The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-30
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Col1ated and Compiled from All
Quarters.
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The case of Samuel Wilkeson VS.. Henry
Ward Beecher, for alleged breach of con-
tract, has Been non-suited and Mr.. Beecher
allowed $3.50 extra compensation for the
work.
TIE Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
rendered a decision in favor of the Stand
ard Oil Company of Ohio, in the suit in
voiying over 500, 900 claimed to be due the
State.
The Secretary of War, on the Goth, re-
fused a petition to allow the Government
barracks at Chattanooga to be used as a
smallpox hospital, on the ground that it
would be rendered useless for further oc-
cupancy by the soldiers.
A FIRE destroyed the Calendar Building
at Providence, R, l., on the 2Ist. Three
persons, two girls and man, lost their
lives, and many more were seriously in
jnred. Loss Of the building is estimated at
500, 200.
AT Somerville, Tenn, on the 20th, James
Burton and w. L. Thorpe, brothers-in-lay,
engaged in quarrel over some family mat
tiers. The following night, while Burton
was in saloon playing game of billiards,
Thorpe entered with a shotgun and fred
both barrels at Burton, killing him in
stantly.
A SINGULAR accident recently happened
to Mrs. Margaret Beyen, of Jersey City.
She had worn for some time on the third
finger of her left hand ring of celluloid,
which encircled her finger three times.
While building fire in her cook stove the
ring caught fire, and before the lady could
get it off her finger was so badly burned
that it became necessary to amputate it.
THE Postmaster General, on behalf OF
the United States, and the Belgian Minis
ter, on behalf of Belgium, on the. 21st
signed postal agreement between the
two countries for the exchange of money
orders.
-Four weeks have elapsed since Maggie
Hennecke, the twelve year old daughter
of Casper Hennecke, of Milw aukee, dis
appeared, and no trace has been obtained,
despite the reward of 1000 offered.
AT Troy, New York, on the 21st, a five
pound can of powder exploded in the
gunshop of Nelson Lewis, wrecking the
store, and probably fatally burning w. K,
glass badly cut the proprietor.
Ar Ellentown, Kansas, on the 21st, John
A. Hogan, prominent citizen, shot him
self through the head, and died soon after
CHESTER WAITE, son of Hon. II. G.
Waite, State Senator, was waylaid by 6
masked highwayman, on the 21st, near St
yloud, Mimi, and compelled to surrender
81. 500 in his possession.
WILMoT 81. WARD and F. W. Salter were
indicted by the Grand Jury Of the District
of Columbia, on the 21st, for offering
money to the employees to abstract from
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
paper upon which notes are printed. The
object in view, it is alleged, was to prove
auence Secretary Folger to remove Col
Irish. the Superintendent.
SIX of the persons injured in the fire al
Providence, Rhode Island, on the 2lst
have already died, and it is expected the
injuries of several. others win prove fatal
THE District Commissioners, on the 22d
found George G. Miller, the detective
auilty of the specifications charged agains
him by Attorney General Brewster
namely, conspiracy with the Star-router
and in consequence an order has. bee1
issued removing Miller from the Metropol
itan Police force.
HOPKINS HUGHES and Patrick Rochfor
were instantly killed, and James Roberts
VIM. Hayes and Thomas Watkins, contrac
tor probably fatally injured, on the 22d
by a mass Of accumulated ice falling t.
the bottom of the shaft of the Oxford (Pa.
Colliery.
TIE derailment of the st. Louis expires
on the Panhandle Railroad, four mile
west of Newark, Ohio, at 1 o'clock a. M
on the 22d, was accompanied by a singu
lar lack of personal injury. The acciden
was caused by the placing of an iron raj
across the tracks, and the train, with tn
exception of the sleepers, which were de
rallied, went over the embankment Their
were from forty to sixty passengers on thu
train, and but one person was seriousl,
injured, though five were more or les
badly hurt. The loss to the company
estimated at $4,000.
The Postofice Department announce
that after December correspondence fo
Russia will be sent in closed mails, mad
up in the New York Postofice four time
week. These mails will be dispatche
via Great Britain instead of via German
as heretofore. Correspondence from Ru!
sia for the United States will come vi
Germany.
A BAND of cowboys rode into the town {
Long Pine, Nebraska, on the 21st, burne
all the sidewalks, which were constructe
of wood, sacked the saloons, and made
fvuo
with cooked revolvers pointed at his heaG
THURLow WEED died in New York Cit
at nine a: m. ON the 22d, aged eighty-fiv
years and seven days. His last illness VIZ
long, but not painful. 1t was contest b,
tween strong constitution and the veal
ness of old age, and the latter conquered
last, as it always does. He was born
Cairo, Greene County, New York, Noven
Der 16, 1887, was forced through poverty
go to work when mere chile, and at ten ws
a cabin boy on Hudson River sloop. Tw
years later he learned the pr inter's trad
When the war of 1912 broke out he Ell
listed, and on the return of peace returne
to his ca Sc. By the time he was twent,
one he was an editor and publisher. A fe'
years later he threw himself with intens
energy into the war against Masonry, {
which the disappearance and suppose
murder of VIM. Morgan had intensife
the bitterness. He had already become
shrewd party manager. He was Devil
Clinton's right hand man, but he care
little for Office himself. His public lii
was confined to serving three terms
the Legislature, and his influence was fe
none the less potently through the Sta
and Nation. In 1880 he started the Alban
Evening Journal, which became one of tt
leading Wing organs of the country.
1852 he retired from the Journal, but W
an occasional contributor to it and 9th,
papers during the remainder of his lif
Until near the close ne kept up his inte
est in political, social and religious topic
showing himself to be both devout ar
philanthropic.
CAPTAIN HOPKINS, of the navy, who W
in command of the Pensacola yard, al
who abandoned his post at the outbres
of the yellow fever, has been ordered d
missed from the service. Naval Office
consider the sentence too severe, but it b