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

Hon James G. Blaine formally opened
the Republican campaign in Maine by
speech at Sebago Lake on the 4th. He is
expected to thoroughly stump the State.
The conference committee of the asso-
ciated manufacturers of hosiery and knit
goods, of Philadelphia have decided to
postpone indefinitely the new scale of
wages which provides for a reduction in
some cases.
Two explosions of gas occurred at the
Short Mount ain colliery at Lykens, PG.,
on the 9th. which burned twenty men seri-
ously. James B. Batteman, the foreman,
was painfully injured. The explosions
were caused by lighting a lamp in the air
hole.
Clifton S. Smith and E. B. Havens came
to blows on the floor of the Now York
Stock Exchange on the 9th. and were sus-
pended for fifteen days.
A. NJ. Barney, Special Treasury Agent,
died at the Grand Union Hotel, New York,
on the 24tb. He had been i'll the service of
the Department for more than twenty
years. first as Collector of Customs at
Brownsville, Tex, then as Collector of In
ternal Revenue for the same district, and
finally as a special agent, which latter
position he held for about fifteen years
Governor Hill, of New York, On the 25th
rendered his decision in the case of Com
missioner Squire. The decision removes
Squire from office.
At Windsor, VT, on the 25th carriage
containing Senator Evarts, of New York
Charles G. Perkins, of Boston, and a daugh-
ter of Judge Stanley Matthews, of Ohio,
was accidentally overturned, instantly
killing Mr.. Perkins and severely but not
dangerously bruising Senator Evart5 and
Miss Matthews.
A Boston dispatch says Mayflower won
| the second trial race on the 25th and has
| been selected to compete with the Galatea.
| The International races will be sailed Sep
| tember z, 9 and IL
Ex-Councilman George Chambers, Of
| Pittsburgh, announces his intention tc
swim the whirlpool of Niagara soon. HI
says he will go through the whirlp ool with
/ out cork jacket, barrel, or any thing else
depending on his powers as swimmer to
carry him through all right.
Rev. James c. Beecher, of Cos Cob, Conn.
| committed suicide at the water cure il
Elmira, N. Y, on tho 23th by shooting
himself. He had been suffering from sever
mental trouble for several years. Decease
was brother of Henry Ward Beecher ant
was about fifty-nine years old. He was
graduate of Dartmouth College and An
dover Seminary, served with distinction
during the rebellion, and had been paste
of Congregational churches at Oswego anc
Poughkeepsie N. Y.
The New Jersey Democratic State col
vei.tion has been called to meet at Trento
September 2S.
Roger Sherman. the millionaire boo
seller and publisher of the Encyclopedi
Brittanica, died at Philadelphia on tt
26th, aged fifty three yeats. Mr.. Sherma
| succeeded his father in business, and fl
four years has been the publisher of tt
Encyclopedia BRITANNICA. He has twi
aided in defeating a copyright law befo
Congress.
Henry Bayard, brother of the late jam
| A Bayard, and uncle of Secretary Of Sta
Bayard died at Dauphin, Pa, on the 26t
He was born in Wilmington, Del, near
eighty years ago.
The experts sent from Washington
cornt the money in the United States Su
Treasury at New York completed the
task on the 27th and found that the mon
ami the accounts balanced to penny. L
esp-rts counted alb out S27, GOO, 600, of whi
$1,000 900 was in silver. q.
The business failures throughout
Urited States and Can ada during thu we
ended August 81 number pol, as compar
with 1856 the previous week.
. The street car strike in New York Ci
ended on the 18th, all the men returni
to work. An agreement satisfactory to
was reached through the mediation
State Arbitrator Donovan.
Albert Gallatin Dewey, the pioneer
the shoddy business in America, died
Quebec on the 2ith. He was for fiftt
years president Of the Woodstock railro
70 and served in the Legislature and st
Senate of Connecticut.
y T. F. Brown & Co., furniture manufs
urers of Boston, have failed. Their liza
tiles are $75,0OO and tn cir assets alb
$1,000.
u sylvanus Carr, of Germ antown, Pa,
drowned while bathing at AsburY Ps
n. j., on the sith, His yfsnsss, Miss eeel