train on the
| Missouri Pacific railroad collided on the
| Sth between Barthold and Laclede juno.
ton, Mo. Thirteen cars laden with mer.
chandise were destroyed, causing a loss OF
$4,000.
Hon. W. C. Cooper was on the sth re
nominated by acclamation for Congress by
the Republican convention of the Nintf
| Ohio district
Up to the close of business on the Sth bu
| S1oS, S,UOO IN Gnree per cent DonuS nau oeeI
received at the Treasury Department il
response to the voluntary call issued by
Secretary Fairchild.
General Sheridan has hected Genera
/ Howard to send the Apache and Warn
Spring Indian tribes at once to Fort Main
Fla, except Geronimo and the othe
Apaches just captured, who will be takeI
to Fort Bowie and confined under guarc
until the Government decides what to dc
with them. 1t is understood that they viii
be tried by court-martial
Mayor Courtney, of Charleston, esti
mates the total damage to property in tn
city by the earthquake at from five to 81:
million dollars, and says that in order t
shelter the homeless people before the coll
weather sets in, from 500, 600 to s7O0, 900 ar
Immediately required.
At Jacksonville, ILL.,, on the 9th two boy
named Charles Spain and Everett Ellis
aged eleven and thirteen years respective
; ly, were smothered to death while playin
in a wheat bin sreu which the grain wa
being drawni