The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-23

have formed union for the purpose Of ad-
vaucing their wages. Employers who re-
fuse to pay the advance will be boycotted,
as will also girls refusing to join the union.
The trial of McQuade, the ''boodle" ex'
Alderman, closed at New York on the 18th.
After an absence of fourteen minutes the
jury returned verdict Of ''guilty as charged
in the first count Of the indictment"
The United States grand jury, at Brook
lyn, N. Y, has found an indictment against
Charles Curtis, alias Sir Roger Tichborne,
who was arrested on the charge of defraud-
ing the Government by collecting pension
under false representations.
At Camden, N. j., on the 14th the police
raided prize fight which was in progress
between Yeagler and Hagan, Of Philadel-
phia. About one hundred persons were
captured, including the county prosecutor
of Cape May County and several leading
business men.
America took place on the 14th at Adelphi
rink, New Bedford, Mass. It was won by
two laps by Charles Daniels, Of Boston,
Mass. Timo-One hour, twenty-five min
utes and thirty, five seconds.
A syndicate of prominent New York citi-
zens. headed by Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew,
has purchased the Madison Square Garden
for the purpose of building what is known
as Palais d. Industrie. The price paid was
81, 900, 900. The proposed structure will be
modelled on the institution Of the same name
in PARIS.
An empty train of coal cars broke in two
while going up a steep grade near Carbon
dale, Pa, on the 14th The detached sec
ton jumped the track and dashed through
the house Of Thomas Quinn, badly wrecking
it, but not injuring any of the occupants
William Storer, dry goods commission
merchant Of New York City, has disap-
peared, leaving an indebtedness Of over
$4,000. He is seventy years Of age. and
blind, but is believed to have found his way
to Canada.
The will Of the late Richard Perkins, of
Boston, Mass, provides for bequests to edu-
cational and charitable institutions Of s237,
900. The Massachusetts Institute of Tech
uology gets 100000.
n. B. Barnes & Co.'s extensive base ball
factory at Oswego, N. Y, burned on the
10Th, entailing loss Of 10000; two-thirds
| insured.
At Philadelphia on the 10th John Curry
i and James F. Cruder were arrested and
placed under 5000 bail tor trial ON the
charge of selling oleomargarine without
having the article properly stamped.
| Mrs. Hugh Jones and Mrs. Ryan, OF Erie,
+, Pa, on the 10Th received official notification
that by the death of a brother in Calcutta
; they had fallen heirs to an estate valued at
81, 100000.
A fire at Ceres, N. Y, ON tho 10Th de-
stroyed the post-ofice and seven other
buildings. Loss SIS, 900.
Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Fish celebrated
their golden wedding in New York City on
the 18th. They have scven children and
seventeen grandchildren.
Great excitement was create in the ranks
of the Knights of Labor at Amsterdam, N.
! Y, on the 18th, owing to the Publication of
!, all the secrets of the order and the mode Of
initiation.
WILLIAM A. Niblock and Alexander H.
Reed, dry goods merchants Of Hrverhill,
Mass, have been held by the grand jury for
maintaining gift enterprise under the
system of guessing the number of seeds in
squashes.
Hon Marshall P Wilder, well known
! as one Of the foremost pomoloyists and hor-
ticulturists of the country, died at his home
/ in Roxbury, Mass, on tbs 18th, aged eighty
six years.
Simon Wormser, the New York banker,
has settled all the losses sustained by his
son in recent speculations, amounting to
between s3O0,0O0 and 100000. Young
Wormser was leader in the attempt to
bull Reading in the face of the late general
fall Of stocks.
The steamer AIler, which sailed from
Southampton on the 18th for New York
carried ei67, 500 in gold. The steamer La
/ bourgogue, which arrived at New York or
the 10th, brought G,S35, 900 francs in gold.
The tralnps in the workhouse at Lancas
ter, Pa, struck for better food few days
ago and refused to labor unless served with
roast beef, vegetable soup and tobacco
They gave in after thirty two hours fasting
William Reed, defaulting ex-trcasurer Of
the South Boston Railroad Company, was
on the 18th sentenced to seven years. i'm
prisonment
Hon. James D. Warren, editor and pro
prietor Of the Buffalo IN. W Commereia
Adaertiser, and a prominent Republican poll
tician, died at his home in that city on the
18th.
A decision was handed down by the Cour
of Appeals in New York on the 18th which
puts an end to the scheme to gri1iron the
city Of New York with cable roads. The
Supreme Court had denied motion Of the
New York Cable Company to confirm re
port of commissioners under which it wa.
allowed to build over seventy miles Of rail
way in the streets of that city. The COur
of Appeals sustained the Supreme Court.
John T. McGowan, receiver Of the Guard
ian Savings Institute, New York City, il
ST., 900 short in his accounts, as stated b.
the referee appointed by the court to pas
upon the receivers report. The GUARDIAN
was once controlled by Boss Tweed an
members Of his ring.
1t has been decided by the executors t
dispose by auction on March next, of tn
entire art collection of the estate o: tn
late A. T. Stewart, consisting VI pictures
: statuary and an immense quantity Of brio
a-brac and fine art publications. The co
lection is valued at over &, 900, and COZ
, tains some of the most valuable and celt
brated pictures in the country.