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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
Jay Gould's Man.

The suggestion has been made. tn,
tatively yet seriously, that Judge Stans
ley Matthews of the United States Sus
preme Court should be invited or -.
signed to sit with the circuit Judge ~
fore whom the Government suit
against the Bell Telephone Company II
to be tried. This is in several respects.
a remarkable, and astounding proposii
ton.
Why should Stanley Matthews b
selected for any such special servicef
imprinted on his forehead tho
brand of being Jay Gould's man.
So notorious and offensive was the in
fiuence by which his nomination was
originally procured that Republican
Senate refused to confirm it It has
never been disputed that his ultimate
elevation to the bench was the equiv
alent for Mr.. Gould's very liberal con-
tribution TO the Republican campaign
fund. So much indignation did the
fultilment of the bargain provoke that
Mr.. Matthews himself deemed it ad-
visable to publish statement denying
that he would be the plant tool OF
Gould or Gould's corporations. Could
any thing be more humiliating than
the consciousness that such denial
was necessary, except the Implication
conveyed in the proposal that he should
now assist at the trial of the Bell
patents? Mr.. Gould and Western,
Union are behind the Bell monopoly
and they shamelessly essay to enforce
their lien upon Stanley Matthews Il
they can do so. The project is mon
strous in its unblushing audacity.-M
Y Gr0nhic
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
SPRING FLOODS.
Chattanooga in Darkness and
5000 People Driven from Home.
Heavy Washouts on the Railroads.
Charleston, W. Va, Half Submerged.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN, April 2.-The food
ed territory has been largely increased to-
day, and at 8 p. m. the river reached fifty-two
feet, and is rising an inch an hour. The
river has been falling all day at Loudoh,
lockwood, Dayton and Charleston, and il
is expected to reach its maximum at this
point before morning. No gas and no cleo
trio lights, no water in the reservoirs, and
the river still raising, is the situa.
tion tonight. 1t is estimated that five
thousand people are homeless in this city,
though they all have comfortable tenn
porary quarters, and relief committees
are supplying the necessities of life. The
Fifth Ward is completely under water,
are passing to and fro from Market street
railroad crossing to Lookout Mountain and
Missionary Ridge. The water now stands
e foot deep in the Union Passenger
floors of the Reed House and some
stores on Market street. The express COM
panies have moved to higher quarters, and
at this writing the water lacks eleven
inches OF entering the Times counting.
room. which is about the average height Of
all the stores on Market street. A colored
man and white child were drowned to-
day. The city is policed tonight by the
military. All the railroads on the
Chattanooga side of the river are
feet. Heavy washouts have occurred
on the Cincinnati Southern and Western
and Atlantic roads. All roads report that
their lines are open except about Chatta-
nooga; and in consequence, no connections
can be made.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, April a.-The flood
in the Kanawha and Elk rivers, which re-
suited in submerging half the city, began
receding early this morning 1t is hard to
tell what damage has been done to prop
erty by the high water.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
BIG RAsCAL1TY DISCLOSED
Indictment Of Wealthy Californians for
Timber Land Frauds on ths



Timber Land Frauds on this
Government.
SAN Francisco, April 4-The United
States grand jury yesterday found indict-
ments against eight prominent citizens Of
the case of fraudulent entries of redwood
The names of three are Jos.
Russ, David Evans and Charles 81. King,
who collectively represent 81, ,0O0, 600 capital.
The names of the other five are not yet
known. but they are said to be all wealthy
men. The Land Department at Washing
ton had reason to suspect irregularities in
the entry of these lands, and sent out
Special Agent B. F. Bergen, of the Interior
Department., to Investigate the matter.
The result of Mr.. Bergen's Investigation
shows that the parties indicted are all mem-
bers of the California Redwood Company,
capital for which was mainly subscribed
in Scotland. The indicted parties procured
about six hundred American citizens to take
up 100 acres of land each, for which each
received fifty dollars. The entries were, in
all cases, Immediately conveyed to David
Evans, one of the indicted parties. The
California Redwood Company afterwards
sent an agent to Scotland to form SYM
dictate and sell the lands. The syndicate
an acre for the land which, as shown,
the latter had frauduently purchased
from the Government for 50 so
an acre. Mr.. Bergen has passed
three months in Humboldt County working
up the case, and Notwithstanding the num-
erous difficulties thrown in his way, has
secured testimony from over one hundred
persons who accepted the bribe. Suit will
be instituted by the Government to set
aside all these entries as well as the patents,
vi ch have already been issued. The land
embraces 5000 acres of the best redwood
timber land on the coast.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
J. 81 EATON. OHIO THURSDAY. APRIL s. 1886
ANOTHER HITCH.
Striking Railroad Employees Refused r
EmulOyment.

