The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-13
fund. The State debt, over and above pro.
ductiye assets, is S., 3O4,167.

fund. The State debt, over and above pro-
ductive assets, is $5,304, 167.
Anton Junker, of the firm of Roelle, Jun
ker & Co., indicted whisky distillers. before
the Grand Jury, at Chicago, made a
statement of the manner in which the
whisky frauds we're perpetrated by his house.
He stated that by one transaction, involving
seven hundred thousand dollars worth of
whisky, the firm defrauded the government
of six hundred thousand dollars. He also
said that the firm had made arrangements
with the Gauger to overlook all frauds per-
petrated by it. He said that large sums of
money had been paid by the firm for politi-
cal purposes, but refused to specify for whom
they were intended.
Two executions of colored men, for muir
der, occurred January Z; one at Memphis,
and the other at a small town twelve miles
from that place. Bill Williams, one of the
men, admitted the crime, but said it was
done in self-defense. Frank Scott, the other,
asserted his innocence.
William Murray and Frederick Myers,
convicted of the murder of Gotthardt Wahl,
a n elderly German residing a few miles
north of Allegheny City, Pa, on the even
ing of Tuesday, November II, 1874, expiated
their crime on the gallows at Pittsburg, jan
uary 6.
A sensation dispatch comes from Osborn,
No, OIL the Hannibal and st. Joseph rail
road. The other night burglars broke into
a drug store and stole a bottle of chloro-
form, with which they drugged the whole
town. They went through both hotels, all
the stores, and many private residences.
They secured several thousand dollars and
escaped.
Arkansas City special says D. J. O'Connor,
chief clerk in the freight department of the
Kansas City, st. Joseph & Council Bluff
Railroad, in that city, has a~bsconded, leaving
his cash account some $1,000 short. A Mrs.
Davis. left the city with him. His bonds
men are amply able to make the deficiency
good.
Philip Stiner, tea merchant, and manager
Of eighteen stores, scattered all over New
York City, has failed. Liabilities $l3S,0O
assets $4,000.
Theodore T. Phillips, dry goods merchant,
OF Pittsburg, was arrested in Jersey City
recently, charged with obtaining $11, 900
worth of goods from L. N. Bates under mis-
representation. Phillips, who was accused
of attempting to leave the city when arrested,
says he went to Jersey City for the purpose
of arranging his obligations to the firm.
Foreign.
Archduke Rudolph has been made King
of Hungary. A Vienna dispatch says the
reason for his coronation as King of Hun
gary is that the Hungarian Government has
resolved to make a great demonstration of
loyalty, by which it hopes to gain the sup.
port Of the Imperial Court in the pending
negotiations with Austria relative to the re-
vision of relations between the two halves
of the empire. The feeling in Vienna is
very bitter. All journals declare a complete
separation of Austria and Hungary is p~refera.
BILE to compliance with Hungary's demand
for forced circulation of Hungarian bank
notes in Austria, and bankruptcy. which
would inevitably ensue. The trouble may
lead to the resignation of the entire CT.
; Lothian Cabinet, of which Prince Amers
berg is President.
!, Mrs. Thomas, or Thomassen, widow of the
Bremerhayen dynamite assassin, has deliv
I cred to the Berlin police her husbands 70
/, luminous correspondence.
The Cologne Gazette remarks that tn,
American attempt atintervsntion in Cuba ii
: singularly il-timed. The European govern
i, wish, in the interests of order, to see Kin.
Alfonso's authority more firmly established
A monster procession, composed of trade
unions, orders, and citizens generally
| turned out in Dublin, Ireland, on January
6, to witness the unwilling of a statue o
Grafton on College Green, in front of tn,
5 old Parliament House.
, The Paris PreSse has received information
: of a terrible landslide in the Isle Reunion
on December II. Sixty-two persons wer,
; killed and many injured. Buildings anC
plantations were destroyed.
| The American schooner Jefferson Borden
has been towed into Aberdeen disabled. Sh,
was sixty-seven days out from Booth Bay foI
Gloucester, England, and the crew we're fam
t ishing and unfit for duty. Their ration wa
ca, a cupful each per day.
/, A London dispatch of January s, says tina
, a large barque, name unknown, was ashor,
; allday on the shipwash sand, ten miles cas-
of Harwich, under circumstance similar tt
those of the Deutschland. Twelve mel
E were seen on board. Boats were unable t.
approach her during the day. A tug lief
) Harwich at midnight to go to her assist
ance.