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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13

The Inmates Either FORCED TO Leap from
the Windows or Meet a Terrible Fate
Nine Human Beings Believed to he
Buried Underneath the Debris.
CINCINNATI. O., Sept. 5.
Monday afternoon a fire broke out in
Henry Drehman & Co.'S six-story brick
hemp mandatory, 232 Walnut street. Ig-
hitting from gas jet, the entire structure
was in flames within an extraordinary short
time, and the fire was spreading to the adj
joining buildings. The Euening Times
StIr is the contiguous building ON the south.
The fifth and sixth floors of the paper men-
toned were gutted. The composing
room was located on the sixth
floor, and the compositors escaped with
only their lives. Ten of them were on an
elevator trying to get below to escape, when
the car stopped of its own accord between
two floors, creating the greatest imaginable
CONSERVATION, but as the fire began to pour
into the well the car resumed its trip to the
lower floor, and the terrified men got out
all right. The fire first appeared in the
press-room of the 1fInes-Stdr, but by
prompt work the valuable press was saved
from serious damage. Offers of assist
ance were freely made the man
ayers of the paper by other offices,
and the publication of the Times Star
will be resumed at once at either
the Nc,Cs-JOlrndI or VOllisbldt Office.
The 1Tmes-Stdr loss is covered by $15, 900
insurance. Henry Drehman & Co.'S build
ing was burned out completely, and the
stock entirely destroyed. No. 234 Walnut
was occupied by Henry Drehman as q rag
warehouse. This building was so badly
burned that it collapsed, and now there is
not one brick on top of the other. The
stock was also consumed. An employe
named Gus Huber was fatally burned.
Several firemen were seriously injured by
falling walls, and girl named Rachel
King had leg broken by jumping out of q
window. Henry Drehman & Co. and
Henry Drehman's loss on stock is $780,
600; insured for $4,000. Several other
buildings were damaged. The entire loss
will reach $4,000.
AT $50 great crowd still fingered about
the ruins of the fire. At that time the fire
was out entirely and the firemen had quit
work. The greatest interest is manifested
in the fate of Rosa Liddie, Mary Burke and
Annie Lynch, who are missing, and it is al
most certain they have perished in the
ruins. All the girls worked on the third
floor of the Drehman establishment, and
were engaged in asserting rags. 1t is also
reported that Nellie Kelly, aged eighteen,
of ia East Sixth street, is missing. She
was working with the other missing girls on
the third floor, and is certainly a victim OF
the fire.
At midnight all doubt as to the loss of
lifoin the fire was dissipated. Four more
employees of Drehman & Co. are missing
from their homes. The corrected list is:
Mary Burke, Bessie Brady, Fritz Huber,
Nellie Kelly, Maggie Lee Rosa O'Connell,
Mary Lynch, Mary GlascheeR, Mary Lee.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
WIT AND WISDOM.

Please to remember that in the
economy of life short progress and hon
est weight are better than long progress
and short weight.-M. Y. Herald.
"A little singular that passengers are
not permitted to converse with the man
at the wheel, notwithstanding that he is
spokesman of the ship.-M O. Item.
How the Style Spread
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor daughter gown;
She made it up slattern,
With sack for pattern,
And the style spead all over the town!
She was a sweetly inexperienced
young housekeeper, as one may gather
from her remark when some one sug-
gested that she should purchase spring
mattresses. "Yes," she replied, "if
they are in season we'd better have
some. Chicago Tribune.
You can not long pass for anything
more than your real value, after all
You may wear a placard saying you
are solid gold, but men hardly take
second squint at you before they dis
cover that you are pinchbeck. The
farmer may shingle and clap-board his
old barn, but the moment you get on
the inside you see that it is the old barn
nevertheless.-MY Y. Herald.
1t is not genius that tells on the
world, but downright and honest hard
work. Your brains may ferrnent and
effervesce like a yeast pot, but unless
you can settle down to steady toll You
are worth no more to the community
than soap bubble, which bursts so
soon that it is hardly worth ones while
to stop to look at and admire it. A
good blacksmith is worth a round dozen
of geniuses who wear long hair and By
ronic collars and wonder why the world
doesn't adore them -Erchanqe.
Plantation Philosophy.-De edyca-
ton oh man is his silver, but his COM
mon sense is his gold. Fortune some-
times comes ter de one what least ex-
pecks it, but is more apt ter com ter de
man what works for it. De wust boy
don't al 'ers turn out ter be de bes' man.
1 has know'd good boys ter drag along
an finally amount ter suthin'. De wust
lick eber got was from a man what
didn't want ter hit me. Now Use
mighty kereful bout crowdin' a man.
When q pusson says dat he wants ter
fight, yer's safe; but when he tells yer
dat he doan want ter fight, den stop
right war yer is.-ATkanSGso Traveller.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
Suicide. and Murders.

