Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-08
NEWS ITEMS.
Foreign.

says Roche1ort mas certainly been con-
demned.
Gen. Leroy, one of the commanders
of the Versailles troops, was killed in
action on Saturday.
The following leading insurgents
have been shot. Wells, Amoreux,
Brunei, Regault, Dombrowski, Bous-
quet.
"A volcanic eruption and an earth
quake have shaken the island of Rua.
The country was terribly devastated and
400 lives were lost.
1t is said Gen. Cluseret has been
executed. The court-martial has Or
dered the use of mitrailleuse in the case
of wholesale executions.
Victor Hugo, having been driven
out of Belgium, is going to London.
His house at Brussels, has to be guarded
by the police, to prevent violence by the
people.
The slaughter Saturday night was
awful. Altogether the suppression of the
Commune has cost over 10000 lives and
the destruction of q third of Paris.
1t is stated on good authority that
among the unfortunate persons held as
hostages in the prison of La Roquet,
who were murdered, were ten nuns.
The Pope has sent 60, 900 francs to
the distressed Parisians, and also sew
eral chests of consecrated objects for
the churches destroyed during the siege
and fighting in Paris.
"A Versailles correspondent teIe-
graphs that NJ. Delescluze, the DELEGATE
Minister of War under the defunct
Commune, was shot by his guards and
instantly kille / on Saturday night, in
attempting to escape.
1t is clear that the insurgents in
tended to destroy the whole of Paris.
Even women were discovered throwing
petroleum upon the houses, and the
members of the National Guards,
dressed as pompiers, and who threw
petroleum on the fires, instead of water,
were shot in the Place Royale. There
is no limit to the readiness that exists
to kill the members of the Commune
and the leaders of the Guards, who are
taken and shot instantly.
The gas works at Aubervillers have
exploded. Many other explosions have
taken place. The dead bodies of the
insurgents are seen everywhere. Any
hidden Communists, when found, are
brought out and shot Immediately, and
no pity is shown. Raval Rigault, chief
OF the Communist police, and Corbet,
superintendent of the destruction of
the Vendome column, were captured
and shot.
Dispatches from Paris, dated June
Sd, report that a majority of the French
Assembly favor the Punishment of the
Bourbon princes, and propose to retain
Theirs as Chief Executive for two wears.
business in and around Paris is reviy-
ing, and the railroads are already doing
an immense passenger traffic.-Gen.
Mcmahon has issued an order praising
the marines and sailors of his army for
their courage and devotion in delivering
Paris from the hands of the wretches
who intended to reduce the city 10
ashes. The Assembly has voted they
deserved well of their Countrywide
streets of Paris have been reopened and
repaired, and there is perfect order
everywhere.-A notableinsurgent boasts
that the burning of Paris will be con-
sidered insignificant when the London
docks, with all their wealth, are con-
sumed as a grand lesson t. the middle
classes of Europe. London, Liverpool
and Bristol will, it is said, be the next
scenes of secret operations. Papers
have been discovered which show
that the operations of the Com
munists were directed from London
1t has been a~scertained that the Chiefs
of the International Club and several
Englishmen were among the insurgents.
"A letter from Father Hyacinthe, in
the GauloiS, acknowledges the sympa-
thy Italy feels for France, and advises a
union of the Latin races, as the balance
OF Europe is menaced by the prepon-
ance of Germans and slaves. The acts
of tho Com roI1no uopa the ,o,,I4 80 -
cation of God by the people. The
nineteenth century is the age of the
workingmen. A second empire should
be treated as one of the social questions
and in the spirit of Cesar.-General
Schenck arrived in Liverpool on Satur-
day, June 3.
Two policemen were shot by a
gang of roughs, in Chicago, on Saturday
night. One of them, it is feared will
not recover.
Patrick Cunningham, who stabbed
Arthur McDonagh at Weehawken,
March 25, has been convicted in Jersey
City, of murder in the second degree,
and sentenced to the State Prison for
20 years.
On Thursday last, Cleary and Nc
Clure, living near Dalles, Oregon,
fought over a land boundary. Cleary
went to McClure's house, and shot him
through the groin, fatally wounding
him, ~whereupon McClure's son shot
Cleary through the head, killing him
instantly.
Lewis Xalder and Albert w. Derry,
tried and found guilty of counterfeit
ing, at this term of the United States
Circuit Court in indianapolis, Ind, were
each sentenced to the Southern State
Prison for two years and to pay a fine
of $40.
ga prize fight between Donovan
and Conway took place twelve miles
north of Scranton, Pa, on the 31st ult.
Fifteen rounds were fought in twenty
minutes. Foul was claimed by Conway,
which was not allowed, and he ran out
of the ring. Both men claim the money.
It is thought Donovan would have won
the fight had Conway remained in the
ring"
Martin Benada, a Bohemian, living
in Chicago, became jealous because his
Catherine went to the Peace Jubilee
with another young nan. He resolved