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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
WHOLESALE ASSASSINATION.

Twenty of San FrancIsco's Most Prominent
Citizens Its Intended Victims.
SAN Francisco, December 16-A most
sensational and startling plot for wholesale
assassination of the most prominent men in
this city came to light here late last night.
Some time ago the police obtained in
formation of the existence of an organiza-
tion called the Socialistic Revolutionary
Association, which, it was asserted, was
composed of ultra-socialistic members. A
close watch was kept on their movements,
and the police finally succeeded in OBJ
tanning the minutes of one of their meet
ings, held November %. From these
facts it was discovered that it was
the intention of the Association to put
out of the way about twenty men, in
W. Morrow, General W. Il. L. Barnes,
Mayor Bartlett, United States Judge Lo-
renzo Sawyer, Leland Stanford, Charles
Crocker. Governor Stoneman, the principal
names were placed on the prospective
ist'' and placed in the hands of the Exc
cutive Committee to carry out the
orders of the Association. The com.
mite mttee >, we're to devise s f the s, best
plot, and were thus engaged when their
work was brought to a sudden termination
last night by the discovery of the Associa-
tion's headquarters at No. 800 Montgomery
avenue, by the police, and the arrest Of
four men found in the room, named Julius
c. Koosher, Henry Weiseman, Charles
Mittellstadt and Oscar Eggers. In
the room were also found a complete
laboratory for the manufacture of Internal
machines. The men were taken to the city
prison, when they boldly asserted that
they were dynamiters, and proposed to get
rid of the citizens named, and then raze
Chinatown. The prisoners also belong to
the German branch of the Anti-Coolie
League. No charge has yet been entered
against the prisoners. Further develop
ments are expected.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
A ROMANCE IN POLITICS.
The Mexican Revolution Brought About
by Love for the Most Beautiful
of Senoritas.

The Mexican Revolution Brought About
by Love for the Most Beautiful
of Senoritas.
New YORK, December 16.-The brother of
Governor Sepulveda, who is now here, says
the entire difficulty in Neuvo Leon, Mexico,
originated in the personal rupture between
Diaz and Gonzales. Everyone in Mexico
says Sepulveda knows that while Diaz
was serving his first term as President,
he entered into a solemn, compact to
SO shape matters that Gonzales
would succeed him. Diaz faith
fully fulfilled that compact. and SO ar
ranged matters in the seven great northern
States that they all went to Gonzales when
the election occurred. When Gonzales as
sumed the presidency he, in turn, made
similar compact with Diaz, that the latter
should again be President. This compact
also was faithfully observed, and the
two Caesars thus divided Mexico.
Shortly after Diaz was inaugurated
him for a renewal of their former compacts.
The promise was given, so GanZales'
friends declare, that the latter should again
be President. In order to fulfill this last
compact Diaz had but to leave the North
ern States as he found them, viz. in the
hands of Gonzales adherents. AT this
point, says Senior Sepulveda, the hand of a
designing woman came between the two
great leaders. Diaz since his first compact
had wooed and won the fairest
senorita in Mexico, the only daughter
of Don Manuel Romero Robio. I'm
fortunately, her noble father is ambitious
to be President, and therein lies the hidden
secret. Robio is now a Cabinet officer, and
with the powerful influence of his daughter
he has caused Diaz to violate his last COM
pact with Gonzales, and the unmistakable
signal of their success is the accomplished
fact that Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, two
powerful Gonzales States have been over
turned and seized by Diaz since his inaug-
uration. The heir apparent is now Robio,
and not Gonzales.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
WHY HE DwINDLED.
A Farmer Carries a Frog In His Stomach
Three Years.

