Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-01-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

The East.
JAMES H. HAckErT, the veteran actor,
died at his residence, at Jamaica, Long
Island, on Wednesday, aged 7s......The
steam frigate Chattanooga, lying in the
channel at League Island, Phiiadelphia,
sprung leak and sunk. 1t is supposed she
was cct through by the ice...... Charles R.
Burroughs was found dead by the Sheriff,
who went to serve an attachment him,
sitting in two chairs, in his house, at Pater-
son, N. J. He committed suicide by taking
poison on the 10th of December, the body re-
manning frozen stiff till found in his room on
r Wednesday.
THERE are ten more indictments against
J. D. Minor, who has just been acquitted of
counterfeiting, and it is the intention of the
Government to try him upon one of these at
an early day-....An explosion in the law
Office of James Nickerson, Saturday morn
ing, damaged the building to the extent of
$16,o0o..:...An elevator gave way at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York, on Saturday, and
four servants were seriously injured......Th The
oil refinery of Lambert, Ayers & Co., New
York, was burned on Friday; loss $25, ,000
The building occupied by William Ester, fur
inspector, was also damaged by fire to the
extent of $1S,000...... VIM. M. Tweed sent in
on Thursday last his resignation member
of the Board of Directors OF the Erie rail-
road. It was accepted, and Henry Sher-
wood, of Corning, N. Y, has been elected in
his stead ...... Fisk is reported to have secured
the suppression of his correspondence with
Helen Josephine Mansfield, and the discon-
tinuance of the suits, by the payment of
$50, ,OOO...... The new Hudson river bridge at
Albany is completed, and trains pass over it.
WIN. BRIGGS, newsboy, was killed at
Lynn, Mass, Saturday morning, while at
tempting to get a train in notion.
'tBenj Kusea, Mormon elder, is now in
Eastern Long Island arranging for a revival.
The people say they will appeal to the au-
thorities to prevent the meetings. Lively
times are anticipated.
MOB attempted to break into the Jail at
Rochester, N. Y, on Tuesday, where was
confined negro for an attempted outrage
upon a little girl. The police and military
resisted, and upon being assaulted with
stones and clubs, fired into the crowd, killing
two men, and wounding one man and boy.
.... VIM. II. Harris, mate of the schooner
Julia E. Carnage, killed one of the sailors
and mortally wounded two others in a quar-
rel, at New York, on Tuesday ..... Dennis
Mccarthy was kicked to death in New York
on Tuesday morning by three unknown
roughs, while peaceably going home......At
Albany, N. Y, on Monday, during a scufle,
boy named Michael Hefford, aged IA, shot
and instantly killed William Trunnell, aged
IS. Heford is in custody......At special
election in the Ninth Congressional District
of Massachusetts, on Tuesday, to choose a
successor to William B. Washburn, who re-
signed to become Governor of Massachusetts,,
Col. Alvah Crocker, of Fitchburg, was
chosen by very large majority, receiving
at least nine-tenths of all votes cast......The
ship Liverpool, from London, arrived at New
York on Tuesday, having on board Captain
of the ship Europa, from Glasgow for New
York, abandoned at sea on the Esd ult., sink
ing....On Monday, I. N. Hughes q Co.'s
drug store, at Williamsburg, Pa, was des-
troyed by fire, together with the adjoining
dwelling. Loss, SIC, 900; insurance, $1,000.
1.-THE American Ring Company's shop and
machinery in Waterbury, Conn, were dam
aged by fire on Monday night to the extent
at the oil works at Blissville, l.. l., on Tues
day night, owned by John B. Cozen. The
building was wrecked and the Offices and
stables adjoining burned. Loss probably
$4,000.
In the case of Charles H. Calender,
charged with receiving bribes from the
Ocean National Bank to make false returns,
the President and Cashier of the bank have
testified that the accused made a thorough
and searching examination into its affairs;
that his report was in accordance with that
examination, and that the SIS, 900 loan had
nothing whatever to do with either the
animation or report. CALENDARS friends
feel confident ofhis acquittal......T The frigate
Congress sailed from New York for Havana
on Wednesday, to remain until further Or
ders. 1t is said that other vessels are to go
to the Cuban coast, and their Commanders
are ordered to give special protection to
such Americans as have incurred the dis
pleasure of the Spanish volunteera......A
special from Wilkesbarre, Pa, states that
quicksand broke into a coal mine at New
port, a few days ago, but the miners were
! warned in season, and had just time to save
themselves. A mule team was buried, and
the slope of the mine is filled sixty feet in
width and depth. 1.-THE Philadelphia Led
ger says that the Susquehanna Canal has
been leased by the Reading Railroad for 999
years, with the intention of making Havre
0o,,4 I,
shipping, and supplying Baltimore and
Washington with cheap anthracite. A
man named Billings, his wife and another
woman, whose name is unknown, were
on Tuesday night There is no clue to the
perpetrators
The West.
The trial of 1O7 citizens and Indians for
killing Apacbes at Camp Grant developed
the facts that the Indians were not upon
their reservation, and, although fed by the
ties against settlers. A verdict of acquittal
is fully expected......San Francisco was vis-
tied by dreadful storm on Sunday night.
All the roads between San Francisco, San
Jose, and Sacramento are washed away in
various places. The town of Gilroy is flood
ed. Overfows are apprehended at San Jose
and Stockton. Steamboats, are the only
means of conveyance. There has not been
q STORM OF similar violence IN ten yearS.......
Three car loads of Japanese and Chinese
silks, valued at two million of dollars, and
one hundred and eighty tons of Chinese and
Japanese teas were lately forwarded over
land from San Francisco to New York.
WE1sBAD brewery, near Sugar Loaf, MINI.
was consumed by fire on Friday night. Fou,
workmen, who were sleeping in the brewery
were obliged to jump for their lives, losing
all their clothing and getting severely in
jured. Loss $15, 900; not insured The ex.
tensive planning mill of Evers Co., at st
Louis, was almost entirely destroyed by fire
on Saturday. Loss SOS, 900 !; insurance, $40,
. 000......Another tremendous storm has oc
CURED in the mining districts of Little anG
Big Cottonwood, Utah. A whole settlemen
is buried in the snow, and many lives ar
lost. Toe snow is from ten to fifty feet deep
On Saturday afternoon, at Detroit, Mich.
the drug establishment of Mr.. Stearns wa
totally destroyed by fire. Four persons wer
burned to death. Loss, $65 900; insurance
4O,OOO......A young man, name unknown
was struck by a locomotive at Cleves, Ohio
on Frinay, and died at Cincinnati that nigh
of his injuries Martin O'Bryan, labore1
run over by train and killed tw