The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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The President in his message on the e1-
tradition treaty between the United States
and Great Britain, says:
1t is with great satisfaction that I have to
announce that Her Msjesty's Government,
while expressing its desire not to be under
stood to recede from the interpr citation
which in its previous correspondence it had
put upon the treaty but having regard to the
of a new treaty and the power
possessed by either party of spontaneously
denouncing the old one, caused the re-arrest,
on the 4th inst, of Brent one of the
fugitives who had been previously dis
charged, and after waiting the requisite
time in which the fugitive is entitled to
apply for his discharge, on the 21st inst,
surrendered him to the agent appointed on
behalf of this Government to receive and
convey him to the United States. As this
surrender of Great Britain, without condi.
ton or stipulation of any kind being asked,
removes the obstacles which interrupted
the execution of the treaty, I shall no longer
abstain from making demands on Her
Majesty's Government for the surrender of
fugitive criminals, nor from entertaining
acquisitions Of that character from that
Government, under the treaty Of 40, but
will again regard the treaty as operative,
hoping to be able before long to conclude
with Her Majesty's Government a new
treaty, of a broader and more comprehensive
nature.
A bill introduced in the House by Repre-.
sentative Douglass, authorizes the Secretary
of the Treasury to purchase the Freedmen's
Savings Bank building, for Government
uses, at q sun not exceeding 100000 He
also introduced q bill authorizing the Com.
missioners now liquidating the affairs of that
institution to buy in its own real estate
when the price offered for it at public sales
shall be deemed too low. Mr.. Douglass is
Chairman Of the House Select Committee on
the Freedmen's Bank.
The VEST.
Thomas Ramsdale, a negro, was killed
lately in sequoyah District, Cherokee Ma
ton, by his wife chopping him in the back
OF the head with an AZ. His wife was an
Indian.
Fires.
The New New Orleans Democrats special
from Homer says a disastrous fire broke out
there lately, which was thought to be the
work OF an ~incendiary. Twenty business
houses were burned, and two dwellings.
Three leading firms were burned out: Nc.
Carney, Gill, and Otis & Barron. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
At two o'clock on the afternoon of De,
cember %, the boiler-house of the American
Transfer Co.'s station, at Oil City, Pa, took
lire, followed by an explosion of the boiler
which was thrown against an iron tank
containing about fifteen thousand barrels
OF oil, bursting the tank and acting it Oh
hre. The total loss on oil is about S5,00t
barrels and i've iron tanks, two owned b,
Mawhinney Bros; two owned by Coehrane
and one by the American Transfer Com
Pany. There were also five Erie Railway
boiler cars burned. The loss is estimated
at$200,0O0, partially insured. The American
Transfer Company will rebuild
ing at once.
Another disastrous and tragic fire is re
o. ~ OAtCu VI Ill
Sisters of Providence, at st. Elizabeth, nea
Toilette, PROVENCE of Quebec, on the nigh
OF the 18th of December. All the communit,
were in bed, when, at twenty minutes pas
nine, the whole convent wasin flames. Al
that could be done for all the persons insid
was to hurry them out. Nuns, as well a
children, had only time to save themselye
without clothes. 1t is believed that the fir
originated between the floors. There wer
torty-eight boarders in the Convent. Thu
teen persons persisted in the flames. Tn
building formed two wings; the Sisters an,
fifty lady boarders occupied one wing, Will
the other was occupied by some fifty orphan
and infrm persons. The structure was o
wood. and there being no fire apparatus il
the village, the fire could not be checked
Nothing was saved from the building. Their
was an insurance en- the property of twenty
-four thousand dollars.
Frederick's photograph establishment
5S7 Broadway, New York, which is abou
the entrance of Tony Pastors Theater, wa
burned the other morning. Loss, $4,000
1t was at first supposed that the Theate
vas on fire, but when the flames were ez
tinguished it was ascertained that the Thes
ter was only slightly damaged by. water. !
greatmany valuable pictures were destroyed
General Breu5ttes.
As the Eastern Express was running III
der full Roadway, three miles west of Bell,
fontaine, Ohio, on the morning of the 25t
inst, q passenger coach jumped the track o
account of a broken rail. The car role
down the bank, resting bottom up. Nearl
all in the car, some twenty, were more
less injured, some severely, but none wei
killed outright. Among those severely il
iured were Mr.. Sayre and wife of India
apolis; William Barker, conductor; Mr.
Fullmer and child, Degraff; a blind ma
name unknown, and Abe Collins, of Bell
fontaine. The names of the rest who wei
injured, were not ascertained.
A few days since a package of twel,
thousand dollars was sent from the Treasul
at Washington to a Chicago National ban
in exchange for fractional currency. Whe
the package was opened at Chicago, it co
tanned nothing but brown paper. Whs
and by whom the robbery was committe
rather mystifes the secret service detective
The citizens of Richmond, Indiana, we
shocked recently by the suicide of Hen.
II ISonnickson ,Eproprietor of the Indian
House, at that place. He had been leadil
life of dissipation, and his wife had fill
application for divorce, the proceedings
which were pending in the court at Il
time. Early in the morning he sought /
wife and pleaded with her to withdraw Il
suit She refused. He then went to b
room, loaded a d~ouble-barreled shot-yu
and shot himself, expiring in a few minut,
The Florida Supreme Court, on Saturda
the 23d December, issued a perempto
order to the Board of Canvassers to recon-
the votes from the face of the returns. Tt
Of course will have no effect on the Ele
toral vote, but will probably elect the Del
ocratic State ticket.
An inmate of the Soldiers Home, Dayto
Ohio, Paul Barrel, froze to death a few nigh
ago in a forest near that city. He belong,
to the Twentieth New York Volunteers.
RobertSchultz, young German mechani
suicided at Evansville, Ind, by shoot,
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