The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-08

Debt on which interest has ceased l3,3f1.s45 90
Interest thereon 405, ,SS9 90
Gold and silver certifcates.-..- 14S, lac, 10 90
u s. notes held for redemption of
certificates of deposit IL $4,000 90
Cash balance available March l.
(l3i ,o9S,9o6 W
Total. .......,...........s SOs.2ss, 74s 90
Available assets
Cash in Treasury ury..............s sos, 1885, ,74s 90
Co.'s, interest payable in lawful
money, principal outstanding. So, ,623,512 90
Interest accrued and not yet paid 646,235 90
Interest paid BY the United States 67,2ss,sss 90
Interest repaid by companies by
transportation service ........... 16,370, 100 %
net earnings. .... s55,1ss %
United States..... 40zSI,s9S %
The female suffrage bill was defeated in
the Massachusetts, House of Representa-
tives.
THE Maine House of Representatives
has passed the bill restoring the death
penalty.
ALEXANDER 81. STEVENS, Governor of
Georgia, was reported seriously i'll on the
1st.
Mr.. DYRENFoRrH has been confirmed as
First Assistant Commissioner of Patents at
Washington.
FILIsBERTo CALsERIA PAEs LEME, late pay
ing teller of the Bank of Brazil, at Rio
Janeiro, was arrested at New York, on the
2Sth, on board the steamer Ptolmy, from
Rio Janeiro, on charge of stealing more
than $50, 900 from the bank.
TIE actor, John Gilbert, who lost his
wife in the Newhall House fire at Milwau
kee, has brought suit against the proprie-
tors of the hotel for $40, 500. The odd $500
is for injuries which he received, and the
500, 600 is for the death of his wife.
By runaway team at Bennington, VT,
on the LIST, one man was killed and eight
severely injured.
RERDELL, the,Government witness in the
Star-route trial, testified on the LIST that
Dorsey agreed to pay him $4,000, contin-
gent upon his proper conduct of the busi-
ness.
BUSINESS. failures reported on the LIST
were: The Cleveland Furnace Co., liabili-
ties 100000, sssets $50, 600; Roberts & Gum,
Olney, Ind, liabilities ST., 200, assets $l9.-
600; J. H. Clingen, Delaware, Ohio, liabili
ties not stated: s. C. Whittlesey. Fon du
Lac, Wis, liabilities, $26, 900; Chas. Lehman,
Peoria, ILL, liabilities $40, 600, assets s41,-
600.
The Champion Stallion Stake of Pierre
Lorillard for the Worlds Fair, and after
ward bid for by associations east of the
vile Jockey Club on bid of s1o,675, and
will be run for in September.
THOMAS w. PALMER, of Detroit. has been
elected to succeed Thomas w. Ferry in the
United States Senate.
A PETITION, signed by some three hun
dred citizens of New York, representing
over 81 900. 000, 600 capital, has been pre-
sented to Governor Cleveland. The petit
tioners say they beg leave to represent that
the bill now before the Governor, known as
the "Five Cent Fare Bill, is regarded with
great apprehension as a breach of faith OH
the part of the State, and an attack upon
the rights of property, and injurious to
holders of stock and bonds issued and held,
based upon the chartered rights of corpora
tioLs of this State. They therefore earnestly
beg the Governor to withhold his signature.
Not one of the petitioners is stockholder.
SENATOR TABOR, OF Colorado, was married
on the 1st. at the Willard Hotel, Washing
ton, to Miss Lizzie Bonduel McCourt, of
Oshkosh, Wis.
JAMES ELLIOTT, the pugilist. was shot and
almost instantly killed by Jere Dunn, a
noted sporting man, in restaurant at
Chicago, ILL.,, on the evening of the 1st.
Eight shots were fred by the two men.
Dunn received two flesh wounds of a
trifling character. The difficulty originated
from some reflections cast by Dunn upon
the courage of Elliott, about the time the
sparring match was to take place between
Sullivan and Elliott, several weeks ago.
SING LUM, Chinese murderer, who was
to have been executed on the I'd, hanged
himself in his cell the night previous,
during the temporary absence of his guard,
at San Francisco, Cal.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND, of New York, has
vetoed the Five Cent Fare bill, on the
ground that the proposed reduction would
prevent any dividends being declared, and
it is important that invested capital shall
be protected.
JACK GRIFFIN, gambler, shot dead John
P. Conroy, stone-cutter, in a bar-room at
Springfield, NO., on the I'd and escaped.
1t was the result of a quarrel.
THE business failures of the seven days
ending on the I'd. as reported to R. G. Dun
& Co., number 27a an increase of ~ as com.
pared with the week previous, distributed
as follows: In the New England States, 20
the Middle, So; the Southern, IS the West
ern, 80; the Pacific States and Territories
and New York City, 10.
SARAH OGDEN, of New York, aged thirty.
five, suffering from dyspepsia, was given
poison instead of medicine, on the I'd
and died in great agony.
The firm of Franenheim & Wilcox, oi
Pittsburg, who paid $3.50 in the State Treas
ury under the provisions of the Pond Law
for permission to sell liquors in Ohio, had
the amount refunded to them on the I'd
by the Auditor of State, the law having
been declared unconstitutional.
JOHN O'NEIL, liquor dealer of White
hall, N. Y, whose case under the civi
rights bill was adversely decided in the
United States District Court few days ago
was on the ID found guilty of 457 offenses
| fined SO, with $500 COSTS and on,
| months imprisonment. Alternative sen
tence will be eighty years in rrisonment
| O'Neil furnished $40 900 bail and appealed
THE wires OF the Mutual Union ant
Board of Trade Telegraph Companies wer
cut on the I'd in the outskirts of Chicago
| by order of Mayor Harrison. The com
panies had failed to put their wires unde
ground before March l, 1888, as provided
for. in the grant by which they entered tn
| city.
HUMPHREYS & Co., wholesale dealers il
hides and leather in New York, have mad
an assignment. The firms liabilitie
amount to from 5000, 900 to 800, 900.
WHILE John ). Brown. Treasurer of th
Guarantee Trust aud Safe Deposit Com
pany of Philadelphia, was in the office o
the President Of that corporation on tn