The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-08

plosions occurred, and five fremen were
injured by broken glass, the front windows
being blown out. Heated and confined air
caused the explosions. The flooring with
the safes IN it fell in. Msrvin's damage is
$4,000; insurance $4,000. The building,
owned by the Orphan Asylum, was dam
aged $1,000.
General BreUftfes.
Mr.. Stephens, Of Georgia, is in a critical
condition, and thinks his end is near. He
had a hemorrage of the lungs, several days
ago, and appears to have been failing ever
since. He is nearly sixty-fve years old
having been born February II, 1912. He
served sixteen years in Congress before the
R~ebellion-from 1S43 to 1S59-and has
nearly completed his second term in the
House since the close of the war. He was
reelected, last fall, to the next Congress.
A San Francisco dispatch says: Referring
to the statement of the New York Herdld's
Washington correspondent, that a number of
American officers had concluded to offer
their services to Iglesiss and raise a force in
the southwest to invade Mexico, and estab-
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formation in the telegram is correct. "There
are" he said, "many good reasons why
this movement by nay friends in this country
can be of no assistance to me in my effort
to bring about a change of Government in
Mexico, and 1 hal advise my friends to
the conclusion at which 1 have arrived. For
this purpose 1 intend to proceed East as soon
as possible"
General John Mcdonald, of whisky fraud
fame, has received an unconditional pardon,
and was Immediately released from the
penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo.
Albert d. Prince and Joseph Palmer, de-
tected in stealing, recently, OF the Boston
and Albany Railroad, leaped from the train.
Palmer was killed and Prince disabled.
A young woman confined in the County
Jail at La Crosse, Minnesota, committed
suicide lately by setting her clothes on fire.
She died a horrible death.
Gov. McCreary has recognized Nichols
as Governor of Louisiana by issuing a
requisition on him for the return of Maurice
A. Schwab, for fraud committed in Louis
vile.
Keeper easier, of Auburn Prison, New
York, while engaged with a squad of con.
yicts in cleaning walks in front of the
prison, was attacked by VIM. Barr, a con-
vict, and horribly mangled about the head,
causing instant death. Barr was recently
transferred from the Insane Asylum, and
supposed to be insane.
Gerhard Hessling, aged nine years, and a
younger sister, while out walking recently
in st. Louis, were run over and killed by a
street car, near the corner of Seventh and
Lafayette streets. The back part of the
girls head was mashed and the brains scat. |
tered over the roadway several feet. The
boys neck was broken, chest crushed in,
and one leg broken by the car. Conductor
John F. Dryden and the driver, Alexander
Mcdonald, were arrested and lodged in the
calaboose to await the result of the Coron.
er's inquest.
Foreign Items.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico says
Disz has given orders to release from prison
a number of Spandiards arbitrarily arrested
for refusing to bay contributions to the
Government. Armed resist
ance to DiAis considered at an end for the
present. The Church party tacitly coun-
tenances Diaz, but isSeally working to place
the Conservatives in power. A general
opionion prevails that the Diaz Government
will be of short duration.
A letter to the Panama Star and Herald
gives the details of recent horrible scenes
at Call, in Cauck Valley. 1t says that Gen.
eral Pena, who commanded the Liberals,
drunk, and gave his drunken soldiers
five hours freedom, during which they
themselves up to every excess. Neither
age nor sex were spared. Many Conserya-
tives were dragged from their hiding places
and killed before the eyes of their wives
and daughters, who met a worse
fate before they were killed in
turn. Eighty-seven houses in the
of the city were pluIdered, and
robbed. The murders number
several hundred. Foreigners lose $500 900
10 100000 in Cali alone. In the suburbs
these scenes were kept up for several days,
and the country was nearly ruined. Palmira
escaped the fate of Cali by paying $4,000
ransom. The houses Of the Italian Consul
and of an American merchant, named Nc
Cune, were plundered. Fears are entertained
hat the civil war will degenerate into a war
If races. Foreigners are flying.