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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
Frightful Runaway.

Boston, Feb. About seven o'clock
this evening Joseph Aronson and his niece,
while driving, turned from Beacon street
into fremont The sleigh runners scraped
the car tracks and made noise which
frightened the horse, the cutter was over
turned and Aronson and neice thrown
iuto the street. The horse
ran up the sidewalk through
a dense crowd of people who were gathered
at the door of fremont Temple, another
crowd in front of Horticultural Hall, and a
stream of people turning into Bromfiell
and Winter streets to go to the sacred CON
cert in Music Hall, scattering them right
and left. Many people were thrown into
the street. while others narrowly escaped
by jumping into doorways. About fifteen
tainted.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
SeWeIl's Militia Bill.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-Senator Sewell's
militia bill, which passed the Senate to-day,
provides for an annual appropriation of
S6oO,OOO for the purpose of providing arms
and ordnance stores, ,quartermasters' stores
and camp equipage for the militia, the ap-
preparation to be apportioned among the
several States and Territories. No
State, however, shall receive its share
of the appropriation unless its mili-
tia force numbers at least one hum
dred men for each Senator and Represen-
tative to which it is entitled in Congress.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
no tlne extent chat civih Service re-

To the extent that Civil Service re-
form has been embodied in law, il
meets the general approval of the peo-
pie. 1t has been applied as yet to not
more titan fifteen per cent. OF the em-
ployes of the Government. Beyond
these nothing but the promises and the
policy of the President prevent clean
sweep at any time. With. the law In
force certain faithful employees are se-
cure in their positions during good be-
havior, no matter which party may be
in the ascendancy, and the political
managers are powerless to blackmail
them for campaign purposes. The re-
peal of the law, even if it could be ef-
fected, would not change the policy Of
the present Administration lin the
least, and it would fix ON the party re-
sponsible for it stigma which could
not easily be removed. Chicago Her
oLd
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
AN uNeLusHINo STATESMAN.

John Sherman Makes Statements Which
Ought to Make q Cucumber Turn Grim
son.
Senator John Sherman, when ad-
dressing the Ohio Legislature the other
day, was kind enough to speak well of
the New York election laws as safe
guards against fraudulent voting. He
held up the New York system as an ex-
ample for Ohio to initiate. The purity
of the ballot, he thinks, is not sufficient
ly protected in Ohio:
" The time has arrived when both political
parties should address themselves to this
myself, could never see in State affairs that
politics should be brought into play. 1t is
State affairs you should be patriotic regard
less of political affiliations, and regard this
question from the same standpoint 1t is ap-
lon lon Of the eieotion laws. The purity Of the
ballot is dependent upon single districts and
MSeb ySns
ical change should be made"
This plea for honest voting, for the
purity of the ballot, for additional
safeguards against fraud in elections,
sounds strange enough from the lips of
the statesman who was the chief pro-
moter in Louisiana of the fraud by
which the vote of that State was stolen
ten years ago, and who received as his
pay the Office of Secretary of the
Treasury. But Sherman did not blush.
Then the unblushing statesman went
on to. compliment the man whom he
helped to defraud:
II invite your attention to the example set
by the great State of New York In that
by a man whose name will be repudiated by
any party-Boss Tweed. Then 1t was that
men of both political parties went to work
and reformed their election laws. If 1t had
not been done civil war would have been in
evitable. Men of both parties resolved upon
reformation, and it resulted in the best elec-
ton law in the world. In the dispute, last
fall, over the election, they awaited the OFF,
cial VOTE and the matter was ended. One of
the most distinguished men to bring about this
to speak OF it here
At this point the Ohio legislators
burst into applause. Perhaps it was
the name of Tilden that provoked the
demonstration. Perhaps it was the
statement that elections are purer in
New York than in Ohio or Louisiana,
for example. Perhaps it was the con-
summate audacity which enabled John
Sherman to keep his blood in his heels
while awakening memories shameful
enough to have made cucumber turn
crimson. He never blushed.
Did any man or woman living ever
see the color of conscious guilt come
into John Sherman's cheekse--N. y.
Sun
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
THROUGH THE, ICE.
An Unfortunate AFFAIR Near Graham, Tei
hessee--Three Persons Drbwhed.

