The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-11
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Two women, Mrs. Scoville aud Miss
Mary Jane Dunn, were arrested at SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, q few days ago charged with
highway robbery. They stopped man
named Hugh Dorrity on the bank of the
canal and placing pistols to his head de-
manded his money. They plead not guilty.
At the Brackett House, in Rochester, N.
Y, on the I'd John Sullivan, of Fishers
Station. blew out the gas in his room and
was sufocated.
Surveyor Hans s. Beattie, of New York,
who was shot and badly wounded by dis
charged custom inspector on the 1st, was
improving at last accounts and it is be-
ieved would recover.
At Scranton, Pa, on the 81 James Coff-
rey and James Dougherty, aged seven
years: John Dougherty, aged six years,
and Ellen Dougherty, aged three years,
were suffocated in sandpit The bank
under which they were playing fell in.
Richard Preston, of Boston. dealer in
worsted goods and tailors' trimmings, has
disappeared. 1t is learned that for some
time past he has been dabbling in stocks
and had borrowed sums from personal
friends to the amount of S15O,OOO
Pierce Sellick's planning mill and agricul
tural mandatory at Holland. Erie County,
N. Y, was destroyed by fire on the Sd,
entailing loss of about $4,000.
Charles Engle has been sentenced to tho
penitentiary at Newport, r. L, for six
months on a charge of larceny. Engle is
the Chicago burglar who robbed Rear Ad-
miral Baldwin's villa some time ago.
The New York flyer and express No. on
the Erie railroad collided at Hinsdale, N.
Y, on the night of the ID. Both engines
were wrecked, but none of the passengers
were injured.
In the Superior Criminal Court at Low
ell, Mass, on the Sd Mary J. Davis, the
fourteen-year-old colored girl who at
tempted to poison family in Wilmington
last summer, was sentencedto seven years.
imprisonment.
on the Sd passed by a vote of 135 to So a
bill granting suffrage to women.
The boiler of the steamer Connecticut
exploded on the Sd while the boat was lying
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The fireman, Mat
killed, and another man, name unknown,
seriously injured.
The east-bound st. Louis express on the
Erie railroad ran into a party of Italian
laborers near Port Jervis, N. Y, on the Sd.
Two of the Italians were instantly killed
and two others fatally injured.
General Corse declares that he shall GER
tainly not accept the postmastership OF
Boston before January, and perhaps not al
all. He is unable to state at the present
time what his course may be.
A conference was held at Philadelphia
on the 4th between tho members of the aid
committee of the Philadelphia manufact-
urers' association and the general executive
board of the Knights of Labor, by whicn
the Frankford troubles are practically set
tied.
Five hundred miners at the Excelsior
colliery at Mt. Carmel, Pa, struck on the
9TH for ten per cent. advance in wages
The operators refuse this demand and q
long strike is probable.
The October fire losses in the United
States and Canada are estimated at s12,'
0O0,00 which is fifty per cent. more than
the average of October fire losses during
the past ten years. This makes sos 000, 90,
as the fire waste for the ten months of 1886
The slope of the Reading Company's col
| liery at Ashland, Pa, caved in on the 4th
causing suspension which will last sew
eral months and throwing 400 hands out OF
| employment.
The court house at Lancaster, N. H., was
totally destroyed by fire on the 4th, to
| gether with all its contents. The county
records of all kinds are destroyed Th,
| loss is about $4,000.
William Cramp & Son, of Philadelphia
have made arrangements to construct TO
the Government a dynamite gun cruise
which will be capable Of making twent,
knots an hour and of firing two hundred
| pound dynamite shell every two minutes
The vessel is to cost not more than $3.50, O0(
The annual report of Acting Genera
Agent Dr. Samuel A. Green, of the Pea
body education fund, shows that s62, ,36
has been distributed during the past year
s2o,0C0 going to scholarships, s1O,7O0 t
l NormnJ Schoo!- S10 26fs TO TnStitutes So or