AT st. Johns, La, on the 4th, Willis
Omer fatally stabbed his brother during a
quarrel.
VIM. LAWRENCE, a night watchman of
Bath, Me-, was shot and killed few nights
ago by one of three men whom he had de-
tected in an act of burglary. One man was
arrested afterward on suspicion.
JOHN CRoNE, wealthy. citizen of New
London, Ia, cut and mortally wounded his
wife a few days ago. She had him arrested
some time ago for threatening to kill her.
NJ. UssERY, a wealthy citizen of Luling,
Tex, was murdered in his residence on the
9th by young man named Sam. Brown.
Brown had been refused the hand of U.s.
sery's daughter.
NJ. S. TELLER, druggist of Handy Hill,
N. Y, shot and killed himself a few nights
ago, with the same weapon, in the same
room, and at the same hour his father sui
cided a year ago.
CAPT. J. H. ROBINSON, q popular and in
huential citizen of Sharkey County, Miss,
was found murdered and his body horribly
mutilated in a thicket near his home few
days ago. His murderers are unknown.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
FACTS AND FIGURES.

I'm the State of Mississippi only
l 1856 women said their ages were thirty
one, while no less than 10, ,619 declared
they were just thirty Chicago Herald.
Ostrich chicks are Matching out at
the California ostrich farm at the rate
of one day. When they come out
of the egg they are about the size of q
half-grown duck. They grow rapidly.
San francisco Chronicle.
From criminal statistics Just pub
lished it appears that in the year 1881
the total number of persons convicted
of the various penal offenses in Prus-
sia, with population of nearly 20,-
100000, was 23S, ,732. Of these 1876, ,222
were males.
The number of watermelons shipped
by steamer from Savannah to the Bal
timore, Philadelphia, New York and
Boston markets was, for the season,
797, ,1o1. The freight veraged six
cents, and the average price at which
the melons sold was twenty-five cents
Chicago Times.
The value of the poultry consumed
in the United States annually is esti-
mated at $500, 100000, or Sc to each in
habitant. The value of the eggs con-
sumed is set at S240, 900. 900, or $780,
100000 for poultry and eggs together,
or about 80 per head to each inhabit-
ant. The number of eggs consumed is
claimed to be 1900, 900, 900, or 1s0 eggs
to each inhabitant, which would allow
one egg to each person every other day.
The geographical limits of some of
the worlds great cities seem to bear but
little relation to the number Of their in
habitants. New York now includes
Az square miles, or 26, 800 acres; Paris,
within the Notifications, consists of 284
square miles, or 1885 acres; London
has 122 square miles, or about n, 900
acres; Philadelphia, with population
of 100000, has the surprising geo.
graphical area of 129 square miles
which is considerably more than is COW
cred by London, even with all its mod
ern additions of what were not long
ago outlying and separate communities.
m Y. Tribune.
There are now about 1900 den
lists in the United States, and they pack
into the teeth of the American people
about ton of pure gold and five times
that amount of less precious metals (tin,
silver, platinum, etc. annually. Now.
these metals are worth 81, 100000, and
it will take only about $50 years to bury
all the coin in the United States in the
grave-yards (another feature in favor of
cremation). There are about A, 600, 600
of artificial teeth made in the United
States yearly, yet only one-third of the
people avail themselves of this blessing.
Scientific California.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
A New Field for SpOrtsmen.

