The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-11

Pieces. Value.
Total gold 1,SS0,S1l S27,5l2 9l5
Total trade dollars -...--......- 3,1S8,3OO 3,lSS,3OO
Total subsidiary----.......- 3,S7l,100- lO,6SO,6l5
Total S,S44OOo oS6fO
Total coinage.--.......... A, 2s4,s11 s4,4S5,470
The House Committee to investigate South
Carolina election matters returned on the
4th. Several members of the Committee
say they do not apprehend armed collision
between the two parties. They think ulti-
mstely there will be peaceful accommoda-
ton.
che Vest.
Two hundred and fifty Sioux scouts, led
by Louis Richard, who left Camp Robinson
to join General Crook, returned there with
out effecting q junction with him. A party
of five white men was attacked by Indians
on the head of Hat Creek. One mar, named
Dillon, was killed and two others wounded.
The fight lasted all day, and was a desperate
affair. The party made their way to Red
Cloud Agency, arriving there On the 9th
ult.
On the 9th of December, the Indians
made a dash at Spear Fish, and run off q
large herd of horses. VIM. Smith, who wit
messed the transaction, gave the alarm, and
a number of mounted men started in pur-
suit of the Indians, and captured all but
twenty of the horses. The Indians, about
fifteen in number, escaped.
A snow slide occurred near Alto, Utah,
on December 2Sth, which destroyed the
Wellington Mine boarding house and buried
the inmates. At last accounts two men were
taken from the wreck in an exhausted con-
dition. -Four more persons are buried and
are supposed to be dead.
General BrevftIes.
Governors Robinson, of New York;
Vance, of North Carolina; and Kellogg, of
Louisiana, were ~inaugurated on January /.
The Republicans organized the Louisiana
Legislature, and Governor Kellogg sent in
his message.
Christian Kottmeier, a German, living in
Cincinnati, assaulted his wife with q huge
knife, on January 2, and, supposing her
dead, killed himself with the same knife.
The wound on the woman is not considered
necessarily fatal. An awful witness to the
desperate and determined character of the
murderer and suicide were the wounds upon
the mans body. Two large, slashing cuts ex.
tended across his breast below the nipple,
neither of which penetrated his vitals. The
third and fatal wound was a stab deep into
the heart.
The coal-mines at Lyken, Penn, are re
ported to be on fire. A river was turned
into them to put out the fire. Two men who
descended into the slope report several mule
alive, but no persons were seen. 1t is be
lieved, however, that all the miners escaped
but eighty-six mules were sufocated. TIL,
damage, it is said, will be very great. Eigh
hundred men are thrown out of employment
The steamship Emile sunk recently, a
Eey West, Fla, in six fathoms. Only on,
man and an infant are known to be lost, bu
a boat load of passengers is missing. TIL
Captains boat and one other have arrived
Steamers rel out in search of the missin,
passengers. The mails were lost.
There is nothing in the reports from tn
Ashtabula calamity to tone down any of it
ghastly features or robito of its generally hor
rible character. The work Of removing til
debris OF the wrecked train and bridge wa
carried on slowly, and the remains of tn
victims have not been recovered. Nothin
has been learned to lead to a changes.in tn
estimate in the number OF the dead. Alarg
proportion OF the victims were burned b.
yondthe possibility of recognition, and thei
actual number may never be absolutel
known.
A Lancaster, O., dispatch of January
says: Mr.. Henry Creighton, of Bloom Town
ship, was murdered by his crazy wife yestel
day afternoon at about two O'Clock. Sh
hrst shot him twice, and then, to make sur
OF her bloody work, chopped his head wit
an ak. Nh. Creighton was a well.to-d
farmer, and has. been married but fou
years. He was.a brother of the Rev. ]. E
Creighton.
James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of th
New York Heruid, wal horsewhipped b
Mr.. Frederick May in front of the Clut
House, New York City, on January 8. Th
cause OF the attack is attributed to the col
dpct of Mr.. Bennett in causing the breal
ing on q marriage between himself and Mis-
Caroline May, which was to have bee
solemnized on the day of the attack BY Ca
dinal McCloskey. Mr.. Bennett was take
home in a cab, and his bruises were of S
severe q character that it was thought b
wouldnot be able to be out for several day
The Legislatures of Tennessee, Michiga,
Illinois, and Missouri met on January 8
and the Legislatures of Minnesota, Ne
York, and Ohio on January 2.
The number of passengers and employe,
on the Ashtabula train is officially reporte
at 14T; number rescued, Y; died since, 4
names known of lost, 20; unacceunte
for, 5.
Commodore Vanderbilt died at his res
dence in New York City at 1885 o'clocl
January 4, after a lingering illness, in IL
eighty-third year of his age.
On January 4, it was reported at Colur
bus, Ohio, that over one hundred prisone
at the penitentiary were i'll, with symptom
suggesting poison. An investigation as
the cause of the trouble developed nothin
except a surmise that the sickness W,
caused by eating bread made from a certai
kind of baking.powder, which had been O
hand for some time.
Michael Mulroy, a quarryman, a few da,
ago, entered the house of John Kailor, Mo
Avenue and One Hundred and Forty-ninl
Street, New York, with a number of car
ridges of giantpowder which had been froze
together, and set about thawing them befol
a stove. Mulroy sat down holding the car
ridges close to it, and conversing with tt
inmates. Suddenly six two pound cartridg,
exploded, completely demolishing the rear
the building. George Kallor, four years
age, was instantly killed, and Mrs. Kailt
and infant were very seriously injure
Mulroy was badly burned about the bod
Edwin Willis Major, convicted, in Decor
Der, 1875, at Nashua, N. H., of poisoning h
wife, was hanged, at the State Prison ther
on the 5th. Major spent the night befol
his execution in religious devotions. At tt
scafold he reiterated his declaration of inn
cence. Before the drop was sprung, he fe
upon his knees, utterly broken down. q
died without a struggle.
In the printed copies of Gov. Hayes's me
sage, furnished to the press, the estimate fc
completing the geological survey of the Stat