The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-07

General GIdntJ on his arrival III EnBldnui
was received by the Mayor of Liverpool,
and others, with great cordially and en-
thusiasm.
Ten Brock, on the last day of the Louis
vile races, ran two miles in three minutes,
twenty.seven and a half seconds, two Sec
onds faster than the best running on record.
A hand car belonging to the Pennsylvania
Railroad, on which were four workmen, was
backed into by a freight train, near Hack
ensack, n. Y, the other morning. Thomas
Hogan and Phillip Goodman were instantly
killed, and Edward Henry and Patrick DON
nelly MORALLY wounded. Several freight
cars were thrown from the track.
Theresa Weiss, aged forty.ive, was lately
arrested in Philadelphia, charged with at
tempting to poison the family of Mr..
Slegel, No. 215 George Street, by sprinkling
corrosive sublimate over some Strawberries,
butter, and other articles of food, and also
putting some of it in a pitcher Of milk which
was to be used by the family for supper. A
large quantity of poison was found upon the
person of the prisoner. She had had some
difficulty with the family, which had led Mr..
Siegel to serve her with notice to leave the
premises.
A youth of eighteen, named John Reese,
in a diff with another youth named
John Nugent, at Miamitown, Hamilton
County, Ohio, struck him in the head with
a loaded whip, causing his death in a few
hours. The parties had never had any diff
Guilty before, and the quarrel was a sudden
one, originating from Nugent's passing
ahead of Reese on the road in a buggy.
Fletcher Harper, the last of the original
Harper Brothers, is dead.
Mr.. J. Lothrop Motley, the American his
torian, died May 20, at Kingston Russell
House, Dorsetshire, Eng, the residence of
his son.in-law, Mr.. Algernon Therdaw.
Major Charles 7. Powell, United States
Consul at Iquique, died of fever at that port
on the 9th May.
Decoration day was generally observed on
May 80.
Tom Whitehead, deputy jailer of Hen.
derson County, KY, shot and killed a pris.
oner named Totten in the Henderson Jail a
few mornings since. Totten was trying to
escape, and struck the jailer on the head
with a bar of iron, stunning him, when the
latter shot him.
Governor Cullum, of Illinois, hes vetoed
the bill passed by the Legislature to make
silver coin a legal tender in that State.
Abolt of lightning struck Patrick Dwyre,
a farmer, ..of Kappa, ILL.,, recently, instantly
killing him. One of his horses was also
killed.
The South Carolina House, by a vote of
66 to 20, has refused to admit the entire
Charleston delegation of seventeen members,
fifteen colored and two whites, including
Mackey, Speaker of the Chamberlain
House..
A correspondent at Orland, Indiana,
writes of the fearful death of james Lara.
mer near that place a week or two ago.
Laramer was handling a lamp, when it ex.
ploded, sett: ng fire to his clothes. He started
for the mill pond near his house, but sank
down on the road and was burned to death.
A man who attempted to rescue him was
severely burned.
An accident occurred lately on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, by which Mrs. Homer, OF
Scranton, Pennsylvania, was killed. Her
daughter, Mrs. E. N. Willard, and Mr..
Rupert were seriously hurt, and several
others fatally injured.
The General Assembly of Rhode Island
has passed a resolution inviting President
Hayes and his Cabinet to visit Rhode Island
On the occasion of the army reunion in
Providence June 26, 81, and %, and appoint
ing a committee to make proper arrange
ments.
As the express train on the st. Louis and
San Francisco Railroad, late the Atlantic
and Pacific, reached a point one and a hall
miles west of Woodward Station, one hun
dred and ftty-fve miles from st. Louis, al
900 on the night of June 8, the engineer saw
some kind of an obstruction on the track,
and instantly applied the air brakes, butt moi
quickly enough, for when reaching the spot
where the obstruction was the engine and
baggage car left the track and plunged down
an embankment forty feet high. Samuel
Richardson, fireman, and DIR. E. L. Atkinson
VIII was on the engine, were instantly killed
and Frank Cation, engineer, was so badly
wounded that he died in two hours. On
examining the track it was found that the
"Fish-bars" connecting the rails on both
sides of the track had been unjointed, and
taC Ch0o VI b1V OLE lAONCu 81 LudI Luc d
would run down the embankment. Anon
key.%rench, an iron pick and claw.bar vert
also found OF the,track. This, in connection
with the shots fred and.the men seen, lief
no doubt in the minds of the conductor anG
passengers that a diabolical scheme haG
been planned to run the whole train down
the bank, rob the express and plumber the
passengers.
Geo. H.. Wolff & Co., dry goods jobbers OF
New York and Cincinnati, have failed fo
$450,0O0. Of the liabilities $780, 900 is sale
to be due for goods, and $35O,OOO to banks
for discount.
Ason of A. B. Aurs, aged about ffteer
years, was drowned recently while bathin,
in Long Lake, near New Portage, Ohio.
Israel Randolph, an aged and esteemed
physician, who had a large practice among
the Old School class of patients, and whit
believedin bleeding and calomel, dropped
dead in a Third Avenue street car, in New
York. He was worth over a million dollars
and had long lived in the st. Nichola
Hotel.
Many of the recently discharged Treasury
employees are reported as a destitute con
dition.
Rev. John NJ. Forday, pastor of the Lutheran
Church at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, wa
drowned there a few days ago.
A little daughter of A. sanderson's, aged
four years, fell backward into a kettle of no
I've, at Logansport, Ind, and was terribl!
scalded. Death resulted in afew hours.
4 Foreign Items
The sufferiugs from famine in the NORTH
/ provinces of China are unab ated. Partia
: relief is afforded by the exertions o
5 foreigners and the wealthy Chinese, bu
: these are effective only to a limited extent
S The war feeling in Greece has brough
: about revolution in the Government. A
E the first sitting of the Chamber of Deputie
at Athens, the Ministry were defeated anC
announced their designations.
1t is reported that Arabian has been re
5 taken by the Turks, by a coup de main.
The steamer City of Brussels, SO man,
days missing at sea, with the American
pilgrims for Rome on board, arrived a
Il Tivarnool on Nov 90 HroudS aeea~hlal n