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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Saved by the Statue Of Limitation.

When William Pitt Kellogg was
placed OF the bar to answer a criminal
Indictment we told the people to pre-
pare for another farce.
Thursday Kellogg walked out of court
a free man. The Indictment was de-
clared detective. A false date had been
inserted, but the prosecution was barred
by the Statue of Limitations.
The Administration has known of
Kellogg's guilt for three years. 1t knew
the charge involved Tom Brady. 1t de-
layed the prosecution purposely until
the Statue of Limitations had expired.
1t further fortified the accused by flaws
in the indictment.
The Republican Administration did
not dare to punish Kellogg. He is
representative Republican leader. He
had been fraudulenily made Governor
of Louisiana; fraudulently elected to
the United States Senate; fraudulently
kept there by Republican votes. He
had been a partner in the fraud that
seated HAYES. He holds the secrets of
Republicanism in his keeping.
Send Kellogg to jailP AS soon con-
denim to the penitentiary the whole Re-
publican party.
The Government had the witness who
paid Kellogg S2O. .OOa for himself and
Brady to have his Star-route contract
raised so that he could rob the people
of $4,000 or $4,000. 1t had the
banker who had cashed the drafts. 1t
had the proofs of payment. Its only
way to protect Kellogg was to delay
the indictment until the Statute of
Limitations would debar the prosecu-
ton.
So Kellogg walked out of the court
Thursday and capped jail. But by
what right did the Judge allow the
| jury to indulge in a legal fiction and
| returd the lying verdict of mot gull
typ
Kellogg was gu'lty! He was not ae-
| quilted. The indictment was quashed.
He was saved by the Statute of Limita-
| tions!
Thus another Star-route rascal is
saved, and the people are furnished
with another illustration of the impossi-
bility of Furnishing public crimes while
the Republican party remains in power.
| In such occurrences as these lies the
foundation of popular disaffection with
the Government. They are the hot
beds of communism. They force the
belief that there is no equality of JUS
tjce. but that one law prevails for the
rich and influential and another for the
poor. They bring all law into con-
tempt and impress the people with the
conviction that the courts are as cor
rupt as the politicians Y. Sun.
Our Washington correspondent
intimates that the Republican leaders
are looking into the future and prepar-
ing to make the party undertake re-
form OF the tarif Well, if this is the
case. they are wise, and it will be inter.
esting to see whether the Democrats
will allow themselves to be driven from
what have hitherto been regarded as
their hunting-grounds. One fact re-
mains certain-sooner or later tariff re-
form must come, and whichever party
undertakes it will deserve the public
coufidence,-N, Y. Herald,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Baptist Missionary Work.

DETROIT May 23.-The SEVENTEEN meet
ing Of the Missionary Union, having its
headquarters at Boston, Hon. ]. Warren,
of Merrill, Massachusetts,, presiding, was
held this morning. The annual report fills
large volume of over one hundred pages.
Extracts were read by DR.. j. N. Murdoch,
Secretary. The sum of $342, 2,43.S9 was
raised through the year, and 1854 ,S13.56
expended, leaving deficit of
$22, ,369, much smaller debt than LAST year.
Greece there are ,6s2 preachers, 1,12s
churches and 112, 100 members; years bap-
tism, 11,716. The great work of the Union
in India, Asia, Burmah, Assam, Telugus,
China, Japan and Africa are 2, 134 mission
airy iaooreTs, 1 l,L2o churcnes, & ll2,l2z mem
schools, colleges and dispensaries.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
CONDEMNED and Acquitted.

