The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-12
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.

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next House with 152 Democrats, 134 Republi-
cans, and vacancies.
THE total amount of subscriptions to the
four per cent. loan received in the United
States to date is $13,222,250.
CAPTAIN HowGATE has received the
necessary subscriptions, and will at once fit
out another Polar expedition.
THE Government authorities are appre-
hensive that the Nez Perces war will prove
to belong, costly and troublesome.
GEORGE BAMB, of New Burnside, Ill, on
July 4, accidently shot a son of his part
ner, ]. w. Hood, with fatal result.
JOHN KRAMER, of Cincinnati, cut up the
head of William Schmidt with hatchet, and
the victims wounds were pronounced fatal.
Jealousy.
WILLIAM CoNKLIN, a well-known lumber
merchant of Ionia County, Michigan, sui
cided on July6 Heleaves wife and three
children.
A YOUNG man named Frank Dunlap was
drowned in the Ohio River, July 4, at Madi-
son, Ind, while bathing. His body was re-
covered.
THE commission of John L. Thomas, Col
lector of the Port of Baltimore, in place of
wilkins, suspended, has been signed by the
President.
YOUNG, MCNAUGHToN & Co., importers
of dry goods and shirt manufacturers, Mon
treal, have failed. Liabilities, S150,000.
Assets, fifty per cent
GENERAL GRANT arrived at Brussels on
the evening of July 6, and proceeded to the
hotel. No official reception was given him,
as he was travelling incognito.
ED. JULIAN, young man twenty years of
age, was drowned at Portsmouth while at
tempting to swim the Ohio River. He is
supposed to have taken the cramp.
AN installment of seven hundred and
thirty women and children arrived in New
York, Saturday, July 7, en- route to Salt
Lake, as recruits for Brigham's band.
GOVERNOR HAMPTON has at last sue
ceeded in negotiating in New York loan of
100000, with which to pay expenses of
the South Carolina State Government.
WILLIE ROBINSON, colored boy about
thirteen years old, of Piqua, o., was acci-
IDENTIFY drowned, July 4, in Rush Creek,
while bathing. The body was. recovered.
THEODORE TLToN and two daughters,
Florence and Alice, sailed for Europe on
the 9TH. He will return in the fall, but the
young ladies will be absent about two years.
ALL the accused murderers of the Weldon
family in Logan County flour in number),
have been set at liberty except William V.
Terrill. The evidence against him is strong
GENERAL HOWARD is still pursuing the
hostile Indians on Salmon River. A small
skirmish on Thursday, July 8, resulted in
killing several Indians, and the capture of
their camp and one thousand ponies.
THE Detroit, Eel River and Illinois Rail-
road has been sold at sheriff's sale at Logans-
port, Ind, for $75O,OOO. Jas. F. Joy and
Elijah Smith were the purchasers, they act
ing in the interest of the first mortgage
bondholders.
The Vanderbilts are again in Court
wrangling about the Commodore's money.
Cornelius ]. now brings suit against VIII
liam H. for a million, the amount agreed
upon in the late contest, but which the latter
is slow about paying.
ARow-BoAT on Horn Pond, near Woburn,
Massachusetts,, containing twelve persons,
was capsized on July 4, and Mrs. Rossiter, of
Woburn, and one child, Mr.. and Mrs.
OLeary, of Winchester, and one child, and
Mrs. Kenney, of Woburn, were drowned.
THREE men, Floy, Bellinger, and Pierce,
were boating in Niagara River, above the
falls, few evenings since, when the boat
got into the rapids. Bellinger and Pierce
jumped out and attempted to swim to the
shore, but were carried over the falls. Floy
! remained in the boat and was rescued.
AS workmen were engaged in blowing out
the North Lebanon Furnace, at Lebanon,
Pennsylvania, on the 4th, an accident oc.
| CURED by which Charles Smith and David
Grantz were fatally, and John Kilmayer and
Edward Hoffman dangerously burned.
LATELY, at Cherubusco, Ind, daughter Of
Geo. Pinney, aged eight years, met with q
| frightful death. She attempted to light a
fire with kerosene oil, when the can ex.
| ploded, saturating her clothes, which were
burned completely from her body. She
fingered three hours in terrible agony.
JACK THOMPSON, colored, was hung al
Lagrange, Ca, on July 6, for killing two
negro children last winter, aged eight and
two years. He blew off the head of the
older one with gun, and crushed the head
of the other with the stock, and cut its
throat from ear to ear with case-knife.
THE grave of Samuel Meredith, at Noun
Pleasant, Pennsylvania, first Treasurer O
the United States, was visited on the after
noon of the Fourth by party of gentlemen
who cleared and cleaned the grounds ant
organized monumental association
1t is proposed to erect plain, substantial
shaft.
A SPECIAL to the Little Rock Gazette from
Prescott, Arkansas, gives an account of
fight between gang of horse-thieves and
Sherif's posse, fifty miles below that place
in which one of the posse, a Cumberlan
Presbyterian minister, was killed. TIL
murderer was riddled with buckshot.
THE steamships Elphinstone and Rec
: water came in collision at Point au Tremblt
: below Montreal, on July 4. Both wer
, sunk. The former was bound inward, wit
: iron, etc. The latter was outward bounC
with corn. Both were large ocean steamer
and will be a total loss. The crews wer
saved.
MUCH excitement is occasioned in II
: dianapolis, by an attempted suicide by Co
, ]. o. Martin, the widely known Secretary
: the Masonic Mutual Benefit Association
Col. Martin has for some time past been Ill
able to attend to business on account of ba
s health, and has been a victim to extrem
n depression and melancholy.
JAMES KIDwELL, a well-known busine
, man of Fleming County, Kentucky, WI
u struck by lightning and instantly killed @
= the afternoon of July 4, at his house,
Franklin's mill, on Fox Creek, in tn
>. county. Mr.. Kidwell has for many yea
= been a member of the firm of Samuels, XII
!. well & Co., OF Poplar Plains. He leaves
: family.
n Mr.. GARNET, of No. 800 Broadwa
l. Cleveland, committed suicide recently |