The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-07-29

Bleachery Corporation, was recently re-
moved from Office and committee ap
pointed to investigate his accounts. The
committee report that they have found the
deposed treasurer guilty of grave irregu
lar1ties. The amount is not yet known, but
may be anywhere from $20O.0CO to $780,
O0O The corporation which is about fifty
years old. and one of the most wealthy and
widely known in New England, has sus
pended payment pending an investigation
! of its affairs.
The Vermont Democratic State Conven.
ton, which met at Montpelier on the ed
unanimously placed the following ticket in
| nomination: Governor, G. B. Shurtleff,
| of Montpelier: Lieutenant Governor, P. M.
Meldon, of Rutland; Treasurer, Thomas H.
Chubb, of Thetford; Secretary of State,
w. H. Rider, of Bristol; Auditor, ]. A.
Wilder, of Windsor
majority CT the employees of the Ameri-
can Tube and Iron Company at Middle
town, Pa, numbering over five hundred,
went on strike on the 22d. The trouble is
said to be the refusal of the company to
restore the wages Of 1888, and to reinstate
two discharged employees. They also de-
mand the discharge of time-keeper.
William Lockwood, a we'll known horse
man, fell dead at Buffalo on the 22d, of
heart disease. e.
The Pennsylvania Tube Works Company
at Pittsburgh, employing several hundred
men, have voluntarily advanced tho wages
OF their workmen ten per cent.
Julian T. Davies, the receiver of the de.
funct firm of Grant & Ward recently ap-
piled for permission of the court to sell
nfc cfr h.
solidated Mining Company, which was a
chief asset of that brilliant young finan-
cier Permission was granted aud on the
22d the receiver worked off the stuff for
eight mills on the dollar, something more
than its value as old paper.
Mrs. Patrick Ryan, of jamestown, N. Y,
recently received $4,000 insurance money
on the death of her husband, 1880 of
which she placed in a jar and buried near
her house. few days ago a laborer
named Edwards, while digging ditch in
the neighbour pod, came upon Mrs. Ryan's
jar OF cash, and it is supposed he appro-
priated it and fled to Canada.
conference of managers of coal rail
way companies, held in New York City on
the 22d, unanimously decided in favor of
advancing prices, and a resolution was
passed ordering the price of stove coal, free
on board in New York harbor, to be ad-
vanced to s350per ton, and CRATE, egg and
chestnut to $3.1 the advance to take effect
Immediately.
The fund for national monument to
General Grant had reached little over
s122, 900 on the 23d, one year after his
death. Comparatively nothing has been
done in the last six months to increase this
sum.
The works of the Bradford Fertilizer
Company on Pine Island, near Boston.
Mass, were burned on the 23d Loss $780,
900.
Business failures throughout the coun-
try during the seven days ended the 23d
number for the United States 100 and for
Canada "a, total of 1S4, as compared with
1S3 the previous week.
The City Comptroller of Buffalo, N. Y,
on the 23d opened bids for the purchase of
5,159 silver trade dollars in the city treas
ury. The whole amount was awarded to
James c. Colgate & Co., of Wall street,
New York, at their bid of 75 4-1OO cents
each.
Stephen Brodie, New York newsboy
and ex-peiestrian, on the 23d jumped from
the Brooklyn bridge into the river, dis
tance of 120 feet. He came to the surface
in about three seconds, apparently min
jured and was taken up by a rowboat in
waiting for him. An investigation
showed he had sustained no serious injury.
Colonel Dexter Wright, one of the best
known lawyers of Connecticut, died at his
home in New Haven on the 23d
P. A. Schell, aged eighteen, molder, ar
rived in Pittsburgh on the 23d, having
travelled from Fort Wayne, Ind, distance
of 800 miles, on the trucks of car on an
express train which made oaly two stops
between Fort Wayne and Pittsburgh. He
was without money and on his way to
Washington, d. c., to see his mother who
is ill.
Shortly after partaking of an ice cream
supper given by the North Baptist Church
at Eastport, Me-, on the 23d, the minister
and about forty other persons were taken
violently ill with cramps and vomiting.
Physicians think the illness was caused by
poisonous extract.
A mad dog created panic on the streets
of Bloomfield, N. j., on the 23d. Before
the brute could be killed it had bitten
Henry Watkins and two ladies. 1t was
finally run into the barn of its owner
where it was fed poisoned meat and soon
fell dead.