Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

BISHOP POTTER has not demonstrated
against Rev. Mr.. Tying occupying the pulpit
of Rev. Mr.. Cheney, of Chicago.-The brig
J.. L. Bowen, boarded at sea in distress by
the steamship Europa, arrived in New York
on the 9th inst. The mutineers were all ar
rested.-It is reported that Cyrus w. Field
has purchased one-third of the New YORK
Evening Mail for $50, 000.-Hon. John b.
Skinner, one of the most prominent lawyers
in Western New York, died at Buffalo on the
7th inst.-The new tariff for Western freight
from New York, recently adopted by the
leading railways, is fully rs per cent. higher
than that adopted in May
JUDGE LEWIS DENT was arrested in New
York on the sth, charged with the misap-
preparation of money.-Joe Coburn, the pu-
gilist, has been arrested for having in his
possession a stolen watch-chain.-The flu
neral of five young men who were drowned
at North Andover, Mass, took place on the
Sth.-The ship Illinois, from New York for
San Francisco, foundered at sea. The crew
were saved.-Dr. BENZ. F. Spar, who fig
ured in the late Blood Woodruff trial, died
of apoplexy, in New York, on the 9Th.
Hon. A. B.. VANDERPooL, the oldest surviv-
ing member of the Tammany Society, died
in New York, on the 9TH inst, aged SO years.
Edward Walls killed his wife, in New
York, on the 10th inst, by stabbing her four
tunes In the aDGOInen Win q pocket Rn1Ie.-
Three miners got into a difficulty at Pitts
burgh on the 9th inst, and before it was
ended, a miner named shot and
instantly killed a miner, named McLaugh-
lin.-A New York brokers' son has been ar
rested for ~swindling the Astor House, by
representing that he was an attache of the
Joint High Commission, and playing the
same game at the st. James Hotel, by repre-
senting that he was Motley's private secre-
tary. He ran up large bills at both houses.
The smallpox continues to increase in
New York, and in nearly all the adjacent
towns. The number of deaths from the
scourge have never been reported.
VIZ. H. MAGEE and John Nicely, who
pleaded guilty to the charge of bribery, at
Pittsburgh on the 10th inst, were SEN
fenced to the county work-house for a year
and to pay a fine of s., 900 each.-Dr. o. W.
Reid, an abortionist, was sentenced, at Phil
adelphia, on the 10th inst, to six years and
five months imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary.-Anne Toeten, of Brooklyn, obtained
a verdict for $22, 900 in the city court of New
York, on the 10th inst, against Phipp, Evans
& Co., brewers, of New York, for the loss of
her husband, who was killed in the brewery
of the defendants, by falling through a
hatchway.-The event of the day at New
York, en- the 10th inst, was the unwilling of
the statue of Prof. Morse, in Central Park.
1t is estimated that so, 900 people were within
20 rods of the speakers stand.-seven mem
beers of the New Haven Typographical Union
were arrested, on the 10th inst, for conspir-
ing against the Office of the Journal ana
Courier, under a statute law of the State
The parties arrested obtained bonds. Both
parties are determined to take the matter tC
the highest courts.-Hon. ]. S.. c. Knowlton
editor of the Worcester (Mass.) Palladium
and Sheriff of the county, died Saturday
morning.
The West.
GEN. T. J. RoDMAN, of the U. S. army, com.
mandant at the Government works at Rocl
Island, ILL.,, died at that place on the It'll
inst.-A corps of engineers are surveying
The Cedar Rapids, McGregor and Milwaukee
hailroad.-Three young men from Utah
nave discovered in Big Cottonwood Canor
the Lucretia Lode, which yields q product o
% ounces of pure silver to the ton, unalloyeC
with lead.-Rich discoveries are said to hav'
been recently made in Pine Valley, Wash
ington> county, Utah.-Mattie G.. Davies,
young woman living in Cincinnati, under
took to kindle a fire with coal oil, and wa
SO badly burned that she died.-A coal OF
explosion took place in Cleveland on the I'll
inst, resulting in the death af a man name,
Adam Kehr, and in the loss of $40, 900 wort
of property.-Al kinds of crops promis
well in Illinois this season.
A CAR containing $1I, O0O, 900 in specie, al
rived at Omaha recently on its way East.
was detained at that place on account Q
high water in the river.-Dispatches from
Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, report that tn
promise of crops in those States are yer
good.-Chrlstopher Gunderson, fNorwegia;
farmer, fell dead in Sioux City IN the st
inst.-Leavenworth, Kan, is excited over
proposed narrow gauge railroad from ths
place to Denver The chief object of tn
road is to secure an carry connection wit
the contemplated narrow guage road fror
Denver to Santa Feat Fort Sill, India
Territory, on the 2sth ult,, Gen. Sherma
arrested Santanta, Satauk, and Big Tree, IL
dian chiefs, who were among those who lie
the late raid into Texas. While the arrest
were being made Lone Wolf made a d.
monstration that almost resulted in a gene
raj fight. One Indian was killed, sewers
shots were fired, and the Indian camp
stampeded.
THE Missouri is the highest it has been ft
years in June and is still rising.-A lit
daughter of Robert Tempting was so badl
burned on the 9th inst, at Joliet, ILL.,, thi
she died. She was trying to light a fire wit
kerosene OLA young man in Chicago r
Gently shot at a cat on the top of a hous
and hit a young lady on the head, standi1
near a chamber window, causing a serior
wound.-During the month of May, the CT
cago steam fire engines travelled 524 mile
and on an average worked only two hou
and a half each.-It is reported that Ge
A. ~Batchelder, Secretary of Dakota Teri
tory, is unable to account for some SIS, 900 b
longing to the Territory.-A terrible lorna,
passed over Iowa City on the 9th inst, DOH
a great deal of damage. Buildings were u
rooted, blown down, and otherwise injure
and trees were uprooted and blown in
directions.
albert KELLEY, a lad of about II yea
died in Chicago on the 9th inst, from t
effects of a pistol shot, received from Rob
Douglas, a colored boy. Douglas is in Jail
There is already a great demand for harv
hands in Illinois.-P. II. Randall, a you
unmarried man, suicided at Appleton, w
on the 10th inst.-Wm. Fores, a lad of
was shot and instantly killed by his cous
at Geneseo, ILL, IN the 10th inst. Play
with a loaded gun caused the accident
train loaded with live hogs recently arriJ
in San Francisco from Iowa. They w
sold for Tic to SC per pound live weight
The Buckeye Club have determined to s
their race grounds to the Hamilton coun
Ohio, Agricultural Society for $s3 900,
the condition that the same may be used
racing.-A Bohemian named Watroos
suicided in Chicago Sunday afternoon,
account of a press of Dusiness.-A n
named Freeman Keyes, of Newbury, '
died at the Adams House, in Chicago,
Sunday, of paralysis.
The South.
THE colored Communists still held the
thorities of the District of Columbia at