William Pitt Kellogg is at present .
Congressman from Louisiana and
formerly was Governor and United
States Senator. He has just been
found guilty of receiving $5o,000 from
q Star-route contractor named j. b.
Price, and acquitted. The paradox of
the assertion is only apparent. The
payment of the money and the payment
of it to Kellogg, for his influence in get
ting a contract, were not only proved,
but admitted; the offense was de-
monstrated and confessed. But because
the transaction took place five years
ago, it was held to be barred by the
statute of limitations. The courS,
thereupon, directed the acquittai of
Kellogg.
1t may be asked, how did the Law
Department of the Federal Administra-
ton come to arraign this man on q de-
fective Indictment It will never be
possible to say whether this was by ac-
cident or design. The Indictment put
the date of the reception of the bribe at
June 16, 1879. 1t was shown that at
the date named Kellogg cashed the
drafts given to him as bribery money
aud that was not quite five years ago.
But it was also shown that he received
the drafts about three months before he
cashed them. The court held that the
reception of the drafts was the date of
the bribery, not the time when they
were turned into money. The Admins
tration lawyers declare that they did
not know the drafts were three months
old when cashed; but the informer
Price, on whom they relied for convic-
ton, swore on the stand that he told the
/ Government counsel that very fact.
It is q miserable business. Kellogg
has been acquitted because his crime
has "aged;" the indictments against
Price have been .nolled, because he
turned informer, albeit a useless in
former, and all the remaining charges
against Brady have been Cancelled, be-
cause, since the nolleing of the indict-
ments against himself, Price declares
he will not be witness any more. An
even month before the Chicago Con-
| vention, the Arthur Administration
presents the last of the Star-routers
with complete acquittal The fur
ther announcement is that Kellogg and
the rest of the Louisiana delegation to
the Republican National Convention
have declared for Arthur.
Such incompetency and corruption
combined ought to injure the Admins.
tration with its party. but SO far it has
only gained it delegates. A more con
demning commentary on political Re
publicanism than these facts make
could not be made. As for Kellogg
there is nothing in his previous career
which conflicts with the offense just
admitted by him, and only by habit
and history of such offenses has ht
been able to keep his place in the or
ganized crime, which goes by the name
Of Republicanism in Louisiana.-A
bany argus.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Full Of Significance.

The Interstate conference of the col
ored people at Pittsburgh is full of
political significance. We don't know
that the leaders of the Republican party
will be wise enough to read the mean
ing of this Pittsburgh Convention, and
we are sure if they do they will be pow
erless to avert the dangers which it in
dicates as threatening the grand old
party. 1t is unreasonable to suspect
that the negroes will go on voting
blindly, as directed by the Republican
party, for all time to come, through a
mers sentimental fancy that gratitude
requires they should make themselves
political vassals. Emancipation gave
the negro political freedom, and it has
only been matter of time for him to
assert his political independence. This
Pittsburgh conference shows that the
time for the second emancipation is fast
approaching, perhaps, has already
come There have been expressions,
not alone of discomfort and dissatisfac-
ton, but of turbulent Indignation also,
and these manifestations by the leaders
may be taken for fair reflection of the
feeling of the colored masses. The
adoption of resolution declaring
stSd dlhSo OH ihuOhSOhuOho VI onO
Republican party was practically
an act of war, and it will
be found. impossible for the Repub-
lican party to frame the basis of
compromise. The colored people are
tired of being mere voting cattle, and
the only thing to satisfy them is fair
share of the offices; but this is the one
thing they can not be given, since the
great body of white Republican voters
Invariably and always bolt negro
nomination. Every Republican leader
knows that, aud is aware that the thing
the colored leaders are asking would
ruin the Republican party if given. 1t
is already apparent that the weak en-
deavor to stem the torrent of this re-
volt by electing a few negroes as alter
nate delegates to the Republican Ma
ti0nal Convention has intensified in
stead of allaying the discomfort. Little
| things like these counted for much in
the first years of freedom, but the
negro is no longer satisfied with the
hollow honors that carry no substance
| of reward with them. He has been
told he is just as good as white man,
but he has found the Republic IN party
little disposed to act upon that political
principle. There is nothing strange,
therefore, if the negro has at last con
cluded that he will be more of free
man and get great deal more persona
benefit from his right of suffrage by
putting his ballot where it will do tht
most good for himself, whether tina
hurts or helps the Republican party
| 81, Louis RepubIican.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Bank Teller Steals SOS. 600.

