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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
NOBLE ABORIGINES.
Geronimo's Band Come up With
by Troops, but GIFTS Away.
They Perpetrats Devlfsh Atrocities, Both
In the Uuited States and North-west
Territory.

DEMISe, N. NJ, May 29.-Thirty Indians,
who passed Camp Fleming last night,
killed five men within five miles of Silver
City. A company OF volunteers from Sill
yer City is IN pursuit of the Indians. The
military is doing nothing. Intense excite
ment prevails. The town was guarded
last night to prevent possible surprise.
SILVER CITY, N. NJ, May. 2e.--Captain
Apaches yesterday on the Upper Gila, and
ran them into the mountains, where he ex-
pected a fight, but the Indians evaded him.
Several ranches about eight miles from
here have been plundered and destroyed.
A family of five Mexicans were killed
last night four miles from here.
Three children were Drained. Another
Mexican was shot, but escaped with his
wife. Yesterday morning Georges ranch,
two miles from Fort Bayard, was at
tackled, and a Mexican wounded. The In
dians are heading for the Black Range. A
party of citizens left here to warn and pro-
tect settlers on the Rio Mimbres. Captain
Lee, with seventy-five men, took up the
trail at noon yesterday. 1t is estimated
sixty persons have been killed since the
beginning of the outbreak.
BArTLEFoRD, May 29.-Inspecter Peters
and twenty mounted police have arrived
from General Strange's column, which has
burned. Policeman Cowan's body was
found there, horribly mutilated, his heart
being cut out and impaled on a
pole, near his body. Peters was also
at Frog Lake, where he discovered the
bodies of the people massacred there by
Big Bears Indians. A body, supposed to
be that of Gowan Lock, was found in
well. The bodies of Father Marchand and
Father Farford were found in q cellar of a
burned house, much charred. They were
recognized by the beads found in their
pockets. Their gowns were not altogether
DESTROYED
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
49, EATON. OHIO, THURSDAY. JUNE A. 1885
TERRIFIC WATER SPOUT,
ty of Bohemians Overwhelmed and
Eleven of Them Drowned.

LINCOLN, NEB., May GA special to the
State Journal from Indianola gives the fol-
lowing particulars of the bursting of a wa
ter spout: Tuesday evening party of
seventeen Bohemians en- route to Dundy
Creek camped at Richman Canyon, nine
miles east Of this place. At dark heavy
rain set in, and about 10 O'Clock water
spout burst short distance above, flooding
the heretofore dry canyon to a depth of
hfteen feet. The party were asleep in their
wagons, and it consisted of John Mack,
his wife and son, John Osmer, wife and
four children and two other children,
Joseph Havelic, his wife and three child.
rem, When the food struck the wagons
Havelfc was the first to arouse. He
jumped up, grasped his wagon tongue and
attemped to pull the wagon out of the
water. Fresh waves struck it, twisting the
tongue from his grasp and carrying the
had succeeded in getting four children to
shore, but before he. could return to his
wagon IL was carried down the canyon.
The first Mack knew of the situation he
was sailing down the stream. Seeing a
tree just ahead, he bade his wife and son
cling to him, and he would
try and catch the tree. He succeeded,
but the sudden stop shook off his wife and
son, and they went down in the flood.
Mack ciimed in the tree, FROM which he
was rescued in the morning. Havelic and
Jennings, half mile off, made known
what had happened, and word was sent to
lndianola. By noon one hundred people
were searching for the bodies Of the
drowned. Up to tonight but two of the
eleven bodies missing had been found,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
Cholera Precautions.

PARIS, May 2s.-Dr. Proust has been sent
by the government to Marseilles to advise
upon a measure for preventing repetition
of last years cholera scourge. There are
some indications that the authorities are
waking up to the fact that cleanliness be-
forehand is what is needed, rather THAI
medicine afterward. There have been
some attempts to render Mars lilies and
Toulon less filthy, but they have largely
failed, because of public indifference among
the citizens. The Spanish govern
ment's prohibition of further inocu-
lations by DIR. Ferran is ostensibly
due to the fact that some persons
who had been subjected to the treatment
died. DR.. Ferran, however, points to the
fact that out of 5000 persons inocculated
with the cholera germ, the deaths, if any,
have been SO few as to escape record. He
does not see how the Government Commits
sion of Inquiry, now at work, can fail to
report favorably on his system, in view of
such results as these. The doctor, however,
cares nothing about the result except from
humanitarian point of view, and says that
if the Spanish Government will not let him
save people from cholera in Spain, he will
visit Paris and London and expoand the
system in public there. hoping to secure its
adoption by some government.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
Brazil to Abolish Slavery.