An Unfortunate AFFAIR Near Graham, Ten-
nessee-Three Persons Drbwhed.
NUNNELLEr, Tenn, Feb. 7.-The news
reached this place to-day at noon that Mrs.
Slater, wife of Fred Slater, was drowned in
Millcreek, near Graham Station Mr.
Slater, who is employed by the Warner Iron
Company to run the pump which conveys
water to the Nunnelley Mines, had taken mis-
family, wife and two little children, AID
gone out on the ice He had his wife
and two children on a small sled, and
was carrying them up the pond on the ice
and the colored girl was walking close be-
hind the sled. They had ascended the
pond about three-qnarters of a mile, and
finding the ice rapidly melting they de
cided to return home, but this conclusion
was reached too late. just as the sled
stopped, the ice gave way and the unfortu-
nate family went under. The colored girl,
seeing the ice sinking, rushed for the
sled, and she too was carried be-
meath the ice. Mr.. Slater, after many
unsuccessful attempts to rescue
the wife and children from the water,
which is about ten feet deep, cried for help
and was heard by two gentlemen, who
reached him just in time to save him and
the oldest child, about two years of age.
The wife, colored girl and baby. eight
months old, were drowned The baby was
found hort time afterward, and DR..
Thompson was called in, but reached the
baby too late to restore life. The other
two bodies were found this evening.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
Child Friuhtened Into Insanity.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL, Feb. 3.-In the County
Court, to-day, the ten-year- old daughter of
Pressly Saunders was found hopelessly in
sane, and taken to the asylum, at Jackson
vile. The girls insanity is the second case
resulting from the late Wabash shop strike.
Saunders refused to quit work, and was as
saulted by the strikers in the presence of
his family. The acts of violence which en-
sued 80 excited the little daughter, Ida, as
to throw her into conyulsions and ultimate
insanity
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
A DESPERATE AFFAIR.
A Pittsburgh Convict Who Nearly Killed
Three of His Keepers.

SAA OoaNASe vsho 1NcdEly hllcu
Three of His Keepers.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. IA serious affray oc-
CURED in the Riverside Penitentiary this
morning, in which deputies McKain,
Greaves and Edwards were injured, the
two former dangerously. A prisoner
named James Clark, who is serving a
sentence of seven years for burglary, had
been ordered to the dungeon for an in
fraction of the rules. McKain and Greaves
repaired to his cell to escort him to the
dungeon. He promised to go quietly, but
in an unguarded moment he turned upon
them with a huge knife which he had se-
creted in his coat. He first made desper-
ate lunge at McKain, and plunged the
knife into his neck, and then stabbed him
in the right temple. Turning from Nc
Kain he thrust the bloody weapon into
Greaves' right shoulder blade twice. Dep
uty Edwards, hearing the noise came to
the aid Of McKain and Greaves, but before
he could orender them assistance Clark
felled him to the ground with a terrific
blow, and, jumping on him, beat and
kicked him in a frightful manner. BY this
time the guard had been alarmed, and
Clark was overpowered and placed in the
dungeon. The injured men were removed
to the hospital. An examination of their
injuries showed McKain to have been per-
haps mortally wounded. Greaves and Ed
wards are seriously burt, but will recover.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
Its Policy Fixed.

The decision of the House Commit
tee on Civil-Service Reform to report
adversely Mr. Seney's bill for the re-
peal of the reform law will probably
end the idle chatter about doing away
with that measure. While there has
not been a time since its passage when
proposition to wipe it out stood any
prospect of adoption, so many threats
have been indulged in that the u,,ani-
mouse action of the House comm tee,
composed of stalwart Democrats ~ it
10. will have the effect Of qnistina all
agitation Of the subject
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11

-"See here" said the managing ed
itor to a head-liner employed on the
paper, "haven't you made a mistake
in the heading to this articlep" "How
SOP" inquired the youth, anxiously
"You say that the members of Con-
gress will attend horse circus The
word horse is superfluous, is it not?
All circuses are horse circuses, be-
ieve." "You think, sir, it would have
been better to have omitted the word
.horse?'" Decidedly" at would
have been all right thenp' 20, Yes"
"But the proof-reader is to blame. I
wrote it house caucus. "Ohr-
Travellers Magazine.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
Welsh Landlords Combine.

