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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
-Four Railroad Worknien Drowned d,

MEMPHIS, Tenn, January 10.-At 10
o'clock yesterday forenoon a negro skiff-
man, while conveying six men from the
Arkansas side of the river to Memphis, was
swept by the current at the foot of Market
street against some coal flats anchored
there In the the confusion which ensued
the skiff capsized, and four white men and
Block, of Dallas, County, Tex, and
Walter Brashey, printer, from Waco,
Tex, were rescued. The men who were
drowned had been employed as section
hands on the Memphis and Little Rock
Railroad, under foreman John Shea, at
Buttermilk Section, forty-two miles this
side of Little Rock. They had time checks
with them, and were coming to Memphis
for their pay. Their names could not be
learned, and the colored skiffman's name
is unknown.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
The several matters that have been men

The several matters that have been men
toned are not all that will need attention.
But they are all it fs deemed necessary %
speak of at present. Should occasion seem
to REQUIRE it other communications Will be
hereafter made to you. 1t fs desired, how.
ever, to express the confident hope that in al
your deliberations and legislative enact
ments, you may be governed only by you.
best Judgment as to what is most calculated
TO promote the safety, honor and generat
welfare of The whole people, to the end that
figion and piety, may be established among
us forever.
The duties of
THE IXECUTIvE OFFICE
are not lightly assumed. On the contrary,
tbey are taken up with q serious appreciar
ton of their responsible character. and ON
that account, as necessary to their safisfac-
tory discharge. your support and co-opera-
ton are earnestly invited.
GOVERNOR HoADLY,
always kind and generous, was never more
SO than he has been 20 his successor. It
would be pleasure TO thank him for this
under any circumstances. but 1T is especially
SO when it is recalled that notwithstaud.
ing we have opposed each other in tive heet-
offensive word has yet been uttered by either
of the other The friendship of years seems
to have been msde only the strhnger by the
tests to which It has been subjected, aud no
one more earnestly than entertainS the
hope that there are in store Tor my disae.
rguished predecessor many year or lite.
health and happiness - be spent IN wider
fields of usefulness and honor than any ne
has heretofore occupied.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
FIGHT WITH FUGITIvEsL
desperate Prisoners Escape From Jail and
Scek Security I'm a Swamp--One Cap.
tured After Being Wounded


desperate Prisoners Escape From Jail and
Seek Security I'm a swamp--One Cap.
tured After Being Wounded
and Nearly Frozen.
WAYNEsBoRo, Ga, January 10.-A special
guard has just returned from the swamp
ON the Savannah River with Jerry Travsr,
one of the escaped prisoners, who
was badly wounded in the effort
to capture him. The escape from jad
took place at O'Clock, Wednesday morn
ing. A fire was kindled in the second floor,
and a hole burned through, by which the
prisoners escaped down stairs. By means
of an iron bar the front door was broken
open. VIM. Garvin, the murderer OF Bill
Hankinson, was heavily ironed with a
chain around his neck and made fast to the
center of his cell. This was broken, and
Garvin carried his necklace and chain with
him. Garvin islthe man who, some weeks
the body, ironed, and endeavored to sink
it in the current of the Savannah River.
Deputy Sheriff Zorn, as soon as he learned
of the escape, summoned posse ana went
in pursuit last night. He found VIM. Car
vim and several of his companions camping
the scene of his murderous act, about thirty
miles from this place. An attack was
made, and Mr.. Zorn was badly shoe with
bird shot in the leg and foot. The ofu06fs
bravely made all efforts to secure Gar-
vim, but failed, the night being dark and
effectual following Of the fugitives. This
morning Tarver was arrested almost frozen
to death, and bleeding from wounds in
flicted the night before. The swamp is in q
bend of the river, which is guarded on the
land side by. officers, and as the Savannah
escape, but will probably be frozen to
death.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
OVERWEIGHTED.
A Four-Story Building at Louis
vile
Gives Way, Killing Two Men-The Struot.
ure Afterward Destroyed by Fire.

