Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
r NEWS ITEMS.
The East.

Riverton, N. j., on the 26th.
"A movement is reported to be on
foot for the building of a new railroad
from New York to Chicago.
"A telegraph line, under the super
vision and worked especially by ladies,
has been established in New York city.
"A mar named Mason, was arrested
in New Haven, Ct, for repeated at
tempts at incest with his two daugh-
tiers.
Hon. VIM. McLeon, a prominent
ship owner and wealthy citizen of Maine,
died on the 2Sth inst, at Rockland,
Maine, aged 6S.
William A. Moore, theatrical man.
ager. and j. Timoney, an attache of
Wallack's theater, died at New York on
Tuesday.
The elevated railway in New York
was sold by the Sheriff on Saturday for
$2l4,405.93, the amount of Judgment
against the company.
The cattle plague has broken out
among large droves of cattle in West
chester county, N. Y. The disease in
variably terminates fatally. Conside-
rable alarm exists.
Avery D. Putnam, who was struck
on the head with a car hook, on a
New York street car, by a man named
Foster, is dead. Foster is under ar
rest.
Col. Joseph w. Scott, the oldest
members of the New Jersey bar, and
formerly Grand Master of the Masons of
that State, died at New Brunswick, on
the 29th inst, aged 90 years.
Patrick Foley was, on the 26th, SEN
fenced, in a New York court, to seven
teen years in the States Prison, for try
ing to break into a house, the Judge
probably believing that a prevention
was better than a cure.
Francis Southern, Constable of
. Camden, N. j., who led an attack upon
negro voters, at the polls there, last Mo-
vember, was sentenced at Trenton, on
the 26th, to six months imprisonment,
and to pay a fine of $500.
Fink, a notorious gambler, of
New York, for many years proprietor of
a famous Ann street den, recently
closed by the police, has just died.
He was under bonds for trial, and
aged 70.
Daniel Symonds, lately manager of
the Olympic Theater, New York, and
well known in the dramatic profession,
died Saturday at Joe Jefferson's resi-
dence, at Hohokus, NJ J.
An explosion of nitro-glycerine oc-
CURED at the Hoosac tunnel on the 22d
inst, killing four men-F. s.. Mason,
superintendent, William Dummy, Thomas
Ryecroft and Robert Roberts. William
F. Churchill escaped with a broken leg.
Gen. Doughty, the original protector
of the Camden and Amboy Railroad,
n its largest shareholder, has died at
Absecom. He was a Captain in the
army during the war of 1872; after.
ward Brigadier General in the militia,
and worth 100000 or $5,OOO,OO0.
"A dispatch from Boston, dated the
22d inst, says: Four fishing schooners
belonging to Gloucester were probably
lost with all hands in the gale of the I'd
inst. Two fishing vessels from the same
place were lost in February, which,
added to the presumed disasters in
April, gives a total of six vessels and SO
lives lost during the present session.
gee The West.
Charles Green, Sheriff of Pacific
county, w. T., was murdered for his
money, while out collecting, Saturday.
Col. VIM. johnson, of Rockford,
Ill, died very suddenly on Saturday
night, of asthma, at the American
House in st. Paul.
William Reynolds, of Indiana, an
employee of Captain Anderson of st.
Paul, was accidentally shot through the
heart by a comrade at Fort Buford on
April 2. si! /
"A man named Louis Ulrich, of Mil
waukee, Wis, vas poisoned on Saturday
morning. His wife and a man named
Shredder are under arrest for admins
tering the poison.
III. Vignon, a prominent sheep
raiser of Les Angeles county, w. T.,
was hot dead by one of his shearers in
an alteration, Saturday. The shearer
escaped, on horseback, to the noun
tains.
"A man named Charles Mckenzie
was brutally beaten near Milwaukee,
Wis, on Saturday, and left for dead by
the side of a railroad track. He was
found in an insensible condition, and
expired on Sunday at 3 p. m.
"A few days since, several children
belonging to the family of John Owen,
residing at Maple Creek, Waupaca
county, Wis, were poisoned by eating
wild parsneps. One of them died in foul
hours, and h others are seriously i'll.
An Englishman, named Peter Bates
eloped from st. Paul, Mimi, with q
seamstress named Sarah Goodman, leav-
ing a wife in destitute circumstances
The destination of the wa
given as Boston, but it is supposed they
are off for California. ~
Hon. Sharon Tyndale, once Secre,
tary of State of Illinois, was brutally
murdered near his residence at Spring
field, Ill, on Saturday morning, about
one o'clock. He was on his way from
his house to the depot, at which place
he was to have taken the train for st
Louis.
Mrs. A. Culver, of White Hill, Ill,
stood before a mirror in her room on
Saturday, and cut her throat with a
razor. She died in less than a minute
Temporary insanity, resulting from pro
tracted sickness, was the cause Of the
act.
"A man died at the Meinzer House
in Centralia, ILL, from the effects o.
morphine taken for the purpose of sui.
eide. His name appears on the hote.
register as Thomas WEIGH, although he
aftoPward wrote a+letter To the landlord