LONDON, Feb. 4.-The principal landlords
in Wales have combined to resist the de-
mand of the Farmers League for reduc-
tion of twenty-five per cent. in farm rents.
In proelaiming their decision the landlords
declare they regret that the Farmers League
has adopted the false assumption that there
is a natural antagonism between landlords
and tenants. The landlords add that, while
they are willing to reduce individual rents
according to the exigencies of each partic-
ular case, they are determined to absolutely
decline to recognize the League.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
ANOTHER ARMY BILL.
4 Useless Proposition from Republican
to Further Drain the National Trea -
ury.

4 Useless Proposition from . Republican
to Further Drain the National Treas-s
ury.
The success of the army in procur-
ing law for the compulsory retire.
ment of officers on reaching the age of
sixty-four seems to have over-stimu-
lated ingenuity in devising schemes
for further swelling the retired list,
One of these projects appears in the
bill of Senator Cullom, which declares
that any officer now on the active list
of the army who served in the war of
the rebellion, either in the volunteer
or regular forces, shall, on his applica-
ton to the President, be put on the re-
tired list with the rank and retired pay
of the grade next above the one which
he holds at the time of his application.
This is an extraordinary measure,
and its necessity is in no respect OBJ
vious. If full advantage should be
taken of it, the entire military estab-
lishment would 60 to pieces. Every
general officer in the service every
Colonel commanding a regiment and
nearly every field officer served in the
civil war, and hence would be able to
demand retirement. The war ended
only little more than twenty years
ago, and it is therefore evident that a
very large part of the higher officers
of the army would be included in the
privileges of this bill, and nearly all
those occupying the most responsible
positions. The only officers who could
not retire under its authority would be
the Younger ones, who have taken
part IN no war on iarge scale. IN
oouDleaiy sucn s 9 scnelne woulu II. !.
crease tne no" ol Proinosion, eus IL
wouid make no account OF tne inter-
ests OF the country,
;. IL may De saio tnat tnefe woulo De
iittie anxiety 70 give up iuH pay ana
active service Ior tnree-Iourtns pay anu
retlred service ana tnat tnis nlii Is only
designed 10 open the rebireo nst' now
hmlted py law: I0r tne Denens OF a
sman NUMBER OF omcefs: put II reahy
does much more. 1t oners q premium
on appiications ior retirement. IL gives
the applicant the pay OF the grace
ABOVE ms own. Ihere Is much COM
Plaint OF the iehgtn OF sime enat eispses'
ourihg Peace' DeIween one Promotio9 !,
ana anotner. Hence there Is good
reason TO suppose tnas whiie an omcer
VINO Is within a Few years OF an eX-
Pected aoVancement IN graoe mlght
prefer TO wait Ior IT, omcers VINO nave
Just received a promotion may be glad
70 take three,1ourtns OF rate OF pay
nigner tnan tne one on Whicn tney are
nkely 10 remain TOT years, esPeciaiiy as
they wouid get TINS pay with ansointe
freedom from active duty, and the full
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
Rabbit Hunter Shoots Himself.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Feb. Frank Bauer
an upholsterer, while out hunting to-day,
fired his gun at a rabbit, and in loading
the discharged barrel, the second barrel
was discharged, the load entering his
bowels. His little brother carried the in
jured man a mile upon his shoulder before
assistance could be secured. Bauer died an
hour afterwards. He was twenty-five
years old, and the only support of aged
parents.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11

First Boston tourist (amsteur) to
Southern hotel clerk-"I say, can't you
put me in front room first floor?"
Hotel clerk-''No. Only room left is
on fourth floor. rear" Second Boston
tourist (professionaD to Southern hotel
clerk-"Why, Colonel, howdy-do.
How's the lady and little ones-wellP
Glad to hear it. Come join in a nip
-ah, by the way, mark me room and
send my traps up" Hotel clerk to as
sistant-''Mark Major Brown, Of Bos.
ton. TO No. 3, first door. ."-Xssen Tsls.
rYoeA -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
A Pullman Car Explodes.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-A curious accident
happened to-day to a Pullman palace
sleeping-car. The car, which is heated by
steam, was standing on the track and was
being heated prior to being sent out. The
water in the pipes had frozen during the
night, and when the fires were started this
morning the apparatus exploded with
loud report, blowing out the entire end of
the car. Some of the debris struck houses
near by and damaged them materially
The damage to the car is estimated at $500.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
Aged Lady Murdered and. Burned,

