The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC. NE WS

REILEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT and party arrived
at Bellagie, Italy, August Z. A grand fete
was given in their honor.
A GOVERNMENT engineer has examined
the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi
and pronounces them success.
AwoMAN was arrested in New York while
attempting to escape to Europe with three
children, which she had kidnapped from
Chicago.
| THE young swells of Lancaster, Ohio, re-
produced the jousts and tournaments of
merrie old England at recent fair in that
vicinity.
AN American has been arrested by police
! spy in the South of France for calling Presi-
dent MacMahon an ass. The United States
Charge d'Affaires is looking into the matter
| SENATOR CoNKLING reached New York,
from Europe, on the 10th. In the evening
numerous assemblage of friends SER
enaded him, and he responded in pleasant
speech.
SEVENTEEN inmates of the poor-house at
Sincoe, Ontario, were burned to death at
recent fire which consumed the building
-Four others were dangerously injured in
| the fire.
A BOY in Baltimore factory crawled
under furnace to clear out the ashes, acci-
dentally tipped the grating, and was covered
with live Goals from above. He was pulled
out in terrible agony.
THE miners of the entire Tuscarawas
Valley having resolved to inaugurate strike
on August for an advance of fifteen cents
per ton, four companies of militia were
ordered out in anticipation of trouble.
THE striking silk weavers of Paterson,
New Jersey, met August s, and agreed to
complete the unfinished warps at Strange's
mill; afterward to receive the wages be-
fore the reduction. This ends the strike.
THE Secretary of War has received a let
ter from the Committee of Public Safety at
Pittsburg, thanking him for his action DUR
ing the recent troubles, and requesting a
permanent garrison, as large as the condi
tion of the army will admit, to be stationed
at the Allegheny Arsenal.
EX-CoUNCJLMAN John B. Macarthur, of
Indianapolis, attempted suicide, the ether
day, by taking morphine in glass of beer.
A fit of vomiting saved him. No reasons
were given for the act, only that he "wished
to get out of the wav."
THE Minister of the Interior of the Do
minion of Canada lately visited Washing
ton for the purpose of comforting with the
President and the Cabinet concerning the
return of Sitting Bull and his people from
the British possessions to the United States.
THE young man who shot boy for steal
| ing melon, near Newport, Kentucky, has
been held to answer the charge of murder.
He seems to have been under the impression
that the gun was not loaded, but guns that
have reputation for being unloaded are apt
to go off in most unexpected and deadly
manner.
AN old man named Lindsay, at church
in Georgia, threw a kiss to a young woman
named Men Neeley, and her brother objected
to such actions on the part of the old fell
low. Words followed, then blow from
McNeeley, and finally Lindsay used his
knife, stabbing the young man four times
severely.
A RECENT fire in San Francisco DESTROYED
the block bounded by Drumm, East,
Merchant, and Washington Streets also the
north half of the block between Clay and
Merchant, and the south half of that
between Washington and Jackson. The
space was mostly covered by frame buildings
of little value.
A TELEGRAM received at Harvard College
Observatory states that new planet of the
tenth magnitude has been discovered by
NJ. Borelly. Its position is reported as fol-
lows: Right ascension % hours 40 min
utes, decreasing 26 seconds daily, and south
deelination degrees "a minutes, with
daily southwark movement of minutes.
In quarrel between Mr.. Benjamin Burr
| Cox and his son Willard, near Glendale,
Hamilton County, Ohio, the son stabbed his
father in several places with penknife,
and death ensued in few minutes. The
father, according to his wife's testimony,
had come home drunk, and threatening to
kill the whole family, violently attacked his
son Willard with chair.
Two hundred and eighty United States
regulars arrived at Scranton, Pa, on August
6, relieving the National Guard. The miners
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Company showed no sign of returning to
work, and threatening letters continued to
be addressed to mechanics regarded as being
in favor of going to work in the car shops.
WILLIAM BLAKE, courtly old gentleman
of sixty-one, who has been occupying an
obscure position as clerk at Kingston
Springs, Tenn, for the past two years, has
just been notified that he has fallen heir to
f9,5OO in England, provided he quits
America for Great Britain, which he says he
will do. He is first cousin to Sir William
Blake.
| A SPECIAL to the Galveston Ne1us from San
Antonio, says that Lieutenant Bulls crossed
the Rio Grande on the 4th, recaptured five
stolen horses, and returned to the Texas side
on the 5th. Major Schoield arrested forty
five Valdez filibusters at Eagle Pass. Valdez
himself was at Laredo, and a warrant was
issued for his arrest, but he escaped:
Escobedo and his party are at Laredo with
| out lunuS.
AN entire family, consisting of Lewis
Spencer and his four children, two girls and
two boys, living in Clark County, Missouri,
were murdered for money, few nights age.
The crime was no doubt committed for
money, as Spencer had in his possession
800 belonging to the township, of which
he was Trustee. The weapons used were
an ak and pitchfork. No trace of the
murderers has been discovered.
AT Scranton the late riotous miners have
turned the table on the citizens who served
on the Mayors posse, by getting the Cor.
oner's jury on killed rioters, and making a
verdict to suit themselves. The jurors seem
to have made the work complete, and to
have made trial unnecessary by returning
averdict of guilty of murder in the first de-
gree. The brave General Heidekoper sent
detachment to stop the arrest. We infer
by this that there were grounds for expect
ing violence to the arrested.
| OFFICIAL inform ation bas haan reoo;yaG