The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
General

The ~triennial Convocation of Knights
Templar lately held at Cleveland, represent
ing every section of the United States, was
a notable event and the largest affair of the
kind that ever occurred in the country.
Washington dispatch of August % says:
The President, Attorney-General Devens,
and Postmaster-Genera Key will leave
Washington on Thursday evening, Septem-
Der 6, for Marietta, O., to attend the Ma
tional ~Encampment of volunteer soldiers on
the 7th inst. From Marietta the President
goes to Fremont, and the members of the
Cabinet will return to Washington. The
President will remain at his home on Sunday
and Monday, and on Tuesday he will leave
for Dayton to attend the meeting of the
Board of Trustees of the Soldiers Home.
On Wednesday he will unveil the soldiers
monument at the Home and return on
Thursday to Fremont to attend the annual
reunion of the Esd o. V. l., his ol~dregiment.
On Friday, the 18th, Generals Sheridan,
Crook, ]. D. Cox, S. S. Carroll, and others
will be present. On Monday, the 18th, the
President viii be at the opening of the In
dustrial Exposition at Louisville, where he
will be Joined by the Postmaster General
and other Cabinet officers, and will be in
Nashville on the 10Th, Chattanooga on the
Goth, and Knoxville, Tennessee, the 21st.
The President will return to Washington
through Virginia, visiting Richmond and
other prominent cities of that State.
VIM. Faulkener, an old citizen of Dayton,
Ohio, a few days ago, fell from a window in
the third story of the Phillips House.. He
was shocking'y and fatally mangied. The
deceased was a manufacturer of wooden
goods, and was widely known.
A dreadful fire has occurred in the Rosario
Mine near the city of Mexico. Twenty-four
lives were lost and many persons seriously
injured.
An immense c%oneourse assembled on the
Fair Grounds at Cleveland, August 90, to
witness the prize drills between different
Communicates of the Knights Templar. The
first prize was won by Detroit C~ommandery,
No. 1; the second by Raper, No. /, OF
Indianapolis; the third by Monroe, No. IL,
of Rochester, New York. The first prize is a
beautiful banner, costing three hundred
dollars; the second prize is a full libation
set of cups and candlesticks, worth two
hundred dollars; the third prize a set Of
Masonic jewelry, worth one hundred
dollars.
Brigham Young, the great Mormon
prophet, died at his home in Salt Lake City
on the goth of August.
A monument to old John Brown was un
yelled at Osawatomie, Kansas, on the 3Otl
October.
Wilson Shannon, an Ex-Governor o
Ohio, died at Lawrence, Kansas, August 80
He was elected Governor of Ohio by tn
Democrats in opposition to Thoma
Corwin.
Admiral Raphael Symmes, formerly O
the Confederate Navy, died at Port Clear
Ala, on August 80. He was born in Mary
land about 1910; was Secretary of the Light
house Board when he joined the fortunes O
the Confederacy commanded the 29O, aftel
ward called the Alabama, and his naval cs
reer ended when the Alabama was sunk b
the Kearsarge, of Cherbourg, June 10, 1856.
The Grand Encampment of the Knight
Templar of the United States at Clevelan,
adjourned in the forenoon, August 8
Grand Master Hurlburt, of Chicago, WI
installed, and appointed the following of
GERS to fill vacancies: c. W. Carter, Come
ticut, Grand Sword Bearer; Hiram Grove
Grand Captain General; ]. NJ. Woodhul
Wisconsin, Grand Standard Bearer; ORR
Weleh, New York, Grand Warden. II
Grand E~ncampment meets in Chicago, {
the third Tuesday in August, 1886.
The State Prohibition Convention of low
has nominated Hon. Elias Jessup, of Osk
Ioosa, for Governor. 1t made no other non
nations, but decided to make a lively ca