Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-02-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

Al Hunters Point, L. l., on Wednesday,
three men were fatally burned by the ex-
plosion of an oil tank while they were
making repairs in the furnace:-..An italian
aged so years died of starvation in New
York on Monday, he being unable to obtain
aid from the authorities, to whom he had
applied......H. W. Tener, a Philadelphia
lawyer, has disappeared, leaving liabilities
to the amount o. SIS, 000..--.In the budget
presented to the Ontario Legislature by the
government are $500 reward for the ar
rest of the murderer of Mr.. Scott, and
$50 900 to promote immigration. The Leg
~islature has voted to adopt the use of the
English Emigration Society IS a part OF
the colonial emigration system.
TEE son and daughter of Mrs. Thomas,
aged 81 and IL, persisted in a fire in Scran-
ton, N. j., on saturday.....Porter and Thos.
Brixley, fashionable burglars, were arrested
in New York on Saturday with the imple-
ments of their profession. They offered
S., 900 each to the officer TO be released. They
have heretofore moved in aristocratic society.
......A clerk in the paymaster's office of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail
on Saturday right with SIC, 900 of the COM
pany's funds--..John Henry, a bartender,
was fatally shot on Saturday night in a lager
beer saloon in Now York by Charles Garvin,
who was arrested.
The oil-cloth factory of Potter, Son & Co.,
at Philadelphia, was totally destroyed by
fire on Sunday night. Loss $10O,OOO..-..A
scranton dispatch says that the Coroner's
Jury in the recent explosion in the Henry
mine, gave a verdict that the explosion re-
suited from a want of care in ventilation......
The City Council of Springfield, Mass, has
elected Miss s. j. Williams City PLY stefan.
THREE young sons of Mr.. Miller, of sha-
ro1, Mass, were drowned in that town on
Tuesday, by breaking through the ice......
h Government has commenced an action
to recover $22 900 deficit in the accounts of
A. M. Wood, late Internal Revenue Collector
of Brooklyn.....Judge Bedford, of New York,
has sentenced a g~arroter named McLsugh-
lin to twenty years. hard labor in the State
Prison......Charl Gleason and Daniel
D~ougherty, the Grafton, Mass, bank robbers,
have been sentenced respectively to fourteen
Prison.. Last Friday evening, at Puce
River, in the township of Madison, 16 miles
from Windsor, Ont, Wyett Stuart killed
Samuel Hamilton by striking him on the
tirely through the body. He afterward
smashed two ribs in with the axe. The
murderer and his brother, Green Stuart, are
in Sandwich jail, and will be tried in April
fer murder.
EL1pHALEr A. BULKLEY, President of the
Etna Life Insurance Company died at
Hartford, Conn.,, on the 18th inst......A ship
canal between Newark, N. J., and New
York, costing $12, 900 900, is Projected.
The Sanitary Inspector of New York reports
the death of 5 member of the Brown family
occasioned by the occupation of rooms en-
tirely INSTRUCTED, the inhalation of poison
GUS sewer gas, from the use of defective
earthenware pipe, and want of proper nour-
ishment.
The West.
THE celebrated old Methodist divine, Rev.
Peter Cartwright, was stricken down with
paralysis on Monlay last, at his home in
Pleasant Plains, sangamon county, Ill, and
is now speechless and helpless. The attend
ing physicians say his death may occur any
moment. This venerable man is 81 years
old, and has been in the ministry IS years
THE Coroner's Jury sitting on the bodies
of the persons killed by the railroad acct
verdict that death was caused by the crimi-
nal negligence of Frederick Baker, con-
ductor of the freight train, as the principal,
and Patrick Halpin, engineer, as accessory
-..:.Quite a shock of earthquake was felt at
Cairo, Ill, on Wednesday morning, about
5 o'clock....Jesse Zimmerman, the aged
wife murderer, of Rockford, Ill, has been
sentenced by the Court to life imprison-
ment in the ~Penitentiary. 1t will be remem-
bered that he killed his wife with a scratch
awl several months ago.
TIE Diamond FIGURING Mill, at Youngs-
town, Ohio, owned by Noel Brown & Co., was
burned on Thursday morning. Loss $45, 600 ;
insured for $2o,OOO--.The stage between
Mineral Hill and Eureka, New, was robbed
on Thursday by two highwaymen......A To-
connective attached to the Winneconne, Wis,
freight train burst its boiler near Schwarz-
burg on Thursday morning, killing VIM.
Tel, brakeman, and Ransom, fireman, was
fatally scalded..-..A memorial to Congress
has passed the Kansas Legislature asking
money to build a Court House at Topeka,
and Postofice and Custom House at Leaven-
worth.
The Rockford, Rock Island and st. Louis
Railroad Company have offered a reward of
$500 for the apprehension of Frederick
Baker and Patrick Halpin, the conductor
and engineer of the freight train which col
lided with the passenger train, near Alton,
Priest, IA years of age, broke through the
ice on the lake at Milwaukee on Sunday
morning, and was drowned.
TEE snow blockade on the Union Pacific
still continues between Creston and Washa-
kie. There is much indignation among ner-
chants and business men that the road has
not before this made arrangements to run
the mails and passengers over the blockaded
division by the old stage road. If the rail-
road would pay, communication could be
kept open easily, and passengers sent round
the blockade without dificulty......A three
year cid daughter of Michael Gavan was
burned to death at Peoria, ILL.,, on Monday
morning. The mother locked the child in a
room while she was away from home, and
the little ene's clothes catching fire from
the stove, burned her to cinders before the
mother returned ......A new $500, 900 railroad
car shop is about to go into operation at La
porte, Ind.....A fire at Monticello, Iowa, on
Sunday morning, destroyed the steam plan
ing and Touring mill of Frost, Wood & Co.,
the foundry of D. W. Page, and two other
smaller buildings. Loss $40 900 insured for
TIE residence and barn of Mr.. julius
Hand, near Winona, Mimi, were burned
about 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning. Three
children lost their lives in the fames......
The steamer Nashville sunk at Cincinnati on
Tuesday, injured by the ice. She was heavily
loaded with groceries and furniture, valued
at STE, 000....Ryan's marine elevator, at
Milwaukee, Wis, was burned on Tuesday.
Loss $40, 900. Partially insured ...... Thomas
ConneI, who was to have been hung at Jeff
erson City, Mo-, on the 18th, has been re-
Prieved by Gov. Brown, until April Is, to
afford an opportunity to examine his mental
condition, it having been asserted that he
was insane.
MCDONALD CHEEK, recently found guilty of
the murder of Harris, at B~rookville, Ind,
has been granted a new trial On the ground
of the ncomDetencv of two iurore Ro+b