The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-28

an amputation Of the limb afterwards.
the main thoroughfare of Indianapolis, was
the scene of q shocking tragedy. R~W.
Hogshire and P. W. Bolan, Democratic
ward politicians, were talking, when Dan.
Mahoney, . tesmster, came up, and dis
puted some statement made by Belan, and
called him q vile name. Bolan remon-
! strated, SO he says, and warned him not to
repeat il, but Mahoney did so, at the same
time throwing up his hands al though
about to strike. Bolan drew a revolver
and fred three times, all the balls entering
the body of his victim, who died instantly.
Mrs. Smith, living near cambridge, o.
met with q horrible death recently. She
was preparing dinner when her clothes ac-
eidentally caught fire from the stove, and
before assistance reached the house her
body was burned nearly to q crisp.
A telegram from Washington to the Com
ssercidl says: Persons here who have the
entree, and sustain confidential relations
with the foreign diplomatic corps, give as
the result of official telegraphic cores
pondence from St. Petersburg, as well as
from information derived from commercial
houses In that city, the opinion that the
proposed peace conference at Berlin will,
If it shall take place at all, prove to be a
failure, 50 far as any direct determination
of the Eastern question is involved, and
that as matters stand now, thereis more
probability of war than peace.
O'Donavan Rosa, the Fenian orator, lee
tared at Toronto, on the night of the 18th
March, and was attacked by a mob. Shortly
after midnight the mob advanced up Queen
street, and attacked ~Cosgrove's Tavern,
where Rosa was stopping. The crowd in.
side answered with revolvers, and the riot
ers returned the fire. Hundreds of shots
were exchanged, and stones were poured
into the hotel until the window sashes and
furniture were demolished. The police
scattered the mob with their batons. -Four
men were shot-one, a young Protestant,
James Clegg, it is feared fatally.
A Philadelphia dispatch says that James
Graham, aged t~wenty-seven years, and
single, has been arrested on the charge O
numbering John N. Armstrong, at Camden
n. J., January % last, and confesses to thu
crime. he was an apprentice under Benja
min Hunter, now in prison ON the charge
and says Hunter agreed to pay him if he
accomplished the deed. He had several
interviews with Hunter on the subject OF
the murder. He says he was to get the
money from the insurance companies. Ora
ham has been of dissolnte habits of late
His confession is believed by the Sheriff
who states that the prisoner tells the story
with q minuteness which confirms all the
knowledge IN the hands of the authorities
There is great excitement felt both in Cam
den and at Philadelphia over these ~startline
developments.
Only six towns were represented in thu
State Convention at Providence. R. I o.
the new National party at its late session
Vim. Foster was nominated for Governor
Jason I. Hazard, Lieutenant Governor
Henry Appleton, Secretary Of State; and
Andrew B. Moore, General Treasurer.
A Rio Janeiro letter says the British
steamer Asiarte stranded at Cas- tillos on the
slst OF january. During the-night TIA,
storm increased, and at daylight only tn,
tops OF the masts were seen above tn,
sr, wat with seven or eight persons clingins
to Them. But no help could be rendered
because of the high sea. The sea continued
rough until the 5th, when q boat was got t.
thei s.ets near the wreck, but nothing WA
ieund except the p~utrefying corpses
Captain Bayne and thirty of the crew
persisted, only two men being sayed-Wm
Parsons, first mate, and Donald Campbell
third engineer.
The remains of four men were found
smothered to death In q locked cotton car or
the Iron Mountain Road, Missouri, on Mon
day. They have been bur ed at Piedmont
The bodies when discovered were horribl,
d~isfgured and blackened. From letter.
upon one of them it was learned that he wa,
from some town in Ohio, and had a family
1t is supposed that the men crawled il
among the cotton to hide themselves and ge
free ride; that they began smoking, settin,
the cotton on fire, and we're SO smothered
The appearance of the bodies when found
was something dreadful.
Particulars Of an explosion at Haw',
saw mill, in Richmond, Va, have come t.
land. When the boiler (which was atwenty
fve-horse power exploded, a number o
persons were at work in the mill, and tn.
results were frightful. Five persons wers
killed, J. c. Thorp, Thomas White, tive
eolored men, and two sons of the proprie
tor, aged seven and eleven years, who vert
in the mill at the time. Seven others, in.
Guiding the engineer, were injured, two
fatally. Thomas White, a man killed, leaves
q wife and eight children. The explosion is
supposed to have been caused by careless.
ness In allowing the boiler to get empty
and hot and then turning cold water into it.
Samuel Chambers and George Collins, two