The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-01

and then her own. When found the child
was dead and the mother died soon after
The woman was insane.
A FEW days since a newly purchased
horse of one of the street car lines at De-
troit, showed symptoms Of. illness, and the
veterinary surgeon who was summoned,
treated the animal for nasal catarrh, and
soon after other horses became i'll, until on
the 23d twelve were unfit for service. A
new veterinarian was at once called in, and
he pronounced the disease glanders, and
recommended that the horses be shot at
once. This was accordingly done. Several
other cases of the disease have been report
ed and there is great excitement among
horsemen, lest the malady should become
epidemic. A bill was drafted and forward
ed to the Capitol, and the Legislature will
be urged to pass it Immediately. 1t pro-
vides that any horse afflicted with this
dread disease shall be shot forthwith, and
provides.a severe penalty for violation of
the proposed law.
THE rains and floods which have prevailed
throughout England have assumed the pro-
porti ons of a National calamity, enormous
tracts of land being submerged. No wheat
has yet been sown, and the winter wheat /.
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 has
broken out among the cattle and sheep.
A DEPuTATIoN Of workmen, on the Goth,
presented a memorial to President Grevy,
protesting against the political instability
of France, which they say, injures the in
terests of labor. They declare the prime
causes of the condition of affairs COM
planned of are the toleration shown pre-
tenders and overpliancy towards foreign
Powers.
A STRICT guard is kept at Cannes for fea
of an attempt to assassinate Gladstone.
THE discovery is alleged of another con-
spiracy in Ireland more dangerous than
the Assassination Society.
IAN organization of Socialists has been
| discovered in Spain.
A DISPATCH from Hong Kong, of the 21st
reports the United States steamer Ashuelo,
| as lost All the officers were saved, but
eleven of the crew were drowned. The
Asbuelot was an iron paddle vessel, carried
six guns and was of 1856 tons burden. She
was not considered very sea-worthy; in fact
she was laughing stock among naval
| officers. She was a paddle-wheel, thin
plated iron ship. and was what is known as
double ender. She was built in 1868 fol
purposes of river navigation during the war
and was used in blockades.
THE Porte has required a formal apology
from the Tripolitan authorities for the
recent insults to Italy.
| A SUBSCRIPTION has been opened at Berlin
| for the sufferers from the foods in thil
country.
| PRIME MINISTER FERRY explained to the
Chamber of Deputies, on the 22d, that the
] Government would simply deprive the
| Princes of their military positions, and bt
| insisted on the necessity of showing t.
Europe that France had a Government
| sure of its future.
TWENTY-FIVE persons were drowned b,
the wreck of steamer in the Bosphorous
THE teller of the Dominion Bank, To
ronto, is missing, with deficit of 81 500.
The civic population of Germany is op
posed to the regulation against American
pork.
ONE thousand marks were sent from Ber
lin on the 23d, for the sufferers by the Obi
flood.
A DUBLIN dispatch of the 23d says
"The prisoners charged with the Phoeni:
Park murders are furnished with meal
from the public house where James Care
stopped to drink on his way from the seen
of the murders. A stranger calls at tn
house once a week and pays the bill
Startling revelations regarding the murde
conspiracy will be published in few day.
Ten men will be arrested in the Dubli
district and provinces. Then the Who'll
organization will be crushed. The polio
are getting at the bottom OF most of th
agrarian murders. 1t will be proved tha
the murders were arranged by an organizs
ton. The secret inquiry at the Castle Wi
be resumed, owing to many witnesses CON
ing forward. Six prisoners just committe
for trial are willing to become informers.