Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-06-13

of the Flint and Pere Marquette Rail-
road Company.....John McLane, a Decatur,
Ind, broker, was shot and killed by a man
Zimmerman, on the 4th inst, for al
legged intimacy with the ~latter's wife.-..The
fourth trial of Mrs. Glenn, the alleged In
dianapolis murderess, was commenced at
county, Ind, on Monday, June 3.
.-...Andrew Bauer fell into a privy vault of
the st. Nicholas Hotel, at Pittsburgh, on
June 4, and was suffocated in the excrement.
Am unknown man was run over by a
train of cars at Bloomington, Ill, on June 4,
and literally torn to pieces..--.On June 4, an
unknown Swede was run over and killed by
a construction train at Moline, Il.-....The
m the railroads centeriny in
Chicago are on a strike for an increase of
NEWCASTLE, Ind, had a $25 200 fire on the
night of June 3.....Late advices from Da-
kota Territory state that the workmen on
the Northern Pacific railroad have no trou-
BILE whatever with the Indians, and the men
are all healthy and happy, with the work
rapidly progressing....The Oregon election
has resulted in the success of the Republican
ticket.
The South.
MISS ELIZABETH H. PATTERSON, of Louis
vile, has instituted a suit against the pro-
prietors of the United States Hotel, in that
city, for $4,000 for alleged SANDER. The
porter of the hotel told the proprietors he
saw men going into Miss Patterson's room
at unreasonable hours, and they refused to
allow her to remain in the house. She was
also discharged from a lucrative position on
account of these evil reports.....Accounts
of the freshet a few days ago, in Southwest
Missouri, say that whole farms were COM
pletely washed away, leaving nothing but
rock and gravel. Liv stock of all kinds
were drowned in large numbers, and hum
dreds of yards of tho Atlantic and Pacific
railroad track were swept from its bed into
adjacent fields. A wall of water Eve feet
high rolled down Spring river valley, leav-
ing only devastation and ruin ~behind......
John Branham, who murdered his wife at
Owenton, KY, by splitting her head open
with an axe, was taken from the Owen
county Jail, by a mob, on the night os the
30th ult., and hung to the limb of a tree.
GEORGE F. CLARK, attached. to Noyes' cir
Gus, in making an ascension in a balloon,
at Memphis, on tho 3Ist ult-, struck against
the jackson block, when the ropes support
ing the trapeze on which he was seated
parted, letting him fall to the ground, a
him in a horrible manner. Little or no
hopes of his recovery are entertained. His
parents reside at Columbus, o.
THE twentieth annual session of the In
ternational Typographical Union assembled
at Richmond on the Sd inst. Eighty-one
subordinate unions were represented, in
Guiding three from the British provinces.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, VIM. j. Hammond,
of New Orleans; Vice Presidents, E. G.
Crump, of Richmond, and Robert G. Streat-
er, of Deseret, Utah; Secretary and Treas
urer, John Collins, of Cincinnati Cores
ponding Secretary, R. A. Hamilton, of Phil
adelphia.....A. o. P. Nicholson, an old-time
politician of Tennessee, has just had his
political disabilities removed.
A FIRE in Pulaski, Tenn, on jun 5, de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property".."James
Parker was killed, and several others in
jured, by the explosion of a locomotive
boiler, at Sanderson, Fla, on he th inst.
Washington.
Born houses of Congress have reconsidered
their resolution to adjourn on June 3, and
extended the time to June 1O.....The Secre-
tary of the Treasury has directed the Assist
ant Treasurer at New York to withdraw
81, 900 of three per cents......It is an
nounced that the civil service regulations
respecting the appointment of clerks in the
departments are completed.....The United
States District Court at Washington has di-
rected the payment to three parties of the
proceeds of the sale of their property by the
government under the confiscation act. This
ruling accords with the Amnesty law......
h President, OIL Saturday, vetoed the bill
to pay DIR. Milton Best, of Kentucky, the
value of his house, destroyed by Union
troops during the war. This closes the door
against a large class of loyal claims pending
in Congress.
The latest advices from the capital leave
no hope for the success of the supplemental
article to the Washington Treaty......The
conference committee of the two houses of
Congress on the Tax bill have agreed to re-
port a consolidated tax on spirits of 20 cents,
and to fix the duty on tobacco at 20 cents.
......Ex-President ohnson has gone to Wash
ington, in response to q summons from the
House Military Committee, to testify with
reference to the missing Buell. ceurt-martial
records.
THE Presidents proclamation, just issued
in accordance with the amnesty act, dis
misses all penal prosecutions against those
is alleged, held Office in violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States .....Rumors that Sec
rotary Fish is about to resign are again rife
at the capital.
Foreign.
ADvIcEs from Spain to the 3Oth ult. repre-
sent that the excitement over S%errano's gen.
erous treatment of the insurgents in Biscay
is very great, and stormy scenes i n the
Cortes have served to intensity it. 1t is
probable that the Marshal, with other Min
listers who have accepted positions in the
new Cabinet, will resign-...An influential
meeting was held at the Mansion House,
London, on the night of the 3oth ult., at
which speeches were made giving express
sion of warm sympathy for the suffering
Israelites in Roumania. Resolves were
adopted invoking her Majesty's Government
to interpose for the protection of the perse-
cuted race in that country against the out
RACES of the populace.--..Chatau, the Com
munist who sat fire to the Tuileries, has
been tried at Paris, and sentenced to be shot.
THE race for the Oaks stakes took place
at the EPSON meeting, London, on Friday
last, and was won by Reine..-.six persons
were killed by the explosion of a powder
magazine, in Shropshire, England, on the
3Ist ult......Clara Louise Kellogg, the
American prima donna, sings in Bucking-
ham Palace on the goth of June.....The
weather throughout England is fair and
favorable for growing representatives.
from Spain state that the excitement which
was occasioned by Marshal Serrano's
ienient treatment Of the CarlIsts has sub
sided, and a better feeling prevails in the
G rites. 1t is now stated that Serrano will
assume the duties of President of the Coun-
cil......The London Lancet says that the
report of Bismark's serious illness is I'M