The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-15
ABROAD.

ABROAD.
Ar a meeting of the local Board at
Swineford, County Mayo, Ireland, on the
vailed in that district. Over thirty per-
sons in the poor-house are suffering from
famine fever, and seven hundred names
are on the list of persons needing relief.
The distress has not been so great since
1s47. People who refuse to enter the work
house are dying from the want of food out
side. Itisrumored that Patrick Eagan left
Paris with Land League securities. The
police are tracing him. 1t is believed that
he has gone to Spain. ~ ri 81.
A VIGILANCE committee has been formed
at Montreal, Canada, to prevent illegal
elections contracts and taxation, and Sc
lect competent men for the City Council.
TIE Statistical Agent of the Department
of Agriculture in London reports that con-
tinued rains and floods have done great in
jury to the wheat crop, and there are
gloomy myIapprehension of the worst failure
for years. The area is reduced, and much
resolving wiA be necessary. There is also
much alarm at the spread OF the foot and
mouth disease among the cattle. The local
fairs throughout Great Britain have been
closed, and orders in Council prohibit the
movement of farm animals from Scotland
to Ireland until the 31st of March. ?.
THE most important foreign news cablsd
on the 9th was the reported probability of
several irish members of Parliament being
implicatedin the murder conspiracy. 1t
Is claimed that f152, 600 of the Land League
Fund hasnot been accounted for by Big
gar and Parnell. In the Commons Glad
discussion of the Kiimainham treaty
negotiations. . Floods are reported in
India, and hundreds of persons are home
less. Arrests have been made in st.
Petersburg, as precaution, owing to the
near approach OF the coronation Of the
Gear. The French war vessels have ar
rived off Madagascar. The natives are
preparing to resist. The news from
Madrid is that threats are being made to
poison the water if the prosecution of the
Black Hand Society is continued. The
Danubian Conference has completed
arrangements for treaty. The trial of
twenty-nine Socialists for treason and
completely in murder is proceeding
in Vienna. The failure of Wells & Co., of
the Commercial Iron Works, with liabili-
ties amounting to $l,25O, 600, is reported
from London. Fanny Hyland, the Parisian
boarding-house keeper, has obtained a YER
dict for f4oo against Biggar. member of
Parliament for Cavan, for breach of
promise. ~
4. AT Dunnvilie, Ontario, on the 9Th, Jack
Hynes. a German, quarreled with his wife
about deed, shot her fatally and fed.
SECRETARY FRELINeHUYsEs has learned
from the Consul at Curacao that immedi-
ately after the Valencia was fred upon, he
called upon the Governor in relation to
the matter, and found that he had already
begun an investigation as to the firing, and
the regulations by which. it became posi-
Bile. The investigation was conducted by
the Attorney General, and the offense was
found to be due to an old regulation OF the
time of slavery and passports, and to the
fault of the police, who had not immedi-
ately presented the Valencia's port pass to
the guard. The responsible officer of po-
lice has been punished, and the regulation
changed so that the firing of shot by the
fort is now prohibited. The Governor has
expressed regret for the occurrence.
AT Toronto an influential meeting of
ladies and gentlemen in sympathy with
woman's suffrage was held on the 9th.
Resolutions favorable to the extension of
the franchise to women holding property
or income qualifications as men, were car
ried unanimously.
Or THE twenty-nine socialists on trial in
Vienna, charged with high treason and
completely in murder, two are women, and
one is the wife of man. named Hotze,
who decamped to America with a part OF
the plunder he derived from the robbery OF
Werstollinger.
The steamer Neyarre, bound from Co.
penhagen to Leith, foundered during a
gale on the sth. There were eighty-one
persons, mostly emigrants, on board, only
sixteen of whom were saved.