LOUISVILLE, KY, January S.-The fire
bells sounded an alarm at five o'clock this
afternoon in a furious snow storm of wind
and binding snow, calling the department.
to large double building at s23 and S25
West Main street, occupied by Trabue 6
Co., Balmforth and II. P. Forwood & Co.,
all cotton factors and commission mer.
chants. The building, which was four
stories high, was used jointly by these
firms as q store-house for consign-
ments of all sorts, but principally for
cotton, of which there was about
700 bales packed away on the first, second
and third floors. On the fourth floor there
were 400 sacks Of peanuts. On Tuesday
Bamberger, Bloom & Co. packed 50 cases OF
heavy prints on the second floor and the
presumption is that this heavy consign-
ment caused the floor, which was already
overweighted, to give way, forcing out the
to fall in. The stove in the front part
of the house set fire to the cotton, and in
twenty minutes after the first crash
the place was in mass OF raging
disadvantages from the binding storm,
but by gallant work kept the fire from
communicating to the adjoining buildings.
The report rapidly spread that Messrs. J.
NJ Balmforth and a. ~. wright, VINO Were
the ruins and were lost Peter Perkins, q
colored porter, who had just come in from
the cellar, heard the floor cracking above
and sprang toward the street-door, at the
same time crying loudly to Mr.. Balmfortn
to run. He was too late, however, for just
as he sprang through the window and
escaped into the street, with the debris
falling all around him, that part OF the
building over the front office fell with q
crash, burying both Mr.. Balmforth and
Colonel Wright under twenty bales Of cot
ton that came down from above. The
ruins yet, and ne itber Of the bodies have
been discovered. Colonel Wright, who
was a graduate of West Point and
brave Confederate soldier, leaves
large family in limited circum-
stances. He was employed as Superin.
on cotton. Mr.. Balmforth was we'll
known cotton factor and man of wealth
and prominence. He leaves an Interest,"
ing family. Messrs. Richard Trabue and
Trabue Barksdale, together with Mr.. Ii. p.
Forwood and boot-black, were in Trabue's
office, in the rear end of the building, when
the front walls fell. They escaped by cut
ting. their way out through the iron
grating of back window. 1t is thought
that q negro truckman was buried in
the ruins but this report can not be
verified. The building belongs to the estate
of the late Charles Rufer, was valued at
$50 200, and was fully Insured. Nearly all
of the supplies stored in the warehouse
were insured, but in what companies can
about $4,000. Bamberger, Bloom & Co.,
as it happened, took out a policy on their
consignment of prints at two o'clock this
afternoon. The work of excavating the
bodies of Messrs. Wright and Balmforth
can not be begun until in the morning.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
A ROMANTIC STORY.
An Australian boys Sudden Elevation -
Baronetcy.

An Australian Boys Sudden. Esvstion - .
Baronetcy.
/ Some days ago, according to writer
in the Sydney Mail, "there sailed for
England a young man whose career
would furnish materials enough to con-
struct a romance out Of His father
was younger son Of good family. and
related collaterally to baronet Of Old
descent, living on q valuable estasein
one of the Midland counties. He was
somewhat wild in his youth, and .
clever amateur actor. A junior clerk
ship was procured for him in the Treas
urv, and he used to spend as many Of
his evenings as he could in one
or other of the theaters, whore
he fell in love with and married .
pretty ballet girl, whose fatheH
was the stage-door keeper, and whose
mother was the, wardrobe woman in the
theater from which her husband took
her. The union gave great offcnse TO
his friends, VIII, found very little diff
Guilty in prevailing upon him to quit
England and 60 out to Australia, accom-
panied by his wife and furnished with
th sum of f5CO over and above their
passage money. During the voyage
son was born them, and serious disas~
ter befcll the child's father. He, acci-
dentally fell-down the hole, and in
jured his spine SO severely that he was
bedridden from that time forth. Ae
fingered for twelve months after his
landing, and then died. His protracted
illness had exhausted his resources, and
his young widow found herself worse
than penniless somewhat in debt after
paving the funeral expenses. But she
was brave little woman, and soon OBJ
| tanned an enga cement at the Theater
| Royal, under her maiden name, ana
was enabled to maintain and give .
| tolerable education to her boy. She
| died of cancer before he was seventeen,
| and his life since then-which was about
| five wears ago--has been one of vicissi-
tude. Latterly he has been acting as
waiter at one OF our restaurants, where
a certain inherited elegance of manner
and refinement of accent on his part
| have often caused me to speculate as to
his history. BY chance had the op-
portunity of rendering him a trifiing
service, which encouraged his comb
dence, and he told me his personal his
tory. A few months ago, glancing down
the advertising columns Of the Times ino,
ticed one inquiringfor missing heir. and
the particulars given seemed to tally
with those Of his own narrative !
called his attention to 1t, and the result
was the opening up of correspondence
with firm of solicitors in Lncoln's
Inn Fields, followed in due time by 9
remittance from them and the informa
ton that he had succeeded TO bar
onetcy and f12,000 a year. No les
than, three lives had stood between hin
and it when the old possessor Of tn
title died, but these had been all re
moved by accident in the short space Q
drowned while bathing near Noun
Agnell in Jersey, a second had slippe'
into crevasse upon the Alps, and
third had broken his own neck while
riding to hounds in his own country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
Ia Keen Iron From BUSTING.

