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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
Y.
COST. OF GRANTS FUNERAL.
The Amount Greatly Overestimatcd-Bs
lleved 1t will be Less than $4,000.

The Amount Greatly Overestimatcd-Bo.
lleved 1t will be Less than $4,000
NEW YORK, September 3.-"The cost Of
General Grants funeral has been greatly
overestimated," General Perry said in his
Office on Governors Island on Tuesday. 81
have heard it said that the totol amount
will be $50, 900, while am told that even
800, 900 has been guessed at The bill
for the Governments share in the expenses,
has been sent to me and by me forwarded to
Washington. This bill does not include
the cost of transportation of the body from
Mt McGregor to New York, together with
the funeral train and the passengers.
besides the pilot engine which was
ahead of the funeral train. That
was present from the railroad company.
Neither does the bill include the cost of
keeping the body in state in City Hall in
New York and in Albany. The cost of all
the lying in state in New York City
will be borne by the municipal
government. The total amount will be
less than $780, 900. The largest item in the
bill is $4,000 for carriage hire When it is
remembered that New York, Jersey City and
Brooklyn were called on to contribute carri-
ages at the usual rates for carriage hire this
amount will not be considered large.
The bill is itemized. 1t is not believed"
added General Perry, ''that the bill will be
questioned or changed at Washington, be-
cause it seems reasonable charge. But do
not report my words in no way of comment
ing or criticising the BILL"
It is learned on good authority that
undertaken Merritt, who had charge of the
obsequies of the late General Grant, has at
last completed his bill for the funeral. The
total expense is placed at S14, 162.75.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
ANOTHER SNAKE STORY.
This One is vouched for as Being
True.
A Reptile Two Feet Long Has Been Living
in Child's Stomach.

HARTFORD CITY, IND, September g.
Lille M. Hahn, seven years of age, living
three miles south of this city, commenced
complaining of pain in the stomach over
three months ago. She gradually became
worse until, during paroxysm of suffer-
ing, she was threatened with convulsions.
She often described her sensations as that
something was alive in her stomach. and
said she could feel it move. She wasfmed-
icated much of the time, and 'often worm
medicine was administered, the idea pre-
vailing that it was stomach worms that
caused her suffering. She became
her APPETITE was depraved, and she took
She was troubled with great thirst, often
drinking copious draughts of water, after
which she would be relieved for an hour or
more. During the last week she complain
cd of pain in her bowels, and her sufferings
at times became almost unbearable. She
was confined to her bed, and her friends
thought dissolution would soon end her
expelled from the bowels an object
over two feet in length, and at
once exclaimed to her parents: II am
better now; oh, feel SO good" Micro.
that the object discharged from the bowels
Of the little sufferer was species of water
snake, and it is now in the possession OF
a reporter, and has been since Friday
noon, and, what is NOR startling, it is alive
and quite active. 1t is kept in rain-water
in a stopped bottle. When the water is
chilled it becomes torpid, and when sub
iected to heat it soon becomes active.
Under the microscope it has been seen to
protrude its tongue, which resembles the
point of fine needle. It is perfectly round,
smooth and uniform in size throughout
its entire length. Now, after sixty
hours have elapsed since it was dis.
charged, it is apparently as lively as at
first. The child is rapidly recovering, and
experiences none of the sensations that
troubled it prior to being relieved of its
terrible tormentor. Hundreds of persons
have seen the reptile and witnessed its
gyratory movements in wonder and
amazement. 1t has none of the character.
istics of a tape-worm or any other form OF
entozoic life described by authors. The
child must have drank water of which it
was an inhabitaft, and it gradually de-
veloped and was finally discharged from
the stomach and expelled by the bowels.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10

CHARLESTON, W. Va, September "A
great deal of excitement prevails on Syca-
more Creek, Clay County, this State, over
a malignant form of disease which can not
be explained by local physicians. My in
formant says every hour brings news of
another death. The malady was thought
to be fiux, but is more fatal disorder, with
symptoms similar to cholera. In the family
of Esquire Sizemore four sons died within
few hours of each other. Others of the
family are sick with the disease. The disease
is mostly confined to children. who die in
very short time, paralyzed with pain. The
Sycamore Creek region, where the disease
prevails, is sparsely populated with a
hardy class of mountaineers. The air and
water are pure. The disease is of the ma
ture of that which prevailed in Southwest
West Virginia and the adjoining part of
Kentucky last year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
vassar's New President.

