The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-07-06
ABROAD.

DISGUISED assassins fatally shot Thomas
Magoghey, constabulary pensioner, sitting
in the kitchen of the lodge of a wealthy
farmer at Killkeellar, County Meath, Ire
land.
A REPORT states that 10000 Chinese Ia
borers in Cuba are awaiting an interpreta-
ton of the recent law to find whether they
can pass through the United States to their
homes in China.
URUGUAY has refused to recognize the
right of Spain to satisfaction for the muir
der of Spanish subjects in the Republic.
NINETY more Mormon converts have left
Liverpool for the United States.
CARDINAL MANNING has just shipped forty
destitute Catholic boys from Liverpool for
Canada, there to be placed with farmers.
Should the experiment prove success,
this will be followed by other shipments.
The Italian ambassador, presiding over
the Conference at Constantinople, exposed
to the Porte Saturday his regrets that Tur-
key took no part in the Conference.
He said the deliberations would be
attended with the best results for
Turkey, and the Conference was not hos
tile to Turkey. Constantinople has been
chosen as the place of the meeting, in
order to easily obtain the Porte's views.
This communication produced good i'm
preston on the Porte.
FRESH murders of Christians have oc-
CURED in delta villages in Egypt. Sew
eral murders were committed near Benka.
The intention is expressed of seizing Eu-
ropeans as hostages.
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY ejectment de-
crees have been obtained against small
tenants on Connemera, Ireland. If the de-
crees are carried out two thousand per-
sons will be homeless.
THE London Times says: at may be
taken for granted there is something more
than empty sound behind the preparations
at the dock-yards We can but
to find any solution of the Egyptian
question. France will agree with
England upon some plan of united action,
or leave us free to act alone. Expedition
ary forces at Gibraltar and Malta hevo
been constituted, and Commanders ard
staffs nominated"
ARABI PAsHA declares natives implicated
in the massacre at Alexandra on the 11th
instant shall not be punished, unless Eu-
peans who fired upon the rioters are also
punished.
News from Egypt, June %, said: "The
expectation of war is general, and the
troops under Arab = are mailing hostile
preparations with a view to repulsing a
British assault by either sea or land. At
tempts are being made to render the har-
bors impregnable by the use of torpedoes.
During the past two weeks Chatham and
Woolwich Dock Yards have been un-
usually busy, and very large force of me-
chanics and smiths has been employed.
1t is an open secret that all necessary
preparations in naval matters have been
ordered with view to the pending compli-
cations in the East"
SPECIAL prayer for the benefit of English
crops has been recommended by the Arch
bishop of Canterbury.
SECRETARY CHANDLER has received q
cable message from Glider, clerk to Lieu
tenant Berry, of the lost steamer Rodgers,
dated Irkutsk, June 2, as follows: "Ar-
rived yesterday. Detained by breaking
up of rivers. Had to kill horse for food.
Leave for Washington as soon as business
here is settled"
SAYS London cablegram: VIM. Mer-
tens, arrested on the charge of unlawfully
printing in the Freiheit a scandalous and
seditious libel concerning the murder of
Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr.. Thos.
Burke, and of encouraging further mur-
ders, has been released on bail until the
next sessions, owing to the absence of q
material witness. Schwelm, composito1
on the Freiheit, was sentenced to eighteen
months imprisonment, without hard Ia
Dor, on q similar chafge.