The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-10-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Domestic. Foreign ana Po1it,cal
AT HOME.

Domestic, Foreign ana Political.
AT HOME.
GRovEa CLEyELAND's letter accepting the
Democratic nomination for Governor of
New York has been printed.
Ar Waupaca, Wisconsin, on the night
of the 9Th, II. G. Mead, a wealthy banker,
was murdered in his room and robbed of
several thousand dollars in currency, gold
and bonds. Mr.. Mead was an old bachelor,
Of eccentric habits, and slept in his bank.
No clue to the murderers.
OK THE afternoon of the 9th a farmer
named Davidson, living near Deckerville,
Michigan, quarreled with his wife
and son about property matters. During
the quarrel Davidson shot and killed his
wife, and tried to kill his son, aged TWEEN
tys One report says the SON is dead, an
Qthsr fataliy injured. e ss'ss.2 3isss, 81
{ A GENTLEMAN closely identified with the
Administration, and prominent Repub-
hcan, declares that Secretary Folger will
not resign until after the November cleo
ton; that in the event of resignation,
John @. New will not be appointed to the
vacancy; that President Arthur has not
Bright's disease or other serious ailment.
CAPTAIN J. d. STEVENSON Eighth Cav
airy, o. s. A., died at Detroit on the Sth,
of consumption.
A DEMENTED Frenchman named Ernest
Dubourgne, armed with sharp pair of
compasses, rushed through Fourteenth
street, New York, on the afternoon of the
10th, stabbing right and left all who came
in his way. Six persons, all women, were
injured, three of them seriously, and one,
the wife of the policeman who arrested the
madman, is supposed to have received fatal
The National Board of Health has been
informed that there has been 1900 cases
of yellow fever and 113 deaths in Pensa-
cola, Florida, up to the 10th.
A BLOCK of wooden buildings, including
hotel and fourteen business houses, were
burned at Ell Paso, Illinois, on the 10th;
loss, $780, 1000.
In the West Virginia election on the
10th, General Nathan Goff, ex-Secretary of
the Navy, was elected to Congress on the
Republican ticket. The other three dis
tricts went Democratic.
SMALLPOX is reported on the increase
again in Chicago.
REV. HENRY WARD BEEcHER has with
drawn from the New York and Brooklyn
Association of Congregational Churches.
THE latest Ohio election returns received
up to the 18th indicate that the Democratic
majority will not be less than 10000 and
may reach 10000. No definite figures can
yet be given, of course, but Democratic
gains are reported from every quarter,
which render it certain that the Republi-
can defeat is positive. According to
latest adyices the Congressional delegation
viii stand fifteen Democrats tosix Republi-
cans, as follows: Democrats-First District,
John F. Follett; Second District, Isaac NJ.
Jordan; Third District, R. e. Murray /;
Fourth District, Ben. LeFevre; Fifth
District, Gaorge Z. seney; Sixth District,
w. D. Hit; Seventh District, ]. E.
Campbell; Tenth District, Frank Hurd;
Twelfth District, L. T. Neal; Thir-
teenth District, George L. Converse;
Fourteen District, George W. Geddes;
Fifteenth District, A. ]. Warner; Six
teenth District, Beriah wilkins; Twentieth
District, David Paige; Twenty-frst Dis
trict, NJ. A. Foran. Republicans-Eighth
District, J. Warren Keifer Ninth District,
J. g. Robinson, Eleventh District, J. w.
Mccormick; Seventeenth District, J. T.
Updegraff; Eighteenth District, William
Mckinley, jr.; Nineteenth District, Ezra
B. Taylor. szN
THERE are some doubts expressed as to
the insanity of the Frenchman who did
the wholesale cutting in the streets of
New York on the 10th. sHeshas been held
to await the result of his victims wounds.
TNrrryrcrNCr rooaivad from, pansao,1o
Florida, on the 11th, reports fifty-six new
cases of yellow fever and seven deaths.
Number of cases to date, ], 406; deaths, 122.
INTELLIGENCE is received to the effect
that a general uprising of negroes against
the whites is contemplated in Lee County,
Alabama. A number of families have
fed to Columbus, Georgia, and otherpoints
near there for protection. 1t is learned
that trustworthy negro gave the infor-
nation that the intention of the negroes
is to burn houses and massacre the whites.
The trouble is said to have grown out of a
disturbance caused by Negro: shooting q
white man some weeks since. The widest
excitement is reported all over Lee
County - = - - ~. -
TIE Smithsonian Institution. at Wash
ington, has received from the Academy Of
Venice an announcement of the discovery
by Schmidt, at Athens, on the sth Of
October, of a comet with the same motion
In right ascension and declinatien. DIR.
Lewis Swift, Director of the Warner OBJ
seryatory,s says the new comet discovered by
DR.. Schmidt, at Athens, is unquestionably
fragment of the great comet, broken of
at its perihilion passage. This proves that
the great comet must have grazed the sun,
and hence passed through terrible crisis
This is the second instance on record
wheFea comet has been disrupted, the first
one being Biela's comet of 1846.
J. D. WATTLEs, publisher fof the Sunday
School Times, of :, Philadelphia, employed
by the Census Bureau to collect Sunday
school statistics for the tenth census, in
Cured expenses amounting to $1,000
which he could not collect owing to the
exhaustion of the census fund. Now the
Government is after Wattles' reports
which he refuses to surrender.
CouNTERFEIF silver dollars have appeared
IN Boston. T5fE z-aelz.i.r.-
FROM Pensacola, Florida, thirty-six new
cases of yellow fever and six deaths wer,
reported on the 18th.
GEO. P RISE, Cashier of the Lebanon
(Pa.) Dime Savings Bank, was assaulted b,
highwaymen on the 18th, while OF
his way from his home to the bank, ant
robbed of $50, ,0O0
THE lands now embraced within tn,
limits of the public domain amount t,
nine hundred million acres, includin,
Alaska. Public sales of lands the pas
year amounted. to 1888 acres, embracin,
5,016 acres of swamp near Toledo, Ohio
which were sold for SIG, ,735, an average o
sass per acre.
The, Conclave of Knights Templar O
Ohio, in session at GAINESVILLE, elected
list of officers, headed by H. H: Tatem, o
Cincinnati, as Right Eminent Grand Com
mander.
CoNsREssMAN W. NJ. LOWE, of Alabama
is dead.
THE rumors of negro insurrection il
Russell and Lee Counties, Alabama
proved to be unfounded.
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