The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-19

and it is doubtful if these restless savages will
wait until the meeting of the council proposed
byt Q commission sent out by the Interior De-
bound to break up inharmoniously on account
Of the demands that will be made by the Sioux
for damages to be paid them for the wrongful
nvasion of the Black Hills by the miners. As
the Interior Department has no fund to pay
claims, and Congress is not in session to ap-
propriate money, it ia believed the council will
certainly break up in row. 1t is reported
that the Sioux have already made out bill for
damages to the amount of several hundred
ihousand dollars. The Black Hills question
promises now to have bloody solution.
Foreign.
According to accounts from Damascus TO the
23d of July, cholera was raging there. Four
hundred cases we're reported daily, but the real
number was concealed. The Christian quar-
ters are deserted. Sudden deaths occur in the
streets. There are no physicians, medicines,
or supplies.
Mr.. Schoez, Of Vicksburg, Miss, won the sil-
yer cup in the international rifle shooting
match at Stuttgart, Germany.
There were serious riots in Glasgow, Scot
land, during the o'Connell centenary celepra-
ton. Many police were badly injured, reces-
stating the services of the military.
Capt. Bogardus, the American pigeon-slaugh-
terer, defeated his English opponent, Rimell,
easily.
The trial of Alexander and William Collie,
who recently failed for some 5000, 600, on
the charge of obtaining money on false pre-
lenses, was brought to an abrupt stop in Lon
don, the other day, by the announcement that
the elder brother had absconded. His bail
was declared forfeited, and the trial postponed
for a month.
Late advices from South America report that
the electoral struggle for President of the
United States of Columbia threatens to become
a general war, and division of the country
There was an anti-Yaccina lion riot in Mon
treal last week.
Spain has called for an additional levy of
100, 900 men for the purpos of speedily ending
the war.
Advices from San Miguel, Central America
the scene of the recent religious massacre,
fully confirm previous reports of the atrocity
of the affair. The government is bringing
the participants to justice, nearly hundred of
the ringleaders having so far been shot.
The American Consul at Tripoli has been in
suited, and man-of-war has been dispatched
thither to demand satisfaction.
Mr.. Gladstone has published another pampll-
let, in which he discusses anew the questions
relative to the papacy, which formed the sub
ject of his former pamphlets on ''Vaticanism."
The present publication takes the same strong
grounds against the papacy, and predicts
trouble in future, both in Britain and on tho
continent, from that source.
The obsequies of Hans Christian ANDERSEN
were held at Copenhagen onthe 18th of August.
The ceremonies were touching and impressive.
The day was made one of national mourning
throughout Denmark. Business was suspended
and flags placed at half
The government has prohibited the sale in
France of Mr.. Gladstones writings against the
papacy.
London has had another bad financial failure
that Of heavy iron firm, with about $780,
600 in liabilities, and only about half that
amount in assets.
The insurrection in Herzegovina is becoming
formidable. A battle has been fought be-
tween the Turks and the insurgents, in which
the former were badly worsted.