The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-03-02

ton expressed a preference for Blaine in
its resolutions, but deemed it inexpedient
to instruct its delegates owing to the time
intervening before the assembling of the
National Convention.
The Rhode Island Prohibitionists have
nominated Albert G. Howard for Governor.
Adam Sherman and John Harris were
killed by an explosion of sulphur in King &
Co.'s colliery at Pottsville, Pa.
The temperance organizations of Buffalo,
N. Y, have secured a fund of over ten thou
sand dollars to prosecute the violaters of
the Sunday excise law. Thirteen prominent
saloon keepers have been arrested.
The nitro-giycerine magazine of the Rob
erts Torpedo Company at st. Petersburg,
Clarion county, Pa, exploded with terrific
violence, about six o'clock the other even
ing, tearing the building to pieces and in
stantly killing Jas. Barnum, an employee of
the company, who was at work in the mag
azine.
The Powhattan Iron Company, operating
on the james riveri in Virginia, and of which
Gen. W. F. Bartlett, of Massachusetts,, is
President, has officially notified its creditors
of a suspension of payment of said COM
pany. They allege as one of the causes of
their failure the suspension of the Tredegar
Works at Richmond.
At the evening session Of the Advisory
Council, February %, DIR. Bacon made a
vehement speech, maintaining that the ind
ings of the Council of 1874 were a prece-
dent this Council was bound to respect, and
accusing Plymouth Church Of evading the
main question. The committee reported
favorably on the results of the investigation
of Mr.. Beecher's case, made in 1874, and of
the trial, but advised that a scandal bureau
of five prominent Congregationalists out of
twenty names presented, be selected to make
further investigation, and satisfy some dis
contented churches and the public mind.
The Connecticut Democratic Liberals
have nominated Charles R. Ingersoll for
Governor. The platform favors an early
resumption of specie payment.
The following State ticket was
nominated by the recent Prohibition
Convention at Columbus, Ohio: Sec
rotary of State, E. s. Chapman, of Mont
gomery; Judge of the Supreme Court, D.
w. Gage, of Cleveland; Member of tie
Board of Public Works, Ferdinand Schu-
macher, of Akron; Controller of the Treas
ury, J. C. Murdoch, of Morgan county
School Commissioner, George K. Jenkins, of
Jefferson county.
A sleeping car on the Harlem Railroad ex.
tension was burned on the night of February
"a, near Poughkeepsie, New York, and Mr..
Bissel, proprietor of the Sherman House,
Chicago, and his SON, persisted in the flames
Ten other passengers are reported as having
been badly burned. The accident was
caused by the car running off a broken rail
and the upsetting of the car, which then
took fire.
The jury in the case of Babcock, on trial
atSt. Louis for crooked dealings in whisky
has returned averdictof notguilty.
Foreign.
The fort of Estella, the most importan
Carlist stronghold, is reported as hayin,
surrendered. This is considered as virtual,
the end of the rebellion.
A telegram from Madrid to the LondoI
Times, states that the Spanish Government
has sent a circular dispatch to its represen
tatives abroad announcing the capture b.
the Alphonists, of Montejarra, and the oc
cupation of the Carlistposition ms above Vera
The dispatch admits that the combat wa
s~anguinary, the Carlists fighting with grea
vaior.
The elections took place in France 70
members Of Chamber of Deputies on Feb
ruury 10. So far as heard from, the Rad
calls stood first, the Moderate Republican
second, the Conservatives third, and tn
B~onapartists away behind.
Jamaica advices state that the conditio
of affairs in Hayti is alarming. The revt
lutionists have purchased the steamer Oct,
via, taken in ammunition, and sailed froI
Jamaica for Port au Prince. PresidentD Don
Unique has ordered Cuban refugees to qut
the country within thirty hours, on penalt
of being delivered up to the Spanish gun
boats. Amonetary panic is imminent. Bill
of exchange on large houses on New Yor
have been returned protested.
The steamship Switzerland, from Ne
York, January 80, while steaming up tn
channel at Antwerp, ran down the brigal
tine Hero, and four of the crew of tt
latter were drowned. The Switzerland ws
uninjured.
The inquest on the bodies of the victim
of the Strath Clyde disaster has been COZ
cluded. The jury, after an hour and a half
: deliberation, rendered a verdict of maj
slaughter against the officer in charge of tn
Eranconia and axnressinp indionatio