The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-08-03
IMPORTANT EVENTS
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BURGLARS blowed open the safe of H.
Borrows, at Aim ada, Michigan, and Sc
cured 81, 900 in money.
MUCH interest is felt in the proposed in
yestigation of the circumstances attend
ing the loss of the Jeanette. The lack of
information on many important points
leads to the impression that there is con-
cealment somewhere. We might mention
in this connection that DIR. Collins, of
Minneapolis, the brother of Jerome Col
iRs, who perished with Lieutenant DeLong,
due to Commander Melville's mismanage-
ment.
TIE Missouri State Democracy re-nom-
mated Thos. o. Sherwood, present incum-
bent, for Judgeof the Supreme Court.
So ssss asa nsaassfs l,ss. ssst.ned
the shape u e plals<e u klaska apaeis'
increasing with alarming rapidity.
THs' River and Harbor bill llas passed .ap-
ptopriates SIS, 49, SIS.
4 Destructive tornado visited Northern
North Carolina July 26.
Two horse-thieyes we're killed by Sher
IFS posse at Hayward, Dakota Territory,
while resisting arrest.
A PARTY of Indians attacked a wagon
train near Clifton, New Mexico, and killed
two men. The wagoners wounded and
captured one Indian, and after the fight
roasted him alive.
AT PETERSBURG, Virginia, May Booth, a
colored girl aged fourteen years, has been
sentenced to hang for poisoning Mrs. R. c.
Gray and Louis Jane.
THE Internal Revenue taxes the past
fiscal year, amounting to STAG, $40, 273, Com
missioner Raum says has been turned into
the Treasury. During the past six fiscal
years $74S, S31, ,071 has been collected from
Internal Revenue taxation and paid into the
treasury without any defa1cation. The
expenses of collection the last fiscal year,
(including expenses of Mr.. Raum's office)
will not exceed S., $50, 800, or less than
three and half per cent. on the amount
collected. The expenses of collection for
the six years has been about S27 ,0S7 $780, or
three and six-tenths per cent. on the
amount collected. This sum has been dis
bursed without loss to the government
Fraudulent combinations heretofore pre-
vailing in certain districts for illicit manu-
facture and sale of whisky and tobacco
have been broken up. The largest paying
single district for the last year was the
Fifth Illinois (Peoria) District. S13, ,267, ,9SS,
and the next largest the First Ohio (Cin-
cinnati) District S11, ,92S, ,253.
TIE Temperance Convention at Des
Moine, Iowa, July 27, was attended by
5000 to 1000 delegates Aaron Kimball
was elected Chairman, and E. f. Wright,
Secretary Committees of one from each
Congressional District were chosen on or
ganization, credentials resolutions, and to
form, county leagues to enforce the amend
ment. The committee to inquire into the
present force of the amendment, chosen
at the previous convention, presented an
exhaustive report, recommending that i'm
mediate legislation was needed to provide
penalties for selling all wine and beer.
THE Delaware Republican State Conven-
ton nominated Albert Curry for Governor.
THE heat in New York, July 81, was in
tense, number of sunstrokes being re-
ported.
FOREST fires were reported as "raging
fearfully' on the 9th, in Michigan, ex-
tending from Glenaam to within a mile
of Tawas City.
The adopted son of Aaron Burr, Count
Verdi de Lisle, born in 1901, died in New
York City, July 81.
Ar Leavenworth, Kansas, John O'Neil,
guard in the military prison, shot Provost
Sergeant John Henry through the heart.
A QUARREL between two widows, named
Campbell and Rourke, living on Willow
Branch, in Barry County, Missouri, cul-
minated a few days ago in the former as
saulting and killing the latter with knife.
Mrs Campbell was arrested and lodged in
Jail at Crossville.
JOHN RAPER, chief book-keeper for Allen
& Co., jewellers, Chicago, who has been
rapidly losing his eyesight, has absconded
with So, 600 of the firms funds.
WEST POINT is to have another colored
cadet, Lemuel w. Livingstone, of Madison
County, Florida. In a competitive exam
ination, at which the contestants were
himself and four young white men, he
passed the best examination, and so Au-
gust %, Livingstone will present himself
at West Point for admission.
, July % was an excessively hot and op-
pressive day in New York City. For the
twenJy-four hours ending with noon that
day there were 1S4 deaths reported, 120 of
which were children. OF these eighty
died of cholera infantum, directly due to
heat. A number of deaths from heat were
reported in the afternoon.
IT is stated from Washington that the
annual revenue of the country will be
from $50, ,000, 900 to $1O0, ,OO0,Oo less than
it has been, which, added to the increased
appropriations, will reduce the Secretary's
ability to call in the Three Per Cents as
rapidly as he might feel inclined.
THE temperance people of Nebraska have
decided to submit the question of pro-
hibitory amendment to the constitution to
the State Conventions, so as to give both
parties a whack at it.
B. FRANK BIGELow, the absconding re-
ceiving teller of the National Bank of the
Republic, Washington, has been arrested
at Port Huron. His accounts are short
5000.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the pugilist, was ar
rested in Boston, July %, ON old charges
of assault and battery and profanity.
The Kentucky Evangelist Barnes, who
cures the sick by the laying on of hand:
and amounting, has closed his labors al
ious furore in the beginning owing to the
reputation that had gone ahead of him
but he was forced to quit owing to the fac
that the audiences dwindled down to fifty
or less. He goes next to Indianapolis.
ISAAC TURNER was hanged at Lexington
Kentucky, July %, for the murder of Abe
Ray, June o, 1881.
NEAR Ironton, Missouri, . negro named
Caldwell attempted to ravish a white
woman sixty years old. He was arrested
and Jailed, and after preliminary exami
nation, he was taken from Jail by mol
and hanged. Before leaving him the mol
riddled his dangling body with shot.
THERE were thirty-one cases of sunstrok'
in New York on the Goth ult., sixteen o
which were fatal.
AT st. John, Miss Maggie Chestnut anC
Mrs. John Babbitt were drowned Will,
bathing.