The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-07-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Condensed and Put Into Readable
Shape.
AT HOME.


ST. LOUIS has sentenced the third gambler
to Imprisonment.
The Senate naval bill calls for an appro-
priaton of $40, 100000
AT BISMARCK, Dakota Territory, Q skiff
containing twelve Swedes was capsized by
q transfer boat, and five of the occupants
drowned
A PRIZE fight near Greensboro, Pennsyl-
vania, between Campbell and WalIing oc-
CURED June %, the contestants fighting
thirty-one rounds in thirty-one minutes.
Although badly beaten up, Campbell won
the fight. Walling broke two of his
fingers in the operation.
The Illinois Republican State Conven-
vention placed in nomination for State
Treasurer, Gen. ]. G. Smith, of Chicago.
NEWS from Frenchburg, Menifee County,
Kentucky, reports another calamity oc-
curing at that town. A heavy rain raised
Beaver Creek and flooded the town, the
water standing six to eight feet deep in the
streets and houses. Three dwellings were
swept away and six of the inmates
Mrs. John Fox, Mrs. Bryne and her two
grown daughters, and two Misses Watkins,
the daughters of Preacher Watkins. The
bodies of four of them have been recov-
cred. The flood covered the entire valley
and swept away all the fencing and crops.
The postoffice at Frenchburg, with all let
ters and papers, was carried away and lost.
The distress of the people is pitiable. The
heavy rainfall extended for fifteen or
twenty miles, and all the streams were
swollen higher than ever before known.
The track of the K. and s. A. Railroad, on
Slate Creek was washed away in several
places, and great destruction of property
done. A woman on Slate Creek left her
house with her child in her arms, but be-
fore she could reach the hill the water
came upon her. She was found clinging
to q tree, and after many attempts the
train men rescued her. Mrs. Byrne, and
her two daughters, who were drowned
were the mother and sisters of !. /. Byrne,
Clerk of the Menifee County Court, and
only recently moved there from near Gin
natl. The rain fell with such volume and
violence as to crush men to the earth. It
was fortunate that no wind accompanied
the storm.
IT Is estimated that the number of lives
lost in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska,
Dakota and Minnesota in the recent cy-
clones will not fall short of 130 persons,
and that the total amount of property
destroyed will exceed So, SOC, coo.
FIVE HUNDRED coolies arrived at San
Francisco on an English steamship on the
29th nit.
Two HUNDRED and twenty-five cases of
yellow fever are reported from Havana,
and there is disposition of it becoming
epidemic. Our National Board of Health
a=e advised to guard carefully against it
being brought here on vessels.
FIFrx thousand dollars has been col
iscted 81 Hon. ]. b Grinned for the bene-
fit Of Iowa sufferers.
GREENyILLE, Ohio, has case in which q
white man is turning black.
In ST. LOUIS, where war is being made
on gambling, two men have been convict
ed in the courts and sentenced, one to two
years IN the penitentiary and one to six
monthsin the county jail.
The pugilist Sullivan, who fought Ryan
at New Orleans, has been challenged by
Tug Wilson, the champion of England, to
prize fight.
HARRIS NJ. PLA1sTED has been nominat-
ed for Governor by the Democrats of
Maine.
MoRMoNs lynched Mexican horse thief
near Smithville, Arizona.
Mr.. ELLIS, the Government Bank Ex-
aminer, who is investigating the condition
of the Third National Bank of st. Louis,
E. - 4 !, k<f
the receiving teller, will amount to $780,
900, but says this will not impair the capi-
tai of the bank or otherwise effect its
soundness.
In PATRICK COUNTY, Virginia, 5000 to
5000 persons are suffering for food-half
the population of the county-all the
grain and provisions having been ex-
hsusted
MIcH1eAN Pronibitionists nominated a
State ticket, with Daniel P. sagendorph
for Governor. The platform demands
woman suffrage.
REPRESENTATIVE HAWK, of Illinois, died
suddenly of apoplexy June %, at his
boarding-house, Washington.
PKNNsYLyANIA Democracy have nomina-
ted Chauncey F. Black for Lieutenant
Governor and SiIas M. Clark for the Su.
preme Court. i .-za-
THE Vermont State Democratic Conven-
ton nominated George E. Eaton for Gov
ernor, E. N. Bullard for Lieutenant Gov
ernor and Willard NJ. Gay for State Treas
urer.
THE fast train from Long Branch to New
York, on the New Jersey Southern Rail-
road, June %, on reaching the long trestle
which crosses Parker's Greek, between
Branchport and Little Silver, jumped the
track, and five of the seven cars compris-
ing the train were hurled to the bed below,
in which there was four or five feet Of
water. About 200 passengers were aboard,
of whom but fifteen were women. The
scene which followed was remarkable, not
only for the individual acts of heroism, but
also for the unusual presence of mind dis
played by the passengers in their efforts
to extricate themselves from the wreck.
As fast as the wounded and dying could
be rescued they were removed to the most
comfortable places available pending their
removal by the relief train. Two men
were killed and eight or ten fatally
wounded. General Grant was in tn,
smoking car and went down wit b tn.
wreck, but was only slightly injured.
In THE Harvard-Yale boat race, Harvard
won by length.
SMALLPOX has become epidemic in por
tions of Minnesota and Indian Territory
HIGH water has done considerable dam
age in Missouri and Iowa.
A CHICAGO wife murderer, Arthur B
Stem, has been sentenced to twelve year
In the Penitentiary.
EDWARD ANDREW FULsoN was hanged a
Fort Smith, Ark, June 80, for the muI
der of John Stewart and William Hassen
gill. John Bridges was hanged same da,
at Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky, for tn
murder of his wife, the 22d of last August
caused by jealousy.
The trial of the Malley boys and Blanch
Douglass, at New Haven, Conn, for tn
outrage and murder of Jennie Cramer, ha
resulted in the acquittal of all the defend
ants. The Malley boys were congratulate