Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-05-23

TUESDAY morning. a bullet wound was dis
covered in the left breast a short distance
above the heart. He is supposed to have
been murdered and obbed.....Whi Henry
Sweener, an express messenger, was at
tempting to get on a train at Milwaukee,
Wis, Tuesday evening, he missed his foot
ing and fell under it, receiving injuries that
are considered fatal
Portage lake mining district, Wednesday,
report that the strike is practically over,
and the miners at Schoolcraft, Pc wake, and
of the troops have reached Houghton.....At
Indianapolis, Ind, on Wednesday y, Valen-
tine Jacobs, while attempting to escape from
the police, fell down a back stairway and
received fatal ipjuries.....Charles H. Mer-
rlll, a young man 10 years of age, whose
parents reside in Wilmington, was killed by
the cars on the Chicago, Alton and St.. Louis
railroad, near the rolling mills in Joliet,
Ill, Tuesday night"-..The trades unions
had a procession in Chicago, Wednesday.
About 1000 persons participated.
The South.
OK Saturday, a negro in Jail at Carthage,
Tenn, charged with rape on a white lady,
was taken out by five men and hung to a
tree and afterwards hot with pistols.
AT the Lexington, KY, races, Tuesday, the
fastest time in a mile and a quarter dash ever
made was by a four-year-old bay colt named
Frogtown. Time 2:O94.
Washington.
The President has written a letter fully
indorsing the Supplemental Civil Rights bill
of Sumner, which was defeated on Thursday,
but was reintroduced again in the Senate on
Friday.....A report was in circulation Fri
dow that O tnlnnrop W xuao roaafuoI fraD1 To-
don stating that there is no promise of an
arrangement between the United States and
Great Britain respecting our claims for con-
sequential damages, both countries adhering
to their respective positions-s.aThe Presi-
dent on Friday approved of the following
bills: To regulate elections in Washington
and Idaho Territories; for The relief of
Robert Williams r., Collector of the Third
District of Ohio; for the relief of the pur-
chasers of lands sold for direct taxes in in
surrectionary States; for relief of G.. S.
Baker, Mayville, Mo-; for the reissue of GER
tain bonds; to extend the time of payment
for their lands by persons holding pre-
emptions on public lands in the States of
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and
the Territory of Dakota to perpetuate testi-
monyin the courts of the United States to
change the time for the holding of Circuit
and District Courts in the Western District
OF wisconsin,, at La Crosse.
PETITIONS have reached Washington, from
Minnesota and other Western States, com
planning of h heavy exactions of private
parties whos have control OF the bridge
across the Missouri river at Omaha, and
asking the interposition of Congress-
President Grant has issued a proclamation
extending the provision of the act allowing
consular jurisdiction over hebrews of YES
sells in American ports to Consuls of Sweden
and Norway."...The President, it was off.
cially announced Sunday night, asked and
received the resignation of his brother-in-
law, Collector Caseysof New Orleans, and
that of the Deputy Collector ofEthe port. -
Mr.. CAsEY's successor as Collector of Gus
toms at New Orleans will not be appointed
for several days..-..Thc action of the House.
on Monday, in ordering all debate on the
Tariff bill finally closed at four O'Clock on
Thursday, and assigning sessions for every
evening till the middle of next week, is con-
sidered as equivalent to a resolution for final
adjournment.-..The President on Monday
transmitted to the Senate the correspond
ence between the United States and Great
Britain relative to the Treaty of Wash.
ington, accompanied by a brief message
The message and were ordered
printed in confidence, and referred to the
Com m ittee on Foreign Relations. There il
scarcely a question that the Senate will ad'
wise the acceptance of the additional article
to the treaty.
!" AOA0siO" S.>
Treaty of Washington has been published
1t is very volumirous. The following ii
Earl Granville's proposition, as telegrapheG
by Minister Schenck Whereas, The Gov.
eminent of her Britannia Majesty has con
tended, in the recent correspondence will
the Government of the United States, al
follows, namely That such indirect claims
as those for national loss, as stated in the
cases presented on the part of the Govern
ment of the United States to the Tribuna
of Arbitration at Geneva, to have been sus-
tanned by loss in the transfer of the Ameri
can commercial marine to the British flag
enhanced insurance; q p~rolongation of the
war, and the addition of a large sum to thu
cost of the war, and the suppression of The
rebellion, firstly, were not included in the
Treaty of Washington and secondly, shoulC
not be admitted by particular vessels alleged
to have been enabled to commit depreda
tions upon the shipping of a belligerent BY
reason of such want of diligence in the per
Torrance of the neutral obligation as tina
which is imputed by the United States Il
Great Britain ; and whereas, the Govern
ment of her Britannia Majesty has also de
clared that the principle involved in thu
second of the contentious, hereinbefore Sc
forth, will guide their conduct in future
and whereas, the President of the Unitct
States, while adhering to his contention tina
said claims were included in the treaty
adopts for the future principle contained il
S-o 1NSo-@ OA ANN1
declare that it will hereafter guide the con
duct of the Governmento of the United States
and the two countries are, therefore, agreed
in this respect. In consideration thereof tn
President of the United States, by and will
the consent of the Senate thereof, consent
that he will make no claim on the part o
the United States in respect to indirec
losses, as aforesaid, before the Tribunal o
Arbitration at Geneva.
Foreign.
FRIDAYS dispatches from Spain show tina
the instruction still continues, and tn
situation is Observation-Disclosures c
an explosion of petroleum and gunpowder i
Tripolitza, Greece, whereby a number c
lives were lost, has been received. Twenty
three persons were instantly killed, an
many received injuries. Passengers fror
England now land in france without goin
through the usual formalities.
A LONDON special of May 18th says tn
downfall of the Spanish Ministry is i2am
nent, and that as soon as the Carlist revo
is suppressed, Marshal Serrano will retur
to Madrid and choose members for a ne
Cabinet, of which he will be the Ministt
President.....The Government officially al
nounces that the Carlists, in large number
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