The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-09-30
WEST AND SOUTH.

The Emerson & Fisher carriage works, at
Cincinnati, employing five hundred men,
shut down a few days ago, and it is stated
will not reopen for fall business unless the
employees sign paper Withdrawing from
the Knights of Labor. About one hundr ed
have signed and the firm think most of
them will do SO.
F. j. Lowe, prominent railroad con-
tractor and lumber merchant of Texarkana,
Ark, made an assignment on the 22d. His
liabilities are estimated at s150,O10.
A severe hail storm at South Bend, Ind,
on the 22d damaged buildings and other
property to the amount of $4,000, Deca-
tur, Ind, also suffered.
Two freight trains on the Missouri Pacific
railroad collided at point thirty miles
east of Kansas City on the 22d. George
Cowles and John Tight of Sedalia, the en-
gineers of the trains, were killed, and the
two firemen injured.
L.F. Symmes was taken from the Jail at
Montrose, Col, on the 2lst by an armed
mob and lynched. Symmes was held for
the murder of John Berkeley on July %
last.
Brickmakers to the number of one hun
dred, from different parts of the country
met at Cincinnati on the 22d and formed
national association for mutual benefit.
James Bailey, of Cincinnati, was elected
president.
The Baptist General Association of the
Western States and Territories began it's
annual session in Chicago on the 22d. The
object of the association is the fitting out
of colored Baptist missionaries for African
fields.
The first report of the battle with Ell
the 10th, has been fully confirmed and Ell
Coyotes body has been identified beyond
question. The Federal troops are still
chasing the escaped bandits.
The British schooner Little Gem was cap
sized and sunk OH the 22d off the precipit-
GUS cliffs of Black Head in Bona Vista bay,
N. F. Two lady passengers were drowned.
The crew were saved by clingi ng to the
bottom of the small boat and were picked
up by passing vessel.
| The recent gale on the Labrador and
Newfoundland coasts proves more disas-
! trous than at first supposed. On the north
Labrador coast five British schooners were
lost and three sa ilors drowned. A Grand
Banker was cut down by an ocean steamer
off Cape Race. Hundreds of families are
hurrying from the French shore into the
A stay of execution for sixty days was
granted on the 23d in the Hugh M. Brooks
alias Maxwell case at St. Louis. Brooks
was to have been hanged October2.
boiler in the nail factory of the Tor
Mill, at Wheeling, w. Va, collapsed on the
23d. fatally scalding John Emery, the en-
gineer, slightly wounding several Other
employees, and badly damaging the factory
At Chicago on the 23d it was decided by
the Live Stock Commission that all the
cattle now quarantined in the Shufeld
and Phoenix distilleries, numbering 2,OOt
} head, should be slaughtered. 1t is esti
mated that the average appraisal value
will be s33 per head.
A terrible explosion took place on tn,
23d at the giant powder works, near Yves
Berkeley, Cal. Two Cinnamon were killed
The explosion of gas stove in the sum
4 mer kitchen of T. Hainline, a wealth,
farmer, living near Pekin, ILL.,, few day
ago, resulted in the death of Mrs. Hainlin
and serious injury to Miss Ling, = teaehe
] stopping with ths family.
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