Three Years.
PARKERsBURe, W. VA, December 2O.-A
strange story, well authenticated, comes
from Lost Creek, Calhoun County. There
live in that neighborhood a respectable
farmer named Joseph Dountain, who should
now be in the prime of vigorous manhood.
About three years since Mr.. Doun-
tain began to complain of pains
in the stomach, accompanied at times
with peculiar twitchings and jerk
ings of that organ. These pangs were not
constant, but were worse at times when
Dountain happened to go longer than usual
without drinking water, of which he swal-
lowed immense quantities. When he hap
pened to have been at a distance from
springs or streams at work, and was not
enabled to get a drink for several hours,
the pains and twitchings of his stomach
almost threw him into convul-
came almost a wreck. From an un-
usually powerful man of two hundred
pounds Dountain dwindled to mere wreck
of los pounds, whose only qualification
ing himself with plenty of drinking-water.
A few days ago he came to the conclusion
that there was some living reptile or some-
thing in his stomach. Having arrived at
Who gave him a powerful emetic, which
caused Dountain to throw up. After retch-
ing and groaning till he was black
in the face, he succeeded in
throwing up an immense frog.
which weighed thirteen ounces. The rep
tile was still living after getting outside Of
its habitation, but died in a few minutes.
Dountain's intense relief after the success
of the ejectment proceedings can better be
imagined than described He is rapidly
regaining his lost manhood, but doesn't
drink such immoderate quantities of water.
He keeps the frog in a jar of alcohol and
takes great pleasure in showing his strange
tenant to his many curious visitors.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
A FAM1LYs FATE.
Father, Mother and Two Little Ones Perish
in Their Burning Home.

Father, Mother and Two Little Ones PerisIi
in Their Burning Home.
DETROIT, December 18-About O'Clock
this morning parties returning from lodge
by way of the Dix Road, just beyond the
city limits, discovered the house of Frank
Knoch, German Lutheran, who kept a
farm and market garden, in flames. The
home was small frame shanty, and as
there were no facilities for extinguishing
the fire the place was wholly consumed
When the ruins had cooled sufficiently to
permit of Investigation q searching party
was formed. An hours persistent search
revealed the charred body of Knoch and
wife. A little distance from both was
found the charred body of child. Knoch's
two children, George, aged three years,
and Frank Albert, aged nine months, were
in the house at the time, but which of these
the body represented could not be ascer-
tanned owing to its condition. The fire is
believed to have originated from an oil
stove which had been used to heat food for
the baby, who had been sick.
LATER.-Frank KnoCh was known to have
money in the house, which he had been
saving to make some payments. The
searchers in the ruins found a revolver,
and it is known that Knoch never owned
one. These two facts lead to the suspicion
robbery, and the building then fired to
cover up the crime. The position in which
the ashes of the family were lying
would seem to oppose this suspicion. How
ever, nothing is definitely known, every
thing about the house having been com
was not at first found, and it was thought
the flames had entirely devoured it. Later
the searchers found the crumbling ashes of
what had once been the youngest child.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
ALL HOPE ABANDONED
OF Saving the Miners Imprisoned
in the Slope at Nanticoke.
Twenty-four Lives Almost Certainly Gone
Out in the Coal Mine.

WILKEsgARRE, Pa, December 20.-To-day
was the gloomiest day ever witnessed in
Nanticoke Thousands Of people poured
into the town, in vehicles, on horseback
and on foot Hundreds of them gathered
in groups around the various workings,
where they discussed the situation of Il .
imprisoned men. A message was brought
here from Nanticoke this morning to the
effect that William Elke had been found in
the gangway, and evidently had been
dead several hours. AT the com
papy's office this was denied. They
unchanged from that of yesterday, though
they hourly expect to reach the fatal spot
where the entombed are supposed to be.
The rescuing parties are continuously at
work, under direction of Superintendent
Morgan. There is no hope of rescuing any
of the victims alive. At O'Clock this
evening the rescuing party struck mass Of
wet sand, and forty-five additional men
were sent in to remove it. At O'Clock an
pany's office here to the effect that the
rescuing party were then within twenty
feet of the fatal chamber, and werc hoping
to reach the imprisoned men by eleven
o'clock. IL 30 O'Clock a message was
brought from the pit in which the relief
party are at work. The messenger reported
that the men were still working vigor-
ously, but that they had not yet reached
outlook it is doubtful if they gain entrance
to the fatal slope chamber before to-mor-
row. Almost as fast as the sand is re-
moved it fillsi in again, and the men are
now laboring under great difficulties. No.
Colliery, where the accident occurred,
employs six hundred men and boys. Its
output is the lowest of any of the Susque-
but $50 carloads per day. The loss to the
company will be large, and the next three
months will be consumed in max
ing repairs. During that time the
but will be given work at the other collier
les of the company. At 80 O'Clock a. m.
a report from Nanticoke says that rescuers
finally reached the place where the men
were supposed to be, but the men were not
there. The rescuing party are now push
ing forward to another chamber, with hopes
of finding them in a few hours.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
overlook the important fact that the
IN dian race Ia nnt q honnUenaoua race