NEW YORK, May 29.-The steamer Ad-
vance, which arrived here to-day from Rio
de Janeiro, brings advices to the effect that
the new Ministry of Brazil has adopted
programme for the abolition of slavery, of
which the following is synopsis: A gem
eral registry of all slaves, with a declara-
tion of the value of each slave registered,
subject to yearly depreciation of five
value of slaves of sixty years
two hundred milreis each. Slaves
over sixty years of age will have no none
tary value, but will be obliged to serve for
cipation fund will be continued, and in ad-
dition new fund will be created from a
tax of five per cent. on all public revenues
except exports and naturalization will be
made to slave owners in five per cent. poll
cies to one-half the value of each slave and
a service of five years in payment of the
indar
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
A Celebrated Case,

NEW YORK, May Ex-senator Edmunds
will sail on the steamer Auranta tomorrow
for England. He is to testify before the
Committee on Privileges of the House of
Lords in civil suit which affects the title
of an old peerage in England,
the income of which is $780,
600 year. The case turns on the valid
ity of the marriage between Sir Richard
Markland and Mary McAdam, which oc-
courred in this city in 1772, and was solmn-
lied by DR.. Ogilvie, of Trinity Church. 1t
is especially in regard to the colonial laws
in force at that time that Mr.. Edmunds'
testimony is wanted. The two claimants
for the estate and with it the title of
the Earl of Lauderdale, are Sir James
Ramsay Maitland, the descendant of the
fifth son of the sixth Earl of Lauderdale,
and Major Frederick Henry Maitland, the
direct descendant of Sir Richard Maitland,
who was Adjutant General of the North
American Colony from 1865 to 1772, and
was the fourth son of the sixth Earl of
Lauderdale,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
Another Tenement Shell Falls.

NEW YORK, May 2s.-Shortly after three
a. M, to day, people in the vicinity of
Fourth and Fifth streets, Long Island City,
were startled from their sleep by loud
crash, and running from their dwellings
found that the frame tenement house, No. SO
jackson Avenue, had fallen down. Several
days ago the house was found to he in dan
gerous condition, and the tenants were or
dered by the police to vacate the place. They
strongly objected, asserting that they had
paid quarters rent. They moved por-
tion of their furniture, however, and were
to have taken the rest of it away to-day.
At the last meeting of the Board of Health
the house was declared a nuisance, and
dangerous to human life, and ordered to be
pulled down at once or repaired. There
were no persons in the house when it fell.
The building was owned by Mrs. Langtry.
The loss is about ST, 500.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
GaId Minina il Ohio.

MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, May 3O.-The gold
excitement has again broken out in this
county, and movement is now on foot to
organize company for the development OF
the territory in the eastern portion of the
county. Two old Californians, Charles
Bichtol and Aaron Lavenidge, claim to
have discovered gold bearing quartz, which
they have assayed, showing wonderful re-
suits. The exact locality of the ''find" is
kept profound secret, and the prospectors
expect to commence next week in securing
leases of territory.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04

detected the effort It was the postoffioS

detected the effort Il was the post ofioo
workers who surrounded the meeting, |,
and it was the post-office bully who
browbeat the timid into submissio , n.
and forced the passage of tho resolu-
ton of confidence in our Senator for
his noble efforts in behalf of Virginia
Ii was only by general uprising of the
people that a free expression OF the
voters was obtained and Virginia's true
voice was heard despite the struggles OF
this postal-service army to prevent it.
The existence of such an organized
force of partisans in this state is a last
ing menace to Virginia Simple justice
demands its overthrow. and justice is
what the Postmaster-G General proposes
to give long-sufering people.
It is for that Virginians have long,
and until now. vainly appealed. .-Rsch-
zaopd (Vd) State
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
The Afahan Question Settled.

