The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-08

ment of the Treasurers office and stole
$40, 900 of consolidated five per cent. bonds
of the Peoples Passenger Railway Com
pany. The thief escaped, leaving no clue.
TWENTY-FIVE Mormon missionaries passed
through st. Louis on the I'd, bound on
proselyting tour through the South, under
the leadership of Elder John Morgan, of
Chattanooga, Tenn. They scatter through
the Southern States to take the place of an
equal number now in the field.
THE English colony at Rugby, Tenn,
have borrowed, through the Board of Aid,
$125, 900 of Mr.. Henry Kimber, of London.
A first mortgage on the Rugby tract of
25, 900 acres was given as security.
Ex.TREAsURER POLK, of Tennessee, ,clai ms
that injustice has been done him and says:
81 cherish the hope that sooner or later, if
have wronged the State, 1 may be able to
repay it ALL"
Rev. DR.. CHAPELLE says that had he
known or suspected that Senator Tabor or
Mrs. Lizzie McC9urts had gone through
the divorce courts, he. would not have Of
ficiated at their marriage. He made what
he thought careful investigation, and if
the statement concerning divorce is correct,
he AYERS he was misinformed by the parties
concerned. The Catholic Church does not
allow its clergy to solemnize marriages
when either party has been divorced.
THE Chadbournes, father and two sons,
Walter and Wallace, in Jail at Bangor. Me-,
for q long time, were sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life on the I'd, for the muir
der of Alvin Wilson, at Parkham, Me-, in
June, 1881. Wilson, it was claimed. was
intimate with Walter Chadbourne's wife,
and was murdered in the night, receiving
fifty-two cuts, twenty of them to the hilt,
and any one fatal. Samuel Chadbourne, a
deaf mute son, confessed the crime, and
the bloody knife was found in his pocket;
the bloody clothes and knife belonging to
Wallace Chadbourne were also found, and
blood on the old mans hair and whiskers.
The mute is not believed to have COM
the asylum to be educated SO that he could
tell who did it, but failing to develop any
intelligence, he goes to the insane asylum.
PART of gang of laborers engaged in
loading iron ore on barges, at what is
known as the ore dump, atSulphur Springs,
twenty-five miles below st. Louis, made g
demand few days ago for an increase oi
wages, and announced that they would
not work until the demand was acceded TO-
nor would they allow anybody else tc
work at the old rates. On the I'd another
gang OF men was organized and went te
work, whereupon some half dozen of the
ringleaders among the strikers made an
assauitupon them, and, with clubs, knives
and pistols drove them from the barges
In the melee several men were badly
beaten, but nobody seriously hurt.
=. ABROAD.
A PARCEL addressed to Earl Spencer,
containing dynamite, with fuse attached
was deposited in the Ballydehob Postofice
q few days ago.
THE rains and floods which haveprevailed
throughout England have assumed the pro
portions of a National calamity, enormous
tracts of land being submerged No wheat
has yet been sown, and the winter wheat i:
rotting in the soggy ground. A good har
vest this year is an impossibility, and the
indications are it will be one of the worst
in many years. To render the situation
still worse for the farmers, disease ha:
broken out among the cattle and sheep.
IT Is stated that Gladstone in an inter
view at Paris on the 2sth with Presi
dent Grevy and Challemet Lacour, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, appeared to be desirou.
to bring about the end of the present ten
sion between France and England. 1t i,
believed that fresh negotiations relative tc
Egypt are impending, not as hitherto or
the basis of condominium. but on an ar
rangement that will place France in NOR,
favorable position than she now occupies
The bomb throwers at Rome have al
been arrested.
ADDITIONAL agrarian outrages in An
dalusia, Spain, are reported. Eleven an
archists in jall at Espera, declare they ant
223 others were pledged to murder land
lords and commit robbery and arson at tn,
bidding of leaders.
The Empress of Germany has given on.
thousand marks for the relief of the suf
ferers by the floods in America.