The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-09-07
IMPORTANT EVENTS
ColIated ana Compiled from al
Quarters.
DOMESTIC

Quarters.
DOMESTIC.
ATrRE at Haverhill, Massachusetts,, on the
18th ult., destroyed property tothe value
of $1oo, 900. s. . -@s
The greater part of the business portion
of Farmerville. Louisiana, has burned
Loss estimated at $S0,0oo; insurance,
$50, 900.
ALEADvILLE dispatch of August 80, says:
"a heavy snow storm has been raging here
all last night and this morning"
CAPTAIN HOPKINS, commanding the navy
yard at Pensacola, Florida, has informed
the Navy Department that yellow fever is
spreading to an alarming extent there and
that extra precautions are necessary. On
the 18th ult. Brownsville, Texas reported
seyenty-two new cases. The death rate is
light.
PRArT, Cashier of the First National
Bank, ut Kewanee, H., has been arrested
on charge of completely in the recent
robbery in which the thieves got away
with SO, eco Edward n. Welch, arrested
by one of Pinkerton'si men, has made q
confession, the effect of which is that DIR.
J. 8. Scott, of st. Louis, formerly a.resi-
dent of Kewanee, planned the robbery,
though he took no direct part in it; that
Pratt, the acting cashier, was party to it,
and that instead of the large sum in gold
missing being car.ied away in the valise
with the other money, it was Pratt himself
who carried it off previous to the day when
he (Welch) and his. companion locked
Pratt and Miss Harris in the vault and
carried away the remainder, mostly in
paper money. Welch refuses to give the
name of the man who helped him in the
job, but the agency is confident it will get
the right man. Welch says DIR. Scott in
troduced him to Pratt
OK the 30th ult., Pensacola, Florida, re-
ported seventeen new cases of yellow fever
and two deaths
EIGHTy-Two new cases of yellow fever at
Brownsville, Texas, August 20, and eight
deaths. The fever is spreading at Pensa-
cola, Florida.
A FIRE at Hayerhill, Mass, destroyed
property to the value of $100,000.
DR. GAUGE, q well-known physician, of
Washington, Indiana, was murdered by
Arthur Brooks. at that place on the night
of August %. The murderer was allowed
to escape.
LITTLE FALLS, N. Y, reports that new
type of fever has appeared among the op-
eratives in the Little Falls Knitting Mills.
Four have died and twenty-eight are ill
with the malady. The Board of Health
and physicians are investigating.
A BIcYcLER of Danville, Illinois, has
started ON bicycle journey for the Pacific
Coast
CAPTAIN PAYNE and his followers are in
Indian Territory and the War Department
will take,measures to remove him.
Ar Brownsville, Texas, August 80, there
were dfty-two new cases of yellow few er
reported, and three deaths. Among the
latter was w. E. Carberry, Western Union
Telegraph phsoperator. -.
PRATT, Cashier of the First National Bank
( of Kewanee, Ills, has been arrested for
completely in the recent robbery, in which
the thieves secured $20, 900.
THE Apaches of Arizona are again re-
ported ona the warpath.
Ar Hayerhill, Massachusetts,, George
Rogers killed his wife and himself
CAsHIER PRATT, Of the Kewanee Qll.9
bank, says ia dispatch of the Both ult., has
made final confession, to a Pinkerton de-
tective, whom he took to spot in his
fathers barnyard, where he had buried
s6,oooin gold, taken by him the day before
the robbery. .s l5.s s.taiss A,-,s
A Heavy snow storm fell in the far
West on the 30th of August. ~ - 80
TIE trial of Dick Little was begun at
Huntsville, Ala, on the Big. uft., before
Commissioners Bone and Mccullough.
The first witness was Mrs. Jesse James,
who was examined at length 1t was de-
veloped that Frank and Jesse James with
their families, lived in Nashville from No
yember, 1880, until the latter part of
March, 1881. Her statements were not at
all damaging to the prisoner, SO far as the
Muscle Shoals robbery is concerned. Mrs.
James exploded that pretty little story
that has been going the rounds of the
press about her returning watch to Mr..
DOGGY, of Philadelphia. She Indignantly
denied doing so, but claimed that Little
stole this watch and returned it in her
name. Other witnesses were examined,
but nothing important was brought out.
A RECEPTION was extended to the widow
of John Brown at Chicago, and the net
receipts amounted only to S211.
LATER dispatches state that about 12O
persons were drowned by the Concho
food in Texas, and 5000 sheep horses
and cattle lost
THE Knights of the Golden Rule are
said to be short $50, 900, and two prominent
Cincinnatians are reported to be connected
with the promised collapse of the Order.
NEAR Paris, Logan County, Arkansas, q
Swiss named Edward Schuerzman, took
his three children, eighteen months, four
a., 4
and threw them in. There was only thir-
teen inches of water in the well, but the
children were dead before assistance could
possibly reach them. As soon as the
last child was thrown down he leaped
into the well and was also drowned. The
man was laboring under temporary insan-
ity.
WHILE number of girls were bathing,
at Red Beach, Maine, Edith Young, aged
twelve, got beyond her depth. Lizzie
Warwick, aged thirteen, plunged in for
her rescue, and both were drowned.
Bon FORD, Jesse James executioner, was
arrested on the streets of Chicago the
other day, on the charge of disorderly con-
duct and carrying concealed weapons. The
Ford boys have been living fast life the
past two weeks, playing in cheap theater,
and seeking notoriety on the levee.
INA three-mile boat race on Canandaigua
Lake, between Courtney and Lee, the
former won. Time, nineteen minutes
and thirty-one and one-half seconds.
TIE reunion of the Army of West Vir-
ginia will be held at Petersburg, Septem.
Der IL to IL.
THERE were 1O3 new cases of yellow fe.
yer at Brownsville, Texas, on the I'd inst,
and seventy on the 3rd. The death rate is
small.
In prize-fght between Billy Lynn and
Joe SiIvers, at Silver Cliff COL, Silvers
was knocked senseless in the fourth round
Col. SwINLEy, of the British army, last
week purchased 500 mules at st. Louis fol-
Egypt.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
TIE State Department has received in
formation from Minister Lowell, of the re-
lease of Meany, arrested in Ireland under