The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-02
IMPORTANT EVENTS
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TIE cost of the United States Army for
the year ending june 80 was S12, ,446, 442.
KING MYLAN, of servia, was shot at twice
by woman on the o2d, but escaped un-
hurt
For the Forty-eighth Congress-325 mem
bers and eight 6elegates-there has been
asked 81, ,665, 900 for pay and So, 600 for
contestants; for mileage, $125, 200 is es-
timated. The total is, over 81 800 600. -
DURINe the week ended October 2t there
were 95S, 600 standard silver dollars put in
circulation by the mints. In the CORES
ponding period last year but 464, 497 stand
ard dollars were issued. :IITi
& Ar San Antonio, Deputy United States
Marshals Jake Wolfe and Henry Gold
water have been arrested charged with de-
tfrauding the Government while asoiaing
FIFTY-oNE new cases OF yellow fever and
five deaths reported from Pensacola, on
the oath. Total cases todate, 2,o5S: deaths,
1853.
CHARLES TURNER, a negro barber, met
Norwegian girl on the road, near Grand
Fork, Dakota Territory, on the 23d, and
rayished her. He then rode on about a
mile and entered the house of a conductor,
Samuel Burback, of the Manitoba Rail
road, and accomplished his hellish purpose
upon the person of Mrs. Burback. He was
arrested and lodged in Jail, but mob 1000
strong soon gathered, overpowered the Of
ficers, and hanged the miserable wretch to
a tree.
Mrs. DAVIS CoAKLEY was accidentally
killed and five other persons injured, by
the explosion of bomb at the Philadel-
phia celebration on the oath. Mrs. Eva
McCarre had both legs fractured by the
explosion of mortar.
A. BRONSON ALcorT had paralytic
stroke at his home, in Concord, Mass, on
the oath.
WIN. v. Brown, assistant beokkeeper of
the Poughkeepsie National Bank, who
pleaded guilty to making false entries on
the books, and defrauding the institution
of many thousands of dollars, has been
sentenced to five years imprisonment.
An effort is being made to have Mark
Gray Lyon, who shot at Booth in q Chi
cago theatre three years ago last April, re-
leased from the Elgin (IlL) Insane Asylum.
A writ ofNhdbeas corpus was granted by
Judge Williams, of Carthage, on the oath.
His friends claim he is perfectly sane.
Ar North Adams, Massachusetts,, Emer-
son Watson, engineer of the Troy & Green
field locomotive, which ran into caboose,
loaded with workmen, on the Hoosac Tun-
mel line, on the 21st, causing several deaths,
was arraigned on the charge of homicide.
He pleaded not guilty and went to jail
Ar Amsterdam, New York, the Grand
Army Post was under arms on the oath,
preserving the peace. the italian laborers
having made an attack upon a contractor
who failed to make payment as prom
ised.
Ar Independence, Missouri, a collision
z0ccurrsd onstlIs 24th between passenger
and freight train, on the Lexington branch
of the Missouri Pacific The engines came
together on short trestle, and were badly
wrecked. The fireman of the passenger
train was crushed between the cab and ten
der, and his injuries are probably fatal.
The passengers were considerably shaken
up, several being badly bruised. The
watch of one of the conductors was slow.
A. n. STEPHENS, Governor elect of
Georgia, was installed at the Governors
mansion at Atlanta, on the 24th.
The report of the Surgeon General of the
Army shows that among the white troops
the total number of cases of all kinds
taken on the sick list during the past year
was "a $50, being at the rate of 1.679 per
1000 of the mean strength, and among the
colored troops 1909 or 1.s1O per /, 600 of the
mean strength. There were 216 deaths
among the white troops, twenty-five among
the colored troops, and nine among the In
dian troops.
AN incendiary fire at Hopkinsville, KY,
on the 25th destroyed four blocks of build
ings. Loss over 100000.
A. B. MuLLErT, at one time Supervising
Architect of the Treasury, but whose con-
nection with that department. has not been
recognized since 1877, formally rendered
his resignation few days ago as Superin-
tendent of Construction for the Public
Buildings at st. Louis, Chicago, New York,
Philadelphia, and Cincinnati. The action
is regarded as the preliminary step in the
assertion of claim for compensation
from 1877 to the date of his formal resig-
nation.
AT THE election for the first branch of
Council at Baltimore on the 25th, the DEM
ocrats elected their candidates in seven
teen wards, and the Republicans in three,
a. gain of three Republicans, the last Coun-
Gil being composed solely of Democrats.
The Democratic vote was "a, ,495, and the
opposition 1914
AT Frankfort, Kentucky, on the oath,
John 0'Donnell attempted to poison his
mother, sister and his two brothers by
putting arsenic in rabbit which they ate
for supper. A physician was called and
relieved them. The following day o. Dom
nell took arsenic and died from the effects
of it. He had been on a spree for some
time.
WIN. RICHARDSON, q former dry goods
merchant of Bloomington, Illinois, COM
mitted suicide in that city on the 25th by
cutting his throat
SCARLET fever of mild type is reported
from Chicago. .
ADDITIONAL deaths of persons injured by
the fireworks explosion on the oath, at
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, brings the
list of dead up to seven, as appended :
Mrs Mary Ann Cookley, thirty years; John
NJ. Canning, seventy-fve years; Ulysses G.
Thompson (colored), aged nineteen years
. OOIObLch ~. hOcllSI, ocNCA JOuLl
McCallen, twenty three years; Mrs. Isabella
Scudder (colored), twenty-seven years, and
Howard Scudder, her three-year-old son.
The list of wounded comprises probably
twelve persons. five of whom are now
in the German Hospital. OF these,
two are not expected to recover. One is
Henry Bowen, aged twenty-nine years, Of
Atlantic City, yachtman. His left arm
was COMP etely shattered, rendering ampu.
tation at the shoulder-joint absolutely nee,
essary Bowen suffers excruciating pain,
and is kept constantly under the influence
of opiates. His recovery is exceedingly
doubtful. Nine others received severe
wounds, four of whom it is feared will die
A REWARD of 5000 is offered by hel
father for the recovery of Margaret Ben
njcke, of Milwaukee, who is believed te
have been abducted.
G. o. WALLACE, representing himself a: