Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-01-25
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

Phoebe Ellen was capsized and dismasted off
the coast of Nova Scotia on the 9th inst.
cook was lost: b others dashed them
selves to the wreck, which on Monday struck
a ledge. Captain Dill was drowned in the
surf while attempting to get ashore. Three
of the crew when taken from the wreck were
frozen to death---.The mate and two men
were rescued. 800 Stokes was visited in prison
On Thursday by his father. The Interview
asted two hours and was very a~ffecting......
An Albany letter states that Tweed has no
titled his friends that he is not going to
claim his seat in the New York Senator.
The New York Yacht Club is making prepa-
rations for a cruise to Russia next summer,
by invitation of the Grand Duke.
THE Delaware and Lackawanna railway
has been indictedby the grand jury at Pater-
son, N. J., for killing a fireman and engineer
by collision of trains. Also for obstructing
the highways by allowing trains to remain at
railway erossings....Jas. Hunter, q liquor
dealer, fatally shot Mary Brown, his mis-
tress, at his store on Fulton street, Brooklyn.
Hunter was arrested. 1.-THE grand jury has
found an indictment against Stokes for will
full murder ...Alexsnder Delmar' paper,
tina City of Brooklyn, brings to light an al
legged extraordinary financial TRANSACTION
affecting the Liverpool, London, and Globe
Insurance Company. 1t charges that through
financial manipulation the managers have
pledged $Soo0,o00 of assets in trust to, secure
to themselves $3o0, 900 per annum forever in
violate, and that the former immense sum rs
falsely advertised among the company's as
sets. The article creates a sensation in East
ern Insurance circles. p
TAYLoR's oil refinery, at Wyoming, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning.
Loss, $50, 900; no insurance.....An unsuccess-
full attempt was made On Friday nil hit
to rob the Great Falls National
Bank at Boston....The amount of
dedication in the Rhode Island National
Bank is about 1920, 900. The amount recov-
erable may perhaps reach 100000 ....A
tenement house was partially burned in Bos-
ton on Sunday, and Mrs. Neelan, one of the
occupants, smothered to death. Nine others
were rendered insensible by smoke, but re-
covered""..A fire at New York on Sunday
morning destroyed two saw and planning
ouantity Of lumber. The principal losers
are: Phyph & Arffy, 2 10000; Patterson &
Co., SIS 900; VIM. F. Blodgett, $4,000; W.
tory Of c. NJ. Bailey, at Winthrop, Mass,
burned on Sunday. Loss $4,000.
PosrMAsrER SAITH N. JAMES, of Long
Island, set q trap on Wednesday night for
burglars, but forgetting the gun, went to
the Office for a package, and was shot, dying
the next morning.-..Joseph Il. Steele, a
negro, has been arrested at Jamaica, L. l.,
for partially roasting his wife on q red hot
stove. BY the burning of a dwelling at
BraQiOfQ, OQL.t on MOuQdyy hV0 lives were
last,-a woman named Tenier, her two chill
dren, a niece, and a man who boarded in
the house.....M Mrs. George Wood, wife of the
manager of the Museum, but better known
as Eliza Logan, once a famous actress, died
suddenly in New Yorkon Monday morning
of congestion of the heart. y
A2FTRE at Reading, Pa, on Monday, de-
molished nearly half a square on Fifth
street. The less is estimated at a quarter of
a million, with partial insuranee....The
crew of the Prussian bark B rtha have been
arrested at New York for refusing to do duty
unless they received spending money and
shore leave. They will await the requisition
of the Prussian Consu1a..A child of three
years and a new born infant, children of a
French Canadian named Belfort, were
burned to death earlylon Tuesday morning,
and their mother nearly smothered, by a fire
in the room they occupied in somerville,
Mass.
THE franklin statue was unveiled and
presented to the printers of New York on
"wednesday, in Printing House Square. The
statue was accepted by Pr sident Savage, of
the Typographical Society, who thanked
DeGroot, in behalf of the printers, for his
gift. Rev. DIR. Prime, Professor Morse, and
William Cullen Bryant also made addresses.
The presentation address in behalf OF De-
Groot was made by Horace Greeley-...The
New York Chamber of Commerce has sent a
memorial to Congress regarding the great
depression of the American shipping interest
engaged in foreign commerce, asking the in
.terposition of Congress for its relief, and for
such legislation as will enable American
builders of iron ships to compete with those
of Great Britain.
a The West.
TIE Pacific House at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
was partially destroyed by fire ON Thursday
night. Loss, $500 ! covered by insurance.
....A well-executed~ counterfeit 500 bill on
the Ohio National Bank of Cincinnati, is cir
culating in Cincinnati.....Three highway
robbers, named Peter Stoff, Olifson Tolifson,
and Andrew johnson, escaped from the JEFF
saving through the roof....The Lower
House of the Illinois Legislature on Thurs
day passed q stringent temperance bill by o
vote of Ie9 to As. The bill provides that no
person shall be granted a licerse to sell in
toxicating liquors without FIRST giving bonds
in the sum of $4,000 to pay all damages re-
sultirg from such sale that no liquor
shall be sold to minors or persons in the
habit of getting intoxicated; and that a wife
or child injured in person or property, or
means of support, by the intoxication of
husband or father, can recover damages from
the person furnishing the liquor....Both
branches of the Colorado Legislature have
passed, by an almost unanimous vote, q joint
memorial 70 congress aBklng an enaDlln8
act for q State Observation-Disclosures was at
Omaha on F~rdiay.....A camp has been es-
tablished near the Republican river as a
base of operations for the Grand Dukes
hunt Buffalo and other game are reported
plentiful in the vicinity, 1T is expected
that nearly $1,000 Indians will be collected.
TIE Nebraska Legislature has passed a
bill recalling the constitutional Convention.
This Convention framed one Constitution
and adjourned sine die. The Constitution
was rejected by the people, and it is not be-
lied that they can legally reconvene.....The
old Shippingsport bridge, over the Illinois
riverssouth of LaSalle, has been torn down
Geo. SCHUYLER, a jeweler of Detroit, COM
mitted suicide on Friday by shooting him
self in the head during q fit of arrangement
$500. Whittemore .Chadbourne, q prominent
citizen of Hudson, Ill, was lately run over
and killed atthat place by q runaway team
mfr. Glover, the United States District
Attorney, has been Instructed to take the
necessary proceedings for the condemnation
of the square on which the old Chicago post
Office stood, and offers for the sale of which
were recently resolved by the committee ap-
pointed by Secretary Boutwell,, and reported
as being altogether too exorbitant. This ac-
ton may be taken as settling the question of
the future location of the Government build
ings in that city. They will remain on the
old square
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