The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09

over IL ana spIt IL IN tWo the 1relgnt
cars were demolished. Jacob Elliston,
brakeman, received fatal injuries. A
named Vanderwater, mas
a severe scalp wound, and several others
are slightly injured.
The entire front of the residence of
Augustus Supplies, at Rondout, N. Y, was
blown out at three o'clock in the morning,
recently, by a charge of powder placed in
the window by some malicious person. The
occupants of the house were uniniured.
A Massachusetts, paper states that a fatality
almost unprecedented in the history of a
single household, occurred lately in the
family of Peter Reeves, North Andover.
One of his children died Monday, of diph-
liberia; a second died Tuesday; Friday two
others died, and, on Saturday, while the four
who had previously died were lying I'M
buried in the receiving tomb, or at the
house, the death of the fifth child occurred.
The funeral services over the remains of all
five children was held at the same time, and
they were buried together at the cemetery
A sixth child, the only remaining one of the
family, and the father and mother, at last
accounts were ill with the disease. The cause
is believed to be defective drainage.
Intelligence has been received at Quebec
of the total loss of the Hudson Bay Com
pany's schooner Walrus on the Dist of 0cto-
Der, off st. Georges Island, on the coast of
Labrador. Only one man was saved.
In louisville, fourteen miles north of
indianapolis, in Boone County, recently, a.
party of burglars forced their entrance into
the house of Mr.. Pitsner, who, being aroused,
went out of the side door armed with a shot.
gun, and encountering one of the burglars
who had been left on watch, shot him. He
wa found in the morning near the barn
dead, his comrades having taken his watch
| and other property from his person. A
photograph of the lead burglar was shown
at Indianapolis, and recognized as that of
Charley Brown, a burglar who made his
home in that city.
The President has granted pardon to four
Oregon men, who have served four years of
a life sentence, on a charge of robbing the
mails, and threatening the life of a mail
carrier. Since their conviction the real
culprits have been caught and confessed
the crime, but were set free by the Judge OIL
the ground of the statute of limitation.
| The men pardoned were convicted in a
hasty trial and on circumstantial evidence.
Since then the facts have all come out, and
the whole of Oregon has come forward for
the pardon of the innocent men,.
Major.General Giles A. Smith, a distin-
guished soldier OF Illinois during the late
war, and more recently second assistant
Postmaster-G General of the United States,
died in Bloomington, Illinois, the 9th, of
consumption. He was a native of New
York, born 1929, and was, for a while, in
business in Cincinnati, and moved to
Bloomington in 1856, and engaged in the
dry goods trade.
By a recent collision on the Louisville
ShortLine, near Pee Wee Valley Station,
John Gentler and Moses Brashear, engineers
were killed. James Ledman an express
messenger, and James Boyd, fireman, were
severely injured.
Foreign items,
The particulars of the battle between the
Turks and Servians, on the 29th of October
state that the Turks attacked the heights Of
Djunis. The SerYian artillery, irritated Al
Gen. Tchernsy ef's depleciatory manner, re
fused to fight and abandoned their positions
despite the efforts of the Russian officers
A body of Russian volunteers defended the
heights desperately, half of their number
being killed. The Turks carried their posi-
ton, thus cutting the Servian army in two
After the fall of Djunis, General Tcher
nayeff, with his staff and pa It of the army
rofraofa1 N Popzoni Int lava enoa ~
turned to the neighborhood of Deligrad
Horvatovich's corps fought some time, bu
were finally completely beaten and driver
back upon Kruchevatz and Deligrad. 1t
positions are now ~untenable.
The official dispatches from st. Petersbur,
of a recent date state that Gen. Ignatiefl
Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, ha
been instructed to demand of the Porte hi
acceptance of an armistice and the suspen
sion of hostiIities, otherwise diplomatic re
: lations between Russia and Turkey will b
broken off, and Gen. Ignatieff, with tn
whole personel of the Ambassy, will leav
Constantinople. This ultimatum of Russi
to Turkey was dispatched from Livodis
i. where the Russian Court is sojourning, t
. SphoeohNAhOBAN.
| The London Times says, editorially: 81
!, is important to observe that we have motto
that Germany abides, and will abide by il
+ alliance with Russia, and though it wi
struggle to keep on good terms with tn
other Powers, the Government and tn
. Emperor, nephew and friend, will renal
most closely knit with the Government {
n Berlin"
a A special to the London Standard frol
E Seraieir, the capital of Bosnia, reports tn,
the residence of the Austrian Consul in tn;
town has been set on fire, it is said, by th
Turks, and the troops who were summone
' to e1~tinguish the flames ~plundered II
house.
< Montenegro, it is reported, has accepte
e the armistice on the same terms as Servii
il An Indian newspaper, the Pioneer, sun
r up the prospects as to a famine in Bombs
as follows: Famine in Sholapore. Extren
dearth at Poonah. Great scarcity in 81
other districts. All these districts will vie
n only a fraction of their ordinary revenue.
is hoped that the distress may be relieved
a a sixth of the cost of the Bengal famine.