The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18
WEST AND SOUTH.

The total liabilities of the bankrupt
banking firm of W. NJ. Dustin & Co., at
Lincoln, ILL.,, are estimated at $106, 1858
and assets about the same, but largely un-
available.
At Hawkinsville Ca, j. C.. Mccormick,
prosperous young cotton broker. suicided
on the eve of his marriage to Miss Carrie
Lewis a lady of high social standing and
noted beauty. He had been subject to fits
of dependency, and it is supposed the ex-
citement attending the wedding prepara-
tions so worked upon his nervous sensibil-
ity as to cause self-destruction.
The annual convention Of the National
Butter, Cheese and Egg Association began
in Chicago on the 10th. About six hundred
leading dairymen of the Eastern and Cen
trail States are in attendance.
Governor Foraker on the 10th appointed
Franklin ]. Dickman, Of Cleveland. Su-
prerne Judge of Ohio, to succeed Judge
johnson, resigned. Judge Dickman will
enter upon his duties at once.
After grudge of several years standing,
Mart and Ock Smith met each other at
Stanford, KY, on the 10th, and began
shooting at each other. Ock was shot
through the heart at the first fire. and died
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who was uninjured.
A Baltimore (Md.) dispatch of the 10th
states that ex-Postmaster yeazey has left
that city to avoid appearing before the
| Supreme bench to show cause why he
should not be disbarred for alleged pro-
fessional misconduct in misappropriating
funds which were placed in his trust.
| The coroner's inquest on the victims Of
the recent railroad accident at Rio, Wis,
was concluded on the 10th. The jury re.
turned verdict to the effect that the accii
dent resulted from the negligence Of c.
H. Wells, an employe of the company, in
leaving switch open. Wells was arrested
and bound over to the Circuit Court on the
charge of criminal neglect.
The shingle mill of Kizer & Williams
near Edmore, Mich, was burned on th'
night of the 10th. The night Waterman
John Hayes, aged twenty-six, was burned
to a crisp.
Four suits have been begun in the Fed
eral courts at Chicago for $780, each b.
the s. W. Tyler Patent Mower Company
of New York, for infringement of harvest
ing machines. The defendants are tn
Mccormick Harvesting Machine Company
William Deering, the executors of Cyru
h. Mccormick and William Deering, an
Elijah d. Cannon.
The American Turf Congress, in session
! at Cincinnati, on the 11th adopted a resolu
tion to have regular corps Of paid judge
ON the circuit Charles Green, of st. Loui
was elected president and B. 6. Bruce, {
Lexington, KY, secretary.
In plymouth township, near East Sag
nav, Mich, David Smith, o. G. McGuva
! and Hugh Stewart drank from jug {
{ | beer furnished by the first nam ed. All tt
men were taken suddenly ill with SYM
toms Of poisoning. Smith died and tt
5 | others are yet in dangerous condition.
At Cincinnati on the 11th Joe Adam
8 aged twenty three, colored bootblack, she
: and fatally wounded Ed Farrell, a Unite
s States soldier. The trouble was about A
ans white mistress.
= The entire stock of Mclaughlin & Co
il Union mills at Chicago, consisting of &C
10 fees, teas and spices, was destroyed by fl
J. on the 18th, involving loss of SIS, ,OO
Is fully insured. The loss on the buildil
n was only from s., 900 to $4,000.
10 At Myrtle Grove plantation, in Plaqr
= mine parish, La, owned by Congressma
elect Wilkinson, the boiler of the drainil
G. machine exploded on the 11th, killing
is engineer in charge, Gabriel Burroughs, a
Of badly scalding and dangerously injurir
al the fireman and another hand.
IN A decision involving the status Of t
n. local telephone companies of Ohio and
it American Bell Tele phone Company "
on rendered by Judge Sage in the Fede
ad Court at Columbus, O., on the 18th. I
%. decision throws the suit of the Unit
er States VS.. the American Bell Telepho
m Company ct al. out Of court on tie grour
on Of want Of ssrvics and fail ure Of iurisd
RI ] ton, And any further action in the mat