MARTINS FERRY, O., Feb. 5-Miss Betsy
Job, an eccentric lady eighty years of age,
lived neary Mount Pleasant, jefferson
County, almost all her life. She lived
alone, andt had no immediate neighbors,
and always expressed herself as feeling Sc
cure in her isolation. Her house was dis
but too lat} to save it. % Wien the Grngi fire bsd
burned itself out. the remains of the old
lady were fpund burned to a crisp 1t is
supposed that the house was burned by
some one who had murdered and robbed
the old lady, as she always kept large
amounts of money about the place. An in
vestigation y being made.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
OLD AUNT SALLY
Shot and Mortally Wounded While Ro
bing Henroost.

Snos ana MORALLY wounded While Rob-
bing n Henroost.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb 3.-Before day
break yesterday morning Jethro Winters,
living in the suburbs of this place, heard
a noise at his henroost, located about
two hundred feet from the house He
took down his gun, and softly raising
window got ready to fire, should he OBJ
serve any one. In moment he discerned
q dark figure moving away Hethen fired
There was scream, aud the figure fell to
the ground. Winters secured a lantern,
went to the place and found he had shot an
oid coiored woman known as Aunt Sally,
wounded in the right side, and may not re-
cover. She was taken home and cared for
by her two grown children. A bag found
at the spot where she fell contained eight
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
The Ohio Senate.

COLUMBUS, o., Feb. 4.-The Ohio Senate
has adopted a compromise measure re-
specting the contested seats. The present
Committee on Privileges and Elections
will be increased by the addition of two
Republicans to be named by President
Kennedy. This committee will appoint
(three Democrats and three Republicans)
to take testimony in the contested cases
and report to the Senate. The matter of
allowing the Hamilton County members to
f1aI
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
Killed by a Falling Gate.

EVANSVILLE, IND, Feb. "A distressing
accident occurred on the farm of W. F.
Grady, situated on the Spotsville road,
four miles from Henderson, KY, in which
Harvey Grady, aged eleven years, was in
stantly killed. The boy started from home
on an errand, and in opening large gate
on the road the screws were drawn out of
the post, which is considerably decayed,
the gate fell on the boys head in such q
way as to break his neck, causing instant
death.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
Recruiting for Texas.

FORT WORTH, Feb. IA company OF
United States soldiers came in yesterday
en- route for Fort Concho, Tex. They are
fifty in number and are from the barracks
at Columbus, where they had been re-
cruited. Several of the soldiers stated that
recruiting officers had been instructed to
enlist all the available men at once, and it
was reported that trouble with Mexico on
the border was a possibility at no distant
dau
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
A Murderer for Money Banoed.

DENVER, Col, Feb 5.-Si Minich, one
of the three men who murdered Samuel
Baldwin, near Leadville on October Is,
1884, for 81, 100. was hanged in Leadville
this afternoon. Up to yesterday evening
Minich expected Governor Eaton to com
mute his sentence to life imprisonment
He ascended the scaffold with i cigar in
his mouth, smile on his face, and was
launched into eternity denying his guilt to
the last
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
RECOGNIZED BY THE VOICE.
Wonderful Acuteness of Hearing Acquire d
by Telephone Operators.

cincinnati Enquirer.1
speaking of recognizing people," said a
telephone operator yesterday, Il can re-
member a man longer and recognize him
further off by his voice than by any other
means. sit at an operating table all day
and know all the regulars on my circuit
by their voices Often in walking along
the street recognize the voice of a person
whom l never saw before and know
that he belongs to telephone No. -;
and as l know the names of the most
of my patrons thus become familiar with
the faces of many men to whom I was
never introduced. AS an illustrat tion of
how l have learned to remember voices 1
will tell an incident that occurred last
week. I was up in Chicago and happened
to use the telephone. As soon as an answer
came / recognized the voice as that of an
operator named Brown, with whom l had
worked in Cincinnati three years before.
did not know he was in Chicago and was
glad to see or rather to hear him. He was
much surprised at my calling him by
name, and told me that he was in dis
trict station fully three miles from where
was standing Yes, it is rather hard to
distinguish the voices at first, but with a
little attention to the business an opera
tor quickly acquires very acute ear"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
The Oriuin of the Conscience Fund.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-There was laid be-
fore the Senate to-day a letter from the Sec
retary of the Treasury in reply to a recent
resolution of the Senate relating to the
conscience fund. The ''conscience fund"
the Secretary says, had its origin in the
popular belief that the donations of money
received from persons unknown were be-
cause of money wrongfully withheld from
the Government. The first item to the
credit of the fund was made in 1s42, and
the fund now amounts to $4,000.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
FEAR KILLED HIM.
A Man Bitten by d Dog Six Months Ag
Takes His Own Life.

