The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-08-12

$4,000. The boiler was put in fifteen
years ago, when the shops were built, and
has been condemned several times.
The National Convention of colored
journalists in session at Atlantic City, N.
j.. on the Sd elected the following officers
President, Rev. W. J. Simmons, d. D., of
Louisville; Vice President, Rev. B. F. Tan
ner, D. D., of Philadelphia; Secretary,
George Freeman Bragg. of Petersburg Va. !;
Treasurer, Alexander Clark, of Chicago;
Historian, W. Calvin Chase, Washington.
Snow fell at Rome, N. Y, on the Sd, the
fall lasting about five minutes.
Latham II. Rogers, who went on the bond
Of First Lieutenant Howgate for 1000
when the latter was assigned to a respon-
sible position on the Signal Service Corps
several years ago, was on the 4th mulcted
in the sum of that bond by the United
States Court at New York at the suit of
the United States Government.
George William Curtis was reelected
president of the National Civil Service
Reform League at it's annual meeting in
Newport, R. l., on the 4th.
The Allegheny County Pa) Democratic
County Convention on the 4th nominated
Robert B. Parkinson for Congress from the
Twenty ty-second district and Judge T. B. Al
corn from the Twenty third district.
At a meeting of four hundred delegates
of the New York Central Labor Union on
the 5th, it was decided to run an independ-
ent candidate for Mayor. Henry George
will probably be the nominee.
Rollin R. Gregg, we'll known physicia
of Buffalo, N. Y, died on the 5th. He was
author of several medical treatises, and in
1885 was President of tho International
Hahnemann Association.
The July fire record in the United States
and Canada, as estimated by the New
of SIC, ,OO0, 600 worth of property-ffty per
cent. greater than the average fire loss in
July for nearly twenty years.
Twenty-Five new cases of typhoid fever
and three deaths were reported on the
South Side, Pittsburgh, on the 5th. There
were over two hundred cases in the city,
many of them serious.
A handsome memorial album was on the
5th presented to the widow of General Win
field S. Hancock by committee of the
New York City Council in behalf of that
body. The album is two feet long and
twenty inches wide, closed with three
silver clasps, bound in Turkey leather, and
a silver plate on the middle of the cover,
bearing the inscription: "From the Com
mon Coun Gil of the city of New York" 1t
contained the epgrossing of the letter of
Mayor Grace to the Common Council, and
the resolutions of the Council passed on
February 12, shortly after General Han
cocks death.
Hon. Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York
World, has placed $1,000 in the hands of
Colonel Cockerell. to pay the expenses of
an excursion by boat and rail, that Mr..
Pulitzer wishes to give to the writers on
the morning and afternoon papers of New
York City and to members of the Press
Club.
At Allentown, Pa, on the 9th James
McClain shot and killed Ella Davis and
then shot himself. Jealousy was the cause.
Business failures throughout the United
States and Canada during the week ended
the 9th number 154, as against a total of
1872 the previous week.
Miss Daisy Murdoch, the actress, died at
her residence in New York City on the 9th,
of consumption. She was only seventeen
years of age and had been member of the
dramatic profession seven years.
The Pfister case in Brooklyn, N. Y, has
assumed a new phase, another married
lady named Soult having confessed that
her husband killed Pfster. Soult has been
arrested, and the police really think they
have the right man at last.