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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
AduIteration of Dairy Products,

ALBANY, N. Y, March 21.-The Senate
Committee on Public Health which has
been investigating authorizations of food,
reported to-day. Accompanying the
report was a bill prohibiting, under
penalty of 5000 or six months imprison-
ment, the sale of adulterated milk, the
keeping of cows for the productionof milk
in an unhealthy condition, or diluting milk
with water. 1t provides that every
manufacturer of butter shall brand
his name and the weight of
the butter on the package. Cans for the
sale of milk shall be stamped with the
name of the county where the milk is pro-
duced, unless sold exclusively in that
county. A penalty of $500 to 81 900 and
imprisonment for one year is imposed on
the sale or manufacture of bogus butter or
cheese. The State Dairymen's Association
is appointed q commission to enforce the
provisions of the bill, and $4,000 is appro-
priated for the purpose.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
MARROW ESCAPE.
"A Locomotive Boiler ExpIodes While
the Train is at Full Speed.
EnE1nerr and Fireman Killed, Reing
Blown Four Hun ared Feet AWAY.

SALEM, e., March 20.-The limited express
on the P. Ft. w. & c. R. R. met with a
terrible accident two miles east of here this
morning. The train was equipped with a
co mbination smoking and baggage car,
dining car and two sleepers, having
on board twenty-nine pass engers
While rounding sharp curve
and running at high speed,
the boiler exploded with terrific violence,
hurting the ongine down fifteen-foot en-
bankment, and blowing Engineer James
Richards and Fireman Charles Rhodes four
hundred feet from the point where the en-
gine left the track, killing them instantly.
The combination car followed the engine,
and landed on the boiler with such violence
as to force the drivers of the engine through
the floor, the car being demolished
completely. The dining-car was thrown
over on its side, and slid down the embank-
ment, and became a complete wreck. The
remaining two cars were forced from the
track, and the trucks of the forward car
thrown distance of twenty feet. Both
cars were badly damaged For a few mo-
ments after the explosion the interior of
the sleepers was a scene of inextricable
confusion. The screams of lady passengers
were most heart-rending, and the cries of
calling for help. Some little time elapsed
before an attempt was made to
ascertain the extent of the accident,
SO great was the excitement.
and every person being either unconscious
or imprisoned. The first person to emerge
from the wreck was the colored porter,
who, though badly bruised, succeeded in
breaking the windows sof the sleepers,
which afforded an avenue of escape, and
one by one the passengers orawled out,
and 1t was soon ascertained none had re-
ceived serious injuries, although eleven
were more or less bruised or cut. The
employees on the train were not so for
tunate. Baggageman Beisel received cut
on the leg, and it is feared his knee is frac-
tured. The sleeping-car conductor was
badly bruised, but not seriously. One of
the colored porters was found unconscious
IN the smoking car, lying in pool of blood,
and it was at first feared he was dead, but
after being removed to the open air he re-
yiyed. His injuries are not considered
fatal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
Mi.selIaneou. Items.

