Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-12-28
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

Boss" Tweed was arrested at New York
on Friday, on an indictment for felony, and
imprisoned" at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Mrs. Andrew j. Garvey arrived at New
York on Thursday, from Switzerland, and is
instructed by her husband to say that on
condition of his not being prosecuted he
will disclose all that he knows concerning
the ring frauds. Mrs. Garvey irtimates
that her husbands revelations will implicate
Hall, Sweeney, and Henry Smith.....Wal-
dron, a wealthy Californian, who attempted
suicide about ten days since, died in hospital
at New York on T~hursday.-..At the Ameri-
can House, Boston, on Friday morning, Col.
B. F. Lawrence, a gentleman aged 81, from
leaped from the third story window, and
falling upon the iron pickets sustained inju-
ries which will probably prove fatal. One
of his legs was terribly shattered, necessi-
tating amputation......The execution of John
Ware, for the murder of his father, took
place at Camden, N. j., IN Friday. Ware
maintained a stolid demeanor, and exhibit
ted no agitation. He wrote a long confes-
sion, which he gave to his counsel, and in
which he says he killed his father because
he ill-treated his ~(John's) mother....A fire
in Paterson, N. j., on the night of The 18th,
destroyed the Reform church, Buckeyes
stationery store, Paget's jewelry store, He'd
don's shse store, and four dwelling houses.
Loss over 100000.
TWEED was released on bail of S., 900 by
OuOR0 DdTuSTu III Now 1OIR on SATURDAY.
There was great excitement over the course
taken by Barnard in fixing upon such an
insignificant sum for bail, and fears were en-
tertained by his friends that he would be
lynched--.Auburn, N. Y, papers state that
Hon. William H. Seward is very low from
paralysis."-.Col. Lawrence, of Elgin, ILL.,,
who jumped from a window of the American
House, Boston, in a fit of insanity on Friday,
died on Saturday morning.....The residence
of John Edsoll, at Ridgefeld, N. j., was
robbed on Thursday night last of bonds,
money, notes, ETC., valued at 800, 000......
himself in the cars near Cobourg, Ont, on
Friday night and has since died...... Consid-
cradle money was found on his person.
EIGHT men attacked the jailor at New
Brunswick, N. J., on Sunday night, gagged
and bound him then attempted to gain the
interior of the Jail, but the assistant TAILOR
fred on them and called the police, the ruff
fans fleeing. 1t is suspected they intended
to release q bank robber incarcerated there.
1.-THE Brooklyn Aldermen lave voted
$4,000 for the use of the Board of Health
against the smallpox. The disease has
spread to East New York......Henry T. Tuck
erman, the ~well-known scholar, poet, and
essayist, died in New York on Sunday, aged
5S.....Four men, while walking on a rail-
road track near Milburn, N. j., on Saturday,
were struck by a locomotive, and three of
them instantly killed......Two hundred feet
of the roof of the iron depot of the Rensse-
laer railroad at Saratoga, n. Y, was crushed
by the weight of snow on Monday afternoon.
Nobody hurt.....A Port Jervis, N. Y, dis
patch states that there are 20 miles of
freight cars blocked at that place for want
of motive power, owing to the mismanage-
mont of the Erie railway.
Ar Liberty, N. j., VIM. Beust was burned
to death while attempting to rescue his
child from a burning house......O Olive Logan
was married in New York on Tuesday to
Writ Sykes, by Rev. Robert Collyer.
The West.
HENRY WILLIAMS, a colored man, was SEN
fenced at Chicago on Friday, to twenty
years imprisonment for the killing of a man
named Grayson at Chicago last October......
The " Blackhawk Brewery" at Davenport,
Iowa, was burned on the 18th inst. Loss,
10000; insurance, $40, 900.
A BOILER exploded in VAIL Bros glue
factory, Chicago, on Sunday, instantly kill
ing John Rich, the boss carpenter, and Chas
Becker, the foreman. Joseph Meyers, another
employe, was probably fatally scalded......
Carl Maenert, a German, ommitte suicide
by shooting himself in the head with a pis-
toll, at Chicago, on Sunday. He left letters
stating that he was tired of life and the long
struggle with misfortune. His wife had been
sick for some months, and the shock so I'M
settled her reason that she became a raving
maniac. Three little children are left to
charity-....The final games in the Cleveland
Chess Congress were played on Friday, and
in the evening the distribution of prizes was
made, as follows First prize, 500, G.. n.
Mackenzie, New York; second prize, $50, II.
Elder, Detroit; fourth prize, $35, Mux Judd,
Cleveland; fifth prize, $50, P. Ware, Jr.,
Boston sixth prize, 800, II. D. Smith, Michi-
gan; seventh prize, $15, H. Harding, Michi-
gan".-..Tucson dispatches say the Apache
Mojave Indians, who murdered Loring and
party, near Wyckenburg, have fed from the
Date Creek Reservation to the mountains
1.-The Lower House of the Missouri Legis-
.lature, on Saturday, passed a concurrent
resolution, asking Congress to pass a law
granting full amnesty to all who had been
of the rights of citizens. Chris |
tan Hess, of Pekin, ILL.,, was killed on Fri
day by a runaway team.....The schooner
Hutchinson, from Alaska, arrived at San
Francisco, brings from Adaka Island three
shipwrecked Japanese seamen whose junk
drilled ashore, they having been disabled off
the coast of Japan, and drifted by the Japan |
csc Gulf Stream $500 miles in nine months, |
finally reaching there Twenty-three others
had starved on board. They will be sent
back to Japan by Consul Brooks.
Ar a meeting of the Chicago Common
Monday night, a committe of five
appointed to investigate numerous
cudrSeS against aldermen ana city OthclalS
Of bargain and sale in the matter of appoint
nents to Office, the award for city printing,
&c..-.The swansea Smelling and Refining
Work at Chicago were destroyed by fire on
Monday night. Loss, SIS 1000; insurance,
BIZ, Northumberland Garvey, a farmer living
near Bloomington, Ill, was run over and
killed at the depot of the Chicago and Alton
road, in that city, on Saturday night.
The smallpox is raging fearfully at George
O.. Business of every description is
entirely suspended. Schools in and
around town ave closed, and people from
'he country will not venture inside the cor
ooration.....Gregor Peri has been sentenced
20 imprisonment for life for the murder of
Michael Ready, at ~Chicago......A colored boy
named Frank Roberts was arrested in Indi-
annapolis on Saturday night While attempting
20 set fire to the Metropolitan theatre.....A
lady of Monroeville, Ind, who knows
now to guage the means of newspaper men,
has brought a breach of promise suit against
1ne of the editors of a Fort Wayne journal
or $11.75"-..Fernando Styre, a farmer of
Blue Mounds, Wis, committed suicide on
Monday last, by hanging himself in his
BARN. Temporary insanity was the cause of
he act.-"..The peat marsh near O~watonna,
Mimi, which took fire Oct. 6, is still burning.
The South.