BOSTON, September 8. - The recently
elected president Of Vassar College, DR..
Samuel White Duncan, was born at Haver-
hill, Mass, December 10, 1888. On gradu-
ating at Brown University, in 1860, he de-
delivered the philosophical oratioHo After
a years travel he entered the Newton TheO-
logical Seminary. but left there as soon as
the war broke out. He raised company
of volunteers in two weeks and
began active service as Captain in
the Fiftieth Massachusetts Regiment After
the close of the war he resumed his studies
and graduated from the Rochester Theolog-
ical Seminary. He was ordained as pastor
of the Erie Avenue Baptist Church in Cleve-
land, Ohio, in 1867, and has since been con-
nected with churches in Cincinnati, and
Rochester, N. Y. He has been called from
Rochester to the Presidency of Vassar. His
wide experience with people leads the
friends of Vassar to hope that he will not
only hold that college to its present high
standard, but also will widen its curriculum
and increase its endowment.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
Murder and lYnchinu.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, September g.
Pope Mitchell, an ex-policeman, and now
streetcar driver, was murdered on his car
this afternoon by Chas. Williams, mu-
latto, who fired four shots at him, hitting
him each time, and killing him instantly.
After long chase Williams was captured
and taken to tho jail, large crowd follow
ing him with loud threats of hanging.
There are very strong probabilities that
Williams will be lynched before morning, as
an immense crowd now surrounds the jail.
They are in earnest, and serious trouble is
apt to result before morning. Three
companies of militia, the Chattanooga
Cadets. Chicamauga Cadets and Chatta-
uooga Light Infantry, are ON guard duty
at the Jail, and as they are armed with
breech- -loaders the chances for bloodshed
in case of an assault on the jail are, very
good. At midnight the situation is very
grave one, and possibly the Knoxville hor-
ror will be repeated, or innocent blood flow.
Later-The mob broke open the Jail doors,
and are at work on the cell door of the
murderer. The militia, failing to get
orders from the Governor, have been with
drawn, and in all probability Williams will
be lynched in less than an hour.
SEPTEMBER 7, 1915 A. M.-The mob fin ally
broke open the door of No. 13, took the
guilty wretch to the upper floor and hanged
with its bloody work, dispersed. The
negro was hung to rafter in the jail in a
most methodical and systematic manner.
He was taken from his cell and carried up
stairs, when his hands and his feet were Sc
curely tied. A heavy rock was tied to his
feet, the lynchers lifted him up and dropped
him, and he strangled to death in three
minutes. An hour before he shot Mitchell
Williams had been elected from the car
for entering it, while drunk, in boisterous
manner, smoking in the presence of ladies,
and when asked for his fare refused to pay
it. He followed the car, and while it was
waiting on switch shot the driver. At
midnight there was fusilade at the Jail,
and it is reported that a white man and
negro were shot, but no particulars can be
obtained.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
POLITICAL NOTES.

