The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-11-17
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LATER NEWS.
GU1rEAu's trial is in progress.
Snow is twenty inches deep in places In COL

GUITEAu's trial IS in progress
Snow is twenty inches deep in places In Col
orado.
FORTY persons were l1oi and forty-ono
wounded by an explosion Of gas in. o Gulphur
mine at Gossolungo, in Italy.
GUrTEAU has made statement for the Court,
which, through fear that the Court vii nos
listen to him, he has given to the newspaper
In the course of the document he afirms th1t
President Garfield was shot by an insane man,
and killed by his physicians.
GILES LEROY, ferryman, and SON Henry,
Francis Kelley, q teamster, Thomas ManioI,
blacksmith, John Reyes, laborer, George Hoy,
James DEMON, and three others we're drowned
at Troy, N. Y, by the upsetting of ferry.
skin. Nearly all leave families.
MARY FRANCES McvIcKER, wife of Edwin
Booth, the actor, died at the residence of her
parents, No. 10 West Fifty-third street, New
York, on the 18Th inst. The remains were
taken to Chicago for inteimenf. Mrs. Booth
had been i'll for several months.
Ellis tmounting TO s300, 600 have Lecn re-
ceived at the Treasury Department for mourn
ing decorations on public buildings through
out the country in memory OF the late Presi-
dent There being no appropriation from
viii be laid before Congress.
THE cholera at Mecca has increased The
mortality on the Sd, 4th and 9Th was IS, 21s
md 214 respectively. Caravans comprising
5000 pilgrims left Mecca on the 9Th, and 1t is
feared that the Egyptian troops stationed at
El Wadj will be unwilling or unable to prevent
them from entering the town.
A PRIZE fight of the most brutal character
took place near East st. Louis, H., between
Joseph O'Nei, of yandalia, Ill, and Billy
Lynch, of East st. Louis. Nineteen rounds
we're fought, when O'Nen failed to respond to
the call Of time, and Lynch was declared win
ner. The sight was q most disgusting one and
many spectators left before the conclusion.
The principals escaped arrest.
TEN boilers at the extensive lumber and salt
manufactory of Hamilton & Mcclure, six miles
below East Saginaw, Mich, exploded q few
days ago, wrecking the property 80 the extent
| of S25, 900, and killing four fremen, Michael
| and Joseph Leban, Frank blanchard and
] Olarles Carpenter. Low water caused the ex-
| plosion. The brick boiler-house and brick
chimney were leveled to the ground, and the
mill ami salt block badly damaged. The debris
WAS blown in every direction, pieces coming
down half mile distant.
The State Department at Washington has
issued an exhaustive statement Of the cotton
goods trade Of the world, giving the reports Of
forty-six Consuls. The raw cotton Of the
several countries is estimated at 8, 500 900, 600
pounds, of which 2, TIC, ,0OO, 600 is grown in the
United States 400, 900, 900 in the East Indies,
| 250, ,O00, 900 in Egypt, and the balance divided
between Brazil and the West Indies. The value
of the. cotton manufactures of the world 10
put at 81 S4S 000, 900, of which S561, 170 600 in
manufactured in Great Britain, s233, $50, 900 In
the United States, S1O6, ,92O, 900 in Germany,
S102 060, 600 in Russia, and the remainder
divided among other countries.
Col. ]. HowARD WKLLEs, q resident Of New
York, aged about sixty years, has been arrested
for an attempted blackmaii on Jay Gould.
! Welles wrote Mr.. Gould letter saying be had
been commissioned by God to kill him, but on
condition Of certain "pointers" in the stock
market, would forego the job. Fifty
detectives and fifty letter carriers were put to
work at once to apprehend the writer,
each box in a precinct being watched for
the writer to mail his replies in q correspon-
dence which had at once been begun, and
Welles was arrested. He proved to be .
man of fine bearing, and well educated, and
when arrested, nearly tainted. He declares
that he will suicide if Mr.. Gould prosecutes
him, and Gould says he will prosecute him to
the full extent Of the law.