The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-03

nJunced against him.
Two ladies, mother and daughter, regis
teripg as Sallie and Ida May Dill, stopped at
Farmers' Hotel Cincinnati, q few nights
since, and in the morning, not appearing at
time appointed, the door of their room
was broken open, and Ida May found dead.
Sallie was in a comatose and dangerous con-
dition and was taken to the hospital. In the
room was found an. empty bottle labeled
"Powers and Welghman's morphis." They
were from Whitewater Township in Hamil-
ton County.
Frank Baum, of Ada, Ohio, was fatally
injured recently by the kick of ahorse. The
same horse, about a year ago. killed a man
near Cleveland.
A daughter of Joseph Kite, farmer, near
Urbana, was burned to death by her clothing
catching fire while burning stalks.
Ebenezer Stout, a well known citizen of
Bloomington, ILL, and a gentleman who for
years was prominent in the early political
history Of Illinois, committed suicide lately
by taking IN overdose of laudanum.
A terrific thunder, lightning, and hail
storm visited the vicinity of Springfield, ILL.,,
the latter part of April. The wind tore up
trees, unroofcd houses and barns, leveled
fences, and drove the large hail-stones
through plate glass windows, infiicting dam
age to the amount of many thousand dollars.
Over one hundred panes of glass were
broken in the State House. Outside the
city the damage is also said to be consider.
able.
The United States detectives made an i'm
portant capture in Cincinnati recently, of
counterfeiters, with their molds and tools,
and a large quantity of bogus half-dollars.
The detectives have been on the clay" for
this band for months, and % think they
have succeeded iu breaking it up.
Mrs. Sallie Dill, who with her daughter, took
poison at the farmers Hotel, Cincinnati,
died from its effects. The cause of the
suicide was a sad one. They belonged to a
Shaker village in Hamilton County. The
mother left with her daughter, who was dis.
missed from the village on account of world.
illness, and failing to get suitable employ.
ment or to gain permission to return to the
Yillsg e, they took refuse in death by
poison.
VIM. Pintz, who killed Cstharine Burr,
child about nine years old, in Bollipgei
County, Missouri, on the 18th of May, 1875,
was hanged at Marble Hill, April q, be-
fore a great crowd of people, who came for
many miles to witness the execution. Pintz
confessed that he killed the girl, and had
also murdered a man named William Gray
for which he was paid $40.
The death of Parson Brownlow, at Knox.
vile, on the 2sth April, is reported. He
had been afflicted for years with paralysis
agitans, and the immediate cause of his
death was au extension of this disease to the
bowels, paralyzing the same.
There has been another advance of five
cents on freights from Chicago west.
ward.
One thousand dollars worth Of struggled
opium has been seized in San Francisco.
Reports from sections of Nebraska show
the crops to be in a most excellent condi.
ton.
The strike of the Reading Railroad loco
motive engineers appears to have been
abandoned
William Fahr, son of Christian Fair, g
baif-grown boy, was drowned lately while
fishing in a pond near Indianapolis.
FcretGn IreHts
The Turks crossed the Danube, April &c,
at several points, and sent out a flying corps
to destroy the railways before the advance Of
the Russians.
A Vienna correspondent says that the
Roumanian troops have evacuated Kalafat,
The backward movement seems to indicate
that there is no Intention to make, at any
rate for the present, common cause with the
Russians, but, on the contrary, all the Rou'
manian for ces are being collected to act &C
cording to circumstances
A Vienna special states that the Russian
imperial family have given 4 100000 roubles
from their private purses for t~heexpenses
oil the wal.
The following announcement is official
Safyet Pasha has addressed the following
dispatch to the Turkish ambassador at Lon
don: "The first engagement hes just beer
fought at Tehurukson, near Batoum. Aftel
some fighting the Enemy was defeated ant
put TO rout, with a loss of eight hundred
The Russian General Staff has left Kisch
eneff for UDgheni and Scutari. A cavalry
force is marching toward the Danube. Tht
artillery is concentrated at Ungheui, and the
infantry. massed in the direction OF ChotlD
scutari and Ungheui.
The London Ttlegroph's special from PERI
says: 1t is reported that Russia has decided
to send a second circular note t the Powers
and wait for a reply before she declares
war. 1t is considered the bad condition o
the roads in Asia Minor is the cause of TIT
apparent hesitation.
No declaration of war has yet been made
but on the Esd of Auril the Emperor of BUS
STA exhorted his soldiers to deeds of valor
and the Russian Embassy have shaken tn
dust of Constantinople off heirfeet. Their
seems, therefore, to be no special need of
manifesto.
The Times correspondent with the Turkisl
army states that ten thousand men from
Widdin have gone to the seat of wa
Despite the assertion of the Russian tele
grahic agency that a perfect understandipj
has been arrived at between Russia and Aus
tria relative to Eastern affairs, there can b
no doubt that Austria reserves to itself at
solute liberty of action.
The Russian Geographic agency's telegram
datel Sunday April %, says the Porte call
on Servia for leave to occupy its frontier 8
Gladova 10 prevent the passage of the Ru'
SLAMS.
Mr.. Layard, it is stated, has informed th
Porte that England hal guaranteed the il
tegrity and indepeneDcso of the Gilman Ell
pire only on the conditions laid down by tn
treaties, stipulating for It's control by tn
powers. The Porte having contested thi
right, it has forfeited the benefits guarantee
by those treaties, and England could not In
t~ervene with arms in its behalf.
The Cars manifesto to the Russian arm
and people was promulgated on April 2
The Emperor declares that in view of tn
rejection of the protocol and the obstinat
refusal of the Porte to yield to the Just d.
mands of Europe, the moment mas arrive
for Russia to act independently. Gortch'
kof issued an official circular 10 the Power
giving notice that Russia had resolved t
invade Turkey. He also sent a polite not
dated April "a, to the Turkish Charg
d'Afaires at st. P~etersburgh, requiring hill