Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-07-27
LATE NEWS.
Archbishop Guibert, of Tours, has beer
made Archbishop of Paris.

: Archbishop Guibert, of Tours, has beer
made Archbishop of Paris.
There were four fatal sun-strokes il
Memphis Monday and Tuesday.
1t is feared Foster, the New York muir
derer, will escape capital punishment.
A Madrid dispatch says the murderer
of Marshall Prim has been arrested.
The compulsory system is to be adopted
in the military reorganization of France
The number of deaths from the rio
, now reaches so, and the wounded sc.
The survey of the Cincinnati & Terre
Haute narrow gauge railroad commenced
at Terre Haute Tuesday.
The kentucky war claims are under
consideration at the treasury department
and an early decision is expected.
The Austrian government has ratified
the naturalization treaty with the United
States.
''Tad'' Lincoln, youngest son of eX-
President Lincoln, died at Chicago, on
Saturday, aged eighteen years.
| The Crown Prince of Germany, on his
arrival at Munich, on Saturday, was most
enthusiastically received.
| Marshal Lewis Morgan, has been re-
appointed Deputy United States Marshal
| for the Eleventh Ohio District.
In Philadelphia, Monday afternoon,
three boys, Cornelius Ryan, John Gal
vim and Samuel Gloss, were drowned
while bathing in brick-yard pond.
Albert Myers was shot dead, Monday
morning, at New Orleans, by Michael L.
Rodgers. Cause, jealousy. The murderer
was arrested.
At Baltimore the grand jury has in
| dicted Mrs. Elizabeth G. Wharton, for
| poisoning General Ketchum, and also Tor
poisoning Eugene Van Ness.
Minister Schenck, on Friday evening,
attended the annual banquet of the mer-
chant tailors in London, and responded
to the toast in honor of the United States.
The census of England, taken in Great
Britain at midnight, on April Sd, shows
the population to be 31,6O9,O1O. There
are 71s,56s more females than males.
James A. Oates, manager of comic
opera, and well known in this city, died
Friday evening, at the Grand Central
Hotel, New York, aged 30.
Advices from Buenos Ayres say it is
estimated there have been $4,000 deaths
in that place from the yellow fever, lately
TdSSluS GIler0 dS an eplucLl1C.
The British government has appointed
Henry Howard, one of the secretaries to
the legation at Washington, to receive all
claims of British subjects arising under
the treaty of Washington.
The coroner's jury in the case of
Meara, the child murderer, at Watseka,
Illinois, have recommended that the
1ynchers be arrested and punished. They
:, of ~,
A large lot of narrow-guage railroad
iron arrived at St. Louis Friday for the
Denver and Rio Grande railroad. 1t will
go to Kansas City by steamer, thence to
Denver via the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
Sunday was the hottest day of the sea-
son, at St. Louis, the mercury ranging
from 100 to los degrees. During the al
ternoon three fatal cases of sun-stroke
occurred, one of them Thomas Tidville,
railroad contractor, from Hannibal,
Missouri.
Considerable anxiety is felt concern
ing the mysterious disappearance of Gen
Thomas d. Sedgewick, of New Albany,
Ind, who left his home last Monday
morning, and has not since been heard
from.
The Methodist church, brick build
ing costing $75, 900, in Virginia city, fell
in mass of ruins Tuesday evening,
burying the dwelling of a negro family
alongside. One of the negroes ribs were
broken, but no lives were lost.
In Lebanon, Ohio, on Monday evening,
the generator of the soda fountain in the
cellar of Flora 6 Co. exploded with ter
rifle violence, seriously injuring the pro-
prietor and clerk, who were charging
it at the time.
The distillery of J. L. Smith, at Pekin,
Illinois, was destroyed by fire at three
O'Clock Monday afternoon. Loss $50, 900.
Insured for $4,000. The flames caught
from the bursting of a receiving pipe, |
which threw some whisky in contact
with burning lamp.
M Treilhard, late French Minister to |
is at present sojourning in |
Connecticut. He has entirely recovered |
his health, and will leave for France as |
soon as he shall learn that the Germans
have evacuated the portion of the coun- |
try which includes his estate.
A dispatch of the 10th from Louisville |
says The commissioners of the Louis
vile & Chattanooga grand trunk rail-
road held meeting, and appointed |
committee of five to open books for sub
scriptions to the enterprise, which is at
last exciting the attention and interest of
the citizens.
1t seems the recent destruction of In
dians in Arizona was most causeless
butchery, by settlers, of innocent Indians
who were doing their best to lead quiet
and peaceful lives, as is vouched for by
the army officer in command in that re-
gion, and under whose protection the
Indians were.
A terrible hurricane visited st. Joseph,
Mo-, and vicinity, Thursday night.
Houses were blown down and uEroofed
in every part of the city. Four or five
persons were killed by lightning and
falling timbers, and many more seriously
wounded. The loss of property cannot
fall below two hundred thousand dollars.
The injunction suit of the Jefferson
Vile, Madison and indianapolis railroad
to enjoin the Ohio and Mississippi rail-
road from building a track across their
land to the Indiana end of the bridge, at
Louisville, which was to have been tried
at Charlestown, Indiana, Friday, was
postponed twenty days, pending nego-
tiations for amicable arrangements.
The shoemakers employed by promi-