ELISHA SEXTON, of Leesburg, aged sew
enty- nine, died on the 10Th of pneumonia.
His wife, Nancy Jane Sexton, to whom he
was married noarly sixty years ago, sick
ened away at the thought of his probable
death, and, after slight attack of pleurisy,
died few days before him. They were
probably the oldest married couple in that
section.
AT Armstrong; boiler works, Spring
field, the other day, Sebastian Hill was
shockingly injured by hose which was
fitted to pipe on boiler which he was
testing being blown off, the steam scalding
him terribly and throwing him against
pile of hot iron.
FRANK L. WEIR, of Green Springs, a
promising young man of about eighteen
years, ended his life by putting bullet
through his brain a few days since. No
definite cause assigned for the desperate
act.
ABOUT $15O,000 of the money appropri-
ated by the Ohio Legislature for the relief
of flood sufferers is still in the hands of
the commission, and it is probable the
greater part of it will be returned to the
State Treasury.
The lifeless remains of Mrs. NJ Sines,
who had been separated from her husband,
were found in woods, near her home near
Oakwood, with bullet-hole through her
body.
A BOY named Mccormick was stoned tc
death at Manchester, recently, oy three
Juvenile roughs. All the parties are under
sixteen years of age.
JAMES BAILEY had q heel torn off by hay.
ing his foot caught between an elevator and
the floor at the East street shops, Spring
field, the other day.
BAILY FLEMING, of South Bloomingville,
Hooking County, was arrested, charged
with forging pension papers and fraudu-
lently drawing 81 400, while living in Ten-
nessee, several years ago.
SEVEN months ago Christian A. Lembke
left Akron while under charge of burglary
and robbery. He went to Germany. He
returned, and was arrested the other day
in Baltimore.
THE will of Jacob Seasongood bequeaths
$4,000 to various institutions in Cincin.
natl.
AN aged farmer named G. Schneider.
living near Zanesville, died, a few days
since, from the effects of goring he re
ceived from vicious bull last September
MRS. CHAMBERLIN, of McCutchensville,
near Fostoria, Il lady near seventy years OF
age, fell down stairs the other night, receiy.
| ing frightful injuries. A physician was
called, hut the lady died soon alter.
JOHN D. WATSON, sent to the Ohio Peni.
| tentiary for attempting to hribe Legislators
| in the interest of the Cincinnati Belt Rail
| road scheme, released on the 18th NV
reason OF expiration OF his term.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
Boston Female BARRIERS.

eThe rumor has some foundation"
said the proprietor of fancy barber
shop. 81 am seriously considering the
feasibility of opening shop, apart from
this one, and employing female artists
exclusively"
tYou would engage the most attract
i've ones, presumed"
Naturally. 1 would get eight or ter
of the handsomest and most skilful
young ladies and train them myself.
The scheme, 1 believe, will keep my
shop reeking with patrons
''But don't you apprehend that
great deal of time will be consumed in
t1irtations between young men in the
chair and the artists?"
81 have provided for all contingencies
of that sort. Everything will be under
a perfect system. Each man will re-
ceive a ticket upon entering the room,
upon which are to be printed the rules
and regulations of the establishment
They must be observed to the letter."
and with mild relaxation of the fea-
lures he handed the reporter a card,
which read as follows:
Customers are not to regard it as q
social obligation to converse with the
lady artists.
The commonplaces of the day are all
that the proprietor expects to be ut
tered. Whispering is absolutely for
hidden.
The artists will be the same as deaf
and dumb to all young men who come
here to make mash. Every gentle
men will be treated with uniform cour-
tesy.
Those who are not gentlemen may
save themselves the humiliation of
being elected by remaining away alto
gether.
Ladies are peculiarly adapted to do
shaving and hair-dressing more grace
| fully, tastefully and expeditiously than
men, and it is for this reason that the
proprietor has secured the services Of
respectable ladies in the hope that their
presence will lend an atmosphere of
dignity and moral elevation to the bar
ber shop which it has not known here
! tofore.
ssThere you have it in .rutshell.
| There are plenty of women who cannot
find employment, but who must make
living somehow. My purpose is to
introduce female barber shop where
there will be no nonsense, and l have
i already hired for my head barber a
bright girl who graduated at Vassar
College, and who, on account of her
fathers business misfortunes, is thrown
upon the world to support herself.
am giving her instruction now in the
use Of the razor, and know that she will
develop to real clever barber. F."
..'How soon will you open the shopP'
"Within the next three months. il
possible At present l am selecting my
help, and of course it will take some
time to get just the faces want and the
ones who can readily acquire the art y
Boston Globe.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
War with a Court.


PoMT PLEASANT, W. VA, March 21.-A
conflict with Judge jackson, of the United
States Court, has been raised by the Key
stone Bridge Company. That company
built a bridge here for the Ohio Central
Road, and has not been paid. It refuses to
complete the bridge and holds possession
until secured against loss. The road being
in the hands of a receiver, and in
need of telegraph line, Judge
jackson ordered the receiver to
string wire across the::bridge. The Key
stone Bridge Company resisted. Judge
jackson sent U. s. Marshal from Charles
ton, w. Va, who got possession and held
1t until the wire was put across. During
the night the Bridge Company cut the wire
and barricaded both ends of the bridge,
resisting the United States Marshaps au-
thority. An appeal was made to Judge
jackson, who ordered the Marshal to
Parkersburg to get an armed posse and
enforce at all hazards the authority of the
Court.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
The Soudan

