The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-09-02

thousand farmers and dairymen were in
attendance. Senator Miller delivered an
address.
WEST AND SOUTH.
The Republican convention of the Second
Congressional district of North Carolina
on the 25th split one wing nominating
James E. O'Hara (colored), the present
Congressman, and the other nominating l.
NJ Abbott, of Newberne, a wsite man.
The Wisconsin Glass Company, of Mil
waukee, has assigned for the benefit of its
creditors. Assets S125, 700; liabilities un-
known. Numerous attachments recently
executed was the immediate cause of the
failure.
Allen o. Myers, managing editor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, was arrested in that
city on the 25th on the charge of aiding
fugitive from justice. The arrest was made
on the strength of a telegram from Colum-
bus O., stating that he was wanted there
on charge of perjury.
A dispatch of the 25th from Usage Mis-
sion, Kan, says new trial has been re-
fused in the case of Willie Sells, the six
teen-year-old boy recently convicted of
the murder of his father, mother, brother
and sister.
The Grand Lodge of Ohio Ancient Order
of United Workmen, in annual session at
GAINESVILLE on the 25th, elected the follow
ing grand officers: John D. Irving, of To-
ledo past master workman; L A. Justice,
of Youngstown, master workman; A. Cook,
of Collinwood, foreman; M. 7. Scott, of
Cleveland, overseer; A. T. Roever, of Gin
cinnati, recorder; G. c. Clements, of Gin
| cinnati, receiver; John D. Arras, of Day
ton, guide; David P Mellor, of Cincinnati,
watchmau; c. q. Wright, of Cincinnati,
medical inspector; John D. Irving, trustee
for two years.
The North Carolina Democratic State
Convention met at Raleigh on the 25th and
nominated W. N. H. Smith for Chief JUS
tice and Thomas s. Ashe and A. s. Merri-
man for Associate Justices of the Supreme
| Court. No platform was adopted. 1t is
believed that there will be no Republican
! nominate for these offices.
| The Democratic convention of the Ninth
Ohio district on the 26th nominated Hon.
James C. Levering, of Knox County, for
Congress.
NJ C. Nixon and J. W. Mitten, the lottery
operators who were recently indicted in
Coles County, ILL.,, for attempting to
operate there, and who fed to Indiana to
escape prosecution, were arrested by a
United States Marshal on the 26th and
taken to Indianapolis for trial. They
promptly gave bail in $4,000 each. 1t is
claimed that they have made 500, 1000 out
of their operations.
The Michigan Republican State Con
vention met at Grand Rapids on the 26tt
and placed the following ticket in nomi
nation: Cyrus G. Luce for Governor
T
Gil R. Osmun, Secretary of State; Georgt
L. MaItz, Treasurer; Henry II. Aplin, Aud
itor General; Moses Taggart Attorney
General Roscoe d. Dix, Commissioner O
Land Office; Joseph S. Eastabrook, Super
intendent of Public Instruction; S. S
Babcock, Member of the State Board o
Education.
William We lch, a miner, living nea
Nelsonville, O., recently placed s., 525 in al
old boot and hid it in an clubhouse. On tn
night of the 25th the cash was stolen.
At Magnolia, Miss, on the 25th an arme'
mob entered the town, broke open the jai
and took therefrom John and Leander Mel
son. colored, charged with the recen
, murder of a negro named Collins, and hum
them from bridge near the town.
The Cannon Ball' train on the Be
Line road, while running forty miles a
{ hour, collided with a freight train standin
ON the crossing Of the Pittsburgh, Chicag
8 & st. Louis railroad at Milford Center, o
: on the 25th. Freight cars were thrown i
l., every direction, tearing down the targe
and killing Charles Phillips, night watcl
man, and Samuel M. Langdon, Assista1
Sergeantat-Arms of the Ohio House {
Representatives, who was returning to hi
| Stot
a tion.
Il The trouble between Gambrinus Assem-
4 bly, of Knights of Labor, and Best an
q other brewers at Milwaukee, Wis, was a.
+ justed by the State executive boar
n knights of Labor, on the 26th. The asser
r bly, will withdraw the boycott and the no
1 union men will be given chance to joi
the knights if they wish to do SO.
n J.. C. Levering, of Knox County, h
n been nominated for Congress by the Dem
Gratis of the Ninth Ohio district.
II Willie Sells, the sixteen-year-old mu
ia derer of his family, was on the Goth Sc
,e fenced at Usage City, Kan, to be hange
m This, under the laws of Kansas, means il
~ prisonment for life. The boy took his Sc
,e tence with the same Indifference he b
ce manifested ever since the trial.
ra A few weeks ago Walter Candy, ag
four years, son of W. K. Candy, living ne
&c Fort Worth, Tex, was bitten by rat
te dog. On the Goth the little boy died
h great agony from hydrophobia.
Iy The Illinois Democratic State Conventi
met at Springfield on the Goth and nom
to ated H. ]. F. Kicker. of Quincy, for St'
ID Treasurer, and F. T. Oldt, of Lanark,
cir Superintendent of Public In struction. I
ey platform as adopted indo rses the Natiol
he administration; favors a financial poll
ch in which gold and silver coin and paI
CURRENCY, convertible into coin on demaI
he shall constitute the circulating mediu
elk opposes importation of foreign labor;
ed mands legislation to prevent Chinese
migration, and stringent laws for
ty health of employees of railroads, ma
ng featuring establishments and mine
all favors arbitration to settle labor dispu
of and the enactment of laws to prohibit C
vict labor from coming into competit
of with honest labor.
at John L. Swift was on the 27th nomina
sen for Governor by the California Republi
ad, State Convention. Mr.. Swift was one
ate the three special ENJOYS sent to Chlns
negotiate the amended treaty between
act United States aud China, and is one OF
bill best newspaper writers on the Pat
out Coast
Askiff containing six young men Vi
was in the Ohio river on the night of the
.rk, and four OF the occupants were drown
per, The names cs the victims Rrel TIVE