The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-30


The steamer Galilee arrived at Boston on
the 23d. bringing Captain Stephens and
| seven men Of the crew of the bark Krvolith,
taken of that vessel, which was in sinking
| condition, on the 11th inst. One man, Frank
| Cook, had been washed overheard and
drowned. The vessel was en- route from
Philadelphia for Tralee, with grain.
WEST AND SOUTH.
Peacock Bros, Of Colorado City, Col,
on the 2lst made an assignment of all their
ranch interests Their liabilities are at
| least 500, 600 The firm was considered one
Of the most solid in the ranch business.
R. g. Barr, Appointment attorney at Wheel.
ing, w. Va, was fatally injured at that
| place on the 2lst by being run over by
train on the Panhandle railroad. He was
| walking on the track when train dashed
around the curve, and on attempting to
leave the rails he slipped and fell.
At Sheboygan, Wis, on the 21st the jury
| In the Morris murder trial brought in q
verdict of not guilty. William Morris, the
acquitted man, was accused of numbering
Katherine Naviosky, servant girl, at Man.
/ itowoc, about year ago, to escape exposure
| III a scandal.
| William Mussell, the murderer of Dan
iel Christman, was taken from Jail by
mob at Eaton, Preble County, O., on the
night of the 3lst, and lynched by hanging
| to the electric light tower in the principal
part Of the town.
| William Klein, James Morgan and Charles
| Doll have given bail on the charge of fraud
discovered in the recent investigation of
the affairs of the defunct Cincinnati Board
of Public Works.
Treasurer O'Reilly, of the Irish National
League of America, cabled e5, 900 to Dublin
fba Of fv.op tod
since the Chicago convention.
Frank Hibbard, the young son of George
Hibbard, wealthy plumber, of Wheeling,
| w. Va, was shot and instantly killed on
the 21st by his elder brother William, aged
| fifteen.
| The explosion Of boiler in portable
sawmill at Cleveland, O., on the 21st. in
stantly killed an Italian named Francesca
Girardo, fatally wounded the engineer,
James Kintz, and seriously hurt several
p, others.
Twenty-eight dwelling houses and two
| grocery stores between Twenty-first and
Twentysecond streets, Galveston, Tex,
were burned on the 21st, entailing loss
estimated at nearly 100000.
On the 21st David McCune, an East To-
i ledo (O.) laborer, drank quart of whisky
on a wager. The next morning he died Of
| paralysis of the brain.
Judge Bond of the United States Court,
has granted the treasurer of Petersburg,
IVA, a writ of mandamus against the State
| treasurer, requiring the latter to receive
from the treasurer of that city the coupons
| received by him for State taxes, which the
State officer has heretofore refused.
| For the publication of scurrilous poem
rejecting on the integrity of the court in
the trial Of the riot cases in Milwaukee,
Wis, Judge Sloan on the 21st sentenced
Paul Grottlzau, editor of the Socialist organ,
| the Arbeiter Zeitung, to thirty days at hard
labor.
By the unexpected explosion on the 21st
of train of blasting charges which had
| hung fire in the west end of Cascade tunnel,
Washington Territory, three men were
killed outright and five others were serious
ly injured.
The strike among the miners Of jackson
County, O., for an advance of five cents per
ton for mining, ended on the 21st. Over
four thousand miners and furnace workers
resumed work, pending arbitration.
Three men drove up in front Of the
jewelry store Of J. R. Elliott, at Minneapo-
| lis, Mimi, on the evening of the 22d, and
while one held the horses the others jumped
from the sleigh. One of the men carried a
heavy stick of wood with which he smashed
the large plate-glass show-window in which
were trays Of diamonds, watches, etc.,
seized all the available jewelry and threw
it into the sleigh, while his accomplices
kept the crowd at bay with revolvers. Be-
fore any thing could be done to apprehend
them they drove rapidly away, having
secured between Sc, 600 and 81, 900 worth of
diamonds and watches. The streets were
unusually crowded and scores of people
were looking at the display in Elliott's
windows at the time of the robbery.
The engine of mixed train on the Toledo,
St. Louis Il Kansas City railroad fell
through rotten culvert near Charleston,
ILL.,, on the 22d. The engineer, fireman and
head brakeman were all seriously hurt, and
number of freight cars ditched. None OF
the passengers were injured.
The members of the International Range
Association and all other cattle associations
of the United States, Mexico, and Canada,
! have been notified that the annual meeting
of the first named organization will be held
in Denver, Col, February 8, 1887.
The South Carolina House of Represent
atives on the ed killed the bill passed by
the Senate to prevent the enrolment OF
colored farm laborers as Knights of Labor
Fire in the business portion of Oskaloosa,
Ia, on the 22d destroyed the post-office, the
Times building, the opera house and several
other structures. Loss S1OO,O0O A large
quantity of mail was burned up.
Bruce, the burglar who several weeks
ago broke into the Church of the Sacred
Heart, at South Bend, Ind, and stole the
famous golden crowns, was on the 22d sen
, fenced to seven years in the penitentiary.
The city hall and opera house at Cheboy
gan, Mich, were burned on the 22d, causing
loss of 10000. The city Jail, located undel
, the city hall, contained two prisoners, botl
of whom were burned to death.
! Three strangers entered the jewelry store
. of George F. Schmitt at Chicago on the 22d
8 threw red pepper in his eyes and walked
e away with 81, 600 worth of rings.
The trial of the Knights of Labor charged
;, with train wrecking at Wyandotte, Kan.
q has been removed to the District Court o
Miami County, which meets at Paola tn
!, first Monday in February.
Q Obey E. Owens, the receiving teller o
] in 1882 embezzled about $500, 600 of the fund
&c of that bank and who has been serving
sentence in the Chester Qll.) penitentiar,
e for that crime, has been pardoned by tn
., President
s The Woman's Christian Temperanc
n Union Of Sioux City, Ia, has organized al
+ Incorporation for the purpose of building
q Haddock memorial building. A building
9 costing not less than $500, ,000is to be erecte
to the memory OF Rev. George c. Haddoch
q who was assassinatsd August 8, 1880.
t The house Of Caleb Russell, five mile
!, west Of Ashtabula, O., burned on the 23d
4 Russell and wife, an aged couple, died o