New YORK, May 23.-Chas. A. Hinckley,
paying teller of the West Side Bank,
Eighth avenue and Thirty.fourth street,
embezzled $4,000 of the banks funds and
decamped. The embezzlement was discov-
cred Wednesdaylast. Hinckley did not ap-
pear at the bank Wednesday morning,
and not answering to summons
sent to his house, it was suspected
something. was wrong. The books were
tected. The bank officers testify that the
capital stock of $500, 900 is intact, and there
is a surplus of 800, 1872. There is to be
added to this surplus, bonds of $4,000 of
the paying teller given by the Fidelity and
Indemnity Company. The matter was kept
secret until the Investigation by the officers
was finished. Hinckley has been con-
nected with the bank as it's Ipaying teller
ago. He was regarded as a man of most
rigid integrity,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
The Bureau of Labor.

WASHINGTON, May 23.-The Senate to-
day, by 55 to 2, the nays being Colquitt
and Salisbury, passed Aldrick's substitute
for the bill creating Bureau of Labor, as
follows:
"Be it enacted, ETC., that there shall be
established in the Department of the Interior
a Bureau of Labor, which shall be under the
charge of a Commissioner of Labor, who shall
be appointed by the President, by and with
the ddvice and consent of the Senate.
The Commissioner of Labor shall hold his
Office for four years. and until his successor
shall be appointed and qualified, unless
sooner removed, and shall receive salary of
5000 year. The Commissioner shall collect
information upon the subject of labor, its re-
lation to capital, hours of labor, the earnings
of laboring men and women and the means
of promoting their material, social, intellect
ual and moral prosperity. The Secretary
Of the Interior shall appoint Chief
Clerk, who shall receive a salary OF
$1,000 per annum, and such other
employees as may be necessary for said bureau.
Provided, the total expenses shall not exceed
900 per annum. During the necessary
absence of the Commissioner, or when the
Office shall become vacant, the Chief Clerk
shall perform the duties of Commissioner.
The Commissioner shall annually make re-
port to the Secretary of the Interior of the
information collected and collated by him,
and containing such recommendations as he
may deem calculated to promote the efficiency
of fbfah hrrr -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
New Work for Women.

READING, Pa, May 23-Quite novelty
in the labor line came to light here to-day.
About dozen women have been'employed
by contractor in limestone quarry
in the eastern part of the city for
the last two weeks to break stone for use
in the city streets. The women say this
has become necessary owing to the
many and indefinite suspensions re-
Gently made by the Reading Railroad Com
pany in the different departments, about
eight hundred in all being discharged.
They do this as their only way of making
a living, their husbands doing the blasting
and the ladies working hard in the red-hot
sun spalling them. They do nearly as
much If not more than the men, although
the wages are less.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Returned and Imprisoned.

ERIE, Pa, May 25.-President Adam Bra
bender, of the defunct Erie County Savings
Bank, has returned to Erie. He admits
that he and Cashier Petit lost
100000 in grain and oil specula-
tions. B. Brabender also admits
that he took the money of the bank,
paid it to friends and left. He exonorates
the cashier. He is now in Jail for safety,
but executions will be issued tomorrow
morning which will. probably keep him
there. There is great feeling against him.
His paper in the bank is turning out worth
less. Brabender has assigned his private
property, valued at 0,000. to his cred
itors, but it will not pay them, and the
stockholders will probably lose 5000, 900 to
$250, 200, and many will be ruined.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
The Penn Bank Of PIttsburu.

P1rrsBuRe, PENN, May 23.-The doors of
the Penn Bank opened at 2 2to'clock to-day,
and where kept open until five this evening,
in order to crafty all demands. Long be-
fore. that hour the run had ceased, and it is
expected when they open tomorrow the
scare will be over, and business will pro-
ceed the same as before the suspension.
Deposits to-day are said to be $4,000 in ex-
cess of the amount withdrawn.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
An Arabs IreacherY.

WOOSTER, O., May 25.-Two Arabian
tramps were stopping by the roadside near
the village of Shreve, this evening. One
had $500, and the other stabbed and fatally
wounded him, took the money, and fled.
The wounded man crawled to farmers
house, and, being unable to talk English,
indicated by gestures the direction his
assailant had fled. Pursuit was made,
and the murderer was captured and iden-
titled by the dying man. The money was
found
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Railway Mail Bureau Completed.