A composition has been invented BY
an English engineer which is claimed to
effectually preserve iron from rust, be-
ing also usefully applicable TO other ma
terials, such as stone and wood, used in
conjunction with metal. This compo-
sition consists of 100 parts virgin wax,
1926 of Gallipol, 200 of Norwegian pitch,
100 of grease, 100 of bitumen of Judea,
2s5 of gutta percha, 12o Of red lead, 20
of white lead, these ingredients being
mixed together in the order named in .
boiler, the gutta percha being cut up in
small pieces or rasped. The mixture is
stirred at each addition, and poured
into molds. For iron it is melted and
laid on with brush; for stopping holes
it is used as a paste.-Boston Transcript.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
A Horrible At empt at Self. Destruction.

ST. LOUIS, January GA horrible at
tempt at suicide was made by an insane
man named John Boder at noon yester-
day. While walking on the street the
madman drew long clasp-knife from his
pocket and plunged the blade into the
side of his neck. He withdrew it and
plunged the blade into the other side of
his neck and drew it around under his
chin, completely severing the windpipe, but
missing the carotid artery. He again
plunged the knife into his neck and follow
ed it up by shooting himself in the breast.
Spectators stood Mortified and an attempt
was made to seize the maniac, but he kept
the crowd at bay with his knife. An officer
succeeded in arresting the man and quickly
disarmed him. He will hardly recover.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A Crazy Michigan Doctor Kills His Who'll
Family and Then Commits Suicide.

BATTLE CREEK, MICH, January g.
Neighbors noticing the absence of persons
around DIR. Martin Whites residence, in
this city, broke into the house this after
noon and found the entire family with
their throats cut from ear to ear. DIR.
EWhite and wife were lying upon the
floor and the two children in bed. 1t is,
thought they have been dead since Sunday
night, as they have not been seen since then.
1t is thought that he became insane and
murdered his family. The room shows e7i-
dence of terrible struggle between hus-
band and wife. No other cause is known.
Intense excitement prevails ovor the trag-
edy. The family consisted of White and
wife and Bessie and May, aged 4 and II
years respectively. Mrs White was found
by the side of the kitchen stove dressed as
she came from church. with a terrible
cut on the chin and her throat cut
White lay in front of the stove with q
great cut on his throat, Bessie
was found up stairs on a bed with her
throat cut, and on the floor lay May in q
pool of blood, her throat cut from ear to
ear and her head nearly severed from her
body. The walls were spattered with blood
1t is supposed that White took little Bessie
upstairs, cut her throat, then called May
up, had struggle with her, waited for his
wife to come home from church, struck her
with an axe and cut her throat White
was a cousin of the White who was mur-
dered in the Crouch slaughter near
Jackson
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
A Good Decision for Mexican Soldiers.

WASHINGTON, January s.-The Second
Comptroller of the Treasury has decided
that Oliver Hayward, late Sergeant Second
10 the three months extra pay al
lowed the soldiers who served in the
Mexican war. The Comptroller holds
that the war with Mexico ended May
&c. 1S4S, when ratifications of the treaty Of
Guadaloupe-H -Hidalgo were exchanged, and
not, as heretofore held, on July 6, 1s4s the
date on which the War Department made
official announcement of the same, Under
this ruling all soldiers who served in that
war and were not discharged until after
May 80 are entitled to the benefits of the
act of July 10, 1913, and February, 1a 1879.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14

OGDEN, UTAH, January lot. B. Gray
was convicted yesterday. in the First Dis
trict Court, Of attempted abortion. The
proof showed that Gray had seduced his
ep-daughter when she was twelve years
her her for four W years. He Claimed the girl is- Sc
duced him, and denied administering
drugs. The jury all voted guilty on the
first ballot. Judge Powers sentenced him
to the penitentiary for ten years, calling
attention, in passing sentence, to the fact
that there is no law in this Territory
against seduction, adultery or incest.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
The u. 5. Government is the great

