Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-23
NEWS SUMMARY.
The Fact

ELLERr E. DANIELS, the defaulting cashier
of the Webster National Bank, of Boston,
has been sentenced to five years imprison-
ment.....It is officially announced that the
German steamer Franklin, in quarantine at
New York, has 40 cases of cholera on board.
There were % deaths on the voyage. Nearly
EVERYBODY aboard was more or less affected,
in most cases seriously. Further deaths are
probable. A rigid quarantine is enforced.
Every effort is made to alleviate the suffer-
lngs, but care is taken to prevent the spread
of the contagion......On Sunday, at New
h0rk, a cripple named Mary Sullivan was
a tenement house in Cherry street. The
Canadlan schooner Juliette sunk off Madi-
son, O., on Friday night. All on board were
lost except the cook, VIM. H. Thayer.
Four hundred Chinese have been engaged
to work in the Raritan wooden mills, in
Somerville, N. J.--...An unknown man was
found dead at the New Haven DEPOT, New
YORK, on Tuesday morning, with 50, 500 in
his professionalism DockerelI, a poor woman,
was recently foundd dead in a shanty at New
Brunswick, N. j., with her head nearly eaten
off by rats.
A HORSE CAR was demolished at Newton.
LII, on Thursday, by a railroad train.
Fourteen passengers jumped off in time to
save their ives...-.On Wednesday evening,
q locomotive engine on the Boonton railroad
Jumped the track near Montville, N. j., and
turned over, killing Christopher Hendricks,
the engineer.
The Custom House officers last week seized
$4,000 worth of diamonds that a gang of
European gamblers endeavored to smuggle
into that port.
The West.
JOHN R. MURRAY, a farmer at Pleasant
Hill, Miami county, o., was murdered on
Saturday night, by John Cecil. Cause
whisky"....B. F. Morris, an old resident of
Kenosha, Wis, on Tuesday afternoon shot
his wife IN the side, killing her instantly.
He then placed the muzzle of the gun in his
mouth and blew off the left side of his head.
No cause is assigned for the terrible deed.
THE Illinois Legislature opened its session
at Springfield on Wednesday. The necessi-
ties of Chicago was the principal subject of
discussion ......T The Diamond mills at Peoria,
Ill, owned by Field, Maynard & Co., were
burned at 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $21, 000......The
Northweste Women's Suffrage Association
Indianapolis on Wednesday afternoon.
Many prominent advocates of the cause are
present.
SQUIRE TAYLOR, Charles Davis and George
johnson, the negroes charged with the muir
der of the Park family, were taken out of
Jail at Charlestown, Ind, about 2 o'clock
Friday morning by a mob of about forty
persons masked and disguised, thirty-tnree
of whom entered the jail, and the rest stood
guard in the street. The negroes were hung
in the woods, about three miles from Charles
town.
The South.
The steamboat Wade Hampton sprung a
leak and sunk in the Mississippi river, near
Donaldsonville, Wednesday morning. The
steamer was valued at $50, O0O......A party of
coon hunters near Inwood, Md, on Saturday
night, sat down on a railroad track and fell
asleep. An express train rushed by, killing
John Green, throwing him a distance of sixty
feet. Two of his companions were badly
injured.
LAST negroes while going
home from Grenada, Miss, were shot by
Jack Treble, a -vrtfztozz fctfom.-eno~eo
killed nd-th other MORALLY wounded.
Trebb1e has been arrested.
THE sub-Ku-Klux Committee at Jackson
vile, Fla, after a session, of five days, con-
c1uded their labors Wednesday night, hav-
ing taken a large amount of evidence in
Florida. +
TEE planning mill of J.. s. Thomas, in the
western suburbs of st. Louis, was burned
about 1 o'clock on Thursday morning. In
sured for 1000, which will probably cover
the loss.
Washington.
The ademsnd for troops to assist in the
enforcement of the Ku-Klux act in the
South exceeds the supply. HI Attorney
General and Secretary of War. have had a
conference for the redistribution of troops
in the martial law district. in South Caro-
hna".".The proposition of all the Democratic
and anma nf the Pnnrh1Tao1, rna-oHa-1 @r a. 1
Ku-Klux Committee to Congress |
to provide general amnesty is not certain to |
be adopted by the full committee. So far as
the Presidents views are known, he is said
to be opposed to general amnesty now, and |
will not recommend it in the annual mes
sage.
1t is officially stated that Secretary Bout
well in his next report will strongly recon-
mend the necessary legislation for the pay
ment in Europe of the interest on so much of
the loan as is or hereafter may be placed
abroad. This it is believed will greatly ex-
tend the European market for United States
securities .... - ~
The Anglo-American Commission is now
in session, all the members having arrived.
The Spanish Claims Commission will soon
reasonable, while the Mexican Claims Com
mission remains in session 1.-THE distillers
and tobacco manufacturers laid their griev-
anceS before the senate FINANCE COMMITTEE, |
in the hope that they will take the shape of
legislation and tighten their present burden
of axes.
The American and British Claims Com
mission rel ected a memorial from the wo-
men, on account of the disrespectful Ian
guage Neutrality-suspicious. are pend
ing for a reduction of the rate of postage
between the United States and Switzerland,
fixing the rate per half ounce, when sent by
direct German mail by the Bremen and
Hamburg steamers, at seven cents.....From
Oct. 2, when the international money order
system with Great Britain went into opera
ton, to the 2sth of the same month, the
amount of money transmitted through its
agency from this country to Great Britain
was $60, O61, and the amount received from
that country during he same period was
$14,6s4-....The examiner designated by the
comptroller of the currency to make an in
vestigation of the affairs of the Chicago
national banks damaged by the late fire,
reports that their losses will be in reality
much less than was estimated just after the
fire, and that under the circumstances the
of the banks is excellent.
TIE Treasury Dena rtment has received