overlook the important fact that the
Indian race is not a homogeneous race.
It consists of numerous widely separ-
atcd tribes, speaking different lam
guages and varying greatly in Gus
toms, habits and conditions, from the
enlightened commonwealths of the Five
Nations to the wild, fierce, rowing
bands who eke out by plunder the
scanty subsistence they derive from the
chase and Government rations. Any
general policy adapted to the advance.
ment of one tribe would be disastrous
and destructive to another.
.sIn the meantime, until the Indian
is ready by educational development to
take his place among the people Of the
country, the reservation system is his
only protection, and whatever may be
said of the tribal relation, which it is
thought to be SO desirable to dissolve.
it is in their uncivilized state the normal
condition of Indian society. 1t is not
only deeply imprinted in his mind as
the polity of his race, but it is his con-
stitutional status in this country. The
Constitution Of the United States recog-
nizes the Indian in his tribal relations,
and in its delegation of powers to Com
gress it declares that it shall regulate
commerce among foreign nations and
the Indian tribes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
Dsstructive Fires.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA, December IA fire
broke out last night in Hubbard's ware
house on the dock and was destroyed To-
gether with the warehouse of Benedict &
Co. Abel's block is badly gutted; Hazen's
billiard parlor was destroyed with num-
Der of other buildings entaling an aggre-
gate loss Of S450, GOO
PHLADELPHIA, Pa, December Thames
W. Cooper's cabinetware factory, this city,
was burned to-day. Loss, $4,000; insur-
a1ce $50, 900.
CINclNNATI, O., December 1s.-Geo Field
kamp & Bros chair factory located in the
bottoms, was completely Quilted by fire last
night. Loss about $50, go. At las this
morning fire was discovered in the Ware
Vinegar Factory, on Third street, near
Grand Central Depot The fire originated
In the furnace room. At this hour-4:15
there is no hope of saving the factory.
Once or twice the fire was communicated
to the shed of the Grand Central Depot, but
was extinguished without loss.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
gas Gatoll 9enlufrat.
Pubitshed Every Thursday
AT EATON, OHIO,
L. @. GOULD.
Terms of Subscription.
In Advance, $3.50.
JOB PRINTING Of all descriptions furnished
to ORDER and guaranteed prove satisfactory a. I,
Aiality,
AWFUL SUSPENSE.
Awaiting Tidings 'of the Fate of
Imprisoned Miners.
Thirty Werkmen Shut In by a Torrent of
water from Sunken Lands.

NANTIcoKE, Pa, December 1S.-The drop
ping out of the bottom of large swamp,
covering several acres, and filled with
millions OF gallons of water accumulated
from the late heavy SHOWS and rains,
caused the flooding of No. l Slope of the
Susquehanna Coal Company, that will
most likely be attended with terrible loss
of life, as upward of thirty men and boys
are now imprisoned in the slope, from
which there seems no escape except by
digging tunnel to them. Two hundred
and fifty other miners and boys
were at work in the slope when the
rushing torrents came in upon them. Men
dropped their picks and shovels, and dri
vers and door-boys abandoned their places,
and hurried to the mine outlets through
which they could reach the surface. The
water rushing through the gang-ways was
heavy mine timbers, which had been torn
from their places by the force of the current.
As the workmen entered the gangway to es-
cape the water was up to their wastes. It
was impossible for the men to keep their
1eet, and they were swept along with the
torrent until they secured firm holds on
the walls and recovered their footholds.
several lives are supposed to have been lost
IN the gangway, but who they are can not
have reported to the mining boss. Another
lot of men in trying to escape, found the
Ipain opening to their working place
clogged up with debris, and they were
compelled to retrace their steps until they
reached the foot of the air shaft, when
ropes were lowered to them, and one by
one they were raised to the surface, where
they were received with joyous shouts of
welcome by thousands of people who had
gathered. As soon as possible an alarm
was sounded at Nos. l and Q shafts, the
workings of which are connected with
those Of the slope, and are of much greater
depth. The workmen were removed as
speedily as possible, and all were out be-
fore any water came into either shaft All
mules and loose material had been re-
moved. Around the farmhouse at the slope,
where ali news from the mine is received,
are gathered nearly two thousand people
tonight waiting for some tidings that will
tell them Of the fate Of those inn
prisoned below. Superintendent Morgan
rs busy issuing instructions to volunteer
relief corps, who are now engaged in
driving new tunnel to reach the
men. Wives with children in their arms,
aged fathers and mothers, and brothers and
sisters, are tearfully watching every throb
OF the ponderous fan which is sending pure
air into the mine. Their bleached and hag-
gard-looking faces denote intense suffering,
but they hope against fate. Nothing will
be left undone that will save the men If
they are still alive
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
A NOTED DESPERATE.
Twenty-seven Burglaries and One Murder
Charged Against Him-Logded in
the Rockville Jail.