The u. S. Government is the great
est publishing house in the world. BY
the side of its resources such an estab-
lishment as the Harpers becomes quite
small. In the book of estimates for
the next fiscal year, just sent to Con-
gress, $3.50, ,231. .6S is asked for wages
alone. There are on the payroll four
hundred compositors. besides q large
force of superintendent, foremen, etc.
Fifty proof-readers are steadily en-
ployed, and forty-five pressmen, ll5
press-tenders and thirty-four ruling.
machine feeders. The estimates cau
for 100, 900 reams Of printing paper. OF
4S, 900, 900 sheets, each sheet making
eight or sixteen pages.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
Two FreIoht Trains Collide.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, January 10.-A coll
lision of two sections of a freight train on
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, at
the Flint River Bridge, in Alabama, caused
a collapse of the bridge, which was UNDER
going repairs, and an engine and twenty
two went down. Eighteen cars were
drowned. Henry Boteia was burned to to
death and W. D. johnson fatally burned,
and others seriously so. Conductor Harris
swan the almost frozen river to flag an ap-
preaching passenger train.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
ONLY Pl,yino With II.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN, January ga
very distressing accident occurred last
evening, at Tusculum College, at Green
vile. VIM. Kennedy, student, was in
the dormitory, with a number of COM
panions, and one of them picked up an
old army pistol from his trunk, and began
nourishipg it, supposing it was unloaded,
when it was accidentally discharged. Ken
nedy threw his hand to his breast, with
the exclamation, II am shot" and fell
daad
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
The Blizzard.

CINCINNATI, January lO.-The 'blizzard"
dominates the whole country, freezing
weather existing even in Florida. The
lowest temperature reported is So degrees
in Manitoba. There is no report of any
great fall of snow, but drifts have blocked
railway traffic in the Northwest, the in
tense cold preventing their removal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
SINGULAR Accident to a chicauo Bow.

CHICAGO, January S.-Julfus Beck last
evening was driving in company with his
uncle, Ignatz Beck, down Blue Island ave.
nue. in a buggy, when the horse became
frightened. It reared and plunged about,
started to run for the viaduct, and on
reaching it jumped the railing. taking
buggy and boy along. The whole outfit
landed thirty feet below in a coalyard.
Julius was very badly injured
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
HAS FOUND A HUSBAND.

Sarah Athea to Be Married to Ex-Chief
Justice Terry.
SAN FRANoI SEQ, CAL, Japuary6.-It is an
nounced that Miss Sarah Athea Hill, that
plaintiff in the celebrated Sharon divorce
case, Will be married tomorrow morning
at Stockton, Cal, to David s. Terry, ex-
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Cal
ifornia, her leading counsel in her proceed
ings for divorce. Terry is also renowned
as the slayer of Senator Broderick in the
famous duel between them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
Six Bows Huricd Under a Fallen Wall.

MOBILE, ALA, January 10.-This after
noon, while a crowd of boys and negroes
were searching the ruins of the burned
block, wall thirty feet high fell. burying
six persons. Howard Hall, aged twelve
years, was taken out dead. Wyatt
Hall, aged nine years, brother of
Howard, had his skull injured and his hip
broken. Both boys are sons of Howard
Hall, superintendent of the Seaboard Man
ufacturing Company's establishment. John
L. Still, a newsboy, thirteen years of age,
was badly hurt; Willie Covington, aged
twelve years, was injured, but not seri-
ously; John Glass, aged fourteen was
slightly hurt. A colored man was buried
to the hips, but escaped with a few bruises.
Cable Cars to Capture the st. Louis Lines.
ST. LOUIS, January l0.-There is consid-
cradle talk that the Western Cable Motor
Company, which is building cable street
railroad here, will organize what is to be
known as the Traction Company, for the
purpose of buying or leasing of the pres mt
horse railroads and turning them into
cable companies
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14

An unrepealed law of New Jersey.
passed while the State was a British
colony, reads as follows: That al
women, of whatever age, rank profes-
sion or degree, whether virgins, malos
or widows, who shall after this act i'm
pose upon, seduce or betray into matri'
mony, any of His Majesty's subjects oJ
virtue of scents, cosmetics, washes,
paints, artificial teeth. false hair or high.
heeled shoes, shall incur the penalty o.
the law now in. force against witcherafs
and like misdeme anOrs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
An Earrs Property S Did at Auction.