LONDON, May SO.-The Daily Ne,os an
nounces this morning on the highest au-
thority that Russia's reply to England's
counter proposals were received in London
yesterday. The reply, it says, involves
the acceptance of the proposals, and
practically settles in a satisfactory
manner the whole question of the
Afghan boundary. Both Maruchak and
Zulfikar remain in the possession of the
Ameer. The main features of the work of
delimitation have been finally fixed, and
the Boundary Commission will settle the
details. The negotiations have been con-
Quoted in a most friendly spirit on both
sides.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
wACO's WOE.
Eleven Lives Lo t by a Flood and Build
ings Damaged.

New ORLEANS, May 2s-A special from
Waco, Tex, says: A heavy rain-storm
prevailed in this vicinity last night, and
Waco Greek, a small stream that runs
through the city, ran out If it's banks,
inundating hundreds of resi- lences. Most
people deserted their homes and fed to
places of safety. T. DiningA Aoff, with his
wife and three small childrent remained in
their house, which was washed away,
and the whole family were drowned.
Howard Lewis, a colored man, with his
wife, sister and three children, living on a
small stream east of the city lost their
lives in the same manner. To these eleven
victims are to be added five others near the
city. The damage to crops in the county
is over $250,000. Rain storms have prevail
ed throughout North and West Texas, and
the damage to crops and railroads is in
calcuable
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
Pensions Payments.

WASHINGTON, May 29.--The payments
for pensions this month amounted to $1O,-
100000. Last month $6,OO0,0OO were dis
bursed, and for March $9,0OO,00O were re-
quired. This gives a total for eleven
months of the present fiscal year of
$50 500, 900. The pension payments for
the corresponding period last year were
$6S S,000, 900. The increase of 81 800, ,000is ac-
counted for by the law passed last winter
loss of an arm at the shoulder joint and
arrearages on old claims. For the entire
fiscal year the draft on the Treasury for
this account will largely exceed $50, 900 900.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
Mr.. IayIar's Request.

WASHINGTON, May 29.-Congessman J..
d. Taylor left for Ohio this morning to de-
liver the Decoration Day Grafton at Cam
bridge. During the week he wrote the
following letter to Postmaster General Vii
as, to which he has as yet received no an
swer:
"WAsHINGToN, D. c., May 27.
''Hon. W. F. Villas, Postmaster General:
''DEAR SIR:-I have the honor to request
that you modify your recent order in rela-
ton to the removal of fourth-class postmas-
tiers in Ohio, SO as to except therefrom hon.
orably discharged Union soldiers. especially
such as are disabled by wounds received or
disease contracted in the service, and the
widows and orphans of deceased soldiers
who have shown themselves faithful and ef-
ficient public servants.
81 make this request from no partisan
standpoint, but do SO from conviction that
this exception is no more than q patriotic
duty. Very respectfully,
n
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
SENATORIAL COURTESY.

The wisest, Fairest and Best Rule with
Respect to Presideati 81 Appointments
At the recent Pendleton banquet in
New York Mr.. Evarts, who was one OF
the guests and speakers, made vague
allusion to the Republican Senate as
curb on the Democratic Administration
and his words are construed by Re.
publican papers into a promise that the
Senate will probably attempt to keep
Republican office-holders in place by
refusing to affirm the Democrats ap-
pointed to succeed them. Senator Frye,
of Maine, is thought to foreshadow
something like this also in saying thai
he will hold himself under obligations
to be governed in his vote on appoint
ments by the request of the Senators
from the State from which the appoint
ment is made. Senator Frye has nc
personal concern about persons ap-
pointed to Office in Massachusetts,, fol
example, and will feel inclined to vote
for them, as rule. But ii the Massa.
chusetts Senators do not like a person
appointed to Office in their State, and
| request Senator Frye to assist them in
defeating him. he will feel himself
bound by the courtesy of the Senate to
do so. Under this curious rule the Re-
publican Senators from each State could
agree to oppose all appointments in
! their State, and the result would be q
compact and organized opposition in
the Senate to every new appointment.
But this would produce collision
between the President and the factious
Republican Senate, ending in appeal to
the country, and in the end the Senate
would be discounted and subdued.
The House would support the President,
for the House is democratic, and the
country would support the President
because the country is Democratic.
The simple Democratic rule is the
wiscst, fairest and be ito confirm all
appointments of a Republican President
except where the apppointee is especial.
~ Objectionable. This rule is based
upon the principle that when the Presi-
dent is Republican he has right to
Republican assistants and subordinates,
and a Republican administration-and
Democrats have no alternative but te
await their turn. The Republican SEN
ate will do well to adopt thcrule. Their
party is out OF power; the country is
Democratic and has chosen u Demo-
cratic President. This Denlucfatic Pres
ident is charged with the duty of exc
cating iii" laws. and should he permit
ted to choose his own suborJnates fos
tho work. ~. louis Rspubiieais.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
Revolutionary Talk From Mexico.