A novelty in the way of "sport'' is
always gratifying and acceptable. As
soon as Du Chaillu announced his stom-
ach-thumping, walking-stick-using 60
rilla. number of sportsmen started for
gorilla-land, and Eden Lawson's "hying
tiger of New Guinea beguiled credu-
lous party into trusting their persons
and property among the Papuans. But
as thoroughly refreshing novelty We
think the donkey-hunting, cow-stalking,
and dog-shooting of the Galapagos
Islands must take front seat. Once
upon time it appears there were hui
man beings upon Charles Island who
planted orange groves and corn, and
imported cattle, asses and bull terriers.
What happened to the human beings no
one seems to know, but, failing other
information, we may conclude that
some cannibal ships crew landed on
the hospitable island and ate up the
islanders, just by way of showing that
the usual order of things might some
tunes be reversed. Of the fate of the
quadrupeds, however, there can be no
doubt. They multiplied exceedingly.
and are now in unrestricted possession
of freedom and the island. But the
cattle are vicious and aggressive, the
dogs are wild beasts, preying upon
calves and donkeylings, and the dom
keys are fierce and fleet. What a
groundwork is here presented for avice-
versa archipelago! If there are poultry
they are no doubt rapacious birds of
prey, robbing fox-roosts and carrying
off fox-ch;ckens. The cat, overwhelmed
by wild bull-terriers, has become sub
terranean, purblind, insectivorous, and
SO forth. For the present, however, it
suffices to point out the novelty of the
sport to be enjoyed. 1t is not every
where that the sportsman can shoot
COWS without having to pay damages,
or enjoy a splitting burst across country
after donkey. The Galapagos Islands
are the exocption.-London Telegraph
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13

THE London police are'in possession of
facts which show a revival of Fenian ac-
tivity in that city. All the noted rendezvous
of prominent Irish agitators there are
again placed under strict police surveil-
lance.
MARwooD, the English hangman, is dead.
The Invincibles are suspicioned of poison.
ing him.
A STATUE of Lafayette was unveiled at
LIE Puy, France, on the 9th. In spite of a
severe rain-storm an immense crowd was
in attendance. Lafayette was eulogized as
the forerunner of the French Republic.
A DURHAM dispatch says correspondent
just returned from a tour through the heart
of Zululand reports the natives on a war
Of mutual determination.
REPORTS from all parts of Russia state
that the cattle plague continues with un.
abated fury. Over one million cattle have
fallen victims to the plague within the last
four years in European Russia alone.
A TELEGRAM from Batavia, India, on the
7th says famine is completing the havoc
there,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
wants Ouaran,Ine ,Eodiaed.

The New Orleans Board of Health re-
quests the Governor to withdraw the nom
intercourse proclamation, leaving in force
the original quarantine proclamation of
April 4, calling for ten days quarantine of
vessels from infected districts. Reports
from Ship Island Quarantine Station state
not single case of sickness among quar-
antined crews. The schooner Jennie
Woods, from Vera Cruz, arrived at Ship
Island with no sickness, but the vessel is
isolated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
Three eper.nn. crer,,tea.

ILL.,, was destroyed by fire on the 9Th. Mrs.
Phoebe Hyland, mother of Mrs. Evans aged
sixtyeight years, and two children of Mrs.
Evans, a boy aged four and an infant baby,
sere burned to death. Mrs. Evans, who
was in the yard at the time the fire was
discovered, and rushed upstairs trying
to rescue her mother and infant, was badly
burned, and was forced to leave them
to their fate to save her own life. The old
lady was very aeshy, and would not trust
herself to go down the stairs, which were
then in flames, and would not give the babe,
which she was then holding, to the mother.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
Horrible Be.tIaIity in Texas.

In Gainesville, Tex, on the 9th, jury
found c. D. Sharpe guilty of outrage, and
assessed the punishment at fifty years in
the penitentiary. The crime was committed
on the person of Emma Clark, with the
mother of whom Sharpe was living as hus-
band until January last. On the 18th of
that month the mother died. The second
night after the funeral Sharpe compelled
her eldest daughter, Emma, aged fifteen, to
submit to his lust, and on divers occasions
afterward outraged the persons of herself
and her sister, aged thirteen. He deferred
them by threats from revealing their shame
until he was placed in Jail on another
charge, whereupon they told the neighbors.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
Michigan CrOps.