Takes His Own Life.
New York, Feb. 5.-William j. Higgins,
employed in the saloon of Thomas Eustace,
No. 125 Water street, was bitten in the arm
by dog six months ago. The wound was
severe and caused him much incon-
venience and good deal of fright. The
idea that he would go mad possessed him.
He drowned the dog, but that did not allay
his fears: Last evening Higgins sat by the
stove talking with three men. AS if casually,
he got up and went out of the door into the
street. The men by the stove heard three
shots. fired in quick succession, and sup
posed that Higgins was shooting a dog out
side. 1t was found, however, that he had
shot himself twice in the breast, near the
heart, and in the back of the head. with a
Colts 32-caliber pistol He died almost
Immediately. The fear of hydrophobia
killed him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
CraZed by Religion.

KoKoMo, IND, Feb. 3.-Michael Swag-
gart, for long time head sawyer in the
large heading factory of L. Snyder, while
suffering from hereditary symptoms of apo
plexy and mental arrangement, conceived
the idea this morning that God had COM
manded him to kill his children. Swag-
CART has always been considered a weak
minded person, but was always a quiet
citizen. Of late he had been attending q
religious revival, and had become consid-
erably wrought up on the subject of relig-
ion. He was lodged in Jail, and will prob
ably be sent to the asylum.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
Removal of Police commissiouers.

CoLuMBps, O., Feb. a.-Governor Foraker
to-day removed the three Police Commits
sioners of Cincinnati on charges made
against them, thus virtually abolishing the
Board. The Mayor is expected, as custo-
dian of the peace, to take charge of the
police force until new Commissioners are
elected in the spring, or until the head of
the department is defined by new legisla-
tion. Mr.. Refs, one of the Commissioners,
says that they will not recognize the action
of the Governor, claiming that he has no
Jurisdiction in the matter, and will remain
until the proper authorities courts
have decided the matter
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
The noistinq Of the German Flaq.

SAN Francisco, Feb. Captain Hensons
who arrived at Legiep, one of the islands
of the Marshall Group, yesterday relates,
the circumstances of the seizure of Legiep
by Germany last September. He states
that the German Vice Consul, a captain
and thirty armed men landed from a Ger
man warship, and raised the German
gals, an American, who is one of the three
Caucasians engaged in business on the
island about forty-five minutes, took the
flag down and returned to the warship.
which proceeded to other islands in the
group, and repeated similar demonstra-
tions on each of them
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
Family Of Eiuht Frozen 10 Death,

LINCOLN, NEB., Feb. 4.-Advices from
Geneva state that the bodies of a man,
woman and six children were found frozen
stiff on the prairie near Oberlin, Kas.,
yesterday. They are supposed to be man
named Lennon and his family who started
in an emigrant wagon for 0berlin just be-
heard from since. A brother of Lennon
has gone to Oberlin from Geneva to identi-
fr-f fhoh h1di
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
FriahtfuI Toboaqannina Accident.

TORONTO, ONT, Feb. "A toboggan,
with a man and three women aboard, was
started on its passage down the slide here
yesterday before it was noticed that the
gate near the bottom was closed. The to-
boggan struck the obstruction with terrific
force. One woman's skull was crushed and
the other women were frighcfully cut about
the head. The man escaped injury.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
HydrouhobIa Patient Smothered.

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. s,-George Water
house, boy fourteen years of age, was
bitten by q dog in Lansingburg. For the
past week the boy has shown signs of hy-
drophobia. His condition became alarm
ing and q physician was called and ad-
minlstered all the medicines usually used
in such cases, but tonight it was deemed
advisable to smother him.