CITY OF MEXICO, May q, VIA CALVES
ToN.-The hostility which has long threat
ened a rupture between President Diaz and
ex-President Gonzalez has finally cul-
minated in an order adopted in Congress
for the impeachment of the two Secreta-
ries of the Treasury under the Gonzalez
Administration, and also of minor treasury
officials. 1t is generally thought that ex-
President Gonzalez will endeavor to vindi-
cate himself. His friends are reported as
saying that he will precipitate a revolution
before Sn limiting.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
THAT CONFIDENTIAL" LETTER.

A Letter Happy as 1t Has Made the
Republicans Unhappy.
The circular letter sent out by the
Postmaster-Genera to the Democratic
members of Congress in reference to
postmasters, has elected an angry
howl from the Republican ranks.
Hatton, in the astoundingly novel po-
sition of pure, lofty etherialiser, above
the low depths of partisanry, cries
that it is the duty of all Republican
postmasters to resign because the let
ter hits at that great actuating prin-
ciple of self-respect which has invari-
ably characterized the Republican of
iice-holder, not excepting the Virginia
Outcast and the odorous bevy surround
ing him singing halellujahs while they
robbed the people.
Hatton himself resigned some months
since, when he could not do otherwise
and several Republican postmasters
liar circumstances. 1t is not proba-
campaign army will act hastily in get
ting out until they must go. Advice
from man who was forced to leave
can be given easily, but it can not be
so readily taken by one who is in and
hopes for retention.
The Postmaster-Gen letter is as
happy as it has made the Republican
party unhappy. Our Republican con-
temporaries think it has an assassin
aspect because it bears the mark ''con
fdential" But the enlightened, un-
biased public regard the private mark
as imparting to the document that
mysterious potency and POLITICALLY pun
gent aroma accompanying the swing Of
the unseen censer, which, no matter
how dense and disagreeable the sur
roundings, will purge and purify the at
mosphere. Mr.. Villas says of his plan,
that it sis, in short, to pick out the
most obnoxious and offensive partisans
in each county, to the number of a sixth
to quarter of all, and choose tirst-class
men to take their places.
Virginians know what the term often
sive partisan means, and how especial
ly appropriate it is in connection with
the post-offices in Virginia after they
fell into Mahoue's hands. The postal
service must of necessity be well organ
lied, and this organized force was hurl.
ed under the direction of a shameless
adventrlrer against the free voters OF
Virginia. There were spies, bullies and
| workers in that force. which was made
additionally strong by the aid of money.
| When here and there some poor negro
rising superior to his fellow-wh to
slaves sought to shake off the Malone
| shackles and organize an Independent
movement whereby he could vote and
act as his more manly impulses die
tatsd, 1t was the post-ofiice spy who frs
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
A Common Sco!d.

PHILADELPHIA, May 81. Margaretta
Brooks was convicted to-day. of being
common scold, and was sentenced to four
months imprisonment. After the sentence
her eighteen-year-oldd daughter jumped to
her feet and struck one of the witnesses,
an aged lady, in the face with her fist, and
mother and daughter then be-
came intensely excited, crying,
screaming and striking right and left.
prison van the Judge sentenced the daugh-
ter also to four months Imprisonment for
contempt of Court. At this announcement
the girl became frantic, began screaming
at the top of her voice, and resisted des-
perately the officers who took hold of her
to remove her to the van. She fought with
all her strength, and being a strong, robust
young woman, it took all the strength of
two of the strongest officers of the Court
to remove her from the room.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
CAUGHT AT LAST.
A. w. Mullen, EmbezzIing Manager of Kel-
logg's Newspaper Company Arrested
In Philadelphia,