-Hoadly will not have walk-over
in Ohio but will walk away with For
aker with promptness and Dispatch
atlanta Constitution.
If Foraker can manage to dodge
for few weeks longer he hopes to have
the lightning strike him.-Batter County
Democrat.
Senator Sherman, in his dastardly
attempt to revive the old sectional is
sues, committed an act or -p1rparfsf1.-
The American people will thank no
man for outrages of this kind. They
demand progression and condemn hea-
thenism. An act of tn. s kind is crime
against civilization.-C2eUeland Plain
Dealer.
Republican papers accuse Gov
ernor Hoadly of having plans to capture
the colored voters. There is evidently
great fear that Foraker will not be able
to command the colored vote. Toward the
colored people Foraker seems to be one
thing when he is getting fee and an
other thing when he is candidate for
office. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Democratic State Executive
Committee have pulled off their coats,
rolled up their sleeves and gone to
work Their headquarters will be on
Broad street, opposite the Capitol. in
house formerly occupied as q residence
by man named r. B. Hayes and Gov
ernor Foster. The house has been
vacant for some time, probably owing
to the reputation of the former occu-
pants. Cincinnati Enquirer.
THAT brash young statesman,
Theodorus Roosevelt, announces that
he will push into the State of Ohio, and
make few speeches for Judge Foraker
during the campaign. Two years ago
Mr.. Foraker managed to destroy HIM
self by making speeches in his own be-
half, while his opponent quartered
himself in a Philadelphia hotel and
studied medicine. With the youthful
and indiscreet Mr. Roosevelt added to
Foraker's wind orchestra. the Demo
cratic majority should not be less than
$4,000 this year.-M Y. World.
In the first place. the admins
tration of the Democratic candidate;
Governor Hoadly, has been such in q
general way as to commend it to his
own party, as well as the fair, liberal
and Just elements of the opposition.
He has been tried and found not want
| ing" He is man of broad and liberal
views. with the courage of his convic-
tons, and while men may differ with
his expressed tenets or beliefs. all, po-
litical foe as well as friend, must adj
mire the sincere fearlessness of the
man and the freedom with which he
expresses his convictions.
The names of nearly all the resi-
dents of the city are enrolled in the
books of the ward assessors. and the
popularity of some is wonderful. Let
tiers appear to be joined together with
out the possibility of being audibly ex-
pressed as g. word, but tt every one
there is some proud owner. A glance
over the Fourteenth Ward returns for
| peculiar names was made yesterday
with the following result: Kris, Srp,
Wrk, Wrbsky, Vrba, Smrt, Mraz,
Mrkwicka. Mlckoosky, Mlnarik, Drha,
Drdek, Crvok, Crmak, Break. Strned.
The longest name ever recorded in the
Probate Office was signed by a citizen
who secured marriage license yester-
day. 1t was August Wiezovgitzovzitski
Observation-Disclosures.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
Farmer Eleeced.

| HARRISBURG, Pa, September 2.-John
E. Kicker, Dauphin County farmer, was
recently relieved of $1,000. Two men-who
registered their names as D. D. Forster, of
Boston, and ID. F. Davis, of Philadelphia
informed Kicker of desire to Craze sheep
on his farm. While negotiating with him
they told him they had scheme by which
he might make $1,000 out of an investment
of 81 1000 The unsuspecting farmer came
to this city in company with one of the men
and took 81 600 out of bank. At secluded
spot the other man Joined them, and in a
few moments Forster and Davis compelled
Kicker at the point of a revolver to de-
liver his money to them. They made their
escape hurriedly, and now 500 is offered
for their arrest.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
Useful Patent on Sewing Machines.

WASHINGTON, September "a patent
has been issued to Messrs. Jiencke & Nc
Kee, of Philadelphia, for an apparatus to
run sewing machines. The inventors have
succeeded in constructing an apparatus
which is a reliable substitute for foot
power, and which does away with the
1aborious and fatiguing treadle. The
motive power is ordinary clock springs ar
ranged so as to run the motor with any
speed desired by simply bearing the foot
on a rest. A few moments winding up
to run a sewing machine all day. The
noiselessness and smoothness of its work.
ing and the easy manner with which the
speed can be regulated and controlled are
peculiarly favorable features of this useful
invention.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
Georgia's New Capitol.

ATLANTA, September 3.-Ten thousand
people witnessed the ceremonies attending
the laying of the corner stone of the pro-
posed new Capitol here yesterday. The
weather was beautiful and the city was filled
with strangers from all parts of the State.
The Legislature attended in body. The
ceremonies were very imposing and en-
braced an elaborate programme which was
carried out in every detail. General A. r.
Lawton, of Savannah, the orator of the day.
delivered an admirable and patriotic adj
dress. The procession was mile long and
altogether the occasion was a gala day for
Atlanta. Ex-senator Robert ToombS was
in the city, but too feeble to attend and wit
ness the ceremonies,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
Snow Storm in Dakota,

