Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-12-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

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and instantly killed. he was from Grand
Rapids, Mich-....Another "ring" bank at
New York, the Eighth National, failed on
Wednesday. Assets, $4,000; liabilities,
1854 900. The Clearing House Association
passed resolutions denouncing the Govern
ment Examiner of Banks, and requesting the
Comptroller of the Currency at Washington
to remove him......The buildings of the
Franklin Manufacturing Company, on Mill
street, in Patterson, N. j., were burned on
Wednesday morning. Loss, $4,000; |
largely insured in New York city and Hart
ford companies.
A MRS. GANsoN's residence, in Buffalo, was
entered while the family were at dinner, on
Thursday, and $500 in $50 bonds of 1860 |
stolen....The Deputy Sheriff seized the New
York Printing Company's offices on Thurs
day to satisfy 5000 in protested notes in
the Ocean Bank......M Mr.. Hulburd, Comptroller
of the Currency, has suspended Calender,
the Bank Examiner for New York city,.
The amour trealized by the sale in New Work
Of AleTander Whites collection of paintings,
from Chicago, was $4,000.
The West.
The contract for the proposed Detroit and
Bay City railroad has been let......The Da-
kota Southern railroad will be built and in
running order to Yankton within one year.
After the construction of this line another is
to be built, to run from Yankton to SIOUX
Falls, and ultimately form a connection with
the st. Paul and Sioux City road at oka-
hena.....An accident occurred on Wednes-
day, near Terre Haute, Ind, by which an
engine on the indianapolis and st. Louis
railroad was thrown down an embankment
and the engineer and fireman instantly
killed.
Gov. PALMER, of Illinois, on Thursday
signed the bill empowering the United
States to obtain land by condemnation for
Government nurnoaaa in Hh;oaoo Gra
at Appleton, Wis, on Monday night, on both
sides of the river, destroyed nearly an entire
block of buildings. The loss is about $G5,-
900; insurance Hght-.-.The bill to repeal
the law of Wyoming giving women the right
of suffrage having passed, the Governors
veto to the contrary Notwithstanding, in the
House, was lost in the council for want of a
two-thirds vote.....A collision occurred be-
tween two locomotives on the Lake Shore
Railroad on Thursday morning, in Cleve-
land. Charles Smith and Charles Akerman,
brakemen, were killed.....A private dispatch
from Allan Pinkerton states that after a Sc
we're fight two of the men who robbed the
express car on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad,
some months sinee, were captured on Mon
day near Verona, Mo-, by a detective, aided
The South.
A DISPATCH from Raleigh states that both
branches of the Legislature had an excited
debate upon the recent arrests for alleged
hu-GA1uAlEh. Ii OCAOLd4 Gil
authorized the Acknowledgement of the State
to apply torthe Supreme Court of the United
States for . writ of hGbeGs corpus to test the
legality of the military arrests. Private
advices state that Hinkley, Democratic Rep
resentative of the Third Alabama District
has been indicted for connection with thu
A COLUMBIA, s. c., dispatch states that tn,
Government witnesses against Legann
Foster and Mitchell, charged with conspira
cy against the Government, have divulget
the full secrets of the Ku-Klux of Soutl
Carolina.
Washington.
IT is authoritatively announced that At
torney General Alderman will be assigned t
the United States District Court in Florids
recently made vacant by the death of Judg
Kinney....It is said that General Schencb
our Minister to England, having accom-
plishsd his purpose with reference to tn
Treaty of Washington, and regarding hi
personal interest here as imperative, has re
and call him Official notice is give,
that the treaty with Mexico has been ex
tended for the settlement of claims for
year and a half from February next-....Th
United States and British Commission re
summed their session on Wednesday,. In tn
case of John Holmes Hanna VS.. the Unite
States the Commissioner decided that tn
United States cannot be held liable for inju
ries caused by the acts of the rebels.
The Committee on Appropriations hav
considered Farwell's bill for the purchase {
grounds and erection of public buildings i
Chicago, and agreed to report favorabl,
but cutting down the sum named in th
original bill from five millions to four.
tn War Department, in general orders, al
nounces to the army the death of Brigade
General Robert Anderson, of Fort Sumte
memory, and pays a handsome complimer
to his military service and private characte
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war Guerrero, orders will be issued to q
them honor....The British bark Chance an
the Hawaiian bark Arctic, the vessels whic
saved and brought to Honolulu the wrecke
seamen of the whaling fleet recently broke
up by ice in the North Pacific ocean, hav
presented this government a claim for serviC
rendered to the amount of $500
Southern Claims Commission made their r,
port to Congress on Thursday. They ga
voluntary residence in an Instructions
State during the war is Prinna facie evidenc
of ~disloyalty, and must be rebutted by satil
factory evidence; that claims have CON
from those who served in the rebel arm,
and the Commissioners hold that such Sc
vice is proof of disleyalty. The whole nun
Der OF claims presented up to November
10000, and the entire amount SEE, 599, 90
The Commissioners have examined 81
cases, in which the amount claimed is 81
656,357. They allowed $s44,16s......Tt
cided that the United States is not liable Fl
the payment of debts contracted by reb
authorities.
Foreign.
The French Assembly, at its session c
Tuesday, adopted, by a vote of 2s9 to 277, tt
recommendation from the committee havir
charge of the subject, for the alienation
the state of the crown ewels......S Senior M
reno, the new Governor of Havana, has b
gun the work of suppressing the gamblir
houses..--.A Rio Janeiro letter states that
difficulty between the President and Coz
gress, arising from the attempted appoin
mont of the unpopular minister, occurred
the halls of Congress, in which the Peep
took part. Several were killed and wounde
Many of the disaffected were formerly wit
Lopez.
THE British Foreign Office has sent il
structions to its agents abroad to investiga
the organization of the various branches
the international Society in the countries
which they are respectively accredited, ar
report thereon to the Government......Tl
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