Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-11-16
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

dead on Monday night. Cause, whisky.
The murderer was arrested TT office of
the Hoboken Leader was Quilted Tuesday
morning by unknown parties. 1t is be-
to nave been done at the instance of
a rival Democratic faction. Charles E.
Woolsey, a school-teacher in Christiana vii
lage, Del, was killed on Monday by Stephen
H. Cashier, a Justice of the Peace. Cashier
surrendered to the authorities.
DE1rHAM & Franks piano factory, New
York, was burned Wednesday morning.
While a number of fremen were engaged on
side of the building, in putting up ladders
to carry hose, the roof fell il, causing the
side walls to fall over, burying eleven fire.
men in the ruins. Other fremen and the
police went Immediately to work to clear
away the ruins, and finally rescued them
alive, although two are believed to be fatally
injured Frank Winslow, of the Boston
journal, while stepping from a car at New
ton, on Tuesday evening, was struck by an
other train, and instantly killed......Th
fishing schooner Fitz E. Riggs, of Gloucester,
has been lost, with all hands, on the Grand
Banks.
THE GOODNESS of the weather at this time
of year is unprecedented in Eastern Maine.
The boys are skating upon the ponds in the
vicinity of Belfast......The Trivolean Hotel
and the Railroad House, two of the largest
hotels on Coney Island, near New York,
were destroyed by fire on Tuesday night.
Postmaster at Luzerne, Penn, was lately
sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the
penitentiary, for opening letters and for
forging pension vouchers. 7. Won Kenney,
for attempting to pass counterfeit money,
went five years to the same institution.
SPARKS from a locomotive, on Thursday,
started a fire in Westchester county, New
York, burning six acres of woodland.
The West.
In the municipal election at Chicago, on
the 18th inst, the " fire-proof" ticket, headed
by Medill, of the Tribune, for Mayor, was
elected by 10000 majority.....Robe Bril-
bach, a butcher at Cairo, Ill, was fatally
stabbed, on Monday night, in a saloon, by
Edword Moses, a young man said to be from.
Chicago, and died in half an hour......A
negro went to the house of Mrs. Bass, living
near Windsor, Henry county, Missouri, on
She refused to give it to him, whereupon he
ohoked her till nearly insensible, and at
tempted to outrage her person. The negro
was arrested on Monday near Clinton, taken
to Windsor, and hung by a mob.....Ex-Gov.
Mccormick, of Arizona, in an interview
relative to indian affairs, repeats that the
Indians there continue to be treacherous,
and as long as they are fed on reservations
will continue to be sources of great trouble.
He advocates the presence of a good force of
troops, who can be ready for aggressive
movements, and for the prompt punishment
of infractions of the law, as the only means
of securing peace with them.....The wife of
Joaquin Miller has Just published a lengthy
letter in the OregoniGn, asking her fellow
citizens to welcome him as a poet and man
of genius, but giving her version of their
difficulties, and implying severe censure for
his abandonment and neglect of his wife
and children""..On Monday, as laborers
were at work cutting a new road through
the hill and hollow known as Hang Hollow,
near Council Bluffs, they excavated a sack
containing S12,0 900 in gold and silver. The
money was hidden there eighteen years ago
by a man named Muir, who murdered a
comrade, a Californian. Muir was captured
and hung by a mob of Californians. He
said he had hid his money under a stump in
this hollow, but refused to tell where.
Many have hunted for this secreted treasure,
but all in vain. The laborers shared the
booty equally.
AT Chicago, on Wednesday, while a pass
senger train of the Northwestern railway
was crossing the river, a tug boat ran into
the bridge, forcing it open, and throwing
the locomotive and tender into the river. A
young man named VIM. Lee, who was riding
on the locomotive, was drowned. By the
fortunate breaking of a coupling, the pass
enger cars, eight in number, were left on
YIN SAOohuy VIC preventing 2IcdD IOSS
of life. The captain of the boat was arrest
ed, and a thorough Investigation will be had.
......A letter from Knobmoster, Mo-, men
lions a singular physical phenomenon occur
ring there. 1t says a continual rain has de-
scended for two weeks from a cloudless sky,
and confined to a space of only twenty miles
in diameter. The phenomenon has been
observed by many persons, and the writer
asks for a scientific General
Schofeld will be placed by the Indian Bu-
rpan IN control of tho Indians IF Ariznpo
He is instructed to bring them all in upon
reservations, and keep them there. They
will be fully protected in all their rights
while on the reservation. If they leave to
go upon the war-path they will be punished.
Mr.. N. Molter, of Adeline, Ogle county,
Illinois, blew out the gas in his room at the
Southern Hotel, on Tuesday night, and, as
a consequence, was found dead in his bed
the next day"...Philip and Daniel Jones,
and a man named Wright, have been ar
rested by United States Marshal Patrick, for
the murder of Bennett, whose body was
recently found near Salt Lake City, and who
was reported to have been killed while in
the act of stealing horses. 1t is said now,
and generally believed, that Bennett was
shot in cold blood ,on account of a woman......
The weather is reported extremely severe in
some of the mining districts of Utah. In
the Big Cottonwood, on Wednesday, the snow
was two feet deep on a level, with fearful
drifts. AS high as $50 was offered to carry
sixty pounds of provisions up the canyon,
but no teamsters could be found to attempt
the passage. 1t is feared the miners will
suffer for want of food......Gov. Fairchild, of
Wisconsin,, announces that the sufferers by
the fires in that State have been abundantly
supplied, and that no further contributions
are needed.
On the morning of the 9th, the Bank of
Geneva, at Geneva Lake, Wis, was entered
by burglars and robbed of about twenty
thousand dollars. 1t is supposed that two
men were engaged in the robbery, but they
escaped......The~g government proposes to pur-
chase the entire block upon which the post
office at Chicago was located, and erect a
building large enough for all the govern
ment offices. The cost, including the ground,
will be from $4,000, 900 to SIS, 000, 700.
The South.
A panic occurred in q colored
church at Louisville, KY, on the evening of
the 5th inst, caused by the partial giving
way of the floor. Eleven women and chill
dren were trampled to death, and many
others seriously injured.
The steamboat Wade Hampton sprung a
leak and sunk in the Mississippi river, near
Donaldsonville, Wednesday morning. The
steamer was valued at $6O,000......A party of
coon hunters near Inwood, Md, on Saturday
night, sat down on a railroad track and fell
asIeen- An exDress train rushed by, killing