The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-07-27
IMPORTANT EVENTS
icollated and Compiled from All
Quarters.
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AT HOME
The United States Iron and Tin Plate
Company, of Tuckersport, Pa, has failed,
with liabilities at $150.000.
DISASTROUS forest fires are reported
raging between Au Sable and East Tawas
Michigan.
EPENATUs HOWE has been nominated for
Governor by the New York Greenback
Labor Party. = The resolutions declare that
all officials should be elected instead of
appointed.
Col. CoLvIN MORGAN, brother of the fa-
nous Confederate cavalry raider, General
John H, Morgan, died at his home in Lex
1ngton, KY, on July 10, aged fifty-fivc. He
had been ill five months.
The army worm has appeared in the Vi
cinity of Fall River, Mass, in large num-
berss = Ss5sass-ssI - sss rs
MRs. frances scoy1LLE will contest
Guiteau's will.
The Texas Democracy nominated Judge
Ireland for Governor by acclamation.
5 Or pleasure party of seven, two
women and one man were drowned in
Portage River, near Houghton, Michigan.
DISPATCHES received via Verde, from
Major Evans. of the Third Cavalry, at De-
partment headquarters in Arizona, say
that troops consisting of the Third and
Sixth Cavalry, Major Chaffee cor manding,
had an engagement with renegades from
San Carlos at Cheylon's fork, about forty
five miles from Fort Verde Major Chaffee,
who has been following the Indians since
fhoi1 l. Ca,
ago, got them into deep ravine and the
fight began, as they had no other alterna-
tive. The casualties on our side are one
elisted man wounded since died, five
Others wounded, two dangerously. Lieu
tenants Morgan and Converse, of the Third
Cavalry, were wounded. One Indian scout
was killed and one wounded. During the
night the Indians broke, leaving six dead
bucks on the ground. Scouts report about
twenty more killed. All their equipage
was left by them on the field, and thirty
two head of horses and mules captured by
the troops; also six women and children.
GENERAL GRANT is reported as saying he
believes England is right in her course to-
ward Egypt.
WOMEN are eligible as attorneys in Con-
necticut, according to a decision by the
Court.
JUDGE WYLTE, in the Star Route cases
on the 18th, astonished the defense, with
out deciding in form whether a prffma
facie case of conspiracy had been made out,
by stating that the case would have to be
submitted to the jury, thus Indicating that
the case is not yet closed, as the accused
had hoped.
GEORGE H. INKoFF died at Richmond,
Indiana, July 20, aged 1O7 years. He was
a soldier under the great Napoleon.
OK THE Goth q dispatch announced the
probable loss of the ship Tbeobald, with
crew of nineteen, sailing from Phila-
delphia for San Francisco.
IT HAS been decided by the Naval Court
of Inquiry that no one was to blame for
the destruction of the Arctic ship Rodgers
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt on the
Doth at Cairo, Illinois.
THE New York Emigrant Aid Society
has returned fifteen Russian Hebrew fam
lies. who were physically and mentally un-
able to earn a living, and hereafter the So
ciety will not permit the landing of pauper
Hebrews at New York.
CHICAGO reports fifteen cases of deaths
from lockjaw, caused by Fourth of July
toy pistols.
In THE Georgia Democratic Convention,
July 20, Hon. A. H. Stevens was nomina-
ted for Governor; N. G. Barnett, Secretary
of State; w. A. Wright, Comptrolle
General; D. N. Speer, Treasurer; Clifford
Anderson, Attorney General; Thomas
Hardeman, Large
]. B. HALL, member of the Ohio Legisla-
ture from Hamilton County, and Presi-
dent of the Home Insurance Company of
Columbus, and H. N. Henderson, Secre-
tary, have been arrested, charged with
perjury, and released on $1,000 bail each.
The affidavit was made by the State Super
intendent of Insurance.
FANNY PARNELL, the widely-known sis
ter of Charles Stewart Parnell, died sud
denly Of paralysis of the heart on the goth,
at Old Ironsides, Bordentown, New Jersey
The Ohio Democratic State Central Com
mittee was organized on the Goth by the
election of Clark Irvine, of Mount Vernon,
as Chairman, and John G. Thompson as
Chairman of the State Executive Com
mittee.
J.B. WILcox & Co., lard refiners, New
York, have suspended, with liabilities at
10000. The suspension is only temporary.
"A HORRIBLE case of trichine poisoning is
reported from Milwaukee A man named
Wills bought sick hog at the stock yards,
drove it home and fattened it for home
consumption. The hog was killed and eat
en- of by himself, wife and three children.
All became afflicted with trichina, and the
death of the adults is only matter of a
few days. The attending physician does
not think it possible for the children to
recover either. The meat is alive with
parasites; and in some positions can be
seen without the aid of glass.
JAMES T. WALSH, aged 10, who, January
8, 1881, stabbed Barbara Groenthal, O.
Brooklyn, N. Y, to death because she re
fused to marry him, was hanged in Brook
lYn on the 21st of July. The murdered
girl was aged only 16 years, and had re-
fused the attentions of Walsh, who was a
reckless character, upon the advice of the
family with whom she was living.
Mrs. CATHERINE ALBERT said to be the
oldest person in Ohio, died two miles
north of Bakersville on the 21st, at the ad-
vanced age of 107 years.
SECOND Assistant Postmaster General
Elmer reports that the Star service in the
Pacific section is now in operation at cost
of 40 7S-1O0 per cent. cheaper than under
former contracts, and also that the cost per
mile is As 39-1O0 per cent. less. These fig
ures represent saving of over two million
dollars annually in the contract term of
four years.
THREE carrier pigeons liberated at Wash
ington, few from the dome of the Capitol
to Baltimore in one hour eleven and
twelve minutes respectively.
JUDGE WYL1E decided, on the 21st, to al
low John A. Walsh to testify in the Star
Route cases, much 10 the qualification OF
the prosecution.
AT THE meeting of the House Committee
on Judiciary at Washington on the 21st, a
letter was read from ]. J.. P. Newell, con-
tanning the charge that the passage of the
Texas Pacific land grant bill was pro-
cured by bribery and fraud, that $90,00
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