GALVESTON, January 6.-The property
of the late Earl of Aylesford, in Howard
County, was sold at auction yesterday.
The greater portion of the property was
bought i'll by the Earl's younger brother
estate and manage the property hereafter.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
ENTIRE FAMILY INSANE.
Religious Excitement Ascribed as tn
Cause.

Cause.
DASvrILE, Ill, January 6.-The surviv-
ing members Of the family of the late VOL
colt Allen, well to do farmer, living eight
miles north of this city, have gone hope
lessly insane over religion. They are all
converts of revival recently held in the
neighborhood. George Allen, aged thirty
brother, Heber Allen, aged thirty four, was
adjudged insane yesterday. Both are
heads of families, and each has a wife and
two children. Their sister, Miss Mary AL
len, aged twenty-four, win be tried for in
sanity to-day. The mother, aged sixty
years, is also insane.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
A Woek's Failures.

New York, January S.-The business
failures occurring throughout the country
during the last seven days number for the
United States 316, and for Canada 20, or q
total of 338, being the largest aggregate
for any week since January, 1855 The
casualties are exceptionally numerous in
the Southern States
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
Business Part Of a Town Burned.

T. ST. LOUIS, Mo-, January s.-The business
portion of the town of Cuba. Mo-, ON the
San Francisco Road, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire yesterday. Two blocks
were burned, and among the buildings are
Jones general store, G. A. Cairns billiard
hall, the Blair Building, etc. The loss is
about $4,000.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
Frozen to Death.

CRAwFoRpsvILLE, IND, January e.-Al-
fred Ebrite, aged fiftytwo years, afflicted
with fits and an inmate of the County
Asylum, wandered away about eight days
ago and was found dead yesterday in a
corn-field several miles from the asylum.
He was lying face downward, frozen in the
mud and shoulder broken.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
Gable Cars to capture tte sd. Louis Lines
A Million Dollar Fire.

PHILADELPHIA, January 10.-The extern
sive mill buildings in Kensington, known
as Arnott's Mills and Beatty's Mills, occu-
pying two blocks, bounded by Emerald,
Letterly, Taylor and Coral streets, and
separated by Adams street, were destroyed
by fire this morning, involving loss esti-
mated at 81 600 OC0
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
The Kinks Broke Them Up.

PITTSBURGH, January 6.-Tbe Wholesale
hardware store of Thomas Birney & Co.,
has been closed by the Sheriff on execu-
tions for judgments aggregating $4,000.
The firm met with severe losses last winter
by supplying skates to Kinks and not being
paid for them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
Prosecuting the Poor Gambler.

New YoRK, January s.-David c. john
son, the gambler, has been arrested by the
Sheriff in a suit begun against him by Au-
gust Bernheim & Bauer to recover about
S6O,000, embezzled by Frederick Fishel,
their defaulting bookkeeper
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
A Child's Long Journey Unaccomp aaied.

NEWARK, N. J., january 10.-Ten-year-
old Katie Erb started hence alone for Chey-
enne tonight, having tag attached to her
clothing giving her name and destina-
ton. Her mother is q notorious woman,
and her father is in Cheyenne. The Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
took her in charge, and wrote to her father,
who sent money to pay her way to him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
ItaJv Afraid of Florida Oranses

ROME, January 10..The Ministry of Com.
merce has received a consignment Of
Italian Consul at New York and has been
sampling the fruit with the view Of ascer.
tanning tho chances Of American compe.
tition affecting the sxportstisn ~ oranges
Ard tpe@rns f7Ny, fkaff,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
Not Guilty.

JERSEY CITY, n. j., January 6:-The jury
In the case Of druggist Amende, charged
with causing the death of Margaret and
Ella Hoits, by putting up a prescription OF
morphine instead of quinine, and who,
after discovering his mistake, tried to COM
NIT suicide, last night returned verdict
NJ uot c7rilty
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
The wife WIN Get the MiIIions.

NEW YORK, January 6.-The Surrogate
rendered decision this afternoon, admit
ting to probate the will of Louis Cham
mersley, who died in May, 1889. leaving an
estate valued at about S6,000, 600 to his wife.
The will was contested by relatives OF the
teEtatOr