Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-03-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The En-st.

Il. blake, n oldest music
publisher in the United States, died at
Philadelphia recently, aged 95 years.
Experts have been appointed to ex-
anime into the affairs and accounts of
the Methodist Book Concern.
At Pittsburgh recently, Abram
Shatfer was sentenced to the P%eniten-
tiary for seven years for passing coun-
terfeit money.
In the case of the New Hamburg
railroad disaster, the Coroner's Jury
exonerated every one. The massacre
was purely accidental, and could not be
foreseen.
The bodies of "Doc" Simmons and
the strange engineer who was on the
engine with him, both victims of the
late Hudson River railroad disaster,
have been recovered.
George Clark, employed as a tele-
graph operator for the past eight years
by the Western Union Company, at No.
a Broadway, fell from a train near
west Point, Ga, recently, and was
killed.
Two men, one identified as John
Leonard, were found floating il the AL
Ieghany river at Natrona, Saturday.
They are the victims of the disaster at
Franklin some months ago, by which
quite a number of persons lost their
lives.
On the 23d, seven fremen on the
steamship Ismalia, at Pier 10, North
River, were suffocated by burning char
coal in a close room. Five are dead,
and the others were taken to the hospi-
tai. There is little hope of their recov-
cry. All were natives of Scotland.
"A New York dispatch says that
after frequent consultations between the
Archbishop and Father Farrell, the
troubles growing out of the latter's let
ter with reference to Italian unity have
been adjusted, and he has been restored
Internationally to the pastorship of st.
Joseph's Church.
The investigation of New York Gus
tom House affairs by the Committee of
which Senator PATTERSON is Chairman,
was brought to a close recently. Sena-
tor Patterson states that lcng-standing
abuses have been found in every direc-
ton in which inquiry has been insti-
tuted.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to purchase 100000 of bonds
each Wednesday during the month of
March, being $1,000 900 in all, and sell
$1,000,0o0 of gold on the first, third and
fifth Thursdays, and 100000 on the
second and fourth Thursdays in March,
100000 in all.
The boiler of Kern & Tillinghast's
establishment at Twilight Well, near
Parker's Landing, Pa, exploded at 4
o'clock, Sunday, instantly killing Charles
Tillinghast and John Trax, a pumper,
and severely scalding w. H. Kern.
Tillinghast's body was thrown two hum
dred feet down the hill. Portions of
the boiler were thrown two hundred
yards. The explosion was caused by a
too high pressure of steam.
A frightfuI accident occurred on the
23d, at the Brookfield coal bank in
Brookield township, O., owned by the
Westerman Iron Company and others.
Fifteen men were descending the slope
in two cars, and through the careless
ness of the a whose duty it was to
attach the chain, he failed to do so, and
the car with the men descended at q
fearful rate with nothing to check them.
A man named Redmond was killed, and
five others so badly injured that they
cannot recover. The rest, with the
exception of one, were more or less in
jured.
Great Salt Lake is to have a steam
ship. The craft is now being built.
She is to carry ore from the mines to
Corinne.
"A son of Mr.. Shepherd, residing at
Bellevue, Neb., was killed recently by
being struck in the neck by a base ball
while at play.
Three hundred and twenty-three
thousand four hundred and eighty-four
barrels of whisky were rectifed in the
First Ohio District in 1870.
james Sinclair, of Chippewa Falls,
Wis, jumped out of the second story of
a clearinghouse at st. Paul, recently.
and, striking upon his head, was killed
instantly. He wasin a delirium, caused
by drink.
"A severe storm prevailed through
out the Northwest on the night of the
23d, doing immense damage by moving
buildings, unroofing them, and causing
a sudden and serious rise of all creeks
and rivers.
"A Council Bluffs dispatch saws
Prince Metz Tisimi, Minister from ia
pan to the United States, accompanied
by about forty other japanese Princes,
passed through there recently, via the
Burlington road.
"A serious shooting affair occurred
recently, at the house of Mordecai
Kelly, about four miles west of Monroe.
Wis. A couple were married at KeI-
ly's house in the evening, and after they
had retired a party of youngsters, mostly
relatives of the bride, assembled to
chardyari them. Mr.. Kelly, hearing the
gun, snapped it at the crowd, when it
went off, instantly killing a brother of
the bride, named Carton, and seriously
wounding two others. Mr.. Kelly did
not discover what he had done till next
morning, as the boys carried away their
comrades. He came into town and
surrendered himself to the Sheriff, and
claims that he thought the gun was not
loaded, and only intended to frighten
the boys.
Gen. Magruder died at Galveston,
Texas, on Saturday, the 18th inst.
F. N. Weber, about As years of age,
went into the cemetery in st. Louis re-
Gently, and blew out his brains on the
grave of his recently buried wife.
The Mississippi river is now unob-
structed to st. Louis, the gorge above
having broken loose recent
ly. Boats have already commenced
running.
A party of $50 arrived at st. Louis,
recently, on their way to Council Grove,
Kansas, where they have in view the