The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-15
LATER NEWS.

THERE is prospect of war between Sierra
Leone and Liberia.
A COMPLETED list shows that the number of
persons burned to death in the Ring Theater at
Vienna was $50. The total number missing is
917.
FIVE persons we're killed and thirty injured on
the North London Railway near Canonbury,
England, last Saturday,
GRAFF, BERNETT & Co.'S rolling-mills, ct
Pittsburg, burned last week, entailing loss OF
s3OO, 900, and throwing 1000 men out Of en-
ployment.
Gov. ST. JOHN, Of Kansas, has issued proc
lamation, offering rewards ranging from 800
to $500 for the arrest and conviction Of any
person manufacturing intoxicating liquors In
the cities of Atchison, Leavenworth, Topeka,
Wyandotte and Dodge City, and for arrest,
conviction and removal from Office OF any
county or city official neglecting or refusing to
enforce the provisions of the temperance isw
recently adopted in that State.
A BALLOON, in charge of Captain Templar,
and containing Mr.. Walker Powell, Member OF
Parliament for Malmsbury, and Mr.. Gardner,
made an ascension from Bath, England, on the
10th inst The balloon descended shortly af-
terward, striking the ground heavily, and
throwing Gardner and Captain Templar from
the car It then arose again with Powell, and
was seen to descend at sea, since which nothing
has been heard of the balloon orPowen.
GENERAL q. B. BANNING, of Cincinnati, died
suddenly on the morning of December 10,
from heart troubles, caused originally by
wound received during the war and exposure
General Banning was born near Mt. Vern on,
Ohio, November 10, 1884, entered the war as q
private in April, 1861, and after series of
promotion for gallant service, while in conn
maud of 195th Ohio as Major General, was
elected to the Ohio Legislature from Knox
County. Subsequently he served two terms in
Congress- in 1872 defeating B. B. Hayes IN the
Second District OF Ohio and was reelected in
1874 over Job E. Stevenson. General Banning
leaves q wife and four children, the eldest Of
whom is now twelve years old.
A FRAME boarding g-house on the line Of the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad, seven miles
below Pittsburg, burned early one morning
the past week, caused by the explosion of .
coal oil lamp. Forty persons were known to
be sleeping in the building and only twenty
four escaped alive, and even all Of these
were more or less burned, and none Of them
succeeded in securing their clothes. The
Others sixteen In number, were literally
roasted alive, without the possibility Of an ef-
fort to rescue them. An eye witness tells the
following: Between two and three O'Clock
in the morning Mr.. McCune, the boarding
house keeper, arose and kindled fire in
the kitchen stove. He left lighted lamp
on q table near the door leading to the
dining room, and went to arouse the
wife and servant girls. While he was gone an
explosion occurred, and in an instant the din
ing room was filed with flames. Mr.. McCune
succeeded in escaping with his wife and girls,
but could not do more than call upon those up
stairs to escape for the lives. In Ianother mo-
ment the flames had enveloped the stairway,
thus cutting of the means of escape for the
doomed men above, except through the small
openings at either end, and from these
the sliding doors had to be removed.
The scene in the morning was sickening. In q
heap in one corner was the charred remains Of
six men who had succumbed to the frery ele
rnent while trying to make their escape in ar
opening through the roof. The loft, where thu
men slept, was partially filed with straw. In
the north end of the building, on portions Of Z
partially consumed straw bed, were the 70
mains of seven victims, piled in such confu
sion that they presented to the beholder Al
idea of the horrible agony which mus
have ensued ere the victims had lost conscious
ness. This bed was located under one Of tn
openings, and it was evident from the mannel
in which the remains were found that. the orig
inal occupants having escaped, others had
sought to flee from the opening, but had be
come hopelessly entangled and suffocated
They were burned to unacceptable shapes
and when the floor Of the loft gave wey tn
charred remains dropped to the ground below