Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-01-12
summary Of Late News.

TIE books of the German importing
house, at New York, seized for violation
of the custom laws, were released on
Thursday upon payment of a fine OF
/ $40, 900. u.
Thomas Kennedy was found Tuesday
! morning near No. 81 North Wells
| street, Chicago, with every evidence
that he had been murdered.
A woRKMAs at the Nashville depot
fell between the cars at Louisville, Fri.
day forenoon, and several loaded carr
passed over his body, severing it In
two and mangling it horribly.
THE distiIler5y of McCreery & Neider,
located in the suburbs of st. Louis,
was burned on Monday last, together
with large amount Of stock. Loss,
$50, 900; insured for $18, 900. ,faVS.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT, of tho New York
Supreme Court, Friday dismissed the
complaints against DR. Hodges, for
alleged negligence in not bestowing
care upon the wife of Mr.. Monroe.
Thomas Moss, alias English Tom,
charged with robbing the United States
Collector at Hamilton, Ohio, July Sd,
1869, of So, 600 worth of Internal Rev
enue stamps, arrived In st. Louis, and
left Thursday night for Ohio in charge
of an officer. ~ tr---- sea1 r4
THE celebrated case of Fredericka
Reikl, a girl of twenty-one, against
Robert Barnes, of Cincinnati, seventy
two years old, worth half q million, for
breach of promise and seduction, dam
ages $50, 600, was concluded at eleven
- al Il lao - oh in a
verdict for the defendant.
Hon. S. w. KELLOGG, member of
Congress from the Second District of
Connecticut, has commenced libel
suit against DIR. J. j. Jaques, of Water
bury, claiming $50, 600. Mr.. Kellogg
charges Jaques with the authorship of
various slanderous letters concerning
him, which have been published from
time TO time In different journals.
The condemned murderer Lawrence
Sullivan, who killed John O'Brien in
New York last june, is hopelessly in
sane in; the Tombs. Warden Slocum
has been compelled to place him in irons
Tombs physician, visited the district
attorney yesterday afternoon, and re-
quested that the condemned man
might be sent to the Lunatic Asylum.
Sullivan is not expected TO live until
the day fixed for his execution. =
WESLEY s. MEAD died in Poughkeep-
sic, N Y, Friday night. He celebrat-
ed the seventieth anniversary of his
birthday at the Morgan House two
weeks ago, on which occasion he gave
five thousand dollars to the Widows
Home in Cincinnati, making thirty
seven thousand dollars he has given
that institution in all. He las given
literally to the charitable institutions
of Poughkeepsie. He was well known
in the West, and also in business cir
cles in New York.
ABOUT 8 o'clock Wednesday night, as
a boy aged about nine years, named
VIM. Wolf, son of Mr.. s. Wolf, resid-
ing at 80 London Terrace, West Twenty
third street, New York, was returning
from private evening school in Ninth
avenue, and when in close proximity to
his own door, was seized about the neck
by some unknown person, while cloak
or shawl was thrown over his head to
prevent his giving an alarm. 1t was
not until he felt himself being rapidly
hurried in the direction of Ninth ave-
nue. that he fully realized his situation.
When about seven or eight doors from
his own residence, he gathered all his
strength, broke loose, and fed in the
direction of his fathers house. The
unknown party disappeared. From the
description furnished, it Is supposed
that what was apparently female, was,
in reality, man in feminine attire.
This is another of those bold attempts
at stealing children of wealthy and re-
spectacle citizens for the purpose of
securing the reward.