The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-10-11

leutly raised. An one bank he borrowed
$4,000. Acknowledgements are making.
Gilman was in town next morning, but can
not now be found. The Evening Post says
it was scrip of the Atlantic Mutual Insur-
ance Company that has been raised. The
amount of raised certificates so far found is
1927 ,000. The company will lose nothing.
Gilman, it seems, obtained two 800 scrip
certificates on the Atlantic Mutual Marine
Insurance Company, which were raised to
$4,000 each, and hypothetical them with
Henry Talmage & Co. by a loan of $4,000.
The American Exchange also holds several
OF the certificates, amounting in the original
to 5 1920, but which were raised to ST., 1920.
An additional number is said to be out.
Adviees from the Pennsylvania coal regions
are encouraging. After two months of idle
ness, negotiations are at last in progress
which will probably result in the resumption
of work.
The trial of the July railroad rioters has
begun at Reading, Penn. Samuel Humph-
reys, indicted for burning the Lebanon
Valley Bridge, turned States evidence,
confessing that he held a lamp while a man
named Smith saturated kindling wood
thrown from the upper part of the bridge
by accomplices with coal oil and setfre to ii.
The explosion of the steamer Comfort was
more disastrous than at first supposed.
Five persons are now known to have been
killed. Three persons are still missing, and
about fifteen are wounded, two fatally. All
the passengers had not yet registered, and
it will be impossible to ascertain the
exact number lost. The wounded are at
Moundsville, twelve miles below Wheeling,
W. V.
A stationary boiler, used at the Hayden
Coal Works at Logan, Ohio, for drawing
cars to the screen, exploded the other
morning, killing Samuel Matheny, engineer,
and wounding John Sterling. The boiler had
been in use several years, and became de-
fective through usage.
The New York Democrats lately met in
Convention at Albany and nominated the
following State ticket: Secretary of State,
Allen o. Beach; Comptroller, Frederick p.
Olcott; Treasurer, James Mackin; Attorney
General, Augustus ~Schoonmaker; State
Engineer anu puENSyoi1 hVlati SOs "ouij
jr. A strong resolution, among several
others, was passed, ~denouncing the Return
ing Boards, and declaring that the Demo
cratic candidate was legitimately elected
President.
The fast freight train on the Delaware &
Hudson Road ran off the track owing to a
misplaced switch, recently, near Melrose
Station, N. ]. Patrick Riley, the engineer,
was scalded to death, and Michael Merrick,
fireman, crushed to death. Cones, brake.
man, was badly injured. The section watch
man reports that he examined the switch
half an hour before the accident.
Steamer Massachusetts,, from Providence
for New York, went ashore near Horton's
Point, Long Island Sound, at midnight, and
she lies about four hundred feet from shore,
full of water, and passengers all safe. he
Massachusetts, was an entirely new boat, and
made her first trip on the 18th of May last
She was three hundred and twenty-five feet
long, forty-six feet beam, seventy-six feet
beam over all, one thousand tons burden, had
accommodation for two hundred and twenty
persons in berths, exclusive of staterooms
and was, in reality, a floating palace. She
cost nearly $500, 0OO.' The cause of the dis
aster was the breaking of a piston rod
which stove a hole in her bottom. The pas
sengers claim the officers are to blame for tn,
loss.