The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-09

Decrease Of debt during October. 1868, ,lso s.
Decrease since June so, iss2.-..-.. eO,423 AIS Il
Current liabilities-
Interest duo and unpaid. 2,256, ,o5s 60
Debt on which interest has ceased 11,58S, ,945 26
Interest thereon n.........-......... 4s2, ,s13 &C
Gold and silver eertifcates-....... 1855, $50 oe
q. s. notes held for redemption of
certlhcstes Of fdepost.:.............. ssi5,ooo oe
Cash balance available November
/, 15i14s2s7 IL
Available assets
Cash in Treasury ....s....... 275,SSs,Is es
Bonds issued TO Pacific r. R. Co.'S
money, principal outstanding. s4,ses,512 oe
Interest accrued and not yet paid.- 1,292, 40 "a
Interest paid by the United States IS, ,344,6s "A
By transportation service .......... 15,s3ss5s 81
By cash payments, five per cent Of
net earnings. ....... 655,1ss 81
United S9,S50623 80
JOHN Gross, a colored boot-black of
Brooklyn, N. Y, has been put in posses
sion of $50, 900 worth of real estate by de-
cision of the Court of Appeals. The prop
erty belonged to his father thirty years
ago.
NEAR Bastrop, Moorehouuse Parish, La,
recently, Bill Harris, negro, made
brutal assault on little daughter of George
L. Wilder. He was followed by mob,
and the top of his head shot of.
THE sum of $265, ,917 in silver five-cent
pieces has been transferred from the Treas
ury to the Philadelphia Mint, to be coined
into like amount of dimes.
Ar AN early hour on the S1st ult,
q mob broke into the st. Francis County
Jail, at Forrest City, Arkansas, and rescued
ex-Town Marshal Apperson, recently
sentenced to four years in the penitentiary
for killing Tate Wallace, brakeman on
the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad.
ED. MALLAHAN, one of the proprietors of
the Alhambra Theater, burned on the LIST,
says he lost S42, 600 in that fire.
AN agreement has been entered into be-
tween the pugilists John L. Sullivan and
James Elliott to fight with small, soft
gloves, four rounds, in atwenty-four foot
ring, December 0, either in Chicago, Mil
waukee, or Pittsburg. Sullivan agrees to
give Elliott $500 and the gate receipts if he
does not knock him (Elliott) out of time
before the expiration of the four rounds.
FIVE Texas farmers returning home re-
Gently, were robbed by highwaymen at the
point of a pistol. 5000
POSTMASTER GENERAL HOWE has made an
order giving Postmasters discretion in re-
letters to writer's upon application
and production of proper proof. Hereto
fore this power was only vested in the Post
master General.
AT political meeting in the stockya
at Chicago, on the I'd, temporary plat
form containing large number of persons
fell. Adozen or more were injured, five or
six quite seriously, two or three having
arms and legs broken. Patrick McNearey
had his head crushed, and it is thought
will die.
In THE case,of Dick Liddell, on trial at
Huntsville, Ala, for conspiracy in con-
nection with the Muscle Shoals, Alabama,
robbery, committed by Frank and Jesse
James and Bill Ryan. the court suspended
sentence and accepted 81 500 bond for the
prisoners appearance next term. This ac-
ton is said to be taken to avoid fixing on
Liddell the imputation of sentence and
conviction, as he is q valuable witness in
several other cases against the James gang,
and may also be needed at Huntsville to
testify against Frank James should the lat
ter be put on trial for the Muscle Shoals
robbery. 1t is expected Liddell will, for
this reason, either receive pardon or his
sentence be indefinitely postponed.
A MUTINY occurred on the schooner Dora
s. Trimble, on the I'd, as she war proceed
ing outward from Boston. Handspikes
and clubs were freely used by the crew,
and the captain and mate were seriously
injured. The vessel was boarded by har-
Dor police, and two ringleaders arrested.
MAJOR JOHN r. ALLEN, commanding the
State troops in charge of the murderers,
Neal and Craft has submitted his report of
the fight with the mob at Ashland, Ken
lucky. He claims that five of his men were
slightly wounded, and that the troops did
not resent the approach of the mob until
after two volleys had been fired upon them.
THE annual report of Edward Clark,
architect of the United States Capitol,
shows that the amount expended for the
Capitol extension during the last fiscal
year was $57, 900; for lighting the Capitol
and grounds, 10000; for care and i'm
provement of the same, $4,000; for exten-
sion of the Government Printing Office,
$40, 600; enlarging the Washington Court
House, Sill, 600.
On THE evening of the I'd loaded car
broke loose on the inclined plane at the
Mcintyre coal mine, twenty-five miles
| from Williamsport, Pa, on the Northern
| Central Railway, and rushed down with
| fearful velocity. A number of men were
on the car, three of whom were killed, and
two so badly injured that they are not ex.
pected to live. The killed are James
Dougherty, John Harris, and Lewis Will
liams; the wounded are John Lundy, Sr.
and John Lundy, Jr. Dougherty leaves 6
large family.
FRED. HUTCHINSON, of Easton, Maine
cut his wife's throat and then his own OF
the Sd. Both died in a short time
Hutchinson was thirty-eight years old
and subject to fits in one of which he may
have committed the double crime. N,
other cause is known.
Miss MARIE NEFFE aged eighteen, wen
into the woods, near Chippewa Falls, Wis
consin, on the Sd, to gather tamaracl
gum. Not returning, 100 people searched
and found portion of her body. She ha'
been devoured by bears after terribl
struggle.
INA quarrel at Pleasonton. Texas, OF
the Sd, between Charles Mckinney,
State Ranger, and Joe Tomlinson, Sherii
of Dewitt County, both were mortall
wounded.
IT Is said that Mrs. Seguin, who, in Fl
of mental alteration, killed her childre
and herself in New York recently, ha
been made insane from constant broodin
on her husbands spiritual condition, an
that she probably believed that the onl
way to save her children risking their sa
vation was to kill them in their youth.