The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-25

WOUNDED three times, dangerously, and
the other was wounded in the pistol arm.
The chief engineer of the Lake Shore
committed suicide on the night of
Wednesday January IL. Mr.. Collins has
been chief engineer of the road for twenty
years, and has been in the employment of
the road for thirty years. Since the terrible
bridge disaster at Ashtabula he has been
very much troubled in mind, as
he considered he was held partially respon-
sible by the public. He has repeatedly said
to those intimate to him that he would as
soon be dead as alive. This suicide was pre-
meditated, as two pistols and a razor were
foundin his bed. Three chambers of his re-
volver had been discharged. His wife and
family being absent from home, his death
was not discovered until the goth, his body
was found in his bed athis residence.
Foreign Items
News has been received by the friends of
J.. H. Claxton, resident agent of an Ameri-
can house in Italy, that that gentleman has
participated as principal in a duel, which
was fought at Tivoli, near Rome, on the 18th
of last month. His antagonist was Bernard
Suscipi, a portrait painter of considerable
note in Rome Suscipi spoke disparagingly
of an American woman, was knocked down,
and the challenge followed. Suscipi was
wounded.
A London Times special from Calcutta
gives a later summary of the situation. In
one of the Bombay Districts of Sholapore
the crops have totally failed. Things are
nearly as bad in two other districts. The
crops have partially failed in six districts.
Already 2S7, 200 people are on the relief
works. In Madras the famine prevails in
twelve districts, and now a million persons
are on the relief works. The cost to the
State is estimated at over two millions ster.
ling in Bombay, and four millions in Madras.
The Galveston Neaos' Brownsville special
says that General Diaz attacked the forces
of Iglesias on Guiana Justo commanded by
General Antillon, on the Sd inst, and An
tillon was defeated and surrendered his
whole army, and all his materials of war to
General Ignacio Martinez. Iglesias has
asked to be allowed to retire to private
life. General Quiroga, according to prem
Use, supported Lerdo until November 80. He
then surrendered over five thousand men
and large amouuto of war material to Gen.
eral Trevino, and retired to his rancho.
Under the prete1t that he was f%omenting
trouble, he was arrested, tried and con-
demned, and according to a telegram, he
was shot on the 18th inst.
1t is said that Gortschakoff has issued
a circular to the Russian representatives
abroad, expressing his belief that Turkey
will reject the Conference proposals, and
declaring that Russia can not undertake a
warlike policy, because Europe would not
support her, and might form a coalition
against her.
The Council assembled at C~onstantinople
to settle terms Of peace broke up on the
18th. The ultimation of the Great Powers
was rejected by Turkey. The London
Daily Ne1cs says: With the break up of the
Conference ends the old fashion policy which
accepted Turkey as the hereditary respon-
sibility of England. Henceforward Turkey
must patch up its credit the best way it can,
and fight its own battles.
A Cuban dispatch states that two import
ant engagements had been recently fought
on the Island. The most important took
place at Farallanes, where the Spariards
were defeated by the Cubans under Gener-
ais Modesto Disz and Antonio Macon. The
other action was at Zapata, west of Glen
fuges, south coast, and here also the Spanish
forces suffered another reverse.
A dispatch from Rome says thatthe coral
fishers of Tore del Greco are fitting out six
large vessels for an expedition to a newly.
discovered reef, between Bermuda and Nova
Scotia, next spring.
Great distress from famine prevails in
Corea and the northern provinces of China.