The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-31

captain A. N. Long,, COmmlssary Oh SUD-
sistence at Washington, committed suicide
On the 22d of January. He went home at the
usual hour in the afternoon, and entering
his W fe's room had a brief conversation
with her, and Immediately afterward passed
into al adjoining room and shot himself
near the heart, causing death almost imme-
diately. Long was pardon clerk at the
White House under President Johnson, and
assigned to duty with Mr.. johnson when
the latter was Military Governor of Tennes-
see. He married the daughter of Hon.
Henry D. Foster, ex-Representative from
Pennsylvania.
General
The BOIL Silver Resolutions we're adopted
in the Ohio Senate, by a party vote, the Re-
publicans refusing to censure the President
and Secretary Sherman.
The Lehigh Valley Coal Company has
announced its prices per ton, delivered on
board: Lump 1915, steamboat 1850, broken
$3.25@3.6o, egg $3.35@3.2o, stove 1915,
chestnut $3.25.
Stanley, the African explorer, was
~banqueted Saturday night in Paris, by the
Geographical Society. Two hundred and
seventy guests were present. He was
presented with two medals.
The liabilities Of Jacob Bum, the Spring
field Gill; banker are reported at s912, 900,
and the available assets at $685. 900.
assignee thinks creditors will get seventy
five cents on the dollar.
The G~reenbackers of the Twelfth GILL;
Congressional District held a meeting at
Springfield Saturday, elected officers,
adopted resolutions, heard Brick Pomeroy,
ETC., and arranged to perpetrate their mem
DRY in future official elections.
! Commodore George N. Hollins died at
Baltimore Friday night, of paralysis, aged
seyenty-nine years. He was in command of
the sfoop-of-war Cyane, which bombarded
Greytown, Nicaragua, in 1854. At the
commencement of the late civil war he
entered the Confederate service.
DR.. Morton, his brother, and a man named
Beverly, alias johnson, charged with the
robbery of graves in the Forest Cemetery,
at Toledo, were arrested Saturday. Morton
formerly lived in Columbus, and has been
there only q short time. "A partial confess
sion has been made by the accused.
A run was made on the Oddfellows' and
Clay Street Savings banks in San Francisco,
lately; but the officers expressed their inten-
ton and confidence in paying ad demands.
Large numbers of failures are reported
daily Of prominent merchants in various
parts of the country, and the run on
banks are increasing.
The Providence County Savings Bank, in
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, issued q circular
to depositors, announcing the omission Of
the ~semi-annual dividend, and that the char
ter provision would be enforced forbidding
the withdrawal of money before the second
Wednesday in April. The bank on the Doth
of November had about $4,000 o deposits,
with $2,2S2,000 invested in real estate
mortgages. Other savings bank in Paw.
tucket require notice for the withdrawal of
principal, but pay interest on demand.
In the case of the State of Georgia against
Ex-Governor Bullock, for defrauding the
State while he was Governor, the jury has
brought in a verdict of acquittal.
VIM. 81. Vanderbilt appeared at the Cor.
oner's house in New York the other day,
and was placed under two thousand dollars
bonds to appear at the inquest in the case
of Matthew Reilly, who died of injuries
received by being run over in November BY
Mr.. Vanderbilt.
The Iowa Legislature has reelected ALI
SON to the United States Senate.
On the 9th ultimo the Spanish steame,
Alcantara arrived at San Domingo, Havana
bringing a commission appointed by the
Spanish Governments, to examine a boz
supposed to contain the remains of Chris
topher Columbus. The examination wa.
permitted, after many formalities had beer
gone through with. The box was removed
from its place of deposit, the seals broken
and the inscription closely examined. TIL,
bones were scrupulously inspected ant
photographs taken of the remains.
Alexander Fortner, a cabinet maker O
ten months residence at Evansville, Ind.
blew his brains out lately, with a shot gun
He went TO bed with the weapon and pulled
the trigger with his toes. He was abou
twenty-seven years old, and his former resi-
dence is unknown, but is thought to have
been in Chicago. The deed seems to hay,
grown out of mental arrangement.
The failure of Piatt, Hubbell & Co., O
Monticello, Illinois, has been announced
The debts Of that firm amount to abou
eigbty-seven thousand dollars, due to on,
hundred md sixteen creditors, but the debt
of the individual members of that firm an,
those connected with them will amount, i
is affirmed, to about two hundred thousan,
dollars. VIM. Fl. Piatt is a creditor of tn
firm to the amour of twenty-five thousan,
dollars. John Pistt, a relative of the parties
a man supposed formerly to be worth a
least one hundred a fifty thousand dollars
has put all his property into the hands of
Trustee.
Officer Martin Kunkel, a Cincinnati pc
liceman, a brave and efficient officer, wa
shot dead a few mornings since by a gan
of burglars, while in the act of making a
arrest in conjunction with other policemen
Philadelphia leads the cities of the worl
in its provision for the comfort of the Labor
ing classes. The people are better house
and fed than in any European or othe
American city. The last enterprise is
restaurant where a bowl of good soup an
a slice OF bread can be had for one cen
It is immensely popular.
Mr.. Comley, United States Minister Res
dent in the Hawaiian Islands, writes tn
Department of State that in a recent fire i
Honolulu over $25o,OOO worth of propert
was burned, including the wharves an
Government warehouses. The Custom-hous
was saved. The King himself worked
the brakes of the hand engines. The Go,
eminent loses 100000 and an America
citizen named Hopper $4,000.
Stanley Matthews's silver resolution in tt
Senate has been adopted by q vote of 43
%.
John Davis, Frank Weaver, and JOSEF
Davis, supposed to be the murderers
officer Kunkel, were arrested near Indial
apolis, in the country, and taken to Cincii
pati. A regular skirmish fight was ha