btFlk1u& RAILROAD Employees Refused Re.
Employment.
ST. LOUIS, No., April Under instruc-
tions from the Executive Board of Dis
tricts 101, 90 and IL, committee from
local Assembly $3.50 waited upon Master
Mechanic Bartlett last evening at the Mis-
souri, shops, and rendered the services Of
the old shop employees. The men, they
said, were ready to go to work this morn
ing, and they desired to find out if they all
would be taken back, and list Of fifty-two
names was handed Mr.. Bartlett, who,
after scanning it, checked off sew
enteen of them as the names of Il Q
men whom he would employ. tt 9
Others, he said, he would not take back.
Attempts of similar nature were made
by committees of the strikers at prominent
points all over the Gould system. In every
instance the Executive Board claim that
the committee received the same reply to
turn to work. The railroad officials stated,
1t is claimed, that they did not require the
services of all their old employees; that
they would not take them all back, and
would use their own discretion in selecting.
The ratio of the men that the road were
willing to take back to the number
who are on strike was, the Execu-
tive Board say, about the same all over the
system-seventeen out of fifty, or there
abouts. Reports of these committees, re-
ceived by telegraph, determined the Execu-
tive Board to issue their address this after.
noon, and to continue the strike until the
roads consent to take back all the strikers.
The members of the boards want it dis
tinctly understood that the Knights of La=
Dor will all hang together; that one will
not return to work without the others, and
that the men who came out through SYM
Pathy with the members of District Assem-
bly, 1Ol must be supported before the
strikers, in whose interest they went out,
Will consent to a settlement.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
HIGH WATERS.
Beyond the Danger Line at Nash
vile, Tenn,
anu se1ow. Consequences are Anticipated
-SeveZaty-hve Houses at Chattanooga
Submerged.

NASHVILLE, TENN, March S1.-The river
here has passed the danger line, and is still
rising rapidly. All who live in the lower
part Of the city are moving out and mer-
chants on the streets along the river have
mad men working all day moving goods
out Of their cellars. The bottoms are
hooded, and people driven out of their
MONIES by hundreds, The river is ex.
pected to reach forty-eight feet be-
: lore friday night, in which case the
within six feet of the highest known since
the great floods of 1852 Nearly ali the low
ground in North Nashville and east of the
liver Is covered with several feet Of
cred three feet Deep The water is
nearly over Front street above Broad.
and the denizens of the low land in
Sousn sSs NASHVILLE are getting alarmed. At
the wagons in three feet of water. There
are large quantities of drift-wood coming
pown, making steamboating more or less
@ nasareous. Dispatches from above indi-
stream from the headwaters down, and
s,eat damage, mostly to II its and logs
along the bank awaiting shipment. Nash
vile Is cut or from the South, and two ex-
r. Iesns t .rom mere 70 Florida, announced
abandoned. e--
~ CHATTANOOGA, TENN, March 81. The
tennessee river at this city has reached
height OF forty>four feet, and is rising at
Sne rate OF three inches an hour. Reports
from all points above say the streams are
still rising, though the weather is clearing
ana colder. Estimates based upon the high
eide swo years ago, including the increased
rain-fah indicate the river will rise at
least Eour feet more, a total of forty-eight
tee1 and may reach fifty feet Steam.
ooa1 and other river craft are now moor.
eo above the wharf Water street is food,
Cd and the extensive lumber mills ar. sur
rounded, Chattanooga creek, south of the
city, is Hooded, and seventy-five houses ad-
lacent to its banks in the low lands are rt-
" or wholly submerged. The water has risen
SO gradually that the inhabitants have
moved out without loss of property or life.
LYNcHBuRG, VA, March 31.-Heavy rains
OF the last four days have caused a great
rise In the James river at this point. The
water is sixteen feet above high water
mark, and is still rising at the rate of one
loot per hour.
LEXINGTON, VA, March 3l.-The North
river is eight feet higher than ever known,
Sno S; Is sui rising. Rain is still falling. A
disastrous flood is feared
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
An Unpopular Body.

