The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-23
NEWS SUMMARY.
Washington.

to Congress a draft of a bill providing for
such custody. The Secretary of the In.
terror sent to the House of Representatives
a draft of a bill extending the tenth section
of the Indian appropriation act of 1870 to
all Indian agents, sub-agents, and. special
agents, so as to require satisfactory bonds of
them, and making false entries in their
books a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine
of $500 or $1,000, in the discretion of the
court. At present the law applies to only
part Of the agents.
The West.
A dispatch from Campo1o San Francisco
says that an armed body of Mexieaus nd.
vaneed on the town. Business was SUSPENDED
the people put under arms, and sentinels
stationed. At ten in the morning the Mexi.
cans approached, but on being appraised of
the preparations fordefeDse, retired. Armed
citizens arrived from Saa Diego. Ii troops
are not soon forwarded the place must be
abandoned. People were arriving daily
at Tucson from Sonora, end report il impo.-
sible to remain in that Strate aud pre-. ery,
property.
A San Diego dispatch says a gentleman
from Yuma reports a great gathering of
Aexicans along the border, and a large
camp OF them in Treate Valley. Well-in.
formed parties think either a raid across the
border or a revolution in Lower California
is intended. Manuel Rojo, Ex-Governor of
Frontra, has suddenly disappeared from
San Rafael. Antonio Sorso, recently re-
ported murdered near Campo, was one of
ms supporters. 1t is reported many Sono.
ran revolutionists are driven into Lower
California. A man who came in on the
10th counted sixty eamp-ires near Campo.
de says another attack on Campo is immi.
nent.
Revenue officials have discovered an nm.
foreground distillery for the manufacture of
crooked whisky, on the Arkansas river,
about five mics above Pueblo, Colorado.
Int outlet was discovered by Deputy Col.
lector Pierpont, United States Gauger Frank
A. Cave, and Deputy United States Marshal
David Lynn. The distillery was in full
operation when the officers arrived, but the
two principal owners, O. o. Pinckney and
John I. Hall, escaped. VIM. N. Bussard.
upon whose land the distillery was located,
has been admitted to bail in the sum of
$4,000.
Fire Record
MILTON, PA fire here destroyed the
Riverside Hotel, Heag& Goodlander's block,
and savyer's clothing store and hall; loss
100000.
General.
Advices from Matamoras, Mexico, state
that during the municipal election there,
recently, fighting occurred; Morgan and
Fuentez, candidates for Mayor, were
wounded. Three men and one boy were
killed. Senior Fuentez, Cortinas candidate
for Mayor, was elected. The city is now
quiet.
Borboch & Reynolds, of Milwaukee, tried
for whisky frauds, have been found guilty.
At a recent meeting of the stockholders Of
the Pittsburg & ConnersviIle Railroad, 8
lease of that line to the Baltimore & Ohio
road for the term of fifty years, from Jan
uary LIST was effected, and a resolution
adopted authorizing the negotiation of 9
consolidated mortgage for two million two
hundred thousand pounds sterling, for tht
purpose of retiring the first and secont
mortgage bonds at maturity. Twenty-eigh
thousand shares were represented at thu
meeting.
The Governor of Tennessee has commuteC
the death sentence Of John Jefferson to i'm
prisonment for life. He also respited VIM
Williams and Frank Scott, sentenced to b,
hung Christmas day, until January Z.
The millers of the Northwest have beer
holding a convention at Chicago. The,
unanimously adopted the following reso
lution:
Resolved, That we, the miIlers of the Northwest
in convention sembled in Chicago, Representing
seyenty-six mills, with a minimum capacity of Il, 90
barrels, and a maximum capacity of 5000 barrel
OF Hour per day, do most earnestly protest agains
the last advance of freight Of from so to 90 cents pc
barrel on -four rates. 1t is the last straw that break
the cameps back. We also protest against the rail
road companies discriminating in favor of whea
against -four, as being unjust, and we ask the rail
roads to recede 10 cents per barrel from their presen
-four rates, and place -four rates always on an eve
footing with wheat rates
Deputy Collector Hill, of the First Dis
trict of Indiana, recently on trial at Indian
oplis, indicted for conspiring with Gordon
B. Bingham and John W. Bingham to de
fraud the Government in whisky taxes, ha
been found guilty.
The Babcock Court of Inquiry adjourne,
on the 18th to await the result of the prose
cution in st. Louis.
Mary Hents, living nine miles from TER
Haute, allowed her dress to come in COZ
tact with a stove, and was so badly burne
that she died in three hours.
Agnes Merrill, a young girl arrested q
Cambridge, O., about six months ago, 70
drowning her infant in a ~cistern, has bee
dismissed, the jury being out about twent
minutes.
The body of a woman fearfully cut an
stabbed was found in a field, recently, o
the outskirts of Brooklyn. A cigarmaker'
knife was picked up near the body. No clu
: to the murderer.
The jury in the trial of Patrick Kanen, @
Milwaukee, for starving his idiot boy t
death last spring, have returned a verdict
equity of m~anslaughter." The punishment
for manslaughter is from one to ten year
in the fenitentiary.
Great excitement prevails at Charlestowr
). e., in consequence of the election by tn
Legislature of eight Circuit Judges, and on
Associate Justice of the Supreme Cour
Wright, colered, was chosen to the latte
position. In Charleston, Circuit Judg
Reed, a moderate Republican, is replaced b
Whipper, colored. Ex-Gov. T. J. Moses, ir
is elected in the Third Circuit.
EoreIRn.
A dispatch from Bremerhaveu says tn
passengers of the steamship Mosel killed b
the explosion of dynamite are Herman
Cramer, of Iowa, and Alfred Graniehsledt,
of Austria, cabin passengers. Steerage pa.
sengers, killed-Heinrich Kontz, OFT
Kueniche, and Adolph kaufman, natives G
North Germany. Cabin passengers, wounde
Mrs. Martens, of Bremen. Storage pa
scngers, wounded-Rudolph Witte, c
New York; Wilhelm Scmid
Joseph Dancer, and Wilhelm Thoma
There were altogether 6fty-seven person
killed, and thirty-three wounded, the m.
jority being residents of Bremerhaven, VIII
went damn 70 fha daol- NJ, cpooHko.c sc IL