The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-02-22
the committee. They have been informed
that the committee will give them hear
ing at some future time.

the committee. They have been informed
that the committee will give them hear
ing at some future time.
The worst storm of the season prevailed
in Vermont on the 18th with three feet of |
depth. Great inconvenience is reported |
from lack of water, there having been no |
appreciable rain since October, and no |
thaw this winter.
A CIRCULAR was issued on the 18th by |
the Central Committee of Irish Land |
League of America postponing the con-
vention of that body, which was to have
been held during the present month, until
the latter part of April, when Messrs. Par
nell and Sexton will be present.
Ar Patterson, N. J., on the 18th, the
wife and daughter of John. R. Voorhees,
was arrested and jailed, charged with an
attempt to poison the latter.
THE Boston Aldermen have ordered that
the whole city shall be lighted with cleo
trio lamps.
THE United States Circuit Court has
given verdict for $19 700 for plaintiff in
the case of w. R. Fosdick against Charles
W. Hersey and others, being an allowance
upon notes in the bankrupt estate of Chas.
F. Parker & Co., which defendants claimed
were fraudulently issued by member of
the firm and taken by the plaintiff with
full knowledge of this fact.
Two weeks ago John Sheffield. dissolute
character living near Madison, Wis, quar-
relied with his family and left them. On
the 18th the house was set on fire, and two
of his daughters, one aged fourteen, and
the other an infant, burned to death. Mrs.
Sheffield barely escaped in her night
clothes. There is great excitement. as it
is the universal belief that he fired the
house.
TIE explosion of a gas furnace under
boiler, at Shamburg, Pa, on the 18th, re-
suited in the burning to death of the
engineer.
PETER RYAN, ffty-fve years OF age,
smothered his wife to death at st. Joe,
Missouri, on the 18th. They had both been
drinking, and he took the blankets off the
bed wrapped them about her head and sat
on them till she expired. He was arrested.
He is worthless fellow who has spent q
great deal of his time in Jail.
In the Pennsylvania Senate on the 18th
bill was introduced for the promotion of
medical science, and to prevent unauthor-
lied use and traffic in human bodies. The
bill provides for board of professors of
anatomy and surgery and demonstrators of
anatomy and surgery in medical and dem
tai schools and colleges to distribute the
bodies of unclaimed dead to scientific col
leges
THE Directors of the Nashville Competi-
tive Drill have fixed the time at from May
q to the 26th inclusive. The correspon-
dence indicates entries from all parts OF
the country, and great attendance. :
JACOB VINCENT, prosperous farmer. was
found dead in the woods, few days ago,
four miles from his home, at Campbell,
Dunkin County, Mo. The body showed
| that the deceased had been shot and then
Drained with the breech of rifle.
A COLLISION on the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad on the 14th, resulted
in the death of one of the locomotive en-
gineers.
AT Minneapolis, Minn., on the 14th, two
boys named Swan Hoofson and Albert
Williger, quarreled and fought, when
Hoofson drew pocket-knife and stabbed
Williger to the heart, killing him in
stantly. Both were under twelve years Of
age.
BILL for the adoption of Paul Boyton',
swimming suit in the navy, is under con-
sideration of the Committee on Naval AT
fairs.
SENATOR KELLoGe's bills for the improve
ment of the Mississippi provide for an ap
preparation of So, 100000.
THE Massachusetts, Senate has adopted &
resolution providing for biennial election,
and biennial sessions of the Legislature.
| In Montana, an explosion a few night.
ago killed John Curtin and VIM. Taylor
and John Gilman was probably fatally in
jured.
A FREIGHT train left the track near Sun
ner, California, the other day, and two en-
gines and six cars were smashed. y. w
Sproule, fireman, was killed.
AT Cincinnati on the 14th an explosion
was caused by lighted lamp which wa
being carried in closed cellar. The build
ing was demolished, burying in tn
ruins seventeen people, four of whom
were killed by falling timbers. Severa
others sustained serious injuries.
BY collision of trains on the Cincin
natl Northern railroad on the 14th, on
man was instantly killed and many other
dangerously injured.
A TREASURY order, which has circulate
for months through the country, wa
cashed at the U. S. Treasury ON the 14th
and found to lack the signature of the di:
bursting officer, the only thing needed t
make it valid.
A SHOOTING affray in which four me
participated at Graham, Texas, on the l4tt
resulted in the wounding of all of them.
THE Supreme Court of New York ha
disallowed the claim of s11, 900 poundag
for the arrest of VIM. NJ. Tweed.
THE Secretary of the Interior has tram
mitted to Congress a request for an appro
priation of $34S, 900 to supply with oxe
and cows 2,6SO families of Sioux Indian
!, !, who have gone to farming at warrior
agencies in accordance with the stipul
tions of the Sioux treaty of 1868.
Ex-UN1TED STATES MARSHAL UPsHUR
confined Warden of the Massachuset
= State Prison, rice Earle, removed. N.
= Plympton is nominated for Insuran'
Commissioner.
LEE & NEWPORT, coal and wood dealer
of Montreal, have failed. Liabilities, SAC
4 600. 1t Is reported that money is so scart
that one of the smaller banks was force
. to mortgage its building for temporal
= loan of s50, 900.
! THE Department of Agriculture repor
= the result of statistical returns relating
!, the comparative quantity of the presel
cotton crop, progress of marketing, the a
J erage date of close of picking, injuries
y caterpillar and boil worm, and quantity
a product. The returns of product in bal
y make an aggregate of over 6,SO0,OO di
A tributed in thousand bales as follows: vi
ginia, q; North Carolina 452; South Car
lima, 626; Georgia, 9eO; Florida. 81; A
. bama, 7s4; Mississippi, 1,Oi2; Louisian
q $50; Texas, 1926; Arkansas 6s7; Tennesse
337; Missouri, %; other territory, 22. tt
= unusual length of the season for maturil
is given very generally as an importa