Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-12-14
NEWS SUMMARY.


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A COMMON kitchen boiler, in a dwelling in
Paterson, N. j., exploded on Thursday night,
demolishing the kitchen and basement, and
partially demolishing the walls on one side
of the house. No lives were lost...... Owing
to the prevalence of the smallpox in Easton,
Pa, the students of Lafayette College gave |
themselves a vacation for three months quite
regardless of the protests of the faculty..
Five hundred more vessels passed through
the Welland Canal this season than during
any previous one.-...At New York, on Satur-
day, Henry Beckett, in a quarrel with Baker,
a conductor, was flung from a street car, and
had his leg broken by another car coming in
an OPT osite direction. Both conductors were
arrested.
A FIRE in Brooklyn, N. Y, on Wednesday
morning, rendered IL families homeless and
caused a damage of about $50 1000.
A sPArc from Scranton, Pa, states that
the miners wages have been reduced eight
cents per ton, and that steps are going on
for a strike.
Four hundred and fifty canal boats are
still frozen on the Hudson river and the
Erie canal. Some few boats, it is thought,
may be able to force their way through, but
by far the greater number, with cargoes
valued at $4,000 200, will have to remain ice
bound during the entire winter......F From
Investigations into the Brooklyn election
frauds, it appears that five hundred votes
were inserted in the returns of one district
before the polls were really opened.
The West.
MAJOR UPHAM, commanding at Fort Scott,
Scott, Kansas, has received orders from the
War Department to remove all white set
tiers from the Usage reservation. There are
about 500 families, embracing $500 people
on these lands.......G Governor Campbell, of
Wyoming, has vetoed the bill passed by the
Territorial Legislature, repeating the Wo-
man Suffrage ACTION Tuesday, Daniel
Ballard, a farmer, residing near Monroe
ville,~ Ind, was shot and almost instantly
killed by a posse of three men, one named
John Kline, and it is believed the other two
were brothers named Brinkner. The former
was arrested.
THE building of the London Wooden Com
pany, in Cincinnati, was totally destroyed
by fire on Wednesday. Loss, $50, 900; in
s~urance, $4,000.
THERE were two severe shocks by an earth
quake on the night of the 5th at Cedar City,
Utah Territory. On the morning of the 9Th
another shock occurred.
The brass foundry of Ben. F. Simon at
New Albany, Ind, was destroyed by fire on
Thursday. Loss, $4,000; no ins~urance......
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Legislature passed, by a decided vote, Mr..
Phelps bill giving the General Government
power to purchase and condemn lands. 1t
will undoubtedly pass the Senate. 80.
temporary winter bridge across the Mis-
souri,, at Omaha, is now completed. vii
r-I-- The South. te
Col. JOHN D. AsHMoRE, a former member of
Congress from the Abbeville district of
South Carolina, blew out his brains with a
pistol, at a hotel in Sardis, Miss, on Wednes-
day morning. He had been planting there
since the war. Pecuniary troubles were the
cause......The spotted fever has appeared at
Nashville and other points in the South.
UNITED, STATES MARSHAL A. j. HARR1Ne-
TON, in C~ovington, KY, Friday evening,
shot at, with a navy revolver, but missed,
William Surrell, a colored porter on a sleep
ing-car, on the eleven o'clock train of the
Louisville Short-Line railway. surren had
told Harrington that he could not engage a
sleeping berth on the. car until the report of
berths engaged came from the Office, which
would be an hour later. This seems to have
SO enraged Harrington as to cause him to
shoot. He was arrested and gave BAIL.
The steamer Fanny Brandels, which left
Memphis Thursday night for Cairo, with
twoh hundred bales of cotton and a few pas-
sengers, struck a snag near the head of Island
Forty, and sunk to her boiler deck. The
boat and cargo will prove a total loss. No
lives were lost...-..On Wednesday, Mrs. W.
Il. Roberts, who resides on the Lexington
turnpike between Walton and Crittenden,
Ky, fell from a chair near the fire. Her
clothes caught in flames and she was so
burned as to die soon afterward. She had
been p~aralytic.
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WALLS Opera House, at Washington, was
burned on Wednesday morning. The loss is
$50 1000; insured......A defective Aue in the
CO nsular-room of the State Department
building, at Washington, on Tuesday even
in caused a fire to obtain some Roadway in
theh flooring, but it was extinguished without
serious damage.
JOHNSON, the ~defaulting Treasury clerk
was arrested Friday night and committed to
Jail in default of $4,000 bail b Wo-
mans Suffrage Convention, (admission rs
cents) met on the 9Th. Mr.. and Mrs. Lucy
Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and other assoei-
ates have charge. The Convention has de-
clded to confne its proposed action by re-
guessing Congress to grant suffrage in the
District of Columbia and Territories.....The
expenses of the Joint High Commission were
$lS,000.-...A postal convention has been
concluded with Ecuador, going into effect
cents per half ounce. Also, one between
the United States and Denmark, the rate for
prepaid letters being fixed at seven cents
per half ounce; unpaid four cents additional
III oC4INcTy. Inc laGG6r treaty takes effect
January LIST.
Foreign.
A LONDON dispatch says: President
Grants message is favorably received. The
papers generally express satisfaction with
the spirit in which he deals with the rsla-
tions between the two nations, and the
opinion is almost unanimous that the condi-
ton of the country was never more fatter-
Ingly exhibited: 1.-THE solicitor of Kelly,
who was acquitted of the murder of High
Constable Talbot at Dublin, but still awaits
trial On a lesser charge, intends to COM
mence criminal proceedings against six
London journals for the publication of libel
GUS articles against his client......In the re-
cent suit in London, of the United States
against the Blakely Arms Company, a decree
has been rendered ordering all the proceeds
of the sale of war material belonging to the
rebel States to be paid to the American Con- |
sui, for the United States Government.
The appointment of Jules Ferry as Minister
to the United States from France has been |
promulgated--..The scarlet and black fever