LONDON, March 21.-The Neacs has tele-
grams stating that Khartoum is entirely
surrounded by hostile tribes, except on the
side protected by the river. The Dervish
Sheikhs are said to be ready to lead three
tribes in an attempt to capture the town.
CAIRO, March 21.-A newspaper published
in the Arabic language contains report
of an interview with El Mahdi. 1t states
that Ell Mahdi denied ever having pretended
to be the Messiah. Such claim, he said,
would be certain to cause the sheikhs to
desert his cause. He declared he would
kill Gordon if he caught him, and would
mans. Ell Mahdi expressed confidence that
If Indian troops were brought to Egypt
they would refuse to fight against their
fellow Mohammedans
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27

The Postal telegraph Bill.

WASHINGTON, March 21.-The sub-ctm-
mittee of the Senate coNaAittee on post.
office and post roads, having several postal
telegraph bills under consideration, have
formulated and caused to be printed a bill
providing that the postmaster general shall
establish telegraph offices at all post-offices
on telegraphic circuits, and all other post
offices on telegraphic circuits, and all other
postoffices within ten miles of any such
circuit where the salary of the postmaster
is not less than $500 per annum. The
maximum rates for kilograms of
twenty words or less shall be as follows:
When the distance of transmission is 1000
miles or under, 20 cents; over 1000 miles
or under 1000 miles, forty cents; for
all greater distances, fifty cents; for tele-
grams directed to be transmitted by night
under 1900 miles, fifteen conts; for greater
distances, twenty-five cents; all words
to be counted, and for every five addi-
tlonal words or less, one-fifth of the addi-
t1onal rate to be charged. Government
business shall have priority in transmits
nually fixed by the postmaster general.
All other kilograms shall be transmitted in
the order received, except night messages.
The charges for the transmission>of special
kilograms to newspapers and commercial
news associations for each 100 words or
less for each circnit of 1000 miles shall
not exceed fifty cents if sent at night,
and 81 during the day. But when
copies of the same telegram are
dropped off at one or more offices, the rate
for each office shall not exceed fifty cents
at night, and seventy-five cents during the
day, and at the same pro rata rate for
each word in excess. kilograms shall be
privileged communications in law to the
extent that sealed letters now are. The
postmaster General is hereby authorized
dIrQNtah q rC0 fnr.
three months for sealed propo-
sails from any telegraph company or COM
panies, now or hereafter to be incorpor-
ated, for the transmission of correspond
ence by telegraph according to the provi-
sions of this act, and shall contract with
the lowest responsible bidder or bidders to
perform, the whole or in part, this tele-
graphic service; said contracts to be en-
tered into for ten years, terminable at the
option of Congress.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
More Bov BuroIars Arrested.

BosToN, March 2o.-A gang of fifteen
boys were arrested in South Boston last
night, and three of their leaders held for
examination. Many small larcenies are
charged to them, the raids being planned
in an old cellar which they called their
den. Coleman O'Donnel the leading
spirit, is sixteen years old, and is said to
have recently been released from reform
atory institution. The ages of the others
range from twelve to fifteen years. They
had a peculiar language, known only to
members of the gang, and for an hour mys-
titled the officers at the station with their
conversation,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
Spread Of the Kansas Cattle PLAQUE,

AToHIsoN, KAN, March 21.-The Cham
pion has special from Osborne, Kan, an.
nouncing that fifty cattle in one herd in
corral in the Northwest part of Osborne
County, are affected with disease similar
to the foot and mouth disease now preva-
lent in Woodson County. The Sheriff has
established quarantine against the herd,
and stationed deputy in the locality to
prevent the passage of man or beast to
and from the ring. Osborne County is in
the northwestern part of the State, while
Woodson is about two hundred miles
south-east
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
Wholesale AdulteratIon Of Food.

