The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-23

the Senate for the term commencing March
4. Following was the vote: Short term
Barrow, 116; Hill, 80; Barrow elected. For
the long term-Colquitt, 122; Jackson, 40 !;
Black, 33; Anderson, 20; Colquitt elected.
Ar MARsHALLTowN, Iowa, Frank How
ard, prominent farmer and pronounced
Prohibitionist, has gone insane over the
result of the election. He gave himself
away to the City Marshal by unfolding, in
| supposed confidence, detailed plan for
burning all the saloons in the city, and
asking for help.
AT DENVER, COLORADO, on the morning
of the 18th, DR.. G. W. Werner, formerly of
Baltimore, where his parents now reside,
| was found unconscious in his rooms. An
Argand gas burner on the table was turned
on, but not lighted. All efforts to revive
the asphy xiated physician proved futile.
1t was probably the result of accident
THE movement to raise $50, 600 for the
Garfield monument by con tributions from
the. State appments-of Knights Tenn
plar, equivalent to $1 from each Knight in
the jurisdiction, is said to be meeting with
gratifying success.
AT Hinkley, Illinois, on the night of the
18th. a store, which is also used as the Post
office, was entered by masked men. who
bound and gagged the clerk, and blew open
the safe, getting money, postage stamps,
and jewelry to the value of $3.50, and then
stole horse and buggy and got away.
BY the fall of a passenger elevator at
McKnight's carpet house, Main street,
Louisville, on the 10th, four passengers
were seriously and fifth painfully in
! jured. Two of the badly hurt are Capt ain
Hite and Captain Howard, well-known
gentlemen on the river.
THE cabin of negro named James Tay-
lor. in Higbee, Missouri, was burned on
the 18th, and two of his children perished
| in the flames.
JAY GOULD and Mr.. William Hendrey
Cameron, stockholders in the Mutual
Union Telegraph Company, have made
application to the Attorney-General of
New York to vacate the charter and dis
solve the Mutual Union corporation.
Two children of the Rev. Gleason, a
Methodist minister at Window, Minn.,
aged eleven and fourteen years, were
drowned in the Des Moines River on the
18th. The boy broke through the ice while
skating, and the girl thinking she could
save him, ran. to the house near by and
gave the alarm, and then back to the river,
and ran in after her brother.
| By THE explosion of boiler in Cincin-
natl, on the 10Th, five men were injured,
one fatally.
PATTI, the songstress, has been made the
recipient of threatening letters recently in
New York. but she declares herself by no
means frightened, and does not believe
any one would harm her.
The residence of Judge Samuel M. Will
son, in San Francisco, was damaged by fire
on the 10th to the extent of 800, 1000. Mr..
Wilson was born in Steubenville, Ohio.
The agent of the Secret Service Division
for Missouri telegraphed from Frederick
town on the 10Th. the arrest Of Wiley n.
Grisson, and two sons. for manufacturing
and passing counterfeit silver fifty-cent
and one dollar coins.
The steamer City of Worcester collided
with barge in the East River, New York,
on the night of the 10th, and two women,
the wife and mother of the Captain, Mr.
Taylor, his three children and three deck
hands were drowned. Captain Taylor was
saved.
FIVE new cases of yellow fever were re-
ported at Pensacola on the 18th, causing
uneasiness among absentees who have
just returned. 1t was announced
by the Superintendent of Division of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad that all
quarantines against Pensacola had been
removed.
The Courthouse at Anderson, Grimes
| County, Texas, was burglarized on the
10th, and all the election returns stolen by
unknown parties.
AT st. John, N. B., diphtheria is very
prevalent. The family of VIM. Wilson
has, within a few days, lost two sons and
daughter, aged twelve, fourteen and six
teen, and the mother and another were at
the point of death at last accounts.
THE Cincinnati Board of Councilmen
have engrossed an ordinance prohibiting
the sales of explosive cartridges, pistols,
ETC., to minors under seventeen years of
age, without the written consent of pa
rents or guardians, under penalty of fine
not exceeding $50
BUSINESS failures for the week ending the
18th were 139, of which 131 took place in
the country, and eight in New York City.
AT the soft glove exhibition at Washing,
ton City on the 18th, John l.. Sullivan, the
Boston champion, who had challenged any
man in Washington to stand up before
him for four rounds, knocked Jordan Rem.
seller down eleven times in one minute and
a half. At the last knock down Rennseler
attempted to rise to his feet and face his
opponent, but the police interfered and put
a stop to the contest.
The Bureau of Statistics reports the val
ue of domestic breadstuffs during October
| 1882, to be $15, 205, ,l03 In the same month
of 1881 the value of was $14, S39, ,9I4. Total
for ten months ending October 81, 1881
was S192, 292 552, against $149, 737 1850 for the
same period in 1882.
| Two hundred and seventy six land pat
ents were issued on the 18th.
AT Worcester, Mass, on the 18th, the
owners of three of the principal blocks on
Main street were arrested for renting
rooms for gambling purposes, and each
held in 81, 900 bonds for trial.
AT Grassy Island Mines, Olyphant, Pa.
on the 16th Thomas Williams and Albert
Williams, on the night shift, were in
stantly killed, and Sylvester Williams ia
tally injured by the fall of the roof.
AN expert accountant, who has been en-
gagged in unraveling the accounts of severa
city officials of Poughkeepsie, New York
has reported that deficiencies have beer
found aggregating S35,O00. Frank w
George, who was for six years City Treas
urer, and died in office, is accused of hav
ing appropriated $27, 900 to his own use.
The third of the three international race
between Myers, the American champion
and George, English runner,.is Off, on &C
count of the illness of Myers.
AN atmospheric electrical disturbanc
occurred throughout this country, Grea
Britain and Ireland on the 18th, playin
strange freaks with the telegraph wires
and greatly interfering with the transmits
sion of messages. The electric storm wa
reported of the greatest violence through
out the territory from a point beyon
Omaha, and from Kansas City north t
the terminus of telesraphic communlcs