DEADwooD, OAK, September 6.-The
unpleasant weather for the past two
weeks eliminated in a snow-storm yes
terday. The thermometer has ranged
from 500 to COO, fand more or less rain
has fallen daily. The outlook for grain is
gloomy in the extreme. Four -ffthsI of
all crops are cut, and the bulk is lying
on the ground, heating and growing. Much
that is stacked is being destroyed even for
feed. Practically no threshing has been
done yet, and it begins to look as though
there would be nothing to thresh. Prices
have advanced materially, and few sales
are made at any price. The farmers are
greatly discouraged.i
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
Six Persons Drowned.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, September 3.-A
special from Oshkosh says: At six o'clock
"Wednesday morning boat containing
twelve girls, while crossing the river. was
upset by swell from steamboat and Lena
Maia, johanna MacStahit, Augusta Weis
and Emma Bauer, aged twelve to nineteen,
were aIowaed. Phil Berry and Louis Bres-
tic, who were in the boat, were also drowned.
The girls were employed in a match factory
and were crossing the river to their work.
There is intense excitement over the unfort-
unate s9air, and the crowd threatens to
lynch the nlan who opened the bridge to let
The boat lass. The accident occurred in
the middle of the river.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
comnuIsory Vaccination.

TORONTO, September Am order in
Council has been passed authorizing the
Provincial Board of Health to appoint in
spectors, with power to board all trains
and steamboats, coming westward from
Montreal, and to compel all passengers to
produce certificates of vaccination or be
vaccinated on the spot.
FALL RIVER, MASS, September 4.-As a
result of the smallpox scare, over four
thousand children have been vaccinated
here by the City Physician during the
present week, and the work is going on
at the rate of two hundred daily. Besides
this, which is done at the city's expense,
the doctors are vaccinating many people in
the course of their private visits.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
Action of Good Templars.

MADISON, WIS, September 3.-The Wis
consin Grand Lodge of Good Templars to-
day adopted a resolution ''that no Good
Templar should take any part either in
calling for an election under the pro-
visions of the new license law or voting on
the price of license in the event an election
is held. Our order is opposed to all license,
high or low. We sympathize with every
movement made in good faith to put an end
to the liquor traffic. In this State the order
has looked upon the Prohibition party as
such a movement, and to it does not hesi-
tate to say God speed.'"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10

About feur years ago Mr.. Gould,
of Placer. Cal, received from the Agri-
cultural Department package of
Japanese tea seed. He planted and
carefully cultivated it and now at his
ranch can be seen what is a curiosity in
this country-a large plat of tea plants.
They have done remarkably well, and
he has raised quite quantity of
superior tea. The fine growth and ex-
cellent quantity of this tea looks as if
its culture might be engaged in as a
profitable business.-San Francisco
Call.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
From jail to Jail.

PHILADELPHIA, September 4.-When
Frederick W. Keech, alias Hooker, was re-
leased from the Eastern Penitentiary this
morning after having completed two terms
oi four months each for Illegally using the
mails, he was again placed under arrest
upon requisition from the Governor of
Illinois, and taken WestJ this afternoon,
charged with having conspired to obtain
So 900 from R. L. Gilbert, of Mt. Carroll.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
wouId-be Suicide Horribly manuIed.

GENEVA, ILL.,, September 3.-Henry A.
Ferson, of st. Charles, who has for some
days been in Respondent frame of mind,
attempted to commit suicide yesterday by
placing his chin above the muzzle of shot
gun and then kicked the hammer with his
foot. His head leaned back and the charge
carried away the front of the lower jaw,
part of the tongue, the entire nose and part
of the cheek bones, leaving the eyes all
right and plowing hole about two inches
wide through the front of his face. He still
lives, but will hardly recover.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
Two Old Notes.

WASHINGTON, September 4.-The Union
Planters Bank, of Memphis, Tenn, sends
to the Treasury for redemption two old
faded and torn $50 notes. The notes were
issued in February, 1s42, and their appear
ance justifies their age. They are just
half the size of a half-sheet of letter paper,
being nearly square in form. Interest on
these notes can only be allowed for one
year under the law authorizing their issue.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
TweIve-Year.Old Suicide.

