Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


dice suddenly at New York, last week, of
heart disease.....The McNea Coal and Iron
Company, of Philadelphia, has gone into
bankruptcy. Tho liabilities are over
81 ,000, 200.
ANOTHER explosion has occurred in the
Hoosac tunnel. One man killed and several
iDjured......Rev Benz. R. Hoyt, the oldest
Methodist minister in New England, died
recently at Salem, Mass----.Tho funeral of
Biehop Loguen, of the Methodist Church
(colored), at Syracuse, was largely attended.
ONE John o. Thompson, of New York, has
instituted suit against Gen. Franz Sigel for
the recovery of $4,000, alleged to be due for
writing up his (Sigel's) war ecord......P ater-
son, n. j., has been visited by a destructive
fire. The losses are variously estimated at
from $3.50 900 to $500, G00......In the intense
political Excitement incidental TO a hested
Presidential campaign, the wonderful move
ment of the oil producers of Pennsylvania
has in o measure lost much of the interest
and attention it would otherwise have been
fraught with. Almost every oil well in the
State has been stopped, and the cessation of
labor has been general throughout :he oil
districts. It is probably the greatestindus-
trial strike the world has ever seen. There
have been strikes of particular trades and in
limited localities, but tho strike of a large
and widely-extended community such as
this was never known.
CHIEF OF POLICE McWIBLIAMs and Detective
Doyle, of Jersey City, have been arrested
on a charge of collision with this bur
=~glarious gang who came so near robbing the
Jersey City National Bank a short time ago,
which would have resulted in a haul of 3d.
500, 90. 1t is said strong evidence of the
completely of these officials is in the hands
of the Prosecuting Attorncy"...The sport
ing fraternity were treated to another sur
prise the other day. Tho famous horse
Harry Bassett, the conqueror Of Lexington,
was beaten in a mile race over the
Jerome Park New York; course, by Mon
archist. The time of the winning horse was
5:343-.-..A nitro-glycerlne explosion oc-
CURED near Bayonne, N. j., the other day,
resulting in the instant death of two railroad
laborers, and the serious wounding of a
third.
DURING the progress of a Republican meet
ing in Brooklyn, N. Y, last week, the
speakers platform gave way, precipitating
the officers of the meeting to the ground,
and crushing a number of boys who hap
pencd TO be underneath it, two of whom
were killed outright, and several seriously
injured .--..A scamp named Henry Camp
bell has been sentenced by a New York jury
to one years Imprisonment, and to pay a
fine of $500, for mailing obscene publications.
--..A telegram from Annapolis, Nd, in
forms the world that " the colored cadet has
entered the Navel Academy, dined with the
m~idshipmen, and that there has been no
breach of discipline"
BREvET BRIG. GEN. HARTMAN BAcHE, Col
onel of Engineers, United States Army, died
in Philadelphia last week, aged rs.
The West.
The Indians in Utah have returned to
their reservations, and all is peaceful and
quiet..-..The foundry of Thomas Dunford,
in Alton, Ill, has Deen destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000.
INDIAN COMMISSIONER BRUNoT has effected q
treaty with the Shoshone tribe of Indians,
by which they cede to the United States
half a million acres of their reeer walton,
embracing the Sweetwater gold belt and
mining region, and a large extent of valu-
able farming and grazing land..-.Oliver E.
Dalton, of Evansville, Ind, was choked to
death, the other day, by q piece of meat
which lodged in his throat.-...The Cincin-
natl Exposition had over halfa million visi-
tors, and realized about 800, 900, which
leaves a small balance af.or paying all ex-
penees.
JOHN BARCLAY su ffered the extreme penalty
of the law, at Columbus, Ohio, last week
for the murder of Charles F. Garner, in
October, 1871. On the scaffold he confessed
his guilt, attributed it to whisky, and warned
all to beware of the intoxicating bowl .....
The San Francisco Supervisors have passed
the Colorado $1O,OOO,6OO subsidy bill over
the Mayors veto.
The recent defeat and rout of the Apache
Mohave Indians of Arizona, by Col Mason,
is said TO be the most important blow ever
dealt to the hostile Indians in that Territory.
-Four camps were simultaneously attacked
forty Indians killed, and many wounded and
captured. The rout was complete...... Work
on tho st. Paul (Minn.) Custom-a House has
haan anananHCd for the want of fnnHR-
A FRESH outbreak of the Arizona diamond
excitement has been produced at San Fran
cisco by the arrival there of a party with q
large quantity ofprecious stones, which they
claim to have brought from fields surveyed
by them. They say the location will be kept
secret until a Government patent is obtained.
......A bloody riot occurred in the streets of
Cincinnati, the night preceding the State
election, between The Greeley ward club who
were parading and a number of colored Re
publ ans. Upwards of q hundred shots
were fired, and a number of persons wound
ed, but none killed.
THE population of Chicago, according 10
the school census just taken, is 367, 1896, being
33,l26 more than the city contained at the
time of the great Ere of Oct. 9, 1871.
The South.
SERIOUS riot occurred at the polls in Ma
OoAJ L. oA fCSSAOh OdJI OSbWoeu HhlJe ana
black voters, resulting in the death of two
negroes and one white man, and the wound
ing of many others.
A PASSENGER train on the East Tennessee
and Virginia railroad recently fell through
a trestle near Green vile, Tenn. A brakeman
was killed, seven passengers seriously and
twenty slightly injured.
ADvIoEs from San Antnoio state that q
party of Texans recently followed a band of
Mexican cattle thieves across the Rio Grande
into Mexico, attacked and routed them at
Newtowp, and burned the Alcalde's house,
with him in it. Two Texans and a number
of Mexioans were killed.
SERIOUS trouble is unprecedented between
the authorities of Georgia and the United
States Marshals relative to the seizure of the
Alabama and Chattanooga railroad. Gov.
Smith has instructed Gen. Wofford, the Re
ceiver of the road, not to surrender it to the
Receiver appointed by the United States Su-
preme Court, and Wexford says he will tear
up every rail and burn every bridge be-
fore giving up the road.
FIFTY citizens of Pitt county, North
Carolina, were recently arrested by a Deputy
United States Marsha al and takaD bafora