Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-01-04
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

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States Circuit Court, at New York, on Fri
day., delivered a decision in favor of the ex-
ecutors of of D.. W. Goodman, of Alabama,
against the New York Life Insurance Com
pany. TIL company refused to pay a policy
of $4,000 on the ground that several pay
ments of premium were due. The claimants
commended that the company, by withdraw
ing agencies from Alabama during the war,
prevented Goodman paying the premiums.
Judge Blatchford decreed for the claimants
with costs, the company to be credited for
the unpaid annual Fires on
the 22d: Whiting works of John Petit & Co.,
Philadelphia; loss $25 900. Residence of
Henry B. Kirk, at Morrisiana, N. Y; loss
$4,000, insured for $21 500. Squire Ledan's
house near Cincinnati, o., loss $1,000. J. N.
Hine & Co.'s and B. F. Sisson & Co.'s dry
goods stores at B~inghampton, N. Y; damage,
$4,000.....Two men were picked up on Fri
day night in a small boat between Washing
ton and Alexandria,, one frozen to death and
the other badly frozen, but alive.
THOMAS LAKKIE, a conductor on the Third
Avenue railroad, New York, was murdered
on Sunday night by Robert Halloran, a dis
charged driver, with a car-hook. Halloran
eseaPed::-.;on Saturday evening a purifying
pany's works, in New York, exploded with
a tremendous conclusion. The building was
demolished and the ruins took fire, but it
was fortunately extinguished before extend
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explosion shattered all the windows in the
vicinity. Only one person was at all Sc
riously injured. Loss about $50, OOO......
Leonard Copenhall and his wife, an aged
couple who had charge of the Holland
church at Paterson, N. j., were found dead
n their sleeping-room in the basement of
the church, on Sunday morning, asphyxiated
by escaping gas-....A wind storm at Pitts
eral houses, and blew down innumerable
signs, chimneys, etc. A boy named Thomas
Gazzan was struck by a flying timber and
instantly killed. Several other persons were
more or less injured. At Toledo, Ohio, the
telegraph lines were Frustrated, houses un-
rooted, and the spire of the First Baptist
Church blown down, crushing an adjoining
dwelling, but without injuring the inmates.
Many buildings in Buffalo, N. Y, were also
blown down or injured.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, on Monday, Charles
johnson, politician, was fatally shot by Rob-
ert Henry.--.On Christmas day a bloody
affray took place at East Arlington, VT, in a
drinking saloon. Farwell & Lawrence,
keepers of the saloon, shot five persons, two
of whom have died since, and two more are
mortally wounded....City Marshal Drury,
of Boston, was stabbed several times Christ
mas morning while q~uelling a disturbance.
He shot one of the rioters, wounding him
broker of Pittsburgh, Pa, shot himself on
the 18th in his Office. He had been unsuc-
cessful in stock speculations, which, it is
supposed, unsettled his mind.....At Buffalo,
on Tuesday, the Grand Duke Alexis, present.
ed Parepa Rosa with a valuable bracelet,
which he had brought from Russia, as a
token of the pleasure he enjoyed at the
opera en- Christmas...-.A terrible gale OF
wind on Saturday night carried off the
newly-erected steeple of the Methodist
church at Sharon springs, at Sharon Springs,
N. Y, and unroofed other buildings.
The New York Tribune says that Tweed
has either fled the country or skulks some
where, concealed from the Sheriff's officers
until new bondsmen come forward to save
him from imprisonment......The property OF
the New York Printing Company, seized by
the Sheriff on a suit brought by the Ocean
at public auction..--.The jury in the Minor
counterfeiting case at New York have
brought in a verdict of not guilty......A fire
occurred on Wednesday evening in the Har-
ward sugar refinery, East Cambridge, Mass:
owned by Nash, Spalding & Co. Loss, $780,
000."..The residence of G.. A. Woods, at
Wheatland, Pa, burned on Christmas. Two
servant girls were burned to death. Loss,
$4,000 insurance, SIS ,OO0..-.The Connec-
ticut Democratic State Convention will con-
vene at Hartford on Tuesday, Feb. 6.
The West.
RAILROAD accidents on Friday: A passen-
ger train was thrown down an ~embaukment
twenty feet high, near Burlington, Ind; the
conductor, engineer and fireman were killed
and a number of passengers injured. On
the Des Moines Valley railroad, near Sum-
NIT station, Iowa, a train was thrown from
the track, and a passenger car, the sleeping
and baggage cars, and one freight car were
burned; several passengers were injured.
but none fatally. A passenger train on the
Cincinnati and Indianapolis Junction rail-
road was thrown from the track near Nor
ristown, Ind, and the conductor and engi-
neer killed, and twelve or fifteen persons in.
Jured, some quite seriously, but none fatally.
all three instances.....A German named
Chas. Kotz was instantly killed on Friday
morning in the Michigan car works at De.
troit, by getting caught in a belt. His body
was horribly mangled....The Phoenix mill
n Lacon, Ill, burned on Friday morning
Loss, $4,000; insured for $11 ,OOO......OT
Friday the residence of Mrs. John Corby, a
st. Joseph, Mo-, was totally destroyed by
fire. The house was one of the finest in thu
city, and was worth SIS 700, while the losi
in furniture, carpets, etc., will make tn,
whole amount $40, 200. Beaver, Miller 4
Co.'s planning and flooring mill, and Creze
Co.'S chair factory, together with severa
barns and one dwelling house, were destroy
ed by fire at Fort Wayne, Ind, on Friday
Loss, $30,00O; insurance, So, DAME
D. Drisco1, an eminent criminal lawyer o
Chicago, died in~that city on Thursday.
Mrs. Mary 81. Buckley dropped dead at tn
door of a neighbours house in Chicago OIL
Friday. Heart disease was supposed to b
the cause.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred on the Bur
lington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota rail
road, on Saturday. The bridge over tn
Shell Rock river, at Rockford, gave wa,
while a passenger train was crossing, an,
the whole train went through, falling a dis
lance of twenty-five feet. James Judd, en-
gineer, Bartlett, brakeman, and Robel
White, fireman, were killed instantly
Nourse, the baggageman, had a leg broker
and five passengers were wounded .Josep,
Griffith, while attending the funeral of hi
wife, in Sacramento, last week, fell head a
the grave,o of heart disease.
FRED FAsLocK, an insane German, com
mitted suicide at Evansville, Ind, on tn
25th, by cutting his throat......The Soldier
Home at Knightstown, Ind., was burned o.
Tuesday morning. The inmates will
transferred to the Dayton, O., Soldiers
Home......Twelve buildings were