Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-01
r NEWS ITEMS.
Foreign.

Brunei, Regault, Dombrowskl, Bous-
quet.
Minister Washburne ~telegraphs on
the Goth that there is fighting in the re-
mote parts of Paris, but Americans and
their property are safe.
The Berlin Reichstag has approved
the supplementary clause to the postal
treaty between America and Germany,
under which letters will henceforth be
forwarded to and from America at the
rate of 2 IL groschen (about 5 cents)
per half ounce.
The instruction has been squelched
in Quarter Mouf1ard, of Paris, where
5000 prisoners have been captured.
The insurgents are still confined at
Bellevile and Les Buttes Chaumont,
whence petroleum shells are fred all
over Paris. Marshal Mcmahon has sent
the insurgents a last to sur
render, in which he says all hereafter
captured with arms in their hands will
be shot.
The new Ministry of Hayti has
been dissolved in consequence of the
discussions in the Cabinet. The APP
pointment of Sambour as Minister of
Finance, and Madior as Minister of JUS
tice was approved by the Congress. A
financial crisis is imminent, and a loan
to the Government is improbable. A
proclamation has been issued COM
polling the enlistment of all Haytiens
between the ages of Is and 60.
Late dispatches from Panama state
that the revolutionists are within three
miles of that place. The American
Consul declares the seizure of the
American steamer Montijo to be piracy,
and requests the Captain of the British
war-ship Chameleon to capture her.
She has seized a quantity of coal be-
longing to the Pacific Navigation Com
pany, and landed 800 men within five
miles of Panama. The foreign Consuls,
acting as Commissioners, made an effort,
which proved unsuccessful, to arrange a
peace. Herrera, the chief of the insur-
gents, had an interview with Premier
Carreoso, on board the Montijo, but
they came to no agreement. The Mon
TITO subsequently left for an unknown
destination. There is great excitement
in Panama, and cannon are placed in
the streets.
"A special to the World from st.
Denis, dated May 9th, says: CATER a
brief lull, the fighting in Paris recon-
menced on yesterday, continuing all
night. The troops of Gems. Douai and
Vinoy surrounded the Tuileries, Louvre,
and Place Vendome. Desperate fight
ing followed, the Federals disputing
every inch of the ground. At daylight
these positions still remained in the
hands of the Federals. The Tuileries
were seriously damaged by the shells.
A combined assault of all the troops is
now going on" Another special to the
World, dated at st. Denis, in the even
ing, says "This has been a most ter
rible day for Paris. The city is burning
in many places, and the destruction Of
a great part of the central and eastern
districts seems inevitable. The Com
munists still hold all the district be-
tween Place Vendome, the Tuileries
and B%elleville. The troops are moved
down by the fire from the windows,
barricades and mitrailleuses, but steadi-
ly gain ground. The slaughter is
awful"
Eight persons escaped from the
Crawford County Jail, at Bucyrus, Ohio,
on the 18th inst.
Another /" car-hook'' tragedy is re-
ported in New York. A driver of a
cart was struck by a driver of a car.
-Chas. Eacker was hung in Fonda,
N. Y, on the Goth inst, for the murder
of Thos. E. Burdick.
Ben. Sawyer, colored, convicted of
the murder of his wife, was hung at
Evansville, Ind, on the Goth of May.
Three girls, less than IA years Did,
were arrested in Milwaukee, recently,
for waylaylng and robbing a little girl
of a gold chain and cross.
John Silver, a deaf and dumb man,
killed a constable near Gettysburg, on
Sunday, by striking him on the head
with a club.
"A man named Murphy died at Chi
cago, on Saturday, from the effects of a
blow upon the head, by a man named
Fitzgerald, with a stick of wood.
Alfred Zeigenmyer, charged with
the murder of VIM. Gumbleton, in
November last, arrived in New York
recently from Germany, in charge of
two Chicago detectives.
"A man named Roberts has been ar
rested in New York for swindling rail-
road companies by means of counter
felt tickets. Over 100000 worth of
spurious tickets have been discovered
already, $4,000 worth of which are over
the Erie road.
The trial of ex-Congressman Bowen,
of S. c., for bigamy, began at Washing
ton on the 24th inst.
james Clark, a policeman of Balti-
more, was shot dead, by one Fred.
Cussey, on Tuesday.
"A man named John Renken, living
at Red Bud, Randolph county, Ill, shot
his wife last Saturday, instantly killing
her. He then blew his W brains out.
Temporary insanity is the supposed
cause.
In the case of David Montgomery,
on trial at Rochester, N. Y, for the
murder of his wife in November last,
the jury brought in a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree.
The banking office of Giddings &
Moore, at Romeo, Mich, was entered on
the night of the 22d inst, the vault
and safe unlocked, and the funds,
amounting to $4,000 or $1,000 in cur
rency and stamps, distracted and car
ried away.
On the person of James Reilly,
alias Orlando Valentine, arrested as a
pickpocket and held for examination,
were found a contract and a number of
letters, showing that REILLY had engaged
with a man in Connecticut to send