The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Condensed and Put Into Rea d
able Shape.


AT HOME.
TIE third contest of the series Of clay
pigeon shooting, between Carver and Bo-
gardus, occurred at Kansas City on the
i3.h; Carver, ninety-one birds, winning an
additional premium; Bogardus, sixty
uine. - '---- - ~ ~
The Illinois House, on the 18th, passed a
bill to punish wife-beating by whipping.
THE firm of Pfirrman & Pfau, Cincinnati
whisky dealers, have suspended. Their
assets amount to $e6o, 900, and their liabih-
ties to $425, 200. Thomas G. Smith and A.
g. Winslow, have been appointed trustees
to settle the susinessnp. The suspension
was caused by over production and the fail
ure of Congress to passthe Bonded Whisky
Extension bill. - 2as
TEE Coroner's jury, in-ths, cases of Mrs.
and Miss Wakeman, suffocated ct the fire
in Cambridge Flat" at New York, few
days ago. cepsured the former owner of
the building for its bad construction, and
the iinspectof who let It pass when in
course Of erection. They recommend the
Legislature to pass law prohibiting the
erection, OF buildings over six stories high,
as the Fire Department seems unable to
cope- advantageously with fires over that
height. Air wells, elevators, and shafts
should be lined with brick or metal, and
the force of Building Inspectors increased.
liz the Pennsylvania Legislature the
joint resolution proposing an amendment
to the Constitution, providing for de-
crease of the number OF Senators to thirty
three and of members of the House to one
hundred, was defeated on its final passage.
kcoMNIrrEE Of the Massachusetts, Legis-
lature will report resolution providing
for such amendment of the Constitution
that the manufacture and sale of intoxi-
eating liquors will be prohibited in the
State. .-
AN advertisement for lady copyists, in
serted far fun in q New York paper, re-
sultedin three hundred women calling at
the ofice of the gentleman upon whom the
Joke was played. GEt IA
WHILE running q sewer through Bloody
Run Creek, at Detroit, on the 14th, the dis
jointed remains of a number of human
beings were found. Investigation by the
police disclosed the fact that the ditch had
been used us dumping place by the local
secting rooms. "A majority of the cases of
dightheria the past winter have been in
that neighborhood, and were undoubtedly
the result OF this horrible practice. Great
indignation exists, and efforts are being
made to secure the arrest of those respon-
sible for the outrage.
THERE are on file in the Interior Depart
ment twelve thousand applications for po-
sitions, every one of which is endorsed by
some Influential name. The President is
in receipt1o about three hundred applica-
tions day.
ABOUT , week ago Governor Crittenden
pardoned from the Missouri Penitentiary
Clarence Hite, of Logan County, Ken
lucky, who was sentenced to twenty-five
years imprisonment as one of the Jesse
James gang, he having pleaded guilty.
Hite spent two-thirds of his time in the
hospital, and the Governor pardoned him
on account of the nsar approach of death.
Hite was taken home to Logan County on
the sth, and died on the 18th.
The marriage of ex-senator David Davis
and Miss Addie Burr was celebrated al
Fayetteville, n. c., on the 14th. They left
at once on an extended bridal tour
throughout the country.
BILL has been introduced into the
Pennsylvania Legislature making it a
crime to cremate human bodies. The
penalty is to be fine not exceeding d. 600,
and imprisonment not exceeding three
years.
The Treasury Department on the 18th
sent out to Collectors official printed copies
of the new Tax and tariff law. On the 14th
an important error was discovered in the
print. 1t is on page IL of the official law,
fourth line from top. This imposes q
duty on hoop iron, ETC., not thinner than
number twenty wire gauge of lone and
two-tenths of one per cent. per pound"
This should read lone and two-tenths oi
one cent per pound" The first "per" in
official print should be stricken out
An examination of the parchment bill al
the State Department showed that the
error is not in the law, but that it arose
either in the copy furnished by the State
Department or the printing-ofice The
Treasury will be compelled to issue circu
lar, calling attention of the clerks to thi:
error.
The heavy importers of New York, it i.
said, are consulting their attorneys as tt
the constitutionality of the new Tariff bill
inasmuch as it is a revenue bill and origi
mated in the Senate. This point was sug
gested in Washington before the bill
passed, but was not entertained.
A QUESTION has arisen at the Treasury
Department in regard to the following
provisions of the tobacco schedule in tn,
new tariff act: Leaf tobacco, of which
eighty-five per cent. is of the requisite siz,
and of the necessary fineness of texture t.
be suitable for wrappers, and of which
more than one hundred leaves are required
to weigh pound, if not stemmed, seventy
five cents per pound; if stemmed, one dol
lar. The doubt Is as to whether eighty
five per cent. is to be computed upon tn,
whole quantity of tobacco embraced in tn
invoice. or upon the contents of each sep
srate package. The matter has been re
ferred 10 the Collectors of Customs at New
York and Boston, with instructions t,
consult the trade and report rule for tn
government of the department on thi
question.
In regard to the German pork edict nov
extended to lard, sides, sausages and bs
con, Mr.. Alexander E. Orr, of New York
says: This decree will have no apparen
effect on the market of this country, un
less there should be a plethora of no
meats, as we had in 1881. There is a smal
crop abroad this year, anda comparativel
small crop in this country, and in an
event Germany would not buy from us e1
cepting at the lowest prices. As to tn
evasion of the law, that can not be mad
impossible by any action thatm be taker
Most of our packers, outside of Armour
Plankinton & Co. and few others, hav
either Irish or English houses, like Kinga
& Co. and Fowler & Brothers, and thei
meats are of the English cuts, so that the
can not be distinguished from Englis
packed meats when they are repacked i
in other barrels, or the marks of the oil
packers obliterated. American hog meal
will be sent to Germany indirectly, there
nordoubt"