The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-25
little, if any. falling off. On the first day

tCnof VI ~ 0tdtC Dale
of Terre Haute, Indiana, and fves of the
First National Bank of Louisville, have
been discovered.
Private dispatches from Memphis, Tenn,
announce the recapture of Ed. johnson, the
notorious express robber, at Uniontown,
KY. johnson was serving a term in the
Penitentiary for robbing Messenger Brady,
and recently escaped from Nashville.
A most deplorable affair occurred recently
at the little town of Dahlgren, Hamilton
county, III. A party of young men gave
John Sturman, recently married, a charivari.
Sturman was greatly annoyed by the uproar,
and ordered the party of, but they not
leaving at once, he fred into them with a
gun, killing Willis Lowry, and wounding
Bud Burton and Frank Taylor. All the
parties are highly respectable, young Stur
man being a son OF Judge Sturman, one of
the most prominent citizens in the county.
The Emperor of Brazil visited the Naval
Academy at Annapolis on Saturday, May Is,
aud everybody, including Governor Carroll
and his carriage, were at the railroad depot.
Just before the train was due, Governor Car
roll received a telegram that the imperial
party would arrive by steamer He i'm
mediately drove to the Academy, and soon
after the people rushed to the gates, which
were closed, except to a few prominent citi-
zens, and to the disappointment of the crowd.
The Emperor and party were received by
Admiral Rogers and officers, together with
the Governor and staff. After inspecting the
Academy and Witnessing the howitzer drill
of midshipmen, the Emperor accompanied
the Governor to the Executive mansion.
The Centennial Commission has done
away with the regulation requiring a fifty
cent note or a fifty-cent silver piece, to Sc
cure admission.
The Emperor Dom Pedro arrived in Gin
cinnati on the morning of the 18th Of May,
and accepting an invitation Of Mayor
Johnston, accompanied that ~dignitary
through the city and suburbs. He left in
the evening for Mammoth Cave by way Of
Louisville.
The Liberal Republicans held a Conven.
ton at Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City,
on May Is. Speeches were made by Woolsey,
Schurz, Bacon, Welch, and others. Parke
Goodwin, Judge l.. S. Foster, of Connecticut
John W. Hoyt, of Wisconsin Martin Brim-
mer, of Massachusetts. and Carl Schurz were
appointed a committee to draw up some
definite plan of action, and to take such
other measures as may be deemed necessary
and to report to the Convention.
A Dubuque special to the Chicago Time
says that late at night, the Colossal, a larg,
freight boat, ran into and sank the raft tue
Enterprise, with twenty-five souls on board
The Enterprise sank in three minutes. Tn,
night was pitch dark, and a thunder storm
was raging at the time. The passenger
ioated about on coops, boards, etc., some o.
them not being picked up till next day
Two, named Owen Gordon, Of Chicago, anG
Charles Pinken, of Minnesota, wert
drowned, and their bodies have not been re
covered.
Isaac Thompson, an old railroad engineer
while acting as switchman in the Ohio ant
Mississippi yards, East st. Louis, was ruI
over by a train, and SO terribly mangled tina
he died in a short time. Eight car
passed over the lower part Of his body AMI
legs.
Paul Campbell and Prince Robertson, boil
colored, were hangeda at Savannah, Georgia
May Is, for the murder of Mrs. Cochran'
and daughter at Eden, bingham county
Georgia.
The Giant Powder Works at Drakesville
New Jersey, exploded, killing two person
and causing a loss of $4,000.
The declaration of principles of the Ne'
York Republicans sets forth the great ques
tons which will be before the people in tn
impending national election; refers to tn
corruption which the party spoils system o
politics has entailed upon the nation, an
calls upon all good citizens to unite in n
establishing the moral character of the GOV
eminent by a thorough reform. The ger
tlemen composing the conference disclaiI
any intention of forming a new politics
party, but rather claim to be aiming to efee
the desired reforms through the reguls
party methods. They want no clap-tra
platforms, or high sounding professions, bI
plain, unmistakable acts, and they declar
that they will support no candidate who
a politician before he is a reformer. The
candidate must be a man "whose name
already a watehword of reform, and who's
capacity and courage for the work are ma
tiers of record rather than promise"
The Emperor of Brazil and his suite a
rived in Cincinnati on the morning of Ma
Is. They took carriages, after breakfast {
the Grand Hotel, and visited Covington an
Newport, Van Duzen & lifts bell fouLdr,
the Probasco fountain, Clifton and othe
suburbs, and paid a visit to the suburba
residence of Mr.. Henry Probasco. In th
evening the party left on the o. and M. roa
for Louisville and Mammoth Cave. Th
emperor rejected any attentions from tn
city authorities, saying that he was t~ravelin
as a private citizen.
A dispatch from Virginia City, Nevadl
says that the Democratic State Conventio
selected as delegates to the National Coz
v%ention, at st. Louis, Messrs. Ellis, Kelle,
Kane, Kaeting, Ball, and Dennis, unpledge,
Tilden is their first choice, and Thurma
their second. 1t adopted a strong ant
Chinese resolution.
The steamer Pat Cleburne, while trying
, land alongside the Arkansas Belle, thrt
: miles below Shawneetown, ILL.,, at eleve
o'clock, on the night of May II, explode
her boilers, took fire, burned to the water
: edge, and sunk on Cincinnati Bar. Fifty
| sixty feet of the Belle was wrecked, an
r both chimneys were knocked down. tt
, Cleburne's books and papers were all los
: Captain Fowler anda number of others we
lost, and several wounded.
Foreign.
4 A special dispatch from Athens to Il
London Times says that a vessel has arriy,
from Salonica, and brings the new that Il
! American Consul was not at Salonica at Il
! time of the murders. The Christians toe
! his carriage, which CHANGED to be at Il
railway station, put the girl in it, and dro'
y her in it to the Consulate. The Provinci
Council and mob met in the mosque. tt
9 Governor was present when the Consu
were murdered. He merely protested al
! treated the matter lightly. The Turks d
filed past the corpses and spat upon thel
The body of the French Consul had thirt
r four wounds.
The Spanish Congress has passed clau
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