The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-28
Union glass-blowers from working. On the
18th seventeen Union men were arrested,
charged with conspiracy.

Union glass-blowers from working. On the
10th seventeen Union men were arrested,
charged with conspiracy.
Dr.. FORBES, of jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, has been indicted for COM
plicity in the grave-robbing that has re-
Gently been practiced in and around that
city.
JAMES 81. Wilson, Treasurer of Dewitt
County, Illinois, committed suicide on the
Goth by hanging himself in, his barn. No
cause for the act is assigned. :,
5N livery stable fire at Mcpherson,
Kansas, on the Goth, twenty-nine- horse
were burned. On the same day,
in farm building at Charlemont, Massa-
chusetts, one hundred and fifty sheep and
fifty calves were burned. sr@ sa
The Western Bre wers' Association, meet
ing at Chicago, on the 20th, advanced the
price of beer, after January 1, one dollar a
barrel. Cincinnati was not represented.
"A. Western Association, to include all beer
manufacturing cities west of Rochester,
New York, was formed.
Syr has.heen begun by the. Union. Steam
boat Company and other navigation cam-
panies to test the liability of the city of
Chicago for keeping the Chicago River in
the condition of q nayigable stream for
heavy vessels The suit is to compel the
city to dredge the stream at a certain point
where it is claimed to be of insufficient
depth. In another suit the Chicago and
Alton Road, which has bridge across the
river at the point complained of, is made
co-defendant with the city.
THROUGH the use of $3.50, 900 of the funds
of the City Bank of Rochester, by its Pres
ident, G. E. Upton, to carry on oil specu-
lations, the bank closed its doors on the
goth. The amount of deposits is stated at
$500, 900, and the amount of paper held by
the bank $500, 600.
The Grand Jury at Louisville on the
Goth returned ten indictments against par
ties in the City Hall, alleged to be connect
ed with fraudulent practices during 1879.
DURING hailstorm at Hun tsville, Texas,
on the 20th, Diam's milling house was
blown down, killing Albert Dryder and
four negro women who had sought shelter.
Three or four others were slightly injured.
In THE action of the Government against
three packages of distilled spirits, which
had been originally properly stamped, but
afterwards, when a part had been drawn
and water added. to the packages, were
seized by the Government as not of the
proof indicated by the stamp, Judge Brown
of New York, on the Goth, held that the
mere addition of water is not fraud. The
suggestion that the stamp must correspond
with the proof spirits as means of identi
fication is argumentative only, and is NO
warranted by law" Judgment given fol
defendant.
ANGELIC CoRNETTI, who killed Davie
Cash, a fellow-prisoner at Sing Sing, ha
been sentenced to hang January %. Cor
netti also murdered his wife, and claims
that Cash had killed four or five persons.
A POSTAL car filed with mail matter fo
the West was burned on the Hudson Rive
Railroad on the 21st.
A NEW YoRK dispatch of the 21st. says
Alexander Jefferson, negro, committed
a double murder in Brooklyn tonight, ant
| facts are these: At 176 Buffalo avenue re
sides Mrs. Emma Jackson, an aged coloret
woman her daughter Annie, twenty-fou
years of age; Henry Hicks (colored), forty
one years old, and Celestial Jefferson, thir
| ty-five years old, the brother of the mur
derer Alexander, who loved Annie, wa
jealous of his brother Celestial and Hicks
On several occasions Alexander threatened
to kill the entire family. Tonight b
stealthily approached the house and dis
charged the contents of double -barrele,
shotgun through the window. The frs
struck Hicks in the side and killed him in
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severely wounded him. The murderer mex
cut Mrs. Jackson's throat from ear to ea1
causing Immediate death, and after severe
ly cutting Annie Jackson in the breast, tn
man made his escape"
| MARSHAL KNOX, of New York City, wa
removed on the 21st. It is stated on on
side that he had been loaning Government
funds to personal friends, and on the othe
side that the story is false, the true caus
of removal being in the fact that he wa
appointed by President Garfield, and is NO
q Stalwart.
TIE Joint Congressional Commission O
the Newburg IN. Y.) Centennial Celebrs
ton, next October. have agreed to reques
Governors of States to attend the celebrs
ton, escorted, if possible, by a militar
guard Of one hundred in Centennial un
form.
JAMES BENNETT. a stockholder of th
First National Bank, at Manitowoc, Wis
committed suicide on the 21st by shootin!
The cause was protracted illness.
Il +. N. BRIGGS, Superintendent of Carrier
and Chief Clerk in the Denver Postoffie
was arrested on the 21st on the charge of al
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and held in the sum of 81 900 for examin
ton. He is nephew of Postmast,
Byers, and heretofore bore an excelleI
!, reputation.
A ST. LOUIS watchman surprised part
of burglars on the night of the 21st an
shot and seriously wounded one of them
:. OwINa to an error in the transmission
dispatch sent recently from Chicago, tt
announcement was made that the Cato
stock farm, of Joliet, Illinois, had bee
sold, with some of its stock. The fact h
since transpired that the proprietors
that farm sold to Russell Sage, of Ne
} York, the celebrated team of trotters, Je
ME Cuyler and Gypsy Maid, but not Il
: farm.
, AT GADsDEN, Alabama, on the 21st, q.
Deputy Marshal Goodwin killed John
J Wilson, whom he was trying to arrest f
violation of the revenue laws.
THE Merchants and Manufacturer
) Bank, of Pittsburg, has filed judgment
$3O9,S against the Siemans-Anderst
| Steel Company.
5 The Governor has issued q certificate
' election to G. G. Dibrell, of the Third Co
gressional District of Tennessee. This
t the district of which three counties, we
n omitted by a Legislative Apportionme
E Act, which caused discussion as to the '
, lidity of the Act.
!. A DISPATCH received from Raleigh, Nor
: Carolina, on the 21st, says: ga riot
} Lincolnton, originating in an attack
e train hands upon the paymaster, caus
e great excitement. The Town Comm
= sioners called out the local military CO
n pany, which arrested thirty of the leadi
s rioters. Repeated threats were made
:. negroes to burn the town. Ci
zens are kept on patrol day and nigl
This afternoon the Governor received
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