Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-04-18
OF THE WEEK.


kOAD SS@SO ~ IL
Rhode Island show a majority of 1,176 for
Padelford, Republican candidate for Cover
nor, and 14O majority for Cutler, Democratic,
for Lieutenant Governor. Some scattering
votes, not returned, may possibly throw the
election of Lieutenant Governor into the
Republican Legislature. The remainder of
the Republican State ticket has about 2,IOO
msjority....Stewart Barnes, a Waterman at
the Knickerbocker Company's ice stables,
in Philadelphia, was burned to death on
Thursday He went into his burning dwell
ing to save his boots, and was burned.
A SCRANTON, Pa, dispatch states that Ed
ward Sullivan was fatally and three others
seriously burned by an explosion of fire
damp inthe Pine Brook coal mine on Fri
day......Some 1000 French immigrants from
Alsace and Lorraine have arrived within a
week, all destined West, and all in apparently
good OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES D. Hunt, a
lumber merchant, committed suicide by
hanging, in Newark, N. J., on Sunday.
ANOTHER explosion of fre-damp occurred
on Monday morning in Pine Brook, Pa,
shaft, killing a laborer named Campbell
and seriously injuring Patrick O'Hara and
James Stone.--..Daniel D. Hunt, q promi-
nent Free Mason of Newark, N. j., hanged
himself on Sunday, owing to financial en-
barrassment.
Dr.. WeeDHULL, one OF the husbands of
Victoria c. Woodruff, died in New York on
Sunday night, from the effects of morphine
and whisky......A break has occurred IN the
Delaware and Hudson canal, two and one
half miles above lock No. 81, on the Never
sink. The break is fifty feet long and six
teen feet below the canal level. Tt is esti-
mated that it will take at least ten days to
repair the damages.
A TERRIBLE railroad accident occurred on
Wednesday morning on the New Jersey
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son for Hackensack, at 8 a. m, was passing
over the Saddle river bridge, two and a half
miles above Hackensack, when the struc-
ture suddenly gave way, hurting the train
into the water below. John R. Doremus,
brakeman, was instantly killed, the bag
gage-master, name unknown, had one OF
his legs broken, and a passenger was in
jured in a similar manner. David Blanveit,
conductor, was badly bruised about the
head, and is in q precarious condition.
Isaac Wortendy, Probate Judge of Bergen
county, was terribly injured. Twenty-Five
or thirty passengers were taken from the
wreck-in q more or less injured condition.
Had the water in the river been at the usual
depth, none of the passengers could have
eseaped.....Mullen, Parker Il Co.'s paper
mill at Carlisle, Pa, was destroyed by fire
on Wednesday morning. The fire was acct
dental. Loss $45 900 insured for $50, 600.
The Union Hotel, of Saratoga, was sold
at auction on Tuesday to an agent of A. T.
Stewart, for $685., o0O......Tw colonies from
Pennsylvania, numbering three hundred
families, left Allentown on Wednesday for
homes in Russell county. Kansas--..A fire
at Oil City, Pa, on Wednesday morning,
destroyed the Calf House, the Benn House,
Fishers large tank, the Model Refining
C~oDpany's tank, and a large school house.
The loss. is about $4,000. The fire engines
were burned, but others were sent from
Titusville and Franklin. The whole city
was in danger at one time, and a high wind
was prevailing.
The West.
GENERAL MERRILL BARLOW, a prominent
lawyer and politi clan, died at his residence,
in Cleveland, on Saturday morning, from
the effect of a paralytic stroke. Deceased
was Adjutant Gen eral of Ohio during the
war .....Davis & Rice's commission house,
s%argent's jewelry store, Biendorf's bakery,
brokers' shop and restaurant, in Omaha,
burned on Sunday. Loss probably about
SAC, 00o....Dr. Marvin and Samuel Boyd
have been found guilty of causing the
by causing abortion n. The former has been
sentenced to three and a half years, and
the latter to six months, in the Peniten-
tiary. ~
AT sandusky, O., on Monday, Mr.. j. B.
Merck, architect, aged about fifty years,
fell from a scaffold, striking on his head,
and inhicting injuries which caused his
death in about two hours.....On Monday
morning the depot building of the Louis
ville,New Albany and Chicago railroad, at
New Providence, Ind, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire, including the telegraph
operators and railroad books, railroad
tickets, Postofice books, etc. Loss 10000.
On the morning of April 6 a terrible tor
nado visited the vicinity of Newton, Jaspar
county, IHssunroofng barns, demolishing
houses and forests, and destroying life. The
house of one Ezra Mehaney was demolished,
and Mrs. Mehaney killed. This was eight
miles southwest of Newton. One mile far
Their it struck the house of James Reed, de-
molished it, killing Mr.. Pope, Miss Little,
and MI. Pope's father-in-law, and wounding
seven Others. Two miles further on its
devastation ceased.
D. WoosrER, surgeon of the United States
Marine Hospital at San Francisco, is sued
for $4,000 BY a patient for alleged malprac-
tice..-..Letters from lone Pine, Cal, say
that the whole of Ovens Valley has sunk
fourtee en- feet. Over seven thousand shocks
have occurred to date, and still continue,
but nosef ssufhcient force to do damage.
The South. IS
ROBERT CAMBRIDaE,a cadet at Nashville
University, a youth of fifteen years, While
hunting pigeons in the new theater-on
Thursday afternoon, fell from the upper
ceiling to the floor, some thirty-fve feet, and
was killed.
A D1sPATcH from Brownsville, Tenn, says
that a frightfuI tornado swept over that
town on Tuesday, blowing down many
dwellings and outhouses, and injuring a
number of persons, one-Mrs, Boston-fa-
tally. A cabin containing a dozen negroes
was turned over several times without hurt
ing anybody.....A Baltimore dispatch says
that enough is now known of the Huston
investigation, which the Methodist Episco-
pal Conference is secretly conducting, to
show that the charges against that reverend
gentleman, of his .eccentricities with lady
members of his congregation, are true.-
WILLIAM MARDIs, a farmer, aged 70, near
saloma, Taylor county, KY, was killed by
lightning on Monday. The bolt came
through the roof and passed down his body
from head to foot.....At Frankfort, KY, on
Monday, during the storm, lightning struck
the house of a man named Martin, killing
his child, and seriously injuring his wife.
Much damage was done in that vicinity by
the great rise in the streams, washing awaY
saw mills and bridges.
Warrington.
Mrs. SHEA, who has been on trial for sew
eral days, charged with the murder of a
poIjce officer who was shot nv bar wbiIa 1T