The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-04
THE EAST.

Two men who were riding on "speeder"
on the West Branch railroad, near Brad
ford, Pa, on the 25th, were run down by q
freight train and kille1.
Tan and H. Duany, two wealthy Cubans,
were drowned in Rockland Lake. N. Y,
the other day, while canoeing.
Frederick Joslin, a member of the
Eleventh Vermont regiment during the
Rebellion, and who lost his eyesight while
in the service, has just been granted Sl0.-
900 back pay and a pension of twelve dol
lars per month.
Mrs. McGallagher, of York, Pa, who
has spent twelve years in the State insane
asylum has been released as sane. She
will now be tried for the murder of her
infant daughter thirteen years ago. She
confessed the murder at the time, but being
pronounced insane has never been tried.
Mrs Cynthia Deering was killed while
walking upon the tracks of the Lake Shore
railroad at Erie, Pa, on the Goth. The ac-
cident was of a peculiar nature. She
stepped aside to avoid the engine, but her
dress was blown against the machinery by
the wind, and she was drawn under and
crushed.
The rolling mill of the Old Colony works,
on the 9th, causing loss of $780, 600; par
italy covered by insurance.
The steamship British King, which ar
rived at Philadelphia on the 9th, brought
307 Mormon converts. 1t is understood that
all Mormon immigrants will be landed at
Philadelphia instead Of New York, here
after, as it is claimed that the law is con-
strued harshly in regard to them at the
latter place.
Two farmers named Edward Vough and
James Pitney, brothers-in-law, of Ham
burgh, N. j., guarrelled on the 9th over the
affections of woman and they agreed to
fight duel with corn-cutters. After slash
ing each other for five minutes Vough fell
exhausted and Pitney, who was also badly
wounded, walked to his home. Vough was
found and cared for by neighbors but will
probably die.
The eighty-four ton steamer George L.
Smith, which sailed from Gloucester, Mass,
August H. on a halibut voyage, has been
given up for lost, together with her crew
of fourteen men.
An Egyptian papyrus forty-two feet
long, containing all the chapters of the
Book of the Dead" has just been re-
ceived and unrolled at the Sage Library
at New Brunswick, N. J. It was secured
for the library about six months ago by
the Rev. DIR. Lansing, well-known mis-
sionary in Egypt. Experts, because of the
infrequent use of hieratic characters, pro-
nounce 1t to have been written nearly
three thousand years ago. 1t is declared
| to be fuller and more complete copy than
the Turin Papyrus fac-similed by Lepsius
The Glen Rock manufacturing company
at York, Pa, have made an assignment
Liabilities so, TO; assets s67, ,44.
John Delanty, who several weeks age
married Forepaugh's SO, 900 prize beauty
committed suicide the other day by placing
his head on the rail in front of train or
the Lehigh Valley road, near Pennington
N. J. His body was terribly mangled by
| the train. Mental alteration, caused by
| financial troubles, led to the suicide.
An ore bank, owned by W. d. Cox, a
| Dillsburg, York County, Pa, caved in OF
the morning of the 2sth ult, killing tw'
men and seriously injnring several Others
| A serious accident occurred to the new
Croton aqueduct tunnel at shaft No. 2 OF
the 2Sth ult. Because the roof of the tunne
had been insufficiently protected at tina
| point it caved in for a distance of abou
sixty feet, completely filling up the tunne
and involving loss of about $4,000.
The funeral of Mrs. Cornelia M. Stewart
the widow of the late dry goods million
aire, A. T. Stewart, took place on the 2St
ult. from her mansion on Fifth avenue
New York. No one was admitted to th
residence except the relatives and friend
of the deceased. The remains were interre
at Garden City.
UCommander Picking, of the Kearsarg
denies that United States naval officers al
engaged in smuggling, and says the pub
lished reports of the Newport incident al
very much exaggerated.
Peter McGeog, of Lynn, and W. NJ. Bal