PHILADELPHIA, September 6. - Oscar
Leon Parry, the twelve-year-old son Of
W. H. Parry, formerly of Hartford, Conn,
committed suicide this morning in his room
by shooting himself through the head with
O revolver, which he obtained from closet
in the room. No cause can be assigned for
tine dead
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10

The pressure sufficient to rupture
blood vessel is much greater than to
which they are ordinarily subjected.
The carotid artery of dog required
from thirty five to fifty-tive times the
normal pressure of the blood, and the
jugular vein from thirty-two to thirty
five times. Scientific american.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
LIFE IN CONGO.
Discouraging Reports from this
New Country.
Impossible for White Men to Live There

WASHINGTON, September 4.-The Army
and Many Register will tomorrow print
the following, which is more emphatic in
regard to the impossibility of white men
living on the Congo than anything yet re-
ceived: "Several letters have recently
been received in this city from Lieutenant
e. b. Taunt, U. s. Navy, relative to his
journey in the Congo regions" One dated
May II, from viri Station, River Congo,
says: "Here am, no miles up the Congo
and making my arrangements to go as
far as possible. have the cheerful pros
pect of a march of 216 miles on foot to
North. / think from Cape Sabine to the in
terror of Africa is enough for one man in
years time, but l have ceased growing
and take things as they come. propose
to find out all there is about the Congo, so
that no other poor devil of naval officer
will have to be sent to the fever-ridden
hole. The day l arrived here three men
were sent down the river very ill. One here
now is in a dying condition, and
was taken i'll to-day. Every mail brings
news of sickness and death from up coun-
try. A casual inquiry of mine developed
the fact that they have filed one grave
yard and opened another. Should anyone
Ieuidfk dDOu1 ILLS DeiuS picnic u UeileVe
they think most expeditions are) would
refer them to Mr.. Tisdel, who has gone
North i'll, and then they might come and
take look at the Viri graveyards." A
subsequent letter, dated June %, from Le-
opoldville. Stanley Pool, says: 81 arrived
here June Z, having marched 226 miles over
some of the worst hills l ever saw
in my life. The white man who started
with me from Viri was taken i'll with fever
at the station called N'Gombe, 126 miles
from Viri. Here another fellow took me
in hand, but was taken down with fever
after two days march. A third took hold
and landed me safely in this place. leave
July 1 for Stanley Falls, 1850 miles from
the sea, and the head of the navigation for
the Upper Congo. want to do the thing
up properly, and if 1 succeed, will
be the first white man not in the
employ of the Congo Free States
that has reached that fan; in fact, only six
of those have been to the Falls. rather
enjoyed roughing it from Viri up here, and
] have lost considerable of my extra flesh,
the effect of this solid march. This is a
beastly country. White men can not live
here, and for my part I can see nothing to
draw them here, especially into the inte-
rior. Stanley Pool is certainly the best
post have struck thus far, and that is bad
enough. l shall be heartily glad when 1
can leave this fever-ridden hole. hope
to get away in September, but as I expect
to go up some of the smaller rivers flow
ing into the Congo, may be delayed un-
til October. I am going up in the launch
belonging to the American Baptist Mis-
sion, and it will take from eight to ten
weeks to make the round trip"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
KiIIinu Diseased Hogs.

CHICAGO, September 3.-The statement
is published here that twenty -one cholera
stricken hogs were cut down and con-
demned at the stockyards last night, and
that on Tuesday forty others were con-
demned in the same way, making sixty
one in two days. The hogs had been
shipped to the city in a diseased condi-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
WAGON Load of Dynamite ExpIodes.

PETERsBoRo, ONT, September "A
wagon load of dynamite exploded near
Lakefield this morning. Two men named
Morton and Simmons and a team of horses
were blown to pieces. The shock was felt
for miles around, and it was thought for
some time that it was an earthquake. Both
of the victims belong to the village of
Tweed,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
"A traveller describes a natural

bridge, almost as interesting as the Vir-
ginia curiosity, spanning canon about
twenty miles north of the point where the
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad crosses the
boundry between New Mexico and Ari-
zona. This bridge is sixty-five feet long
and fifteen feet wide at the narrowest
point. 1t consists of tough grit rock.
underneath which the softer sandstones
have been worn away to depth Of
twenty-five to forty feet beneath the
arch. Near by is a petrified forest.
The stone tree trunks lie just beneath
the soil, or half exposed, fallen in all
directions. This point has never before
been visited by white man.-Chi-
cago Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
Arrest for a Brutal Child Murder.

PEORIA, ILL, September 8. = Charles
Fields, colored, was arrested here to-day
for themurder of his nine-year- -old adopted
son, at Kirkville, Ia, on the 29th of July
last. The murder was brutal and cold
blooded one, pick having been driven into
the boys left side until the weapon pune
tured the lung. The body was then tied up
in a sack. Fields does not deny the crime.
He claims he was drunk at the time.