WASHINGTON, May 23-The Railway Mail
Bureau has completed the schedule for mail
service between points in the United States
and City of Mexico. The service will be
daily, and the running time between New
York and the City of Mexico will be six
days and twenty-three hours while the re-
tnrn trip will be made in seven days and
ha1
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Don't Want American Hous.

ST. PAUL, May 25.-The st. Paul, Mime
sofa & Manitoba Railway Company has
been notified by the collector of customs
at Winnepeg that no hogs could be i'm
ported from the United States into Manito-
ba for breeding purposes that the ship
ment of hogs into Manitoba is forbidden,
except under regulations providing for
their immediate slaughter. For all hogs
entered under such regulations bond must
be given, as pledge that they will be
slaughtered Immediately.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29

A CAREFULLY compiled table of sta
tistics of the yellow fever in the United
States, from and including the years
1878 to 1883, prepared by the National
Board of Health, shows the number OF
cases to have been 115,406, and the
number of deaths 21,797, or per cent
of 1873. OF these, 1882 were in the
wear 1878, and the number of deaths
during that year 1920. In the follow
ing year, however, Memphis suffered
most severely, there being 2,010 cases
and 5S7 deaths in that city alone.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
An Interesting decision,

PITrsBURa, Pa, May 23-The question
as to the power of Sheriff to levy upon
whisky in bond was finally decided to-day
in the United States Court here. A rule
was granted in the Common Pleas
Court of this county against Frank
p. Case, Collector of Internal Reve-
nue., to show cause why he should not
be held for contempt for refusing to allow
the Sheriff of this county to levy upon
whisky in a bonded warehouse. Judge Atch-
eson, with the concurrence of Justice Brad
ley, of the United States Supreme Court,
before whom the rule had been certioraried.
discharged the case at the costs of the
Sheriff, and sustained the Collector in his
ACTION
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Five Acres Of Burning OH.

PHILADELPHIA, May 24-Fire broke out
in the Atlantic Oil Works at Point Breeze,
near this city yesterday, and is still burn
ing. At noon to-day fourteen tanks were
ablazs and several more were in great
danger. The fire has spread over five
acres and is likely to continue burning for
some days. At 4 o'clock this afternoon
three cannon from the arsenal were placed
in position before one of the larger tanks,
which, though surrounded by fire, has
singularly remained intact. In the event
of the oil in this tank taking fire, the can
non will be used to pierce its side, so as to
allow the fluid to escape into the burnt
district
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Illinois Winter Wheat Prospect.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, May 23.-The condi-
tion of the winter wheat crop in Illinois,
May 1, as reported by the State Board of
Agriculture, is better in the Northern por-
tion, but not so promising in the Southern
portion. The percentage of the area of
winter killed is "A in the Northern portion,
Central division 20, Southern division 81.
The average yield is now estimated at o.
per cent. in the Northern counties, Sc in
the Central counties, and 70 in the Southern
counties. The Southern division repre-
sents half the acreage of the State, which
makes the average of the State about 80
per cent. of an average crop.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Askinu-Yictoria For Relief.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 24.-The Marquis
of Normandy, late Governor of Victoria,
Australia, has forwarded a petition to
Queen Victoria signed by sixty EIGHT chiefs
of the Island of Tamna, of the New Hebri-
des group, praying for protection against
France, and for the annexation of the
Australian colonies.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
LARGEST Family in the United States.

SENECA CrY, 8. c. May 25.-Near this
place there lives one of the largest families
in the United States. Mr.. Joel Vaughn
has been married four times. His last
three wives were all widows, all of whom
had children by previous husbands, re-
spectively, eight, seven, and four, a total of
nineteen. These four wives bore Mr..
Vaughn twenty-seven children, which ad-
ded to the nineteen step-children, gave Mr..
Vaughn control of forty-six children. There
are thus seven different sets of children. The
old man is now eighty years of age, and his
youngest child is but an infant at the
breast
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
More Cartridges Found.

LONDON, May 23.-Several loaded cart
ridges we're found to-day on roads in the
vicinity of the great Northern Railroad
Staten, at Kings Cross, st. Paris Parish,
this city. They were about five inches
long by three inches in diameter and conf
cal in shape. The police took possession
of them and it has not been learned of what
their contents consist.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Paid the Penalty.

