Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-23
NEWS SUM MARY.
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ond L: G.. Bruce, of the Turf, Field and
Farm, the third Thomas Lloyd, of Harper's
Weekly, the fourth Charles G.. Shanks. of the
New York Tribune, the fifth; and J. X. McIn-
tyre, of the Brooklyn Eagle, the sixth prize.
LIN New York, on the 10th inst, gold was
quoted at 1854, and silver 104 to los.
A YOUNG son of Hon. NJ. d. Leggett, Com
missioner of Patents, was recently killed by
falling from a cliff, near Ithaca, N. Y.....Ex-
City Treasurer Sprague, of Brooklyn, who has
been indicted for embezzlement, denies hay-
ing defrauded the city out of a cent. He
holds Rodman, his deputy, responsible for all
the stealings....A E. Phillips, formerly Con-
sui to Santiago, committed suicide in New
York, last week, by cutting his throat.
Eighty-slx horses were burned to death in
Boston, last week, by the burning of Martin
Hays livery-stable.
THERE was a fresh tumble of stocks in New
York Tuesday, the 18th inst, and Wall street
was in a state of excitement which, very closely
m another panic. On the Stock Ex-
change matters we're painfully blue, and quo
tations fell even below the panic prices of the
past ten years. New York Central dropped
from 884 to S24, which was taken as an indi-
cation Of Vanderrilt's inability TO hold it up
any longer, whereupon the whole Vanderbilt
list went headlong. Western Union fell from
574 to 4S Lake Shore from 664 to 59S. and
Northwestern and Union Pacific followed suit.
Various reasons are assigned for the collapse,
among them Judge Blatchford's modification
"a LIE AAJoAOS1Oh1 WAASh OANoSO0 Ah %
amounts of Lake Shore, Western Union
and other stocks which had been held by
Blake Brothers as collateral the bankruptcy
proceedings against Kenyon Cox & Co., in
volving Daniel Drew, one of the partners
the advance in the Bank of England rate of
discount to s per cent. and the large sale of
stocks carried by the banks on margins, the
holders of which could not put up any more
collaterals. In addition to these causes there
was also a panicky feeling among outsiders
who sent in orders to sell large amounts, and
hoe - 4--n hnlnn1 10 - 4h4 49,.
lanche. The suspensions of the day were
Burger. Hurlbut & Livingston, sugar house ;
Gillespie, Trowbridge & Co, tea dealers
William Hoge d Co, bankers; William
G. II. Pierce, stock brokers. TIL eff
feet upon the money market was to
advance gold from 1898 to 1895.
The West.
THE Union National Bank of st. Louis has
gone into liquidation, IA farmer named
William 81. Brown, while eating his dinner at
a Fort Wayne hotel, the other day, was choked
to death by a piece of meat which lodged in
his throat. The Constitutional Convention
of Michigan has declined to admit the eligi-
bility of women to any public office whatever,
excluding them even from the school boards.
-. Wisconsin has 225 Granges....A colored
man named Price has sued the school direc-
tors of a district in Morgan county, I'LL, for
$4,000 damages, because they refused to adj
init his children into the school. go. Chicago's
0edCu-TOl IOI august was 1,4ZOs 1Or S6pC6m-
Der, ZOOS.
The assessments made by the State Board
of Equalization on the capital stock of Illinois
corporations foot up as follows: Railroads,
$62, sos, TAI telegraph companies, 81, 238, 1914
all other corporations, S19, 658, 068 total, $S3,-
sos, 209. The railroads of the State have been
assessed, in all, s131, 765, 1877. The aggregate
assessment of the property in the State, real
and personal, railroads, capital stock, and
everything, amounts to 81, $780, 82, 251....
Nearly $4,000 people visited the Chicago Expo
sition on the 9th inst Miss Reeves, a young
seamstress of Independence, Iowa, took a dose
of cold poison the other day, and now sleeps
beneaththe cold sod. The. School Board of
sS~HTi1ENef4H., has decided that white and
toI1tet III shall be adasftted to the public
at44plsf on equal teTIna
5ferenee 1T Bort Sill has resulted in
sinS batauka sRd@Big Tree, on condition
that tbs ssyages represented would agree to
Ahetaia from nrlrderinS and robbing white
settlers ,SlehigNh CONSTITUTIONAL Con-
aentfor go feSnsidered its former sction.
e.gsole to school
tlie neE C1nAtitution the prohib1ons upon
Aetifons orr 4ere4 stock by corporations
6ayeeff9n Washington Rerritory state that
tfere1a4efS little activity on the line of the
NS5hern Pacific. The surveying and grazing
pQthetoTR site of Tacoma have bcen suea
pended ard all employees, except those indis-
Psrsfblt tsqulredsghsye been discharged
sVS4 ResehGers n the Mississippi Steamer
Muscatine engaged in a savage fight, recently,
and in the struggle both went overheard and
were drowned. IA young son of Isaac Dit
man, of Auburn, Ind, while out nutting, afew
days ago, fell from a tree and was instantly
killed. The National Crop Reporter. says
reports from Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Wis
consin, Missouri, Kansas, and Ohio confirm
the estimated falling-off in the Irish potato
crop in the States named, which, in 1870, pro-
duced over 43, 600, 600 bushels. The loss at
the given rate would aggregate over II, 600, OOO
bushels.
THERE are 500 Masonic lodges in Missouri,
with a membership exceeding 80, 900. IA fear
full and fatal accident occurred recently neal
Iowa Falls, Iowa, which resulted in the burn.
ing to death of Mrs. Wagner and her two
children, aged z and 2 years. Cause, the ex-
plosion of a kerosene lamp. Henry Frye, OF
McGregor, Iowa. has a two-year-old colt
loonatic-one Prof. 4 Palmer-has probably
made his last ascension. At Winamac, Ind,
the other day, his balloon became ~entangled
in the limbs of a tree, and the eronaut was
thrown out. He fell some forty feet, and was
badly injured.
ROBERT AUSTIN. a wealthy young farmer re-
siding near Carrollton, Mo-, suspected his
wifes fidelity, and a few days ago left home
ostensibly for st. Louis. Returning to his
house after dark, he secreted himself in a
closet in his wife's bedroom, armed with a
double-barreled shotgun. The wife soon re-
tired, and shortly afterward Elijah Haley en-
tered the room, undressed himself, and just
as he was getting into bed, Austin sprang from
his concealment and fired at him, but missed
his aim, the shot entering his wife's abdomen,
infiicting a fatal wound. Austin fired again at
Haley and killed him instantly. The affair
created intense excitement by reason of the
prominence of all parties concerned. . John
Skinner, of Atlantic, Iowa, committed suicide
a few days ago, by shooting himself through
the heart. The Union National Bank of
Chicago, has resumed business. Chicago
erected, during the twelve months ending
Oct. 8, 81, 013 lineal feet, or more than seven
miles of frontage, of iron. stone and brick
buildings.
THE Illinois Grand Lodge of Odd-Fellows
was in session at Springfield last week. The
report of the Grand Master shows that thirty
new lodges have been instituted and five re-
vived during the past year. Total membership
in the State, %, Goa. Receipts during the year,
$18, ISL. 81 balance in treasury, So 72. 16.
Lieut.. Schuyler, with a small force, recently
pursued a band of Indians from the Camp
Verde Reservation. in Arizona, overlook them,
AM in the fight that ensued, killed fourteen
warriors.
The South.
OVER 1000 poor children have been left Or
phans and homeless by the ravages of the yell
low fever at Memphis.
THE warehouse of Lowry & MCGEE, at Full
ton Ark has hean buIOed Tosa san OO0