The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Domestic, Foreign and Con
GresSIona1.

IN II w = i IN DIN LII
Dom estic, Foreign and Con
GressIonal.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate re- assembled on the 27th, with five
more than quorum Of Senators in their seats After
petitions, aresoluton adopted asking the POST
master General to submit statement of expendi-
lures for ca rying foreign mails, since 1S4o Also
resolution calling on the Interior Department for
the number of contested homestead entries, and
yhether legislation Is seaured. The Civil Service
S.n was taken up. Mts8sck, Of Kentucky, .oppOs
MI Hawley's amendments N regard to political con-
trlbutions by Government officers and employees.
Mr. Hawley rejoined. Messrs. Vest, Harrison, Lo-
Forda Geofge and Mseeg ap it.
An additional section specifying that no person who
uses 70 excess intoxicating liquors shall be appoint
Also an amendment providing tina: nut member
OF family shall be appointed 10 Office of Ike grade
No other amendment was adopted. The bill finally
passed. SO to 5. Adjourned. The House was
called to order, but no quorum was present, and no
business trans cted.
IN THE Senate on the 2sth the bill reported by
the House from the Committee on the Judiciary,
to prevent Government officers employees collect
ing from paying to each other money for polit-
ical purposes, was taken up and passed. The Bank
ruptcy bill was set for Wednesday, January TO-
The bill for the relief of Ftz John Pc ter taken
up, and the conclusions of the Military Board,
posed Of Generals Schofeld Terry and Getty, were
read. Mr.. Sewel then addressed the Senate in sup
port Of the IL and at the conclusion of his remarks
the Senate held an executive session and adjourned
.... The House failed to meet, owing 10 the absence
ofaquoruni. -
AT HOME.
A FAMILY of six persons were poisoned
recently at Fargo, Dakota, by eating
canned jelly. One hoy died, but the rest
are expected to recover.
COLONEL DAVID G. Cox, well known in
Ohio and Washington City, was found
drowned in the Chicago River on the 23d.
AN illicit distillery in Cumberland
County, Tennessee, was captured few
days ago. 1t was copper still. Fifteen
tubs of beer and one hundred and twenty
five gallons of singlings were destroyed.
The Republicans of the Ninth Indiana
District, have chosen Mr.. Charles Doxey,
of Madison County, as their candidate to
fill the une1pired term of the late Repre-
sentative Orth.
JEM MACE, the ex-prize fighter, who ar
rived at San Francisco, few days ago,
on the steamer Australia, says he came be-
cause Mr.. Fox wished him to meet Sullivan.
He says he has no objection to meet him
with gloves, but he has brought half
breed Maori named Slade, who will fight
Sullivan.
MERRIAM A. MONTGOMERY, about twenty
eight years old, shot his two little children
at Packardville, near Amherst, Mass, on
the 26th, instantly killing George, aged
six, and probably fatally wounding Eva,
four years. Montgomery had not lived
with his wife for eight months, leaving her
through jealousy, and she made home
with her father, Horatio Marsh, farmer.
Montgomery visited his family on the 23d,
and stayed till the 26th. That morning
he asked his wife if she would live with
him, and she refused. He Immediately
went out to where the children were play
ing and shot them. He then tried to shoot
his wife and her father, but was overpCw-
cred by the latter and kept in the house
till the Sheriff came. He was taken to
Northampton, pleaded not guilty and was
sent to Jail. Montgomery does not drink,
and says he does not remember having
committed the crime. The whole family
came from the West in the spring. Little
is known of them.
LUcIus w. POND, of Worcester, sent to
Concord State Prison in March 1876 for
twelve years for forgery and embezzle-
ment, was pardoned on the 25th. With
the customary reduction of time for good
behavior, he would have had about four
years more to serve. He was at the time
of his arrest State Senator and one of
the most prominent men in Worcester.
The match game of racquets between
Joseph Gray, English champion, and Hen
ry Roakes, American champion, at New
York, on the 26th, resulted in victory for
the Englishman. The stakes were $500 and
the championship of the world.
The Cooperative Dress Association, of
New York, of which Kate Field was Presi-
dent, has closed up shop. Assets stated at
$2A,OOo; liabilities, s125, 600.
THE Republicans of the Seventeenth
Ohio Congressional District, in convention
at Bellaire, on the 26th, nominated Colonel
]. D. Taylor, of Cambridge, for the vacan-
cy in Congress caused by the death of Hon.
]. T. Updegraff Thirty-two ballots were
taken.
A MEETING of about four hundred tobac-
co growers of Connecticut and Massachu-
sets was held at Hartford, on the 26th, to
organize a New England Association for
mutual benefit and protection. Resolu-
tions were adopted asking Congress to i'm
pose one dollar pound on all foreign to
bacco imported into this country, except
tobacco raised in or shipped from the island
of Cuba and for relief from taxation on
dosmestic products.
JOSEPH KosINsKY, employed in the iron
works at Cleveland Ohio, being fatigued
by his days work, lay down beside the
blast furnace on the night of the 25th, for
a short nap, having volunteered to work
double turn. The next morning he was
found dead, suffocated by gases from the
furnace. He leaves young widow and
infant.
REV. ROBERT HARP has sued the Book
Concern of the M. E. Church, South, for
SIS, 900 and interest, the debt being in
CURED while complainant acted as agent
of the Concern.
HENRY c. KIEsEL, City Treasurer of Tue
son, Arizona, and agent of the Budweiser
Beer Company, of st. Louis, on the 9th
retired to Mexico, being defaulter to the
sum of $500. The city of Tucson, the
Budweiser Company, and several other
parties are victims.
OSCAR WILDE, the English esthete, left
New York for London on the 9th.
REIsENHAUsEN and Gibson, who fought a
prize-fght near Rochester, Pa, few days
ago, which was declared a draw, fought
again on the 9th at Newcastle, Pa. At
the end of the twentieth round ellison
failed to come up, and Reisenhausen was
declared winner. Both men were terribly
beaten, and had to be carried off the
ground. The men are rivals for the hand
and heart of a young German girl, and
the contest was to decide who should
withdraw from the field.
AT meeting, on the 9th, of sugar re.