The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-10-05
NEWS IN BRIEF,
The Wpaf.

The West.
Sitting Bull says he wants the whites to
let him alone, and he will not disturb them,
says if they are determined to fight, the
Indians can bring eighteen thousand war
riors against the soldiers next season. They
say the Indians lost thirty-six killed in the
Custer engagement, and nearly one hundred
wounded.
The South.
On September 20, Pensacola established
a quarantine against New Orleans for thirty
days. A meeting of the Merchants Ex-
change in New Orleans passed resolutions
indorsing the report of the Board of Health
in regard to the extent of the yellow fever,
and ~denouncing the action of Galveston,
Shreveport and Pensacola in establishing
guarantees against New Orleans as unjust,
and doubtless influenced by false reports,
and calculated to impair the commercial
relations with those import centers and
avenues of trade.
Fires.
The large and extensive establishment,
known as the Milburn Wagon Works, of
Toledo, Ohio, was nearly destroyed by fire
the other evening. Over one thousand
finished wagons, besides a very large num-
Der of unfinished ones, were burned. The
loss is supposed to be not less than S350,OO
on which there is an insurance of $780,
600. Several Of the fremen narrowly es-
capped death from falling walls, and one had
an arm broken. This disaster will throw
about three hundred and fifty men out of
employment. The cause of the fire is
supposed to have been spontaneous com-
bustion.
General Brertttes.
At Halletts Point, next day after the ex.
plosion, the only traces to be seen of the
great coffer-dam and the shaft were a few
fragments of the former afioat in the water.
General Newton arrived in company with
Bernard F. Boyle, overseer of the late works,
and inspected the scene of the late explo-
sion with evident satisfaction. In answer
to a question of a reporter of the New York
EUening Post, as to the success of the blast,
he declared emphatically that it was a
thorough explosion. There are $223,O0 O
now available for the prosecution of further
work at He'll Gate. A large part of this
sum will be required this year for the re-
moval of the rocks blown up, and it is
probable several years will pass before the
beginning of operations at Flood Rock.
Quite sensible shocks of earthquake were
felt between twelve and two o'clock on the
morning of September 25 at BelleviIle,
Mount Carmel, and other points in Southern
Illinois.
A Louisville newspaper says that at mid
night on Sunday, September "a, houses were
shaken and glass ratified throughout the
city, no damage, however, being occasioned.
People there do not think the dynamite at
He'll Gate affected their city, but firmly
believe the shock was caused by an earth
quake. 1t produced a sensation throughout
the city, and formed the subject of much
conversation and speculation. In some
cases crockery was broken and pictures
thrown from the walls. Dispatches from the
interior Of Kentucky report shocks felt in
several places.
Yellow fever is reported as severe at Sa.
vannah, and Brunswick, Georgia, and at
New Orleans. Memphis, 81. Louis, Chicago,
and many of the large cities have been sub.
scribing aid for the sufferers. The fever
spreading, Galveston, Texas, has established
aquarantine.
Terence Walsh and Patrick Donohue,
laborers, were killed, and two others Sc.
riously injured, by a fall of rock in a tun.
mel at Baltimore.
A slight shock of an earthquake was felt
at Vincennes, Ind, at five o'clock on the
morning of the 9th September.
On the morning of September %, Gen
arol Rrorfan Prao1 IroD1al lao1 xii
crossing Twentieth street, in front of the
-Pestcfsee, at-Galveston, Texas. He wa,
aged sixty-one. General Bragg was in his
usual health up to the moment of the
attack. The cause of his death was a fatal
syncope, induced by organic disease of the
heart. He was the captain of artillery in
the Mexican War to whom General lack
Taylor addressed the famous words, GA
little more grape, Captain Bragg"
The bronze statue Of William 81. Seward
was unveiled in Madison Square, New York
City, September %. The Grafton was de
Eyered by VIM. N. Evarts.
Ten Brock, on the Louisville Jockey Clut
Grounds, made the best four-mile flying Oh
the record. The entire distance was made
in 7:15A, or 81 seconds quicker than Fee
lowcrafts time in 1874 at Saratoga, and
seconds quicker than Lexington's at New
Orleans in 1856. An offer of $4,000 fol
Ten Brock was rejected.
The minis are running to their full
capacity to supply the demands for sub
sidiary silver coin. Over five hundred thou
sand dollars have been received from Rus
sia to be converted into American gold coin
Like importations are expected. There il
an active demand for silver for export te
China.
Frederick Wartman. a German tanner
while attempting to adjust the leather band
to the fy-wheel in Louis Kruge's tannery, al
Louisville, recently, was caught up by ths
band in some unknown way and wheeled
around at the rate of sixty eyolutions pei
minute. His head and all parts of his bod
were mashed to jelly and cut into hundreds
of small pieces.
Aterrible accident occurred at Springfield
Mass, on the 29th of September. The floor,
of a three-story brick building on Hampton
street, occupied on the first floor as a pork
packing establishment by J. Walker & Son
on the second as a store-room by Samue
Parker & Co., commission merchants, ani
on the third as a store-room by the Hucl
Cigar Manufacturing Co., fell, burying 81,
men in the ruins. Four men escaped will
severe cuts and bruises; two were buriet
under the ruins. The cause of the accideu
was the giving way of the third floor, OF
which were stored eighty thousand pound
of tobacco. The ruins Immediately caugh
fire. The loss of property is thirty THOUSAND
dollars, partially insured.
A gallows horror took place at Coshocton
Ohio, on the 29th of September. Will
Francis Ept was being hanged for the mur
der of Abraham Wertheimer, the ncos
slipped; but the dying murderer, while CRY
ing for mercy, was hanged again.
In the recent great Toledo fire, a repor
gained credence that seven men had pei
ished in the ruins, but there was but on,
Colonel Edwin N. Hurlburt, lumber clerk q
the company, who was smothered to deaf
in the fifth story, and when the floor CAV
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