The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-06-29

tiary at Salt Lake, lately, after capturing the
guard, securing all their guns, pistols, and
ammunition, along with three horses, and es-
capped. Harrison Carter, acting as cook in
the p~enitentiary, was shot, it was thought
fatally. 1t is rumorded that the warden was
killed. This, however, lacks confirmation.
Among the prisoners are several who were
Instrumental in the killing of Capt. Bergher,
the former warden.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's salary at Ply
mouth Church has been fixed at $4,000.
William Adm, who killed his wife, STEP
daughter and Mrs. Benton, last December,
was hanged at Cleveland June %. He
maintained to the last that the deedwas
not pr~emeditated.
Mrs. Larry McCarty and four children were
badly burned by q kerosene lamp explosion
at 0gdensburg, New Jersey. The mother
and one daughter died.
Otis Rich, aged sixty-eight years, an old
and prominent citizen of South Boston,
Mass, committed suicide recently, by cut
ting his throat with a razor.
At Robinson, Crawford County, illinois,
Saturday night, June %, at eight o'clock,
Dick Henderson, the Sheriff, entered the
jail to lock up the prisoners, when he was
attacked by Osborne, q prisoner confined
for murder, with a small billy made of wood,
by the latter. The Sheriff grasped the
prisoner, and the two struggled to the out
side of the Jail, another prisoner con-
fined for horse stealing escaping in The
meantime. The Sheriff received very severe
injuries from the murderer, but
held ON to him until the screams of the wife
Of the Sheriff brought a crowd of citizens to
his assistance. These citizens cut O cotton
rope from an awning, and Immediately
hung the prisoner to a locust tree near by
until he was dead. He begged for a respite
and for a priest, but they told him there was
no time. The murderer was a very desper-
ate man.
A negro by the anne of Smith Williams
was taken from the Jail at Burlington, Boone
County, KY, on June %, and banged by a
mob. His crime wa the murder Of a white
man the year before.
Mr.. P~ierrepont, the new Minister to Eng
land, sailed for his post from New York on
Saturday, June "a.
Foreign Items.
The Argentine Congress has approved the
treaty concluded ON the I'd of February be-
tween Paraguay, Brazil and Buenos Ayres,
by which Cruto was adjudged to Buenos
Ayres. The question affecting the district
of Pilcomayo and Rio Verde has been re.
ferredto the arbitration of President Grant,
while it was stipulated that the Argentine
territory should be evacuated by Brazil
within five months.
The accounts of the alleged defeats of the
Egyptians by the Abyssinians are officially
eontradicted. The wal terminated on the
ninth of March last, and no fighting has oc.
CURED since. King John, of Abyssinia, sent
a letter on the eleventh of March to the
Khediye, desiring to negotiate, and about
the ninth of June the Khediye sent Col.
Ali Bey, fully empowered, to Adowa, where
King John has been for the past month
The greater portionof the Abyssinian army
is now d~isbanded, and the remainder is being
ordered to the province of Moghly, where 8
revolt is in progress. The Egyptian army il
returning home, only a few battalions re
naming on the frontier.
In the House of Commons, on June %
Thomas Rowley Hall, Liberal, gave netict
that he would ask Disraeli on the following
Tuesday whether negotiations are pro
crossing with the United States for amend
ing the Extradition Treaty, and whether
Parliament would be afforded an oppor
tunity the present session to discuss the
principles of amending the treaty to cove
the recent ~extradition cases.
A dispasch from Pesth reports that {
Sclayonic u sn in South Hungary has sub
scribed two hundred thousand forms for tht
insurgents IN Turkey. ADeputy Attorney
General has been sent to that, quarter 10 ex
anime into the state of affairs, which ii daily
becoming more alarming.
The British bark Great Republic arrived
at San Francisco June %, from Liverpool
and reported that on the 2Sth of May, in lat
itude I10 Al north, longitude 1140 q, west
the British bark Clarendon was boarded. Sh,
had been abandoned and was on fire, Their,
being nothing left but a mere iron shell ant
some of the still burning cargo. She ap
peared to have been c~oalladen. No signs o
life were visible in the vicinity of the wreck
A special to the London Standard, datet
C~onstantinople, june "a, says: Great uneasi
ness prevails and is increasing. The palac,
Of the Sultan Murad is surrounded day ant
night, by pickets of cavalry. Russian resi-
dents are sending their families away. Ibra
him Pasha has been placed under arrest
There are various rumors that he is impli
Gated in Russian i~ntrigues, and that he as
sisted Abdul Aziz in disposing of hi
treasure. The censorship of the press is ex
tremely severe. Three Turkish and tire,
French journals are now suspended, and tn,
government is fast becoming unpopular, ant
will speedily fall, if it does not abandon it
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