The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-14
ADDITIONAL NEWS.
4. F. VICTOR, the literary and art critic, is dead
THE Presidents symptoms continue to max

F. VICTOR, the literary and art critic, is dead
THE Presidents symptoms continue to make
favorable progress.
AT DAYTON, Ohio, mercury registered LOG de-
grees in the shade, July 10.
TWELVE thousand dollars has been sub
scribed IN Chicago for tie Mrs. Garfield fund.
AT TUSCAN, Arizona, Thomas Harper, cow
ooy, was hanged for the murder of John Hol-
hday, last September.
NEARLY all the fve-2er-cents embraced in
:he one hundred and first call issued by Secre-
tary Sherman. have been redeemed.
d. o. MILLS, of San Francisco, has given
$4,000 to the University of California, to en-
dow a chair of Intellectual and Moral Philoso-
ply and Civil Polity.
In Chicago, July 9, eighty-three burial per-
mits were issued. The largest in the history of
the city, for one day. OF these twenty deaths
were from cholera infantum.
SEVERAL cases of yellow fever developed ON
board the British bark Emma Payscant, at
Pensacola, Florida, from Vera Cruz July 9.
The vessel was ordered into quarantine.
THERE were twenty cases of sunstroke in
Cincinnati July 10, of which seven were fatal,
snd the condition of six others reported very
critical. Mercury registered los degrees in the
shade. In Dayton, there were six deaths from
the same cause. Five deaths in Louisville.
Pittsburg reported eight deaths and twenty
cases of prostration. Three deaths at Indian
apols.
ALBERT NEALUs plasterer at Cincinnati, is
| under arrest for trying to burn his wife and
babies to death. He was angry at his wife for
attending Fourth of July picnic, declaring he
would burtf her up, and tried to make good his
threat by kindling fire in the cellar directly
under his wifes bed. They, however, escaped,
but four dwellings, were burned to the ground
before the flames were extinguished.
PARIS telegram says the commander of the
ironclad Refine Blanche telegraphs that the
gunboat Chacal opened fire on the 7th instant
upon battery of eleven guns, on the beach at
Sfax. The insurgents returned the fire, but
the Chacal was not struck. The ironclads bonn
barded the town and fort on the 9th instant.
| About II, U00 insurgents occupy Une eHyfrons OF
Sfax. The natural obstacles of the place rem.
der approach difficult. Reinforcements are
awaited before landing is attempted.
LATE ivices from Portland, Oregon, STATE
that the youngest daughter of William Nor.
gan, who, it was claimed, was put out of the
way for having divulged Masonic secrets, man,
years ago., is now living in Marion County
that State. She states that her father wal
drowned by five men, who took him into tn,
lake. She says one of the men who assisted il
the drowning lived for many years in Portland
Oregon, but is now dead.
The horrible death from hydrophobia Of Id
Mary Drayton, Jersey City, aged three year
and seven months, is reported The victim
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a dog in the street. She displayed most de
termined aversion to liquids of any kind; il
fact the sight of any liquid threw her into
paroxysm, and seemed to increase her suffer
ings. A mirror which she could see from he
bed had the. same effect upon her as the sigl
of water, and it had to be removed. At time
she would bark like dog and snap her teet
together The child's sufferings increased 8
time passed. Her physician said he never sa
anything 80 frightful in all his experience
, | Urari, the best known remedy, had no effet
whatever, and the child died in great agony.
| NEAR Hollywood, Ark, two travellers stoppe
, at the house of a man named Holden and d.
sired to buy food of a negro for their horse
| The negro refused to sell to them, whereupo
I they took twenty-five ears Of corn, for whie
they threw him a quarter. Holden returne
:. home and hearing from the negro the abo'
facts, secured a companion and started in pu
8 suit Of the men. When they came upon the
{ one of themen was lying asleep on the greun
The man on watch awoke his companion ar
|, |, then took fight. The sleeper was capture
: but the fleeing man was shot idead. Hold'
a and his companion returned with the capture
Q man, who WAS tried. and Of course dismisse
d and that was all there was Of it, except tn
! the man who was shot down was left where