The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-30

had locked the children in the room and
gone to work in a cornield.
The Indiana Greenback National Labor
Party which met at indianapolis on May %,
passed resolutions in opposition to every
measure lookingto the resumption of specie
payments, and in favor of " the abolition of
all bank issues, the free and unlimited
government of full legal tender paper fat
money, receivable for all dues and payable
for all debts public and private, in amounts
sufficient to meet the want of trade, to give
employment to all labor, and to enable the
people to do a cash business, and to relieve
them from the debt system which
has made the industrial and COM
mercial classes the slaves and drudges of
the credit mongers of the world"
The resolutions also "denounce the red flag
communism imported from Europe, which
asks for an equal division of property, and
we denounce the communism of the ma
tional banks, of the bond syndicates, and
of the consolidated railroad corporations,
which have secured and are enforcing an
unequal division of property" The fol-
lowing State officers were nominated Sec
rotary of State, Henley james, of Grant;
Treasurer of State, R. P. Main, of Floyd;
Auditor of State, Jacob F. Bird, of Gibson;
Attorney General, David Moss, of Hamilton /;
Superintendent of Public Instruction, John
Young, of Marion.
The Pennsylvania Democrats have NOM
mated H. Dill, for Governor; L. P. Ross,
Supreme Judge; j. Fertig, Lieutenant Cow
ernor; ]. s. Africa, Secretary of Interna
Affairs. The platform charges all the
distress to labor AID trade upon the Re-
publican policy; declares against nntrac-
ton arraigns the Republican State govern
ment for failure to prevent determinations
in railroad freights, and failure to pass a
free pike bill; and urges that investiga-
ton be made in the Electoral frauds, but
deprecates any attack upon the Presiden-
tial titles.
The Vermont Republican Convention
nominated Colonel Redfeld Proctor, of
Rutland, for Governor. The resolutions in
dorse President Hayes, and reprove the
House OF Representatives for reopening the
Presidential question.
A late dispatch from Toronto says that
the little steamer Empress of India, which
was carried over Blaine's Dam, Grand River,
had seventeen passengers on board, Of
whom nine were rescued. The names Of
the lost are: H. J.. Jaffray, proprietor Of
the Gait Reporter; James Montgomery, Ed
ward Wren, Andrew Jackson, John Frazer
Frederick Cane, Robert Elliott and David
Scott.
A most terrible murder is reported from
Taylorville, Ill. An invalid, named Mrs
Hamilton, in the environs of the town wa
killed by an ak in the hands of William
Day, a boy about fifteen years of age, dur
ing the abseneesof the familyAThe be.
stated at first that some tramps had muir
dered the woman with a hatchet, ard tina
he saw them running away from the house
t He gave a description of the men, and i'm
, mediately a large party were out in ever
t direction securing the country for tramp.
Several men were arrested and brought il
and the boy pretended to identify one c
the men, but the people had already bega
S to suspect the boy, and after a thoroug
: examination of the feldby which the hous
was surrounded, it was found that there wa
no tracks of any person, and as the groun
was wet the people were satisfied that n
|, tramp had done the deed. The boy, upo
s being thoroughly examined by Sheriff Ma
n aud Clerk Joe Hill, acknowledged that h
had killed the woman with the a,
y No reason was given for the act, except Thu
the woman had corrected the boy the NOR
ing before.
k The Western tornado was more d~isastro,
h than at first reported. The towns of Miner
n Point, Iowa, and Oregon, Wis, were d
molished, and the distractions of life an
n property was great. Among those reportt
as killed and injured are the following: 1
Mount Vernon, VIM. Osborne, wife an
daughter, seriously injured at Paoli, IL
family of A. F. Clark, slightly injured;
IT Oregon, wife and children of M. McCartt
badly injured, and Mr.. and Mrs. Pierc
seriously; can't recover; at Montrose IL
wife of John Galena was killed and othe
n badly injured.