Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-02-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TheEaat.

The East
Samuel I. Tabor, a prominent Re
publican and q man of large personal
influence, died in Brooklyn on the 9th.
The viii Of the late David Sears has
been probated at Boston. His property,
amounting to about 5 ,0O0,O 900, is left to
his children and grandchildren.
On Saturday afternoon the messen.
ger OF the Chatham N. Y.lBank had sto-
len nom his pocket a wallet containing
notes and drafts to the amount of over
%zS,oOo. Fay was Immediately stopped.
Investigation into the causes of the
cattle disease raging in the East is being
prosecuted. The Commissioner APP
pointed by The Governors of New York
ana other States are now in session al
Albany. aus ME
"A great5ire occurred 1T the village
OF l1oga, Pa, on Thursdsy morning. 1t
spread very rapidly, and ragged with
great fury until nearly the entire village
was destroyed, about forty buildings be-
ing consumed, including one bank, two
churches, two hotels ms a large num-
per OF stores and residences. Estimated
loss, $4,000. =
The recall of Cen Sickles from
Madrid, for the purpose Of placing him
IN charge of the New York Custom
House, creates a good deal of interest
among politicians. The idea of the
PRESIDENT is to get a man in the Custom
House who will have some influence
with the Republican party of New York,
and can unite, its various factions.
@Curley Harris, who was arrested at
Pittsburgh, and transferred to lPhiia-
delphia, to be taken to Paola, Pa, on a
charge OF shooting apoliceman, escaped
on h 10th, by jumping from the train
while in rapid notion one mile west of
Philadelphia. The leap was a frightful
one and the prisoner was handcuffed
hen he performed it. The train was
stopped, and search made for the 1ugi-
tive, but no traces rof him were discov-
cred. .2&I9W Gas So
From a tabular statement prepared
by Joseph Numino, of the Bureau of
Statistics, it appears that prior to 1862
the tonnage of American vessels entered
at the ports of the British Empire was
double the tonnage of the British YES
sells entered at ports of the United
States but since 1868 the tonnage of
British vessels entered at ports of the
United States has heen double the tom
mage of American vessels entered at
ports of the British Empire.
Ion Sunday afternoon the house of
Dahlias Miller, at Wells, Pa, was de-
stroyed by FIRE, together with all the
contents. A'ohttle girl. four years of
age, was burned to death. Mrs. Miller
left home SONG Is or 20 minutes before,
the fire was discovered, leaving two
children, two andSones years old, in the
house alone. As soon. as the fire was
discovered some near by ran and burst
open the door, but the flames and
amnEQ NrouaThoI Al afs ~ kra , N oil &C.,
after the door was opened the youngest
child came out of its own accord, and
WA but little burned. After the build
ing was destroyed the body of the old
est child was found in q corner where
the bed stood.
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-Immense rich silver mines have
been discovered IN the Bradshaw dis
trict, Arizona near Prescott, causing
much excitement.
The California orange crop is very
fine. Many thousands of orange and
lemon trees are being planted in the
central part of the State. 7--a -r.
Cincinnati is again agitated over
the question of keeping the public
ject was on Sunday alluded to from the
pulpits.
"A San Francisco dispatch says /.
The schooner Cygnet, coming up the,
coast from Scammon's lagoon, Lower
California, has 100 turtles on board for
Chicago. XI5A-047- @t-oC =
Coal operators in St. Clair and
Madison counties Ill, have resolved to
pay only four cents per bushel for
mining hereafter, and will close their
mines until the miners accept these
terms. :.
Six inches Of snow fell at Peoria,
III, on Saturday night, the heaviest of
the season. At[Boston and Springfield,
Mass, yesterday, it showed all day,
twelve inches having fallen at thaOl4t-
ter place.
On Saturday morning Martha
KreingeuhopeIS H. years old, employed
m Beckett & Lauri's paper mill, at
Hamilton, Ohio, fell through a. trap
door in the third floor, into the hopper
used for grinding rags, and before the
mill could be stopped was literally torn
to pieces. r~enrA@ -,
-Advices from Muscle Shell, Mon
tana, give an account of the killing of
j. Z. Ross and. CHARLES Mcknight, near
there, on the 18th ult., by a party of
thirty or forty Indians, who brutality
murdered them, shot them full of ar
rows, and then cut them horribly with
knives. -~r r
Thomas Florida, a grocer in Coun-
Gil Bluffs, was arrested, on Thursday, for
.bigamy. His first and deserted wife
went from New York to Council Bluffs
and caused his arrest. Florida jumped
from a third story window to escape
the police, but was captured, and is now
in jail. s'r9 u.a
The special committee appointed by
the last Michigan State Methodist Con-
v~ention, to aise-funds towards he en-
dowment of Albion College, has secured
$4,000 towardsy the $4,000 necessary
to secure the liberal offer of David Pres
ton, a banker of Detroit, to raise $4,000
more; and of the $33,o00, Preston gives
$1,000. zssFsf I'd ~.
The body ofTan unknown man was
found early Monday morning on one of
the railroad tracks neal the depot at
Toledo. In his pocket was a drover's
pass, made out in the name of Kelly,
and dated at Chicago, Feb. 8. He was
seen on Saturday evening in a state of
i-ntoxieation. He is supposed to have
been run over by an engine while in
"A boy named Dennis Broaden, 10
years of age, while playing near the
crossing of the Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy road, Twenty-second and Jeffer-
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