Twenty-Seven Burglaries and One Murder
Charged Against Him-Logded In
the Rockville Jail.
ROCKVILLE, IND, December 16.-Charley
Roberts, the noted desperate captured at
Danville, H., Saturday by Detective Flaid,
of Terre Haute, and E. s. Gregory, of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Company, was brought here this evening
from the Terre Haute Jail by Sheriff
Musser and two detectives by order
of the County Commissioners and
locked up. He broke out of Rock
ville's ten-thousand-dollar jail two years
ago and escaped to Missouri, where he was
located by the officers numerous times,
but escaped by his desperate fighting and
handy use of the revolver. He is suspected
of the murder of J. r. Murphy, killed in
his store at Jacksville, Fountain County,
three years ago, and robbed of 81 500. No
evidence could be found against Roberts
until year ago, when person was found
whois willing to swear that Roberts was in
the house at the tipe of the murder.
Roberts says he can prove an alibi,
as he committed a burglary the night of
the crime. There are $wenty-seven cases
of burglary against him, mostly all in this
county. He was the leader of a gang of
burglars, who have been terrors to this part
of the country many years, the majority of
whom, Scott Sutherlin, Bob Hall, Sam
Buxton and Ike Betty, are now serving
long terms in the penitentiary. He is
desperate man, and his daring deeds have
terrorized Western Indiana. The aggre-
gate rewards for Roberts arrest will prob
ably reach $4,000.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
THE PRESIDENTS TRIUMPH

A State Paper Which is Calling Forth
Enthusiastic Comments from All Sourcce.
No President has ever given to the
country more polished composition
or one more finished rhetorically. II
is model Of good English and forcible
statement
Those who object that there is a
great deal said in the message should
remember that there was great deal
to say.-St. Louis Republican.
The tariff question is well considered,
and the document teens with valuable
information and recommendation
upon it. Its treatment is fair and its
conclusions SO plainly given that he
who runs may read.-Bm6alo Times.
The Presidents expression of execu.
tive opinion is like ehimsef-frank, hon.
est, cIear-sighted, statesmanlike and
comprehensive. There is no uncertain
note upon any key. 1t unites in one
harmonious symphony the glories,
needs and duties of the Republic. The
Congressman who studies this able
state paper to advantage is thoroughly
equipped for the work he has on hand.
N Y Morning Journal
The first thing that strikes you in Mr..
Cleveland's message is the indefatig-
able industry with which he has studied,
assimilated and assorted the vast null
tiplicity of facts brought to his attention
in the course of his official experience,
and in the several reports of the Cabi-
net officers. He seems to have taken
up the subjects one by one. examined
them with conscientious and intelligent
care, and restated them in his own
lucid language, together with such
conclusions as he has reached during
the metho1ical process. This habit of
thorough systematic review of the facts
presented to him for consideration Is
characteristic of Mr.. Cleveland's con-
ception of executive duty. If his con-
clusions are, almost without exception,
identical with the conclusions of the
members of his Cabinet that shows the
remarkable harmony of opinion exist
ing in the present Administration.
rather than any lack of independent
ideas on the part of Mr.. Cleveland. 1t
sometimes, happens that a President OF
positive convictions is obliged in his
message to dissent from the views ex-
pressed in the report of some equally
positive Secretary, and thus almost to
rebuke his subordinate in public man.
ner. There is nothing of that sort this
year.-N. Y. S~m
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
poLlTlcA | ORGANIZATIONS.

