The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-09-21
IMPORTANT EVENTS
cOpNfed ana Compiled from All
Quarters.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The wheat crop report of the Depart |
ment of Agriculture this month says: The
result Of the spring wheat harvest is in
close a.ccoTdance with the indications of
the ugust report. The quality is good
and Il yield above the average. Thegen-
eral CT ndition of winter and spring wheat
when harvested is represented by 1e0. The
ayerat sis rarely attained. Since the har-
vest, Ia parts of the winter wheat region,
especially Michigan and Indiana, some
millions of bushels have been lost by
sprouting in the stack. There has also been
some loss of spring wheat from the same
cause in Wisconsin and other States.
The Ohio Valley has nearly as large a
product as in 1879. Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois have apparently secured about
142, 100000 bushels The South has in
creased both her acreage and the yield per
acre. The aggregate of winter wheat, as
indicated by the returns, is about 3s0, ,00o,-
600 of bushels, of spring wheat about 140
OO0, 900. or go, ,000, 600 in all. The threshing
test may slightly modify these fig
,ures. The. first threshing generally
exceeded expectations, but the latter
Ithreshing has in many places been disap-
pointing. It is quite certain that the per
capita supply of wheat will not be quite SO
large as in 1879 or 1880. The average con-
dition of potatoes in August was 101, but
it has fallen in September to 90. Last
year the decline during August was from
90 to 20, and it continued in a greater ra-
ito till harvest. The prospect now is fav-
iorable for crop of not less than 150, ,O00y-
900 bushels, from the present outlook. The
decline has been heaviest in New England
and New York. Prospects are improved
in Maryland and Virginia, have been well
maintained in the Ohio Valley and the
lake region, and has not materially chang
ed west of the Mississippi. Only Wiscon-,
sin and Kansas of the Western States fail
to show averages of 100 or higher. Maine
stands the lowest at IS.
Four persons were killed by tornado
in Winsted, Mass, on the 14th. 4
TIE finances of Milwaukee are reported
to be in very muddled condition.
/ A DISPATCH from Knoxville Tenn, Sep
tember IA, says: GA terrible tragedy was
enacted this afternoon at Sweetwater, for
ty miles west of Knoxville, in which two
L.
Deputy Sheriff John Conway, of Chat
tanooga, Hamilton County, had in custody
three prisoners to bring to Knoxville to
the Supreme Court. Two prisoners-John
Taylor and Sam Carter-under sentence
tor murder, were chained together. The
other prisoner, negro, was chained
to seat. When the train stopped
at Sweetwater station three men en-
tered the car. One was brother of the
prisoner Taylor, and entered the car from
the rear, while the other two entered at
the front. Taylor's brother approached
Deputy Conway from behind, placed a
pistol to the back of his head, and blew his
brains out. He then took the keys from
GonWay's pocket and unlocked the priso-
mers. Taylor and the latter secured the
Deputy's pistol. At this instant Sheriff
Gates rushed at the men, firing at them
Ead the prisoner. As he fired the prisoner
Taylor shot him through the bowels, and
the other two shot him in the breast,
the Sheriff falling dead. Prisoner Taylor
was slightly wounded in the arm, and
Carter slightly wounded in the legs. The
three rescuers were not hurt. Taylor,
with his three rescuers, jumped on the
engine and compelled the engineer to pull
out, with a pistol at his head. They made
him put on more steam and forced him
to run twenty miles to Lensir, through
three towns without stopping. At Lenoir
the four men jumped from the engine and
secured horses which were waiting for them
and all escaped. The prisoner Carter and
thenegro came to Knoxville without guard,
and surrendered to the Sheriff of Knox
County. Conway's dead body was brought
to Knoxville, Gates body was left at
Sweetwater, being thrown from the car
platform by the rescuers. The gang
boarded the train at Sweetwater, but the
killing was done at Philadelphia, station
eight miles east of Sweetwater. The
Sheriff of London County is following the
gang, but has no hopeof overtaking them.
Thetare making for the mountains of
North Carolina. Five thousand dollars re-
ward is offered for the arrest of the Tay-
lors. The sum will be increased
JUDGE WYLIE has performed the last act
in the Star-route cases for period of three
months, at least. He has set aside the
verdict as to Miner, the contractor, and
Rerdell, the clerk, on the ground that
Foreman Dickson had disobeyed his in
structions and discussed the bribery cases in
the jury-room after he had been cautioned
not to.
THE family of ]. W. Putt, at Canal
Dover, were poisoned by eating sardines.
MITCHELL & RowLANp,s lumber mill, at
Toledo, has burned. Loss, 1926, 900.
WIN. E. WILEY, the only son of Bishop
Wiley, was burned to death at the oil
warehouse of his brother, Charles Coffin,
on East Second street, Cincinnati, last
week. u - -a--.s.,..
The British routed the American team
ct Creedmoor. ..-7sa
JAMES Tracy, Chicago murderer, and
Samuel Reddin, of Mound City, Illinois,
were hanged on the 10Th inst, and negro
at Barlow, Georgia, and one at Charleston,
South Carolina, were hanged by mobs On
the same day.
A TERRIBLE story of shipwreck comes
from Collingwood, Ontario under date oi
September II: sd. A. Thinks and Mary
Ann Morrison, supposed to be the only
survivors of the wreck of the steamer Asia
arrived here. Thinks reports he boarded
the Asia near Owne Sound, in company
with ]. P. Thinks and 81. B. Gallagher, O.
Manitou. The steamer was crowded. AL
the state-rooms were full, and many
passengers were lying on sofas and tn,
cabin floor. About IL o'clock Thursda,
morning storm struck the vessel. H,
SAYS: My uncle j. P. Thinks jumped VI
and said the boat was doomed. Dishes ant
chairs were flying in every direction. Th
boat fell into the trough of the sea an,
rolled heavily for about twenty minutes
when she was struck by heavy seas
foundered and went down, with engine
working, about half-past IL. The Asia ha
men, horses and lumbermen's supplies fo
the shanties. / saw three boats loaded
and 1 was in the first boat; about eigh
were with me. At first more got in, til
the boat was overloaded and turned owe
twice, people clinging to my life-preserve
which got displaced, and 1 threw it off LEI
the boat and swan to the Captains boat
which was near By, and asked John Nc
IN holm in He said