The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-10-05

distance of fifty-three miles. The Indians
at first fixed upon ST, ,O0o, 900 as the price of
a strip of land. two hundred feet wide,
across the reservation, but finally accepted |
So. .OOo-$16. 900 for the land, and ST, 900 |
compensation for destruction of buildings
and crops on the line of the proposed |
roadway.
JIM CUMMINGS, the train robber, one of
the most notorious members OF the James
gang, is In the Caldwell, Kentucky, county |
Jail. He was arrested upon an order from |
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, and will |
be taken to that State.
SECRETARY TELLER and Inspector Hay
worth made the following distribution of |
Indian School Funds for the present fiscal |
year: For support of non-treatys schools
already established, and TO be established, |
$Sl7 200; increased attendance at schools
now established, $780, 600; establishing new
industrial schools, $3.50 900; contingent ex-
penses of agency schools SIS 200; purchase
of stock cattle for industrial schools, $780,
600; completion of school building, cut
houses, etc., for the Industrial School
near Arkansas City, $4,000; support of
the above school, $3l, 500; support OF In
dustrial School at Genoa, Nebraska $S1,-
500; support of Indians in schools in
States, SIT 600.
FIVE expert burglars and cracksmen, in
Jail at Mercer, Pennsylva mia, for robbing
the express office at Greenville, escaped
last week. They suddenly seized and
bound the guard, gagged him and put him
in cell; forced the other prisoners into
cells with revolvers, seized the turnkey as
he entered, locked him in cell, took the
keys from him, passed out, bound and
gagged the Sheriff's wife and fled.
1 A THIEF stole $9, 900 worth of diamonds
from show case belonging to Clemens
Oskamp, jeweler, in the Exposition at
Cincinnati during the absence of the at
.tendant He unlocked the small paddock
on the show case under the eyes of observ-
ers and took the brilliants out and escaped
with them, those who saw him supposing
he was one in authority.
: AT the close of politilal meeting at
Lancaster, South Carolina, addressed by
Colonel Cash, of duel fame, difficulty
arose at the stand between a white man
| and colored man, which resulted in the
| former being wounded in the head by
| blow with stick or stone. At this time
two or three pistol shots were fired near
| the stand, but no one was hurt Soon after
| large procession of colored men on horse
| back came upon the streets. One of the
! number, having large pistol buckled to
his body, drew the pistol, pointed it at
/ white man and said: /" There's the id
| rascal who did the shooting" The white
man gave him the lie and the colored man
fired at him. Immediately several shots
were fired by white men, and the colored
man fell dead. Indiscriminate shooting
followed by whites and blacks, and three
other colored men were killed and many
wounded. The number of wounded is
given as twenty. two of whom are whites.
JUSTICE MOORE. in the Kings County
Court of Sessions, New York, sentenced
Francis G. Salmon 10 five years in the pen
| itentiary. Salmon, who is lawyer, moved
| at one time in good rociety, and bore an
excellent reputation. He forged number
of mortgages, and thus swindled several Of
his clients out of large sums of money
He fled to Tennessee, but was arrested and
brought back. He pleaded guilty to the
charge of forsepy.
PROPERTY to the value -sf S1Oo, 600 was
destroyed by fire the past week at Ridge
way, Pennsylvania.
| W. G. WHITAKER, at Philadelphia, pois-
| oned his wife and six children and board
er. by putting arsenic in water with which
tea was made. He is under arrest.
THE value of the imports of merchan-
disc into the United States during
| the twelve months ending August 81,
1882 was $741, $685. 9l7; for the preceding
| twelve months, $643, 25S, $50. The value
of the exports for the twelve months
ended August 81, 1882, were $737, OBS, 772;
4 for the preceding twelve months, 1884,
| 717,45
A DUMMY car, used for conveying pas
sengers over the International Bridge, be-
| tween Erie, Ont, and Black Rock, a sub
urb of Buffalo, fell through an open draw
into the Niagara River. twenty. five feet.
Engineer Bohn and Edwin Hershey Reeve,
of BERTHE, Ontario, were killed. Mrs.
Parmlee of Black Rock: Captain Haggart,
the dummy conductor, and a lady, name
unknown, were seriously injured
THE Cslifornn Is Prohibitionists split on
the question of 1 straight ticket, forty
delegates opposed to such a course with.
drawing, who convened and nominated
DIR. R. II. Mcdonald for Governor, and
VIM Sims for Lieutenant Governor.
A METHODIST minister at Lincoln, Hi
nois, named II. o. Hoffman,, and well
known in that State as an able pulpit ora
ator. has been found guilty of three
| cbaroes hastardy fornication and fs1se
hood, When the verdict was announced
by his Christian brothers who constituted
the iurv before whom he was tried he
arose and with tears in his ewes. declared
his ;npocence and further stated that h.
would appeal the case to the Judicial Con
. ference.
!, Tort J. DUNKLE, the fourth and last of
the Kewanee, Illinois, bank robbers, was
arrested in Battlemont, Dakota, the pas
week. Dunkle is twenty-five years old
and lived at Des Moines, Iowa. His father
j is merchant of good social standing, anf
young Dunkle was highly esteemed, being
) never before known to be engaged in any
crooked business. He left Des Moines soo1
after the robbery and went to Wyomin.