The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-03-23

The suspension Of the United States Re-
Hector Company, Conant, jacobson & Co.,
manufacturers and importers OF rejecting
chandeliers, has been announced in New
York. Their liabilities amount TO over
100000, and their assets are considered
good. The immediate cause of suspension
was difficulty in making collections.
Hon. George II. Pendleton's evidence be-
fore the Congressional Investigating Com
mittee entirely freed him from the accuse
tons of bribery id the Southern railroad
case.
The election returns from New Hamp-
shire indicate that the Republicans elect
nine out Of twelve Senators, and the Coun-
ell stands four Republicans and one Demo-
crat. In the House there are two hundred
and seven Republicans and one hundred
and seventy-eight Democrats. The Repub-
lican majority, it is thought, will be twenty
five or thirty in the House. The vote is in
creased about one thousand two hundred
over last year. being nearly eiehty-one thou
sand, and it is the largest ever cast in the
State.
Hoyt, the indicted ex-Revenue Collector,
who lately left Chicago for Canada, has
written an explanation to his counsel, Mr..
Dexter, in which he says he took the step
at the earnest solicitations of his friends,
and because he knew that enough perjured
testimony had been manufactured against
him to make him q scapegoat for the crimes
of others. He would return as soon as he
became convinced that he could obtain a
fair trial, for this Punishment was worse to
him than wen unjust trial and punishment.
The Grand Jury have returned indict-
ments against Philip Wadsworth, ex-Col-
lector of Internal Revenue Of the Chicago
district; D. w. Mum, ex-Supervisor of In
ternal Revenue, and E. 7. Bridges, ex-Rey-
enue Agent. The latter has gone to Canada.
George P. Freisinger, of Rock Island, for
merly proprietor Of the Milan Distillery,
gave bail, March 16, for $l6,0OO-$S,0eO on
each of two indictments for frauds com.
mitted in that distillery.
The March storms blocksded the Union
Pacific railroad. AL the trains on the
mountain division were abandoned on &C
count of the snow blockade between Greer
River and Evanston.
The most terrific wind-storm that ha.
visited that region within the recollection
of some of its oldest inhabitants, passed
over Delaware, Ohio, about one o'clock
March 16, damaging property to a great ex
tent in the different portions of the county
The residence of G. w. Little was unroofed
and portions of the roofs belonging to tn,
Seminary, chair factory, and other building
in the city, were carried away. The storm
lasted for over half an hour.
Aheavy wind and rain-storm occurred a
Yellow Springs, Ohio, March 16. In tn
country, long strings of fences were blow
down. A chimney on Antioch College wa
blown off.
The locomotive and eight cars of a freigh
train on the Atlantic and Pacific Railwa,
vent through a bridge over the Merame
River, in Missouri, recently, killing Chri
Leason, the engineer, and badly bruisin
Harrison Preston, the fireman, and destroy
ing q good deal Of property.
The Democratic State Convention Q
Rhode Island, at Providence, nominate
General George Lewis Cook for Governor
Biba o. Slocum, Lieutenant Governor
John S. Price, Secretary Of State; Oscar {
Lapham, Attorney-General; William !
Congdon, General Treasurer.
The firm of Woods, Yeatman & Co
owners of the Cumberland Iron Work.
Stewart county, Tennessee, lave suspended
Their liabilities are about two hundred an
twenty-five thousand dollars, their suppose
assets probably cover their liabilities. Tn
larger portion Of the debt is owed at homl
The other principal creditors are in Loui
vile, Cincinnati and st. Louis.
Boston, March II, observed the one hun
dredth anniversary of the evacuation
Boston by the British troops. It was a ga
day.
Returns from all towns and cities in tt
State of New Hampshire, save two, Eato
and Randolph, give Cheney tRep.) 3,6s
plurality over Marcy, and 1921 over al
Total vote: Cheney, A 1,66s; Marcy, $685.
Kendall and scattering, 420. The towns
be heard from gave, last year: Cheny, 81
Roberts, 149.
Foreign.
A landslip, at Govt, a small town on th
Rhine, in Northern Germany, caused by n
cent heavy rains, buried eight houses an
twenty-six persons.
A storm on Sunday the 18th of March, di
much damage at Portsmouth, Weymouth
Dover, and other seaports. Six hundre
vessels took refuge in the Downs. The ma
boat from Calais and Ostend was compelle
to put back. The French steamer Labrade
from Hayre for New York remained at Pl,
mouth some hours. The storm extended
the Continent The telegraph wires in th
North of France were Frustrated, and cor
munication between Paris and London il
t~errupted.
a telegram from Pesth to the Daily Mes
says that the waters of the Danube show 4
signs of subsiding. The distress is increa
ing. A large dam has burst, and fifty tho
sand additional acres of land, on which al
/ several villages, are inundated.
While the Egyptian steamer Samanon,
with troops on board for Massowah, wa
: Suez, her boiler exploded, and twenty-fol
: men were killed.
: Intelligence hes been received reportir
that on the 9TH of March the Abyssinians 8
tackled the Egyptians intrenched in camp
5 Goodrah and were repulsed. On the ne
day Prince Hasson, with several battalion
: made a sortie aud captured an importa
e adjacent position, and afterward return,
e to camp. On Thursday the Abyssinians r
o newed the attack and were again repulsI
with great loss.
A Vienna correspondent says a dispat'
received from Cattaro that
treaty and alliance between Servia and Mo
tenegro has been decided upon.
q Mark Fisher & Sons, wooden cloth man
e facturers, of Hoddelsfeld, Yorkshire al
Montreal, have failed. Liabilities, f46,0t
l. Great floods and storms are reported
France and Belgium, with immense destr,
ton of property.
A Paris dispatch to the London Da
% Telegraph says an arch of the railway brid
over the river Ill, near Lutterbach, gave W
under pressure of the flood. A passene
ri a.