. ALBANY, March 21.-The Senate Com
mittee on Public Health, which has been
investigating authorizations of food, report
ed to-day. They say they have discovered
wholesale and alarming authorizations,
dangerous to the consumer and depreciat-
ing property in the rural districts. The
adulteration of butter by tallow oil, bone
oil, lard oil, was found in almost every
equal to half the production of natural
butter. limitations have been so disguised
that often they were only discoverable by
chemical analysis. Out of thirty samples
of butter purchased by the committee in
New York only ten were genuine. No
labels to distinguish pure from bogus butter
are displayed as required by the existing
law. The bogus butter is largely purchased
by saloons, boarding houses and second
class hotels.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27

A NEW YORK paper informs us that
the Scotch have method of adjusting
lawyers fees. which insures justice to
the client and prevents the lawyer from
taking the lions share. They have in
all courts an auditor whose duty it is to
revise, examine, and adjudicate upon
lawyers accounts placed before him. If
a client is dissatisfied with lawyers
charges, he can have the account au-
dited There is regular table of fees.
beyond which no professional man il
legally permitted to GO.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
Prisoners Escaue.

DANvILLE, ILL, March 23.-While the
turnkey at the Jail was calling the prison.
ers to breakfast this morning heiwas seized,
his keys taken from him, pushed into cell
and locked there by three young men, Will
Wengel, Ed Crosby and Thomas Bracken,
assisted by man by the name of Carter.
The quartet then quickly made their way
out and are still at large. Mengel, Crosby
and Bracken were the leadersIof a gang of
young store-robbers, and were only cap
tured short time since, after having
robbed nearly dozen stores in this city.
Carter is noted pickpocket.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
systematic SteaIinu of Beer Kens-

NEW YORK, March 21.-James j. Rooney,
John Rooney, his son, and Andrew McNa-
mara were arrested tonight on the charge
of Systematically robbing brewers in this
city of ale barrels and beer kegs. The detec-
tives found that Rooney and his associates
collected kegs during the night, and after
erasing marks upon them, shipped them
out of town. The brewers say the aggre-
gate losses for the past year from this
cause amount to over $1O0. 900.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27

A GERMAN savant has been making
some interesting experiments with the
phonograph, especially with the lam
guage and songs of the Central African
tribes. His idea is by fixing the speech
and melodies on metallic rolls it will en-
able scientific men to reproduce the
sounds by unrolling the plates, and thus
reproducing the sounds as they are ut
tered in the heart of Africa, to study the
different dialects, and many interesting
chronological discoveries will be made
by comparing the sounds.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
Terrible Work Of an Insane Motber.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20.-Mrs. John
Schafer, of Oakland, Cal, became insane
over the loss of one of her children, and
during the absence of her husband for a
few minutes last night cut her baby's
throat and then cut her own. The hus-
band, at the terrible spectacle presented,
seized a revolver and attempted to commit
suicide, but was prevented by policeman.
Some friends visited the scene this even
ing, among them Mrs. Letrolli, French
lady, who was so shocked at the sight that
she became raving maniac.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
Frozen Feet, Not Cattle Disease.

KANSAS CITY, March 21.-Simon Beattie,
an expert who had been investigating the
cattle disease reported as foot and mouth
disease, says there is no foot and mouth
disease at Neosho Falls, Kan, where he
returned from to-day. Cattle are afflicted
with foot rot, caused by severe frosty
weather. He says one farmer admitted
that seventeen of his cattle had their feet
frozen in one night. Colts, sheep and hogs
feeding with cattle said to be diseased
are healthy and do not show any signs of
disease.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
Calves SeiZed.s

NEW York, March 24.-The Sanitary In
spector, accompanied by squad of police,
made an unexpected raid last night on ex-
press wagons that carry meat into this city
from New Jersey. One hundred and fifty
carcasses of calves unfit for food were
seized and sent to the offal docks. The
raid spread CONSERVATION among the ex-
presSmen.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27

The proposition to cut down the sala-
ries of the country postmasters, says
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, is
reasonable. Two-cent postage has re-
duced the use of postal cards, and
saved the postmaster much laborious
reading. - IS
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
An OId murder confessed.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March 21-Three
years ago William Been married the
widow Dodds, living on farm near here.
In July, 1882, he threatened to kill her and
her family. Her son John, in defending
his mother, shot and killed Been, ana with
the assistance of a servant girl, Liddie
Large, hid the body in drain. The girl
has confessed the facts, and the body was
unearthed to-day. Liddie Large has been
arrested. John Dodds is thought to be in
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27

