Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-11-21
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The West.

WHIIE the horse plague has spent its force
in the East, and has almost wholly disap.
peared in many localities, it is Just beginning
to make itself felt in the West, In Cbicao on
the disease is rapidly abating, horses are an
pearing on the streets in large numbers, the
stage and street-car companies are resuming
travel, and the streets are beginning to as
sumo their wonted business appearance.
Less than 200 deaths have occurred in that
city since the distemper first broke out.
Milwaukee Is suffering seriously from the
prevalence of the plague, a majority of the
equInes being sick. Cincinnati is terribly
afflicted with it, street traffic being almost
wholly suspended. In many of the interior
cities and towns of Illinois the epidemic has
made It's appearance, and is even spreading
In the rural districts......Th Mayor of Chi
cage, IN view of the possibility of another
connagratlon in that city, and the insecure
condition of insurance, has urged the Com
mon Council to purchase fourteen large Bah
cock engines, and four of the portable engines
fer each police station, to order the construc-
tion OF q tower with an alarm bell, to add
20 or 100 policemen to the present force, and
to sink a well at the end Of each street run
ming to the river.
has been received at Wash
lngton to the effect that work on the North
ern Pacific railroad has been virtually abau-
doned, that the contractors had left, and
Inat the laborers and teams had returned
from the end of the track at Ross Lake.
Dakota, thus leaving 800 miles of the road
70 me missouri river unfinished. .....R. G.
Mccormick has been elected Delegate to
Congress from Arizona Territory Without
opposition.
AT Logansport, Ind, last week, Judge D.
ID. Dykeman shot and seriously wounded
Maj. Will G. Moreau, late sponsor to Mr..
o'Conor at the Louisville Convention, and
now ealtor OF the Logansport Sun. The
cause OF the shooting was an alleged malicious
q ticle published in the Sun against Judge
Dykeman, during his absence. Moreau. it
rs said, was expecting the attack, as two
COTS revoiVers were found on him, and he
had besides a coat of mail over his podv.
The shot will not prove atal....Th small
Pox is ragikg to en- alarming extent in ST.
Louis, the deaths averaging, it is said, from
cnlrty to forty a day. The disease is con-
nned to no particular class or locality. and
has appeared in many aristocratic onarta-s
Ihere Is not a first or s~econd-class hotel in
the city that has not had cases. and MANY |
them are full of it; IL cases are reported
IN one hotei"....The Southern Minnesota
abroad mas been forced into bankruptcy, |
ano a receiver appointed ..... The e~pizootic |
mas almost entirely disappeared from Chica-
go, the street cars and omnibuses are nm
nlng, ana the city is as lively with equines
ever the streets exhibiting as great a
number of horse-drawn vehicles as at anv
time before the appearance of the disease
Clnclnnat and Milwaukee report that thew
AVE 1t BAD nearly all their equines being
prostrated. In the former city, at a fire the
other day, the engines were drawn by men.
milwaukee, the fire department has pur-
;nased Six yoke of oxen....The Institute of
archltects, IN session at Cincinnati last week,
severely condemned the Mansard roofs, and
lttrlouted the spread of the Boston FIRE to
hese tinder-boxes.
CLEVELAND, Nov. 1O.-The epizootic seems
have reached its crisis. A few street cars
in the street to-day, and more will
ONE out tomorrow. The principal remedy
lsed in the street-car stables is Fur 4nson's
wonderful oil, which seems to check the
disease. Horses throughout the city are now
asst recovering.
The South.
The Maryland Penitentiary, at Baltimore,
as been damaged by fire to the extent of {
$1,000. :
TEE second trial of Mrs. Wharton for poi !