Outside OF the Republican majority
in the Senate no one saw sense or rea-
son in the claim to ascertain the causes
of suspension. From the first the
people took the common-sense view
that the President, intrusted with the
administration of the Government,
should hav. full control of his subor-
dinate officials, and should be able in
his discretion and in the interest of ef.
fective administration to remove them
at pleasure. The position taken by
Mr.. Edmunds has all along seemed to
them strained, far-fetched, illogical.
impractical and unconstitutional.
Now, they have seen the 6gment Of
principle, for the sake of which Re-
publican Senators were willing to make
war on the President, disappear like .
cob-web at the mere mention of that
other fgment known neither to the
constitution nor the laws-the s.cour-
tesy of the Senate. They have seen
the public business paralyzed and
blocked BY debate which its promot-
ers have covered with taint of insin-
cerity and bad faith. And in consider.
alton of the Senate's easy neglect Of
the public interests and its readiness to
enter on partisan projects, it is not to
be wondered at that their feeling to-
ward it should be one of distrust.
The Senate is not a popular body,
either in its formation or its constitu-
ton. 1t has not in later years grown
remarkably into public confidence. But
this last episode is likely to attract at.
tention to its peculiar methods. Indica-
tons are notwanting that reform might
be useful within its sacred and secret
conclaves. If Mr.. Edmunds' keen and
microscopic vision has not been
wearied into dullness with its recent
strain he might find scope for minute
inspection nearer Washingto1
Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
IS A CONFLICT IMPENDrNdq
Troops and Strikers Concentrating at Fort
Worth, Tex.

Worth, Tex.
Fort WORTH, TEX, April 4.-Saturday
about noon an engine from Hodge, in
charge Of officers came steaming into the
yards here. The officers were fired upon
bv strikers and two officers were fatally
wounded and third shot through the hip.
The fire was returned and the conflict be-
came general for few minutes. OF the
strikers SO far as can be ascertained,
only two or three were wounded. The
eral King left Austin last night with two
companies of State rangers. The mayor
has at his command one company of
militia at Cleburne and one at Dallas.
Sa5p left for Fop WORTH fhanssrdi ssnd
thirty-five volunteers at Kaufman are
holding themselves in readiness for i'm
slant service at the call of Sheriff Tarrant.
Lieutenant Gibbs, who resides at Dallas,
land to call out the three companies of
State troops at Dallas, and two of them,
the Hibernian Rifles and the Dallas Light
Guards, left after midnight for Fort Worth !;
troops are in command of Lieutenant
Colonel Turner, an officer who won dis
tinction in the union army. The depot and
yards at Fort Worth were guarded last
night by over two hundred citizens,
called into service by the mayors proc
lamation, and the streets were pa
trolled by armed men. There was great
fear of fire during the night and extra pre-
cautions were taken on that account One
hundred firemen were in waiting at the
fire engine houses for any emergency, and
the fires at the pumping stations were kept
up to high point all night Offers of aid
were sent from all surrounding points
and engines were kept in readiness to
be forwarded at moments notice.
Strikers are arriving at Fort Worth from
various outside points, and the statement
is made that the knights of Labor have de-
termined that Fort Worth shall be the
point where trains shall be stopped at all
hazards. and that there they win win their
battle. On the other hand it is said that
the citizens of this city declare that the
Missouri Pacific trains shall move, even
though it costs scores of lives to accom-
plish il.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
NO sLlPsHop METHODS.
Does Not Believe In Disturbing Land
Titles Already Acknowledged.

