The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-25
WEST AND SOUTH.


At general meeting of the Central
Recommendation was made to the Eastern
trunk lines, that commencing December 1
grain rates be advanced to thirty cents per
hundred from Chicago to New York. This
is considered equivalent to its adoption
A fire on the 18th swept through the
business part of Monona, Ia., near Nc
Gregor, destroying Odd Fellows hall and
large number of business buildings Loss
$4,000
The official vote on the head of the State
ticket of Missouri, as reported by the Sec.
retary Of State, is as follows: Brace, Dem
ocratic, for Supreme Judge, 229, 125; Cra-
vens, Republican, 17S, 400; JONES' Green
back and Labor, 11,430; Orr, Prohibition,
35O4; scattering, 267; total, 423, ,S25 DEM
ocratic pleurality, 5O,655; majority over
all, 34,429
At Massillon, O., on the 18th, Larry
O'Toole, aged fifty, his wife and three chill
dren were run down by freight train on
the c., L. & W. railroad and instantly killed.
The saloon injunction cases in Sioux
City, Ia, have resulted in one hundred
and two permanent injunctions being
granted. A large proportion of the parties
ohJoluCu udNo SOuo OuU OIL business since
the writs were issued and many have left
the city. 1t is expected that the open sa-
loon in Sioux City will be thing of the
past.
Delegates from all the relief boards in
the Masonic order in the United States to
the Masonic Relief Association, met at st.
Louis on the 18th to discuss plans for ef-
fectual work. The object of the associa-
tion is to prevent the commission of fraud
upon subordinate lodges by those who are
not worthy of relief.
Samuel j. Collins, a Pinkerton officer
acting as deputy sheriff at the stock yards
in Chicago, was arrested on the 18th
charged with having clubbed to death a
man named Whiteman, who refused to
t'move off,"
Peter Munich, q well known resident of
New York, died on railway train near
Fort Wayne, Ind, on the 18th while en-
route to his home. He was a consumptive,
and was returning from Colorado, where
he had been for his health.
At a fire in Baltimore, Md, on the 17th
the truck of one Of the ladder companies
capsized and fell backward into the street.
There were on it at the time Captain Mars
ton, Charles L. Grund, Frank Kerr and
Henry Ryan. Captain Marston caught on
the edge Of the roof of two-story house
adjoining and escaped serious injury.
Grund, Ryan and Kerr fell with the ladder
and sustained fatal injuries.
A dastardly attempt to poison P. d.
Armour, the Chicago packer, and his family
was made on the 10Th. A boy brought to
the kitchen of Mr.. Armour's residence a
paper sack marked on one side "Best
quality buckwheat," and on the other
sample package" An examination of
the package showed it to contain buck
wheat mixed with strychnine enough to
kill dozen families. The boy stated that
a man had given him twenty-five cents to
deliver the package to the cook at Mr..
Armour's house. Detectives are investi-
eating the matter.
A stage coach with nine passengers from
Leadville for Aspen, Col, was caught in a
snowslide on the 18th on top of mountain
fifteen miles east Of Aspen, and the entire
outfit was carried over a precipice two
hundred feet high. Five of the passengers
weue probably fatally injured. The others
were unhurt
The north-bound passenger train on the
Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago road ran into
fallen tree near Lawrenceville, Ind, on
the 18th, causing bad wreck, killing Fire
man Fred Esch, and injuring Engineer
Barlow. No passengers were hurt.
The First Presbyterian Church of the
Town of Lake, suburb of Chicago, was
totally destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss,
$4,000.
At Madison, Ind, on the 18th pet par
rot attacked James Lawton's six-weeks-old
baby in its cradle and picked hole in its
skull through which the brains oozed. Its
injuries are probably fatal.
At Landsville, Ind, on the 18th fire de-
stroyed the residence of James johnson,
and his two daughters, Ella and Minnie,
aged respectively eighteen and twenty
years, perished in the flames.
Official returns from all counties in Cali
fornia give Bartlett, Democrat, for Gov
ernor, 632 plurality. The Democrats elect
their candidate for Secretary of State,
Comptroller, Treasurer, Clerk of the Su-
preme Court, one Justice of the Supreme
Court and two Congressman. The Repub
licans carry the balance of the State ticket
and elect four Congressman. The Demo-
Gratis have ten majority on joint S5allot in
the Legislature.
Patrick Graves, arrested on suspicion of
being concerned in the recent mysterious
murder of Mrs. Benjamin WHEELER at
Cleveland, O., was released from custody
on the 18th, no evidence being adduced to
connect him with the crime.
All the business blocks ON the island IN
the river between East and West Joliet, ILL.,,
and between the canal and river bridges,
were destroyed by fire on the 18th, causing
a total loss of $66,0OO; insurance, $4,000.
No single loss reaches over $4,000.
The official returns of the Indiana cleo
tion show the following result ON the State
ticket; Robertson, Republican, for Lieu
tenant Governor, 231, ,922; Nelson, Demo.