The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-08
ADDITIONAL NEWS.


THE Greeks have occupied Karditza and
Phararia.
IT Is rumored that the King of wurtemberg
has been converted to Catholicism.
ENGLAND discountenances the efforts of the
Egyptians to render themselves independent of
the Porte.
THE assassin Guiteau was hanged in effigy in
Niagara Square, Buffalo, in the presence Of
5000 people. ~
EUROPEAN military critics maintain that it
will take the French three years to confirm
their authority in Tunis.
. THE drouth shortens the tobacco and peanut
crop in Virginia and North Carolina two-thirds
and the cotton crop about one-fourth.
TUESDAY, September 6, was set apart by tho
Governors Of Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois as a day for prayer for
the recovery of the President.
AT GoNaoLA, Illinois, in Union County, a
man named Goshirt whipped his child to death.
He at once fled, but was pursued by an infu-
rated mob who caught and hung him.
NELSON A. DAVIS, late Tax Collector Of
Houston, Texas, ls found to be defaulter for
over 500, 600, and suits will be brought against
his bondsmen, one of whom is VIM. R. Baker,
Mayor of Houston.
In ADEsPERArE fight at Grant, Smith County,
Tennessee, between Odom, Dennie and two
other men, Dennie was shot and instantly
killed, and Odom's skull was fractured with a
stone. The other two escaped.
The President was worse again on Sunday,
the 4th inst, but the symptoms were not
alarming. The trouble was with the stomach.
The physicians attribute the trouble to too
much nourishment and consequent indiges-
ton.
The Vienna Fyeie Presse publishes rumor
that Emperor William went to Hanover to wit
ness the military maneuvres by different
route from the one first intended, because he
apprehended an attempt upon his life by So
cialists.
OK THE farm of Mr.. James, in Fayette
County, Illinois, boiler, used for running q
grain separator, exploded on the I'd inst, kill
ing six men and one woman, who were en-
pioyed at tho ttrcster, and pad1y sca1ufnS
others.
NEWS from Tucson, Arizona, states that in a
fight with Pedra and his band of hostile
Apaches, General Carr, six other officers, and
sixty-four enlisted men were killed also that
Pedro's men had killed seven or eight other
men between Apache and Camp Thomas.
AT BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, a few DAYS ago
three thousand persons gathered to witness q
fight between two bull dogs and wild cat
The fight was most desperate and savage onc
lasting twenty minutes, and resulted in a de-
cided victory for the cat, it having completely
blinded both dogs.
THE following verdict was returned on the
Sd inst, by the jury Of inquest in the Jennie
Cramer case at New Haven, Connecticut !:
'That Jennie E. Cramer came to her death
by poison and violence and that James Malley,
jr., is criminally responsible, and Walter E.
Malley and Blanche Douglass are morally re-
sponsible for the same"
WILLIAM F. MARTIN, desperado, OF, South
west Missouri, and who, last November, while
confined in the jail at Lebanon, Missouri, un-
der sentence to be hanged, was released by a
young niece of Sheriff Wilson, who had fallen
in love and ran away, with him after she eff
fected his escape, was captured in Texas last
week, and while being taken back to Missouri
jumped through the window of car and made
his escape. The girl, who was captured at the
same time, was taken to Lebanon.
The Freethinkers' National Convention at
Hornellsville, New York, adopted resolutions in
favor of the adoption of platform by the
| National Liberal League that all Liberals can
stand upon expressed sympathy and admira-
| ton for Charles Bradlaugh; indorsed the
| action of Gov. Roberts, of Texas, in refusing
to call day of fasting and prayer for Presi-
| dent Garfield, and requested the North An,eri-
can Reuie,o topublsh in a pamphlet the articles
by Robert G. Ingersol and Judge Black for
general circulation.