The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-22

orable year of 1879, when the total arrivals
were but III, 2s6. During February 17,065
immigrants landed, compared with 2s,247
year ago. The decrease is general. except
from ireland, but is most marked in Ger
man and Canadian arrivals. For the eight
months ending February %, the immigra-
ton amounted to 800 4S4, decrease of IA
500 from last year. At the present rate the
whole number for the present fiscal year
will amount to 45O, 726. The past two years
it has averaged 729, ,212.
A COLLISION occurred between the Dora
Cabler and the Enquirer on the Ohio
River, one mile below Lewisport, KY, on
the night of the 14th. The signals were
misunderstood. The Cabler was struck
forward of her boilers, and caught fire
from stove which was overturned by the
shock. She burned to the waters edge
aud sank. The Enquirer suffered no dam
age. The passengers and crew of the burn
ing boat were saved with the exception of
two deck-hands, who are missing. The
Cabler had a heavy trip of passengers and
freight. The boats were running in oppo-
sition between Cannelton and Evansville.
JOHN AND HENRIErrA CALDWELL have
brought suit against the Louisville CONF
D.ercial Publishing Company for $40, 900 for
publishing an article calculated to put Mrs
Caldwell in the light of a religious crank.
In New York on the 18th, Katie Yunker
secured verdict for SIC, 900 against Peter
Hickman for breach of promise to marry
her. He is poor clerk at $40 per week.
A GIRL going by the name of Frank
Chambers, but giving her real name as
Laura Scott, of Elmira, N. Y, was arrested
in Detroit on the 18th clad in male cloth
ing She said she had driven a street car
for two years in Cincinnati, but her chief
occupation was sailing, and she was on her
way to Chicago to await the opening of
navigation. She was allowed to go.
THE reported losses from fire on the 18th
were the Lakeview House, Warsaw, Ind,
$12, 900; W.. Bishops residence, Newcom-
erstown, Ohio, 81, 200; Warren wert's barn,
Lawrenceburg, Ind, 5000; the Wabersha
Elevator Company warehouse. Wabersha,
MINI.
Two.Pennsylvania Senators indulged in
q knockdown in the main aisle of the SEN
ate on the 18th. The lie had been passed
and resented. They were separated before
much damage was done.
A. U. WYMAN, Assistant Treasurer of the
United States, has been appointed Treas
urer, vice James Gilfllan whose resigna-
ton takes effect on the 1st of April.
AT THE Cosmopolitan Theater in New
York, on the 18th, towards the close of a
minstrel performance, significant creak-
ing sound was heard, and suddenly one of
the ive-inch iron columns of the first bal
cony crashed through the floor, throwing
1000 people crowding it, and an immense
audience below, into panic. Women
screamed, and men in terror turned to the
doors. A fearful crash followed, all strug-
gled for the exits. Several women were
crushed before the managers could be
heard and some degree of quietness OBJ
tanned. 1t was found the balcony had settled
fully twelve inches, the weakened column
sinking through the column on which it
rested Many people had left the place,
but returned and the performance pro-
ceeded. Suddenly, however, the occupants
of the upper balcony began to hoot and
hiss. This drove the now thoroughly
frightened people below into another panic.
Fortunately Police Commissioners Mason
and French and Capt. Killalea were pres
ent and succeeded in calming the people,
and the performance came to an end.
Many ladies lost clothing and pocket
books.
A HELENA, ARK, dispatch of the 18th
So Us: John Powell's Clubhouse, on the
Mississippi side, opposite here, burned last
night. 1t was filled with negro refugees,
who barely escaped with their lives in the
overflow. A child was drowned in the ex-
citement that followed the stampede from
the burning building The river is on the
decline. At Friar's Point, Miss, there
was little or no damage to improved prop
erty, the water having only reached the
maximum of last year. There are breaks
this year both above and below that place,
and wateris still going through the breaks,
but there has been a decline of five inches
in the overflow, and with a more rapid fall
of the river there will be the usual acreage
planted. Delta is abandoned. Westover
and the country back are now worse af1ict-
ed than last year. Every where there is a
spirited protest against the sensational re-
ports sent abroad. People, though sorely
afflicted, are full of vitality and hope, and
and determined to maintain themselves"
The President has suspended Judge Will
| son s. Hoover, Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Arizona, pending the
| investigation by the Department of Justice
of charges of corrupt practices in accept
ing bribes. Judge Hoover is well known
in Washington from his connection with
the Dickson Star-route bribery cases.
A. w. CRAIG, postal clerk, running be-
tween Syracuse and Albany, N. Y, has
been arrested for robbing the mails.
ROBERT JENKINS, local agent of the Singer
Sewing Machine Company, at Chattanooga,
Tenn, killed himself on the 10th. A de-
ficiency in his accounts was the cause.
ACCORDING to the report of the Agricul.
tural Department, there was 36 per cent. ol
last years corn crop still on hand on March
l. The increase over the amount on hand
the same date year ago is per cent. OF
wheat, % per cent, or lao, ,0OO, 900 bushels,
remains on hand, which is but very slight
variation from the supply on March for
the last five years.
THERE were 225 business failures for the
week ending on the 18th, reduction Of
twenty-seven over the preceding week.
THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs ha.
a report that smallpox is prevailing among
the Indians at Peach Springs, in Arizona
There are six hundred of these Indians
and they have nothing to eat.
DOUBT exists in the Treasury Depart.
ment as to the meaning of the paragraph
in the new Tariff Schedule relating to Su
matra tobacco. The paragraph was insert
ed at the instance of the cigar makers o.
the country, who wished to prevent the
importation of Sumatra tobacco because il
is product of Coolie labor.
WHILE railroad laborers were warming
dynamite cartridges at Marlborough, MY.
on the 18th, an explosion occurred. One
laborer was killed and others probablj
fatally injured.
MRS. ALEXANDER ALLAN and son, agec
fifteen, were asphyxiated by coal gas from
a self feeder, at Hamilton, Ontario, on tht
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