Does Not Believe In Disturbing Land
Titles Already Acknowledged.
President Cleveland has given Con.
gress two specimens of his ability in
field in which he distinguished HIM
self particularly as mayor and Gov
ernor. His first two vetoes have been
transmitted to Congress, and give evil
dence of the unwearying industry and
painstaking care he bestows upon
every subject that falls within the line
of his duty. He explains, in clear,
the bill to quiet settlers titles on GER
ton that the Government can not
litigate private rights, and that tho
lands in question were remitted by the
could not, therefore, be regarded IS
portion of the public domain. The
point at issue was fully settled years
ago, and to reopen it now would only
lead to endless strife and exhaustive
law suits, in. which the Government
should not be, made q party. The bill
sought to destroy vested rights and to
disturb interests which have long since
become fixed.
The President says that it would b
better to compensate the parties incur
ring losses caused by an invitation on
the part of the Government to settle
upon lands apparently public, than to
attempt disturbance of titles already
acknowledged. He warns Congress
against interfering with matters
which should be left to Judicial cogniz-
ance, and he expresses himself as un-
willing to concur in legislation which
touches too closely upon judicial DOW
er. In this he gives proof of his At
tachment to constitutional principles,
and reminds Congress that no ill-con-
sidered measures of Legislation, how.
ever popular they may be in their ap-
plication in certain cases, will receivo
favor at his hands. There has been .
good deal OF this legislation going on
for some time past, especially in regard
to land titles. 1t was by such means
that the most notorious schemes Of
land-grabbers were carried through
and honest settlers disturbed in their
rights and deprived of their homes.
President Cleveland's vetoes will be an
intimation to Congress that every
bill will be subjected to careful scrutiny
and examination by the Executive, and
that the slipshod methods hitherto In
vogue have no place under the present
Administration. argus.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
",What Did Mary Sav7"

The discovery that there were no
papers filed in the Duskin case during
the period covered by the Senate reso-
luton calling for such papers recalls
legal chestnut, which is old enough
to be resurrected. 1t was in Judge
Shaw's court in Boston. A witness on
the stand was asked: What did Mary
sayp" The question was objected to
and the objection argued for four long
hours. Counsel on the other side took
four hours more in support of his right
to ask the question. Then the object
ing counsel took two hours to close.
The Judge, in learned opinion of one
hours length-for the preparation of
which he adjourned the court an entire
day-decided that the question was q
proper one, and that the witness. might
answer it. The witness did answer it,
as follows: ..MarJ did not say any
thing Erss PFsss.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
BANQUET Disaster.

PHILADELPHIA, April AIT the annual
commencement of Jefferson College to-day
the degree of NJ D. was conferred on 223
graduates. While the graduates were
gathering in Natatorium Hall, on Broad
street, this evening to enjoy banquet ten
dered by the Alumni Association, tempo
rary floor in the main body of the hall
into the basement, distance of nine feet.
John G. Goe, of Ohio, was seriously injured
internally by heavy piano falling across
his breast. Bartholomew Zalls, of Texas,
was badly injured
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
A WEAK NAVAL POWER.

The Work to Be Accomplished by the
Present Democratic Congress.
The House Committee on Naval
Affairs strongly approve and support
the late very patriotic letter of Mr..
Tilden on the subject of the necessity
for the improvement of our coast de-
fenses. Mr.. Tilden declared that our
coast towns were absolutely without
defenses against naval enemy, and
that third or fourth class naval power
could, in the event of war, hold this
country entirely within its power, or
destroy millions of dollars of property
without our being able to prevent it or
to do any thing but look on.
The House Committee agree thor
oughly with this view of the matter
what minor power could step in, over
culable damage on our shipping and
cast disgrace upon the Nation.
The Brazilian armed cruisers could
run from Brazil to New York, pass its
forts, or, if necessary, lie off .Coney
Island, far from the reach of any of
our guns, and lay the metropolis in
ashes. The little Republic of Chill,
with less than one-twentieth the popu-
lation of the United States, has no less
than three vessels any one of which
could lombard and reduce to ashes San
Francisco or New York, and yet keep
out of range of our guns.
There is no security here as long as
this condition of affairs prevails. We
are simply trusting that no trouble will
ever arise with any other country, a
Utopian trust that history should have
cured us of. We are constantly threat
ened with National disgrace; indeed.
our present relations with foreign pow
ers is more or less affected by our de-
fenseless condition. In our diplomatic
relations with them there is always a
lack of confidence, a fear of bringing
about trouble, and these smaller pow
ers have discovered our diplomatic tim
idity, appreciate the fact that this coun-
try is ill-prepared for naval war, Of
fensive or defensive, and are saucy and
impertinent in consequence.
The Naval Committee wisely advise
that work be begun at once on our
coast defenses. 1t will render this
country more Independent and conf
dent and restore its prestige and polit-
ical influence abroad.-N. o. Times
Democrat.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
LIGHTNING JUSTICE.
An Enibezz1er Gets Into the Penitentia
in Forty-Eight Hours From Canada.

