The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-19
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC Me- WS.

head of William Schmidt with hatchet and
the victims wounds were pronounced fatal.
Jealousy.
THE steamer Fletcher arrived at Bis
marck, D. T., on July II, from the Big Horn
country, having on board the remains of the
officers who perished in the Custer mas
sacre of year ago.
ADvIcEs from Camp Sidney, Indian Ter
ritory, say the officers quarters at that post
were burned few days ago. Scarcely any
thing was saved, the officers losing nearly
all their furniture and personal effects.
ALLEN STARK, it is reported, was taken
from the jail at Scottsville, Kentucky, a
few nights ago, by body of men, and
hanged. He was on trial for the seduction
and murder of Miss Burton, of Mt Oliver.
| Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT left Cologne on
July 10, proceeding up the Rhine. He was
received in Frankfort on the evening of
Wednesday, the 11th, by a committee headed
by the American Consul, and on Thursday a
dinner was given in his honor.
H. NJ. & B. HALL, of Ellsworth, Maine,
lumbermen, have failed. Liabilities esti-
mated at one hundred and seventy-fve thou
sand dollars one-half secured by assets. The
unsecured creditors are mostly nominal.
The failure caused much financial distress
on Union River.
AT Tuscola, below Champaign, Illinois,
lately, horrible death by smothering in
grain occurred to lad ten years old, the
son of William Purcell, an engineer in Davis
& Finney's elevator. The boy was playing
about bin, when the chute was opened and
he drawn was down and ingulfed in the tide
of grain, and perished.
On July II, resolutions were adopted in
the United States Court of Washington
City, setting forth the great judicial services
performed by Judge David Davis, particu-
larly in Illinois, and regretting his retire
ment from the bench. The resolutions were
offered by the Hon. John T. Stuart, the law
preceptor of Abraham Lincoln.
NEWS comes from Carter County, KY,
July 9, that three of the band of marauders
named Underwood, have submitted to
capture by the Covington militia. The
remainder of the band took themselves
away into the mountains, to be ready to re-
new operations upon the inhabitants as
soon as the present melee is over.
THE celebration of the anniversary of the
battle of the Boyne by the Orangemen took
place at Montreal, Canada, on July II. A
large mob of Catholics gathered to break up
the procession, and one Orangeman was
killed and number severely injured. The
military were called out, the police force
being insufficient to quell the riot.
THE steamer ]. N. Camden, en- route from
Parkersburg to Pittsburg, exploded both
boilers and sunk at the head of Fish Creek
Ripple about three o'clock in the afternoon
of July 9. William Barnard, the pilot and
three colored men, named Charles Mitchell,
Reeder Adams, and James Dorsey, of the
crew, were instantly killed. Several were
injured.
SPECIALS from Bloomfield, Stoddard Co.,
No., say that Poindexter Edmonson was
hung on July 13, for the murder of William
Shaw on October 2, 1876. The gallows was
erected in an open field, about quarter of
mile from the jail; from two to three
thousand people, men, women, and children,
from the surrounding country witnessed
| the execution.
THE United States troops were compelled
| to follow border marauders into the territory
of Mexico on the Sth inst. A considerable
amount of stolen property was seized by
General Ord's troops. Some of the Indian
thieves were captured and punished, and
the bands were dispersed. The action Of
the commanding officer has been approved
by the President and Secretary of State.
CAPTAIN ]. J. BROWN has arrived al
Brownsville, Texas, from the City of Mexico
which latter point he left on July7. He re
ports the country orderly and well united or
Diaz. He met the latter and was assured by
him that he was satisfied with the order o.
General Ord, and that he should direct hi.
forces to cooperate with those of the United
States whenever the latter crossed in pursui
of marauders.
David Pearce and George Stevens, negroes
who waylaid, murdered and robbed youns
man named Edings, near Charleston, S. C.
May II, under circumstances of peculia
atrocity, were hanged at II 80 on the morn
ing of July IS. They were baptized previou
to the execution by Catholic priest, witt
whom they left a full confession of thei
crime. They died without struggle. Abou
two hundred persons witnessed the execu
ton.
On Friday, July 6, Mrs. John Green, Iy
| ing near Roanoke, Randolph County, Mis-
, souri,, was shot by her husband and mol
tally wounded. Green claimed it was an az
cident, but Mrs. Green asserted it was moi
and shortly afterward died. Her father ha
Green arrested, and he was taken to Hunt.
vile for examination. On the followin
, Monday night some fifty men took Gree
and hung him.
AN extra engine and caboose runnin
toward Greenfield, Mass, on the Fitchbur
Railroad, at Wendell Station, ran into teal
crossing the railroad at that point, KILN
Ira Davis, Mrs. Jonah Davis, his mothe
y Mrs. Ira Wakefield, Mrs. Eugene Brow
Z and Miss Nellie Lacey. Mrs. Brown live
! half an hour. The others were killed il
4 stantly and badly cut up. The locomotiN
/ was not running at very great speed. II
4 party were returning home from berrying.
- AT q recent Cabinet session the Howga
e expedition to the North Pole was the su
le ject of lively conversation, with view
st determining whether the interest of scien
it and the welfare of the government would
re subserved by extending national assistan
Of to the proposed expedition. 1t is unde
h stood the discussion was not unfavorab
P. The Woodward expedition around t
" world was, in connection with the Hdwga
te expedition, the subject of interested cow
u sation.
J. Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT and party arrived
az Frankfort-on-the-Main, July IL, from Wi
=, baden. They were received at the stati
~ ~ by the American Consul General and
- ception committee. American resideI
90 hoisted flags in honor of the occasion. 7
reception committee conducted Gene
Grant through the Roemer, the ancient p
ace of the Diet, and the Cathedral. The
al = was banquet at the Palmergarten, whi
~ was given in the evening in honor of I
10 General.
N NEWS to the following effect has been
ba ceived at Portland, Oregon, from Wallawa
dotad IuIy 1S On the 10Th inst Josa