The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-30

apparently died out. Two colored men,
Robert Mayfeld and Alex. King, were
! lowered by ropes from the top for the pur'
pose of removing the obstacles. tits suppos-
| ed the men were overcome by the gas from
below, as both fell to the bottom, which
was fiery mass of ore and coal, and their
bodies reduced to cinders before they
could be rescued.
WHEN ]. @. Dugarden and wife, living
near Little Rock, Arkansas, returned from
the cotton field on the 23d, they found
their dauc hter, eight years old, lying dead
in the yard, her body burned to a crisp.
Her clothing had ignited and she ran out
of the house and perished before assistance
| could arrive
AT Little Rock, on the 23d, Miss Matte
Cheysman, daughter of DR.. Cheysman, a
prominent young lady in society, took a
dose of strychnine, mistaking it for qui-
nine, and died soon after.
THE Indian Office is in receipt of re-
port from Agent Wilcox, of the San Carlos
Agency, giving detailed account of the
system of counting Indians every day.
He says the system was inaugurated Octo-
Der 1s, and that the highest number reach
ed was 1,236. Each Indian was marked
with tag and number. The Indians
name is recorded in register kept for that
| purpose. One of the good results derived
from tagging the Indians is to know which
Indians engage in raids or leave the reser-
walton.
THE pacing sire, imported Buckden,
died on the 23d at Dauville, Kentucky.
The owner, Captain Cotterell, of Mobile,
had Just refused an offer off $12, 600 for
/ him.
A 100000 fire occurred at Norris, Min
nesota, on the 23d.
The international wrestling match for
$1,000 and the championship of the world,
between Clarence Whistler and Joe Acton,
will be decided at the Madison Square
Garden, New York, December Is.
MALIGNANT diphtheria has appeared in
Millerten, N. Y, and the schools are
closed and many families leaving.
JOHNSON STANFIELD, a laborer, was torn to
pieces at Springfield, Tennessee, on the 23d,
by a circular saw.
GEORGE B. LoRING, Commissioner of
i Agriculture, submitted his annual report
to the President on the 23d. The statistical
division estimates the following as the
yield of 1882: Corn, 1885. .0OO, 600 bushels;
wheat, 40 000, 600; oats, 100000, 900; bar
ley, As, 900, 600; rye, 100000; buckwheat,
10000, 600.
r. R. SIsK, the stock broker who mys-
teriously disappeared from Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, recently, is said to be an en-
bezzler to the amount of $15, 900.
THE trial of Engineer Watson, fer the
willful killing of seventeen men, in the re-
cent railroad casualty at North Adams,
Mass, was begun there on the 23d.
THE special census bulletin just issued
contains table of statistics compiled from
the census returns of 1880, relating to all
the manufacturing industries Except gas,
in each of the States and Territories. This
table shows that there were in the United
States 253, $40 establishments, employing
2,O25, ,279 males above sixteen years of age
531, 1853 females above the age of fifteen, and
1s1, ,e1s children and youths; 90, 100, 223,-
5o6 6scapital wasinvested. The value of the
materials used was So, S94, 34o, ,029; value Of
the manufactured products amounted to
SIS, 1856, ,667, ,706, and the total amount paid
in wages during the year was $947, ,919, ,674
New York State takes the lead in the mum
ber of establishments, capital invested
ETC., with 42,739 establishments; Pennsyl
yania second, with 81, 225; and Ohio third
with 2O,699 establishments. Illinois ha:
IA, 459, Massachusetts, ID, S52, Indiana Il, 1893
Michigan 8,s73, Missouri 8,592 New Jer
sey 1923, and Iowa 6,921.
WoRKMEN in the old Dutch church-yari
in New York on the 23d, discovered a vaul
full of human bones that had been buried
sixty years.
A RENO dispatch of the oath reports from
Wadsworth that the Washoe and Piute In
dians have declared war, and are engaged
. in bloody contest.
CHAs. H. Reed, who defended Guiteau
wants Congress to give 5000 for his ser
+ vices
THE Secretary of the Treasury on the 25tl
, directed Assistant Treasurer Acton, at New
York, to accept unmatured bonds in al
, calls, including the 10th, without rebat
or interest, at the rate of S1O,eOO,O00 pc
week on any day of the week, payable a
the office of the Assistant Treasurer. Tn
cause of this order is the recent panick
condition uf the money market. Secretar
Folger has directed estimates to be mad
: with the view of issuing another call fo
. bonds. The Secretary is said to have bee
: advised that the ordering of the redemption
! of $40, ,OOO, 900 of called bonds weekly ha
not had the effect of quieting the none
: market.
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER OBERN
has been suspended from duty at Chicag
f on charges of misconduct in connectio
i with the case of the seizure of smuggle
a opium, which has recently been promi
a nent in the United States Court in tina
8 city.
|. JAMES RUDDY's house at Providence, Pa
v was burned on the oath. Mrs. Ruddy
e after saving her children, endeavored t
s secure some money and perished in tn
= flames.
= A SEVERE gale visited Buffalo, New Yorl
t on the oath, lasting about half an hour an
It doing much damage to property. Ele
l. vators were blown down, houses unroofed
o and three schooners wrecked. Fortunatel
s no lives were loss.
O A CATALOGUE of articles accumulated
!. the Dead Letter Office during the past yea
l. was issued on the oath, announcing tn
sale thereof at public auction on Decembe
= 4. The articles consist of jewelry, toile
" goods, and every conceivable thing whic
e could be sent through the mails. The liz
# comprises more than 5000 packages.
d THE police of Chicago, on the night {
the 23d, made a raid on the gamblers an
a other disreputable characters throughou
It the city. Eighty inmates of gamblin
houses and seventy-one disreputable w
e men were arrested, arraigned before tt
n court next morning and fined. The ne
It Chief of Police of that city expresses b
.e determination to id the city of this ella
v if possible.
le POSTMASTER GENERAL HOWE, on the 24t
n signed contract with George Ehrlich,
as st. Louis, for supplying the combinatic
n letter and envelope, which is expected
3. be put upon the market in January. A
= postoffices will be supplied with the COZ
s, bination, and the sheet, envelope and stan
d will be sold for three cents.
A NEW and dangerous counterfeit silv
az | dollar was received at the Secret Seryi