An Enibezx1er Gets Into the Penitentiary
in Forty-Eight Hours From Canada.
CHICAGO, April 2.-Speedy justice was
meted out to Charles Stephens in Judge
Collins Court this morning. Stephens 10
an old man, who for fifteen years was in
the employ of the Wilmington & Yer
million Coal Company, Of this city. Fifteen
months ago he absconded, and investiga-
tion showed that he had embezzled $21, 900
from the company. ALL efforts to capture
the fugitive were fruitless, and it was be-
heved he had gone to Canada. This theory
proved correct, for last Tuesday the COM
pany he had robbed received letter from
him dated in Canada, saying that he was
penniless and alone, and rather than re-
main another year in Canada he desired to
return, plead guilty to his crime and re-
ceive his punishment. He announced his
intention of starting at once for the United
States. The company sent two Pinkerton
detectives to Detroit to meet him. On
Wednesday they arrested him; on Thurs
day he was brought to this city and in
dicted by the grand jury; this morning he
pleaded guilty before Judge Collins and
was sentenced to three years. imprison-
ment in Joliet, and this afternoon he was
taken to the penitentiary.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
Double Murder and LynchInu.

SAN FRANCISCO, April "A double mur-
der followed by the lynching of two men
is reported from Southern California.
Wednesday evening Peter Hermine and his
SON, armed with rifles, approached the
premises of Eugene Walker. in Arroyo
Grande Valley, San Luis Obispo County,
and without word opened fire upon
Walker, who, with his wife and child, was
in the garden. Walker fell dead. Mrs
Walker, though shot through the arm and
breast, picked up her child and ran to a
ne'ghbor's, where she died. The murderers
were captured and jailed. Soon after mid
night gang of masked men took the pris-
oners out and hanged them to a railroad
bridge near by, where the bodies were
found yesterday. A dispute about land
was the cause Of the crime.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
A Heavyweight Administrator.

WASHINGTON, March 31.-An assertion
that the President and his Cabinet weigh
nearly ton, would seem at first appear
ance rather startling one, but it is not SO
far from the fact. The talk about the
physical condition of Mr.. Manning brings
out the fact that he weighed at the time Of
his attack, 825 pounds. He had gained
over twenty-fv pounds since he came into
his position at the Treasury. The President
is not much behind him in weight They
are very much alike in figure, height and
general physical pecu1arities. There
are several of the Cabinet officers who
must weight nearly 200 pounds each. Sec
retary Lamar is tall. broad shouldered, and
well developed physically, and must tip the
beam at about that figure. Garland is a
big man, very tall and muscular. He is
not far from 200 in weight. Bayard is not
Tar behind him, neither is Endfcott. Villas
and Whitney must average up about It's
pounds each. Put the eight men, the Pres
ident and his Cabinet, on the scales, and
you Will find they do not fall many hum
dred weight below a ton.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-08
MOURNED AS DEAD.
A Man Returns to Claim an Inheritance
After Forty-two Years, Absence.

A Man Returns to Claim an Inheritance
After Forty-two Years Absence.
WOOSTER, O., April flames Henderson
Hindman left his home in this county in
1874. Since that time he had been heard of
in Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin, until
twenty years ago, when a report was re-
ceived by friends here that himself and
family had been murdered by Indians. The
last time he was heard from he
was United Brethren minister,
and it was supposed that he had
gone among the Indians as missionary.
Several years ago an uncle of Henderson's.
and wealthy bachelor, died and be-
queathed his nephew S400, as he supposed
he was still alive. In settling up the estate
the Court ordered the administrator to
place the money bequeathed to Henderson
in the county treasury, in case the heir
should turn up. The other day it was as
certained that Rev. Henderson resided in
Minnetonka, Mimi. He proved to be the
missing heir, and has come to Wooster and
received his Inheritance. He is now sew
enty years old, and is pastor of the United
Brethren Church at Minnetonka.