Returns received by the Secretary of the
State of Michigan show that in the southern
four tiers of counties ia, ,SS9 acres of wheat
threshed yielded !, ,737 ,520 bushels, an aver
age OF 15Is bushels per acre. The acreage
reported taGeshed is eight per cent. of the
total acreage as returned by Supervisors.
Thu yield in the southern two tiers of
counties.is generally better, but in the CEN
tral and northern counties not as high as
estimated in July. The figures indicate
total yield in the State of about 23,600, 900
bushels, or nearly 100000 bushels less than
the total product estimated in July.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
THE HAGUE, 81

The HAGUE, Sept. 5.
The Governor of the Dutch East Indies
telegraphs that the town of Telokbelong was
probably totally destroyed by tile recent
volcanic eruption. The district in which
that town is situated is entirely inaccess-
ible, as all round it is obliterated. There
is nothing from Lampong, on the southern
coast of Sumatra. Some of the lighthouses
in the Straits are standing, but the lights
are extinct The report of the destruction
of Tjcringine by the tidal wave and tho
drowning Of 10000 people there is con
irmed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
Three Ladies' Drowned.

A terrible drowning accident happened
on the Genesee River, three miles south of
Rochester, N. Y, few days ago. Three
young ladies, named Anna Schuey, Lulu
Havlin and Libbie Simmons, all between
sixteen and twenty years of age, went out
rowing for pleasure. They attempted to
change positions in the boat, when it upset
and turned over them as they were thrown
into the water. They were all drowned
before any help could reach them, as they
were seen only by two small boys, who
gave the alarm. Their bodies were recov-
o,-ad
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13

Fire was discovered in one of the out
buildings of the Long Branch Hotel at an
early hour on the morning of the 7th. The
building was used as a laundry and sleep
ing apartments for musicians, who barely
escaped with their lives. Several were al
most suffocated, and had to be carried out
to prevent the blocking up of the stairway.
One musician, named Adolph Friedrich,
was burned to a crisp. The musical instru-
ments and music were totally consumed; :;
also the bathing pavilion and laundry. The
total loss is 100000.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
Eneland,s Honest Desire.

The Hon. Richard O'Shaughnessy,w who re-
Gently resigned his seat in Parliament, has
issued valedictory to the electors of his
district, expressing his conviction that the
masses of the English people are honestly
anxious that Irish affairs be regulated by
Parliament with a careful and generous
regard for the condition and necessities of
Ireland.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
FOREIGN.
The Great East India Catastrophe.

The Great East India Catastrophe.
The Governor of the Dutch East Indies
telegraphs that the town of Telokbelong' is
probably totally destroyed by the recent
volcanic eruption. The district in which
that town is situated is entirely inaccessi-
BILE, as all roads are obliterated. Nothing
further from Lampong, on the southern
coast of Sumatra, has been learned. Some
of the lighthouses in the straits are stand
ing, but the lights are extinct. The report
of the destruction of Tjiringine by tidal
wave and the drowning of 10000 people
there is confirmed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13


An article printed in the Paris IntrGnsi-
gednt, by Henri Rochefort, abusing King
Humbert, has aroused great indignation
throughout Italy. The article accused the
King of having pocketed money subscribed
by the French for the Ischia sufferers,
while he was at the same time urging Ger
many to annihilate France. An Italian of.
ficer waited upon Rochefort and demanded
satisfaction for the insult to his King, but
Rochefort refused to grant him a hostile
meeting. At meeting of committee Of
Ischia survivors held in Naples resolution
was adopted declaring that they would re-
fuse all proffers of aid, on the ground that
when charity was offered them in order to
serve as a rT'etext for insulting their King.
they feel it their duty to reject such char
ity, not only from France, but from the
whole world.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
De.truc.ixe Hurricane at Sea.

The steamer Lamport, under way from
Baltimore to London, was struck by hur
ricane few days ago and disabled. The
vessel carried one hundred and seventy
cattle. The waves sweeping over the deck
lifted the cattle pens upon their crests, and
all but thirty-six of the animals were
swept overheard OF killed. Several vessels
are reported lost
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
Two I.adie. nrnuued.

Carrie Waldmayer and Amelia Weaver,
aged nineteen and twenty-one, of Philadel.
phia, were drowned at New Brunswick, N.
j., on the 9Th. Strolling along the beach,
Miss Waldmayer slipped from the rocks
and fell in the water, and Miss Weaver
tried to rescue her. Miss Waldmayer's
body was recovered.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
Forest Fires i. Massachusetts.

Boston dispatch of the 7th says: ga
dozen extensive forest, meadow and bush
fires are raging in Worcester, Norfolk and
Middlesex Counties. Most of them are be-
yond control and great damage has already
been done. At Walpole, the Consumptives'
Home narrowly escaped destruction from
woodland fire. Goods were removed from
the house, and for time it was feared that
portion of Walpole Center would be de-
stroyed. These fires swept over large
area, and in some cases will rage until
rainfall"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13

policy of Bismarck in excluding our pork,
he said public opinion does not justify the
prohibitions; on the contrary, it was
strongly in favor of American Importation.
Bismarck's action is characterized solely
as political measure, which is cloaked
under the allegation of a poisonous
product.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
A Brutal North Carolina Jairer.