WAvERLY, O., May 23.-Laban Stevens
was executed here to-day for participation
in the murder of Anderson Lackey, an
aged and sickly man, in connection with
the Jones brothers, who were hanged at
jackson February %. Stevens neck was
not broken, and he died from strangula-
tion
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29

AN editor of ofexperience says there is
poor encouragement to furnish plainly
written manuscript. If badly written
the compositor and proof-reador be-
stow care upon it and bring it out
in good shape, while with what is
called '.good copy they are in
clined to be negligent. and blunders
frequently get into print.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29

TIE woman who sits with her back
out of high window while cleaning
the glass is q first cousin to the man
that points gun at somebody else.
One of the former fell out of a second
story window in Erie the other day.
One Of the latter has just been fined at
Pottsville after killing boy under
circumstances that implied the most
reckless disregard of the value of human
life
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29

In an editorial the Philadelphia
Ledger says the doctors of Cincinnati
complain that they have nothing to do,
the cleansing flood of February having
purified the disease breeding portions
of the city.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Decoratinn communists, Graves

PARIS, May 25.-About $50 persons, in
cluding several women, deposited wreaths
of red immorteiies upon the graves OF the
this morning. In the afternoon several
thousand, mostly sightseers, visited the
cemetery. Many red and and black flags
were displayed. Several speeches were
made, and cries of "Vive Ia Commune I"
raised.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
Texas Democracy Favor the Old Ticket

GALVESTON, TEX, May A-Three-four
Of the counties in the State held Demo-
cratic County Conventions to-day, to se-
lect delegates to the Ft. Worth State Con-
vention, June IL, to elect delegates to Chi
cago. Up to late hour the Daily Ne,os
received returns from about forty counties
These indicate that the sentiment of the
Democracy of Texas favors Tilden and
Hendricks. Returns thus far are nearly
unanimous for the old ticket.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29

ASSUMING that the financial failures
are over for the time, it now remains to
be seen whether they are to be supple
mented by failures of Justice. The vii
lainy has been exposed. and the crimes
have done their worst upon society.
And now, are the thieves and perjurers
in high places to be made to suffer
from the penalties attached by law to
their disclosed and confessed misdeedsp
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29

SINCE the establishment of the system,
more than twenty years ago. only ninety
National banks have failed, and the loss
to creditors has not exceeded $9,000.-
600, the average loss being about seven
ty per cent. in each case. The average
annual loss to depositors by the failure
of National banks has been only one
twentieth of one per cent.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
A Ship Canal in England.

LONDON, May 23.-The stock issue of f5,-
900 900 for the Manchester ship canal was
subscribed in three hours after the an
nouncement was made that it was neces-
sary. There is great rejoicing over the
successful issue of the project.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29

CHICAGO has just had a new ex-
perience in the work of securing qualified
jurors to try one of the many murder
ers who cumber its jails. The old-time
idea of ruling men off juries because
they had read accounts of the, murder
in newspapers appears to be carried to
its extreme limit. For this reason, panel
of one hundred and sixty-nine was ex-
hausted recently without securing even
a respectable foundation for jury.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
The Value of a Husband.

SUNBURY, Pa, May 25.-Tbe suit of Mrs.
Solomon Pensyl, against the Northern Cen.
tral Railroad Company, for $40, 900. damages
for the death of her husband, killed at a
crossing in 1881, resulted in a verdict in
favor of the plaintiff. for $3.50.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
A PHYSICIAN saws people drink two

A PHYSICIAN says people drink two
little water; water is at once nourish-
ment and solvent. Cocoa is liquid
food; tea and coffee diminish waste
of tissue and stimulate the nervous
forces. They should be kept entirely
away from children, and even adults
should take them so weak as to produce
no appeciable results.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
After the Bank Presideuts.

NEW York, May A.-Warrants have
been issued for the arrest of ex-Bank Pres
idents Emo and Fish. Eno's house was
searched tonight by officers, but Emo could
not be found.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29

A BIG diamond, measuring nearly
two inches in length and an inch and a
quarter in its shorter diameter, has
been unearthed in the Kimberly mines,
South Africa. The miners there are
now hunting for the remains Of hotel
clerk.