Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

AhO LoONS
PETER o'KEEFE murdered Peter Kinny, in
South Boston, Mass, Wednesday night.
They were brothers-in-law, and partners in
the liquor business. o'Keefe was arrested.
......Gov. Hoffman, of New York, has signed
the Jury bill which allows newspaper-read-
ing1people to sit on a jury.
NIBLo's Theatre, New York, was burned
on Monday, with a loss of $40O 900 on it and
surrounding buildings. While the fire was
in progress an explosion of gas occurred in
the theatre, severely iniuring Captain Cler-
ichy, of the Fourteenth Police Precinct, and
nearly sufocating four fremen.
WILLIAM WEED, alias Buck, confined in
the Easton (Pa.) penitentiary, Tuesday
morning killed his roommate, Michael
Trimbur, by striking him on the head with
an iron plate.
THE Democratic National Executive Com
mittee met in New York, Wednesday after
noon, at the residence of August Belmont.
Eight States were represented California,
Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
North Carolina, Oregon, and Wisconsin.
Baltimore was selected as the place, and the
9th of July as the time, for holding the
National Democratic Convention.....Judge
Pierrepont declines to undertake the defense
of Stokes in place of Graham.....James
Smith shot Eliza Brown fatally in a Green
street New York; bagnio Wednesday, and
was arrested.
THE warehouse of Samuel L. Tompkins,
No. II West street, New York, filed with
cotton, was destroyed by fire on Thursday.
About $50 bales of cotton were burned. Loss
on building and contents $122, VIM.
Taggart, of Paterson, N. j., committed sui
eide Wednesday, by leaping into the Pas
sale falls. He is supposed to have been in
ssne".-.Fires in Ocean county, New Jersey,
last week, burned over IS 900 acres of tim
Der. The loss is estimated in Egg Harbor
township at 5000 900. Several farm-houses,
barns, and sawmills were destroyed......
Thursday morning at Verona, Pa, on the
Allegheny Valley railroad, eleven cars
loaded with oil took fire and were entirely
corner of Wall and Broad streets, New
York, were in course of demolition Thurs
day evening, work being done by night to
hasten it, a portion of the wall gave way,
burning Thomas johnson, Martin Cox, and
Daniel Leary in the ruins. All were badly
injured. johnson will probably die.
The West.
A DISPATCH from Omaha, dated May 3,
says: +" party of Indians, supposed to be
Cheyennes, attacked q mail escort from this
post, at Labonti creek, twenty miles west of
Fort Laramie, on Wednesday,, killing the
Sergeant in command. The party returned
to Fort Laramie with the During
the prevalence of a heavy wind storm at
Delphos, O., Friday afternoon, fire broke out
in the drug store of Schenck & Lang. About
nifty buildings were entirely destroyed es-
timated loss $250, 000.-..H. c.. Reid il Co.'s
machine works and foundry, and John
Clements dwelling house, were destroyed
by IRE at Warren. O., Friday morning.
Loss upward of 5o,0oO-.--About noon
Friday, fire broke out in the basement of
Chaplin Hall House, Hudson, Wis, burning
between ten and fifteen buildings. The to-
tai losses will foot up about $I25,O00......
An old man named Connolly was burned to
death.
A FIRE at Cleveland, O., Saturday even
ing, destroyed a large portion of the Stand
ard Oil ~Company's works. About 40, 900
barrels of distilled and refined oils were
burned.....The Meridian Street National
Bank at Indianapolis, Ind, was mysteri-
ously robbed on Saturday, during bank
hours, of about SIS, 000......From April "a,
the time the convention news began to be
transmitted, to the night of May s, the to.
tai special and regular reports transmitted
from Cincinnati by the Western Union
Telegraph were 81 ,541 words.....A man
named George Wright was shot by Lizzie
Gardner in a house of ill-fame in Detroit,
Mich, 8 aturday night.
A DISPATCH from Detroit, Mich, gives the
particulars of a disaster which befell the
Leland Iron Furnace, situated at Leland, in
the Grand Traverse region, on May l.. 1t
seems that from some cause or other an ex-
ploslon took place, which set the furnace on
fire, and it was totally destroyed......The
loss IS estimated at about 500 900. Some
workmen in the furnace were seriously in
jured-.-.on Friday night, ten frame dwell
ing houEss, "A stone store and dwelling, a
church and many barns and other out
houses were burned at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Over a hundred persons were rendered
homeless. Five horses persisted in the
flames. fetal loss, 10000.
OK Tuesday, about two miles east of Ross
Station, Mich, a man named P. Reynolds
murdered his wife and tried to kill his step
son. The boy was cut and bruised badly,
and is not expected to live. Reynolds after
ward committed suicide with a razor.....Ar-
izona dispatches say the Apaches are swarm
ing about Prescott. B. White was murdered
in Williamson's Valley. The Indians at
tackled Aqua Frai Station, and killed G. W.
Smith and Joseph Alderman, both we'll
known citizens of Prescott, and captured
all the stock. The bodies of the murdered
men were stripped and disfgured. The
station has been abandoned. The body of
osborne p. Clarke, from Texas, was found
one mile north of Mint Valley, shot in the
head and breast. J. Gallagher was seriously
wounded by the Indians at Beaver Creek.
1.-The Marvin House and a large livery
stable at Sedalia, Me-, were burned yester-
day. Loss from $4,000 to $40, 200.
GEORGE TATEHAM, a one-armed gambler,
was shot in the body by Charles Chamber
lain, a fellow of the same KINNEY, at about
2 O'Clock on Wednesday afternoon, on State
street, Chicago--..A fire at Grand Rapids,
Mich, Wednesday morning, destroyed
Squire's Opera House building and an ad-
joining mill, with their contents. The total
loss is about $4,000.
IRA REID, of Salt Lake, Utah, was struck
by lightning on Thursday evening while
standing in the door of his dwelling, and in
stantly killed--..On Thursday morning, a
young man about 81, named Lewis NJ.
Leyden, an employee in the wooden mills at
New Albany, Ind, got his left arm caught
between a loose belt and a revolving shaft,
and his arm was torn from the shoulder,
making a sickening spectacle. He will
probably not recover.
The South.
OK Saturday last the body of a man was
found near Lagrange, Tenn, with his throat
cut from ear to ear. From papers found on
him it is supposed that his name was A. F.
Still, of Natick, Mass.
A SPECIAL from Richmond, Va, dated |
May 2, states that nothing has been heard