A few days ago three prisoners escaped
from Mcdowell County IN. C.) Jail. In
escaping they rudely pushed Mrs. Finley,
the jailer's wife, aside, injuring her
slightly. The fugitives were captured the
same morning and returned to jail. Sew
eral hours after repeated pistol shots at
the Jail attractedthe attention of citizens,
who were surprised and indignant to find
the jailer, enraged by the treatment to his
wife and infiamed by whisky, shooting one
of the prisoners, negro, as he stood in his
cage chained and handcuffed. Four pain
ful wounds were inflicted, but none are IA
tai.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
DOlIESTIC.
A JnnitOr's Discovery.

The janitor of the Forton Colored Gram
mar School building, on Sixth street, Phil
adelphia, on the 4th discovered the
bodies of two colored infants in cess
pool in the rear of the building. Both were
males, apparently five months and three
months old,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
Alarming Increase of yellow Fever.

The yellow fever is increasing alarming
ly at the Pensacola Navy-yard. Official
advices from there on the 9th, report
thirteen new cases and seven deaths for
the previous forty-eight hours. A stringent
Gordon is.being maintained around the in
fected locality with the hope of confining
the disease to its present limits.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13

Notes.
THE State Department has been advised
by the United States Minister at Bangkok
of the contemplated departure for the
United States and England of an embassy
from the Kingdom of Siam, composed of
his Royal Highness Prince Krom Nun
Hars Harrehd, secretary of legation, and
two military and one naval attache.
CIRCULAR letters from the various de-
partments are being forwarded to all custo-
dians of property in the different branches
of the Government service, instructing
them TO forward detailed estimates of ex-
penses for the fiscal year of 1885, based
upon the strictest economy compatible
with the public interest.
OFFICERS of the Post-office Department
express the opinion that the inadvertence
of Congress in making the bill to regulate
Postmasters' salaries go into effect at
once, instead of on the 1st of October, the
date fixed for the reduction in the letter
rates of postage, will cost the Government
81, 900 in increased salaries. The sys-
tenn of grading salaries proportionately in
accordance with the receipts of the office is
also unfavorably commented upon lat the
Department. for the reason that under this
system the Postmasters are continually
tempted to make fictitious sales of stamps
In order to increase their compensation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
IMPORTANT EVENTS
cOLLArED AND COMPILED FROM
ALL QUARTERS.
AT WASHINGTON
Postal Note. Not Legal Tender.

Postal Notes Not Legal Tender.
Treasurer Wyman, on the 5th, declined
TO receive postal note for the payment of
express charges on U. s.. notes sent to
Washington for redemption by bank in
Connecticut. Mr.. Wyman says that he has
no facilities for cashing these notes, as it
lis necessary they should be sent to the
postoffice. Payment by such means, he
claims, would only add to the labor of the
Redemption Bureau, which now collects
express charges by deducting the required
amount from the sum sent for redemption.
First Comptroller Lawrence, whose opin-
ion was asked on this subject, says that
postal notes are not legal tender. and
that anybody has the right to refuse them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
Another Army oncer Gone wrong.

AHVtHer AFlhy UIILceF OOhe "TOHS.
Information was received by the author
tiles at Washington on the 9th, to the effect
that Lieutenant Porter, of the Third q. s.
Cavalry, who ha been acting Quartermas
ter at Fort Thomas, Arizona Territory, is
$1,000 short in his accounts: and has de-
serted rather than face trial. Lieutenant
Porter is graduate of West Point, and
has been in the army but few years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13
A Handsome Gift to Bishop Eyan.

Bishop Ryan, of st. Louis, has been pre-
sented with purse of $1,000, donated by
the different Catholic parishes of that city
to defray his expenses as delegate to the
conference of American Bishops soon to be
held in Rome. The college of the Christian
Brothers also presented him with round
trip ticket for the YoYage
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-13

The Federation of Labor in Washington
at meeting few nights ago adopted the
following resolution: "Resolved, That
committee of one member from each trade
represented in this federation shall be up