The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
Washington,

uaiy 10 ds W the manner OF lettlng lnulan
contracts. They examined Mr.. Kootz, of
Pennsylvania, who testified that he bid from
twenty to fifty per cent. less for supplying
various articles for the Santee Sioux than
parties to whom the contracts were awarded.
The Indian Bureau will be called on for ex-
plantations, as the committee. seem deter
mined to thoroughly investigate the entire
subject.
The Special committee Of the House, ap- /
pointed to take into consideration the Mexi-
can border outrages, held a meeting a few
days ago, and decided to call upon the Sec
Rotary OF. War to know whether he could
send two full regiments of cavalry to patrol
the Texas side of the Rio Grande river. If
he uswer in the negative the committee
decided to recommend to the House the
temporary enlistmentEof two regiments of
Texas Rangers, so as to effectively patrol the
Rio Grande river and prevent further raids
from Mexico.
General Banks, a member of the commits
sion. suggested that the State of Texas ought
to offer a reward for the arrest of Cortina and
other chiefs of the Mexican marauders. The
commission are thoroughly in earnest in
recommending prompt legislation by Con-
gress, so as to suppress the disorders which
have SO long existed along the Mexican bor-
der.
The South.
An Alexandria (La.) dispatch reports the
murder of Ton Barrett, at Pineville, La,
by q United States soldier, E. A. Fordham,
of Ohio, and the mortal wounding of Ford
ham by Barrett's brother.
Geo. Spencer, of Little Rock, Ark, has
been arrested for killing Harriet McRea in
a scuffle. He caught her by the hair and
broke her neck across the back of the chair
in which she was sitting. She fingered a
week and died from asphyxia.
The West.
One hundred ounces of gold and a lot of
ore from the famous Centennial Mine were
sent to the United States Mint at Denver,
and returns have Just been received. The
gold assays 903 fine in gold and so in
silver. The quartz assays $40, 7SO.34 per ton
in gold, and $271.49 in silver, being a total
of $47, 051 SO per ton Of two thousand pounds.
General.
Ex-Gauger McGriff has been found guilty
on nine counts of the indictments served
against him in the United States Court at
Indianapolis.
Mrs. N. Cottier, aged seventy-ive years,
was burned to death at New Orleans. Her
slothing caught fire from a CRATE.
At New Orleans, James Murphy, aged
thirty, was shot and killed by James Merri-
man, colored, aged sixty. Murphy and Mer-
riman were carpenters, working together,
and quarreled about their earnings. Merri-
man surrendered himself.
Theodore Baumgarden and Edwin Starr,
boys, were drowned on the 18th of January,
while skating near Lower Canton, Mary
land.
Maine has had an earthquake.
An International Temperance Convention
has been called by the National Temperance
Society, to be held at Philadelphia on
JUNE 10.
The President has nominated George s.
Bangs for Assistant Treasurer Of the United
States at Chicago.
With the close Of the labors of Messrs
Moody and Sankey, in Philadelphia, a sum
mary of results says the attendance and in
terests of the meetings greatly increased in
the last fortnight, and Mr.. Moody regards
them as the most effective gatherings ovel
which he has yet presided. The total audi
ences in Philadelphia are estimated at thu
remarkable number of nine hundred thous
and people, of whom at lest three hundred
thousand may be accounted as new hearers
after making full allowance for those who
attended repeatedly.
John Campbell, a dissolute man, aged
fifty-six, while attempting to enter the win
dow of the dwelling of C. W. Robb, on Penn
sylvania avenue, Pittsburg, about three
o'clock the other morning, broke a pane o.
glass and cut an artery in his arm, and blei
to death. lie had been drinking.
In the Criminal Court at Chicago, Davis
who murdered Charles D. Whyland, las
Thanksgiving day, pleaded guilty of man
slaughter and was sentenced by Judge
Rogers to twenty-ore years in the peniten
tiary. His counsel defended him in the
recent trial before the jury on the grounds
of insanity and the jury disagreed on tn,
verdict.
The seventh annual session of the Ex
pressmen's Mutual Benefit Association wa
held in Boston, January 10. One hundred
aud two delegates from all parts of tn
country were present. President Georg
Bingham, of Pittsburg, delivered an address
~embodying the financial statement. TIL
total membership is 3,25S. The receipts TO
the year were So, 719;. expenditure, SOL, 574
In seven years the association has paid gu
$329,14S on 156 claims for the benefit o
members.
One development in the whisky rim
prosecution at ST. Louis has excited genera
surprise, the withdrawal of his plea of nc
guilty by Wm. Mckee, publisher of tn
Globe Democrat, and the substitution of
demurrer to the indictment. 1t is suppose
to indicate the fact that the forthcomin
testimony of the prosecution is all that ha
been claimed, and that the demurrer
simply an endeayor TO escape on a techn:
cality.
The Legislature Of Kentucky has electe
]. B. Beck United States Senator.
A Washington correspondent says ths
the friends of Senator Morton regard the S,
lection of Cincinnati "wednesday, June Il
as the place for holding the Republican N,
tional Convention as a victory for him, an
as greatly enhancing his prospects for tn
Presidency.
At a meeting Of several coal carrying an
producing interests of New York, it wa
agreed that, in consequence of over-prc
duction and accumulation of unsold Coz
upon the market, an entire suspension of a
mining of anthracite coal for five week
from February Z to March IL, inclusive, b
ordered.
At the Maine State Temperance Convel
ton, Governor DINGHY reported resolution
which were adopted, setting forth that th
present reform movement is one of the mo-
powerful agencies to promote Temperance
and making an appeal to the State to SUI
port it, and asserting that total abstinenC
and the prohibition of the liquor traffic
the only basis for substantial progress in Ii
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