The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-25
the EAST.

The Eric breaker, at Scranton, Pa, occu-
pied by the Hillsdale Coal and Iron Com
pany, was totally destroyed by fire on the
18th. Loss, $100, 900, and $50 men and boys
are thrown out Of employment.
After an adjournment of over foul
months the hearing in the suits brought
against thee Erie Telephone and Telegraph
Company three of its officers to recover
large amonnt of money alleged to be due
them for services, was recommended al
Lowell, Mass, on the 10th.
Joseph 81. Brown, a pioneer iron master
OF the Mahoning Valley, died at Youngs.
town, o., ON the 10Th, aged seventy six
years. Deceased was one Of the founders
of the extensive plant Of Brown, BonnelI
& Co., at youngstown.
A few days ago citizen Of Kingston,
Ont, went to New York and purchased
81, 900 in counterfeit bills for $50. He was
under the impression that he had got what
he had bargained for, but on opening his
valise for inspection at Cape Vincent the
customs officers found the supposed pack
age Of money to be merely roll of saw.
dust and rubbish.
The Vermont Legislature has passed a
bill providing that all hotels or restaurants
using oleomargarine shall put up large
signs notifying the public of the fact.
At meeting of western nail manufact-
urers in Pittsburgh on the 18th, it was de-
cided to advance nails to S2.25 a card,
which Is an advance Of five cents per keg
on the old card.
A National Encampment of the Union
Veteran Legion was organized at Pitts
burgh on the 18th. Twelve encampm ents
in four States, representing 5000 veterans,
were represented at the convention.
Joseph STROLLER was instantly killed and
Peter Shafer probably fatally burned by
an explosion of a barrel of benzine at the
Globe varnish works. Allegheny City, Pa,
on the 18th. The men were boiling varnish
when the material boiled over, igniting the
benzine.
At Lowell. Mass, on the 18th the jury in
the famous Wilson-Moen case brought in a
verdict in favor of Moen, the defendant,
for sos. .522, being the amount of Wilson g
notes for $700 900 held by Moen, with inter-
est.
Among the school commissioners ap-
pointed by Mayor Grace in New York on
the 18th were two ladies, Mrs. Mary Nash
Agnew and Miss Grace Dodge.
The vitrol works of the John L. Thomp-
SON Chemical Company, near West Troy,
N. Y, were demolished by a cyclone on
the 18TH Six men were badly burned by
vitrol and cut, but none fatally. The loss
is $4,000.
The strike Of the employees of the Colum-
bia Rolling Mill, at Lancaster, Pa, for an
increase in the price of pudding iron to
1856, which has been in progress for nearly
four months, was compromised on the 18th.
the men accepting $3.75. Work will be re-
sumed in all the departments Immediately.
On the night of the 18th three masked
men effected an entrance into the residence
of Matthew McKeever in Oakland town
ship, Pa. and after fight lasting over an
hour, in which Mr.. McKeever's sisters Mar
garet and Jane were terribly injured, sue
ceeded in stealing bucket containing
nearly $4,000, with which they escaped.
The cast-bound limited express on the
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati g. st. Louis rail-
road was wrecked by a landslide at Jones'
Ferry, near Pittsburgh, on the morning of
the 18th. An enormous slide Of earth and
rocks from the bluff which at that point
rises forty feet above the tracks, crushed
into three sleepers, badly wrecking them.
Seven or eight persons were seriously in
jured, two-S. A. Bennett, of New York,
and David Arnheim, Of Pittsburgh-proba-
bly, fatally.
At Syracuse, N. Y, on the 10th Charles
A. Brown, Of that city, and P. L. Burgett,
OF Newark, N. r, were killed by the ex-
plosion Of q filter in a pan at the expert
mental salt works. George Denton was
badly scalded and otherwise injured. The
building was badly wrecked.
A strike Of twenty thousand cotton opera
tives at Fall River, Mass, is threatened un-
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