CINCINNATI, O., May eD.-A. W. Mullen,
former manager of the A. N. Kellogg
Newspaper Company, of this city, who has
been hiding in Philadelphia since last No
vember, was arrested yesterday on
requisition from Columbus, on a charge of
embezzlement, by detective Grammar,
of this city. Mullen proposes to make
a fight, and having secured
legal talent some technicality
was raised in reference to the papers, and
they were to-day sent to Harrisburg for
correction, while Mullen was remanded to
Jail at Philadelphia. Detective Grammar
his prisoner. Mullen was a first-class book
keeper, rapid accountant, and considered
every way first -class man. When the AN.
Kellogg Company bougth out the Aikens
Newspaper Union in June, 1882, Mullen
was in their employ, and SO high were the
testimonials for honesty, capacity and en-
terprise they gave him that the new COM
pany retained his services. He was the
manager, opened all the letters, carried the
keys to the safe, and the concern had un-
limited confidence in him. In the spring
of 1884, the general manager, Mr.. G. E.
Pratt, began to suspect something wrong,
and at last detected false entries in the
books. 1t is the custom of the house to
send out weekly statements to all the
country customers. These were made out
handed to Mullen for comment. In many
instances where such customers had sent
him checks or drafts which he had pocket
ed he destroyed the statement furnished
him by the book-keeper and mailed a COR
rect account. In other cases where money
was due from the company to business
houses in the city, he would take, say 500,
out of the drawer, and have it charged on
the cash-book as paid on the bill. 1t was
ascertained afterward that this money was
appropriated to his own use. His pecula-
tions in this way amounted to between
$1,000 and 5000. On the 31st of last Octo-
ber, Mr.. Pratt, who had sent out circulars
to the country customers, received
In return a number of returned
drafts and cancelled checks, which fur
nished such overwhelming evidence of
Mullen's rascality that he was confronted.
With great GOODNESS he said that he could
explain it all; said he would go out few
minutes, and Mr.. Pratt demanded the keys,
and he slipped off. A warrant was sworn
out for his arrest, but the bird had flown.
The affair was placed in the hands of the
detective, who, by watching a sister of his
wife, succeeded in learning of his where
abouts, and the matter of his arrest was at
once ACCOMPLISHED.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
Insecure RuiIdina coIIanses.

JERSEY CITY, N. j., May 27.-The;three-
story frame tenement house, No. 76 Colgate
street collapsed this morning. Five fami-
lies occupied the premises, including TWEEN
ty-seven persons. Four were killed. Bar
ney, Nellie and Mary Anderson, aged nine
and seven years and three months respec-
lively, were all smothered in bed,
Michael Webb, aged fifteen years, had his
head crushed. John Coyne, aged thirty
jured. Nine other persons, hurt more or
lese seriously, were cared for by neighbors.
7 he building was known to be insecure.
It was to have been repaired next week.
Fortunately no fire broks out In tho ruina.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
capitaIist's Wife Accidentally Killed.

PORTLAND, OREGON, May T.-Mrs. Pres
ton Smith, the wife of a prominent capital.
ist, was instantly killed in her bedroom,
this morning, while seated in a chair nurs-
ing a baby, by the accidental discharge OF
a pistol which the chambermaid was car
rying from the bed to place on the mantel.
Her husband had left the revolver under
the pillow when he left home few min
utes before. Mrs. Smith was native OF
Huntsville, Ala, and married there six
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
New Cattle Disease,

BLOOMINGTON. ILL, May 2S.-Within the
Saybrook, this county, a number of appar-
emily healthy cattle have fallen dead in
their tracks as if from heart disease. The
disease appears to be contagious, but its
nature is not yet clearly defined. 1t creates
no little anxiety among stockmen.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
Millions of hoppers.

CHICAGO, May pa Colorado telegram
says: Millions of young grasshoppers are
reported coming out of the sandy soil on
the south side of the Arkansas River, above
Pueblo, destroying early vegetables and
tender shrubs. Their appearance is SINH
lar to that of 1873, when they were swept
east by winds, and consumed an immense
amount of growing crops in Kansas.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
Two Younu Men Drowned.

GLENwooD, IND, May 31.-A very sad
affair happened this afternoon between
three and four O'Clock, about seven miles
north east of Rushville, at deep hole in
Flat Rock River, called Deep Mock, by the
drowning of two boys while bathing,
namely, Johnnie Rush, aged seventeen land
Willie Higley, aged eighteen. Also while
gerald came near losing his life.