The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-21

100000.
Governor Hendricks and wife left New
York for Europe, June Is, on the steamer
Scythia.
At the recent election in Georgia, the vote
in favor of a convention for the purpose of
forming a new Constitution for the State, is
about ten thousand over all.
The preliminary examination at st. Louis
of the four villains who attempted to wreck
"a train on the st. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad for purposes ofplunder, near Wood
End Station, som nights ago, terminated in
ali Of the prisoners being committed to
Springfield Jail to await the action of the
Grand Jury. Bail was refused. They will
no doubt be indicted for murder in the first
degree and have speedy trial.
A serious accident occurred on the covered
bridge over the Connecticut River, between
Northampton and Hadley. During arecent
storm a number of people had sought the
bridge for safety, when suddenly the heavy
timbers began to creak and in q second the
structure was lifted bodily in the air aud
hurled with a deafening crash into the river
below. 1t was completely demolished by
the fall. A gang of men Immediately went
to the rescue. The first body removed was
that of Mrs. Sullivan, of Hadley, bruised
and crushed beyond recognition. Sheriff
Cook, of Hadley, was very severely, perhaps
MORALLY injured. George r. Smith, of Had
ley, and W. W. Smith, of Amherst, received
bruises, but will recover. The others were
taken out alive and uninjured.
Shortly before Adams was hung at Dayton,
O., a young man at Mt. Vernon, having a lit
tie quarrel with a hotel keeper, went out to
| a gun store, borrowed a~revolver, returnedto
the hotel, and deliberately shot the objectof
his displsasure through the head. 1t was a
neat way of showing his contempt for the
hanging business as carried on in Ohio.
On the afternoon of June IA, the mill dam
just above Norwich, on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western Railroad, which had become
considerably washed and weakened by the
late rain storms, suddenly broke, and precip.
itated a fishing party consisting of ten per-
sons through the s~luiceway. Mrs. Reemers,
her daughter Julia Reemers, Miss Orewley,
and Thomas Press!er were drowned. The
owner of the boat, Mark Fisher, and James
OslcItJ HeIc iabo1J uJuieu W loilinS
into the grinder of the mill below the sluice-
way.
In the Jail of Rockwell county, Texas,
George w. Garner, a prisoner, under SEN
tence of death, committed suicide, recently,
by taking morphine and also by strangula-
ton. His wife carried the morphine into
his cell in her mouth, and committed suicide
with her husband. Both were found dead
in the cell by the jailer.
John q. Barrett, a saloon-keeper, OF Au-
burn, N. Y. was shot dead a few days since
by his mistress, Cora Young, who then shot
herself twice in the head.
A special from Logansport announces the
death of ex-senator Daniel D. Pratt, Mr..
Pratt entered the Senate in 1868 as the sue
cessor of Thomas A. Hendricks. He had
Just been elected amember of the Forty-frst
Congress when chosen Senator. At the con.
clusion of his Senatorial term he was sp.
pointed by President Grant Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue, and held that important
office during the Bristow crusade upon the
whisky ring. The death of Judge Petit,
also an ex-United States Senator, is reported
from Lafayette.
Senator Conkling sailed for Europe Sat
urday, June 16, on a tour of recreation.
Archbishop Williams sailed from Boston
June 16, in the China, for Rome. He car
riss a large present of money and two ad
dresses to the Holy Father.
Fred. Hendricks, a wealthy farmer Of
Mclean County, Illinois, shot his wife, and
49,, s,o,lal Doroacfio 4rouh1a ohou,
another woman.
Several Nellie Maguires, under sentence
of death, on Thursday, June 81, at Potts
vile, Pennsylvania, have had their sentences
committed to imprisonment for life at Har
risburg.
Rev. John s. C. Abbott, the historian, dice
at his home at Fair Haven, June II, ages
seventy.one years.
Foreign Items
A letter from Paraguay says: Presiden
l Gill and his brother William were murdered
in the most barbsrous manner. The Presi
dent was at home with his family, when h,
was surprised and killed bya band of assas
sins headed by Colonel Goibura, and com
) manders Morales and Goderg. In a subse
|. quent engagement with the troops Goibur
and Morales were made prisoners.
Private accounts received at Constant
nople from Erzeroum, represent the Turk
j. ish army in Armenia as being in a sad COZ
, dition. 1t is i'll clothed, i'll fed, and badl
/ commanded, and the only thing to max
up for these very important deficiencies i
5 the fact that it is well armed. The Turk
i, are rapidly retreating before the Russians i
: Armenia aud are evidently determined nc
to risk a general engagement, if possible
under such di~sadvantageous conditions.
r Orders have been issued by the Russia
r Government to accelerate as much as poss
i BILE the levy of two hundred and eightee
thousand men. Despite this the opinio
n continues to prevail in Berlin that Russi
wishes to settle with Turkey 81 the bas
of the nominal integrity of Turkey j
Europe, and that some such settlement wi
be advocated by powerful persons at Coz
s~tantinople if the Russians succeed in eros
e, ing the Danube and assuming an energet
offensive in Bulgaria.
A Bucharest dispatch reports that Il
~ hOuuldulhu NOfCIuhChb hoo
N note to the powers, protesting against tt
ic barbarous acts of the Turks, and stating tn
if the powers do not intervene to preve
d. these depredations, Roumania will be col
re PEELED to carry war into Turkey.
ne An official telegram from ConstantinopI
al dated June 10, says: Suleimau Pasha h
forced the entrance of the Duga Pass after
or saDguinary battle, and is advancing on Nj
II, sizes. The M~ontenegrins are in full retire
n, Suleiman's junction with two other Turk
corps is expected Immediately.
or Accounts from Trlpoli and Barbary sits
q that an area of one hundred miles ha
Nv been devastated by the locusts. The Gro
lst are entirely destroyed and famine is
or lieved to be imminent. Severe distress
Oh ready prevails.
to 1t has become understood in diploma
circles that England is negotiating W
ce, Turkey for the purchase of the island
ed Crete. By this Turkey will acquire a la
et, sum for war purposes, and England will
of quire another important maritime positi
is in the Mediterranean. Engineers