WE have it on the authority of the
New York Sun that lady sixty years
old, residing in Rochester, N. Y,
skated from that city to Brockport,
twenty miles. in an hour and twenty.
five minutes. The Philadelphia Press
comes next with the story that Mrs.
Hannah Simon, of Newark, N. J., re-
Gently celebrated her ninety-ninth
birthday by waltzing for ten minutes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27

1t is not improbable that Mount
Everest, 9,OO2 feet, which has hereto
fore passed for the monarch of the Him
alayan chain, will be dethroned. Mr..
Graham and his two Swiss guides, in
their recent attempts to scale some of
the higher SUBMITS, distinctly saw two
peaks rising to the northwest of Mount
Everest which they believe to be consid-
erably higher. General Thuillier, Di-
rector of the Indian Trigonometrical
Survey, thinks this quite possible.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
MutiIatinu Webster's Tomb

PLYMOUTH, MASS, March 20.-Herbert L.
jackson was to-day fined $40 for mutila-
ting the marble tablet on the tomb of Dan
iel Webster at Marshfield. Mrs. Webster
wrote that satisfaction had been made
in that jackson had paid for new tablet,
and she desired to have the case put on
file. The judge refused to comply. He al
lowed, however, the mitigating circum-
stances to govern the amount of the fine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27

Mrs. OLIPHANT, the novelist, is said
to be the most prolific writer outside of
q newspaper office. She can carry on
three serials at once. Besides the great
number of novels she has written, we
have many essays, travels, criticisms.
etc., from her pen.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
General Gordon Djsneartensd

PARIS, March 20.-Figaro's Cairo dispatch
this morning says: General Gordon has
told the French Consul at Khartoum that
he is disappointed in what he has been able
to accomplish. He said it would be impos-
sible for him to defend the place against
Add Ell Kadir Pasha, Minister of War, will
be sent to rescue Gordon.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
Fatal Fire in Paris,

PARIS, March 2O.-An explosion of BEN
zine set fire to the third floor of feather
shop in Rue Grande Truanderie yesterday,
preventing the escape of the occupants of
the upper floors except by the windows.
Fifteen girls jumped to the ground, all of
whom were seriously and some fatally in
iured
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
A Fall to Death,

CINCINNATI, March H.-Yesterday after
noon, Katie Evans, a six-year-old daughter
of officer John Evans, of the First District,
while playing in the hallway, on the third
q oor OF No. 105 East Second street, fell
over the stair railing and down to the hall
way below. The little child was picked up
unconscious, and died one hour afterward
from injuries received.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
The Weeks Failures.

NEW YORK, March 21.-Business failures
the last week throughout the United States
were 176; Canada, 81; total, 213, as against
216 last week. Failures were exceptionally
few in the Western and Pacific States and
in New York City. There was some de-
crease in Canada
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27

TUE recent investigation in Albany
as 10 oleomargarine, brings forth some
interesting facts. One witness testifies
that the sale of this compound as but.
ter is universal, and another that the
Ohio prohibitory law is imperative.
there being more oleomargarine made
and sold in that State than ever before.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27

There is good old fairy story of
girl who received from the good people
the marvellous property of dropping
pearls and diamonds from her lips
whenever she spoke. This fairy gift has
found a rival in a recent present to the
Pope of a fish, made of solid gold,
studded with rubies, which, whenever it
opens Its mouth, pours coins of virgin
gold in the hands of its fortunate own
er, but, unfortunately, it has not the
gift of durability, and the Pope must be
sparing of his tests.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27
Six Children Poisoned.

MEADv1LLE, Pa, March 23-Six children
from the village of Valonia went out in
search of "sugar water" Not finding any
the boys tapped some kind of a tree with
their pocket knives and all of the children
slipped the juice. All were taken sick.
One of the boys named George Custy, ten
years of age, has died, and the others are
expected to die.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-03-27

AT Hartford, Conn, party of tele-
graph linemen climbed tree in lady's
yard and began looping ffthe branches.
They did not heed her protests until she
brought out revolver, when, like Davy
Crockett's coon, they came down.