The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-09-30
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City, made an assignment on the 23d. The
liabilities are supposed to be over S115,000.
The strike of the Western window glass
workers was settled at a meeting of the
Glass Workers Association at Pittsburgh
on the 23d, and work will be resumed in
every factory west of the Alleghenies as
soon as the furnaces can be heated. The
basis of the settlement was last years
wages. The furnaces have been closed
since last June.
Mrs. Ella T. Hough and Margaret A.
White, sisters, and Edward White, husband
of the latter, were arrested in Fayette
City, Pa, on the 23d, charged with forming
a conspiracy to place their brother, Will
lam B. Todd, in an insane asylum in order
to deprive him of his patrimony in an
estate valued at S2,5O0 900. Todd alleged
that because he married against their will
the defendants had him confined in Dix
mont asylum for six months on q false
charge of insanity.
At Peabody, Mass, large three-story
non-union boarding house was discovered
on fire on the night of 23d. Forty Of the
inmates were aroused and the flames ex-
tinguished. 1t was found that lot of
combustibles had been piled up in the cell
lar and fired.
The fifth annual meeting of the Union
Veteran Army convened at Trenton, N. j.,
on the 23d. Twenty-three States and 2ls,-
600 men were represented by about fifty
delegates. B. B. Manchester, of Provi-
dence, R. l., was chosen commander-in-
chief
George Webster, aged twenty-five, and
Clarence Wyman, aged seventeen, were
killed by train on the Buffalo & South
western railroad, near Eden Center, N. Y,
on the 9th. They were sitting on the ties
and did not see the train coming.
Herr Most's incendiary paper, the Freiheit,
published at New York City, is dying for
want of patronage, the circulation having
fallen off from 5000 to 300.
Secretary Wise. of the Western Nail
Association, states that at a meeting of
the association held at Pittsburgh few
days ago the price of nails was advanced
TO $500.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended September "a number for the United
State 165 and for Canada %, or a total of
1877, as compared with a total of 1856 the
previous week.
The New York clothing cutters strike
came to an end on the oath, the men re-
turning to work at their employers terms
By the premature explosion of a blast
in the iron mines at Joysville, N Y, on
the 24th, Felix Basse and Frank Blackburn
were instantly killed and William Apple
badly injured.
| At the session of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows in Boston on the
oath the question of the permanent loca-
| tion of the Grand Lodge was settled in
favor of Columbus, o. The vote was:
Columbus rs, Chicago 73.
Right Rev. ]. F. Shanahan, Bishop of
the Roman Catholic diocese of Harrisburg,
| Pa, died suddenly at his residence in that
city on the oath, of congestion of the
| brain.
Judge Andrews, of the New York Su-
preme Court, has granted an application
of Charles E. Crawford for an attachment
against the property in New York State of
| the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company,
of Hartford, Conn. Crawford obtained
the attachment to recover 81 ,533 paid in
premiums.
| Elisha Clifford, stock broker of Hudson,
N. Y, assigned on the oath. Creditors are
preferred TO the amount of $49, 900. Liza
bilities and assets not reported.
| The imports of dry goods at the port OF
New York for tie week ended September
against II ,377 packages valued at 81, 7S1 ,49C
for the previous week. OF the total imports
6,7e9 packages valued at S1,S03 4S6 were
entered for consumption and / , 715packages
valued at $537, ,092 were warehoused.