How They Are Necessary to Keep Alive
External Vigilance, the Price OF Lab-
erty."
Some pretentious doctrinaires and
professional reformers of our time In
dulge in lot of silly and mischievous
cant when advertising their own ex-
alted perfections and their contempt
for political parties and partisahs. In
their estimation a political party Is
something to be Stunned and de-
nounced-a oonfederacy of rogues and
spoilsmen, of obnoxious bosses and
henchmen. An earnest, sturdy, con-
sistent partisan they look upon as .
person dominated by prejudice and
passion rather than by reason and cool
reflection. These are the theorists and
idealists who contend that Presidenk
or Governor should utterly disregard
the wishes ard suggestions of his own
party, and WAC elamor for the appoint
ment of ''non-partisans" to all the -
fees. More noisy than numerous,
these oraclesI try to create the impress
sion that permanent parties are evils to
be uprootcd and that jealous party
service should earn distrust instead Of
recognition or reward.
Chatter OF that sort is fatuous and
would be pernicious if it gained any
large number of converts among the
rising generation. Political parties are
the best and safest instrumentality yet
devised by human ingenuity or effort
for the maintenance and administration
of free institutions. They are not the
creations of chance or caprice. They
embody definite principles, aims and
tendencies. They are the medium
through which the deliberate judgment
of the people is ascertained and exc
cuted. If the party entrusted with
power betrays its trust or shows itself
incapable, the opposing party stands
ready to assume its tasks and functions.
In either case the party is the people.
The officials elected or appointed, from
President or Governor down to constar
BILE or pound-master, are the servants
of the people and are pledged to carry
out fairly and honorably the policy out
lined by their party. These are whole
some truths and any material depart
ure from them in practice is certain to
be productive of bad results. When q
party advocates obnoxious principles or
nominates unworthy men, those who
are dissatisfied with its action have the
simple and effective alternative of join
ing it and reforming it from within or
of rebukine; and chastening it by CO.
operating with the opposition.
While a President or Governor
should be the impartial administrator
of the law for the whole people within
hio iuri cdiotiop fhat oh1i nofiou docs
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
Type-Setting Contest.

New York, December ia type-setting
contest between Joseph McCann, of the
Herald, and W. c. Barnes, of the World
for the championship of the city and State,
took p ace here to-day in the presence of a
large number of printers. The purse con-
tended for was 81, 900. The trial lasted four
hours, beginning at II O'Clock. The type was
minion, sat without paragraphs. Barnes fin
ished his first thousand ems in twenty-nine
minutes and thirty seconds, and McCann
completed his first thousand two minutes
later. At 8 O'Clock time Sas called. Nc
Cam had set S,06214 ems End Barnes 1851.
Then each man was obliged to correct his
own proofs. When the corrections had
been made and the number of lines de-
Quoted which each had lost through mis-
takes, it was found that McCann had T.
66211 ems to his credit, and Barnes, 1915.
McCann was declared the winner.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
SIXTEEN VESSELS SUNK,
And Scores of Sailors Drowned-Terrible
Work of a Cyclone at Colon.

And Scores of Sailors Drowned-Terrible
Work of a Cyclone at Colon.
PANAMA, December H.-Colon has been
visited by cyclone, which has done great
damage. 1t commenced on the I'd inst.
about 2 p. m. and the next day lulled, but
recommended again with terrible severity.
All the steamers in port put out to sea for
safety returned, and had again to put out.
The damage to property has been very
heavy and the loss of life most serious.
The following vessels were sunk with their
crews: Holden, Karnan, Blanch Ortalan,
Atwood, Ariel, Veteran, Ocean, Lynton,
Avelina, Stella, Catalina, Figri, Douglas,
and two others whose names could not be
ascertained. The rain poured down in tor
rents and a terrible gale of wind from the
Northeast set in. The Royal Mail new
freight office was destroyed by the storm.
Wharf No. 4, belonging to the Panama
Railroad, is almost demolished, the rails
having been torn up and the earth works
destroyed by the force Of the tornado.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-24
Underground Wires in Chicago.

: CHICAGO, December 1s-There are, as
nearly as can be estimated, about 5000
miles Of wire in Chicago used by the tele-
graph, telephone and electric light COM
panies. Last December there were shown
to be about1 100 miles of wire underground.
Since then the work has been actively go
ing on, and during the present year about
three times that amount has been put out
Of sight. By May / all the wires in the
business portion Of the city are expected to
be underground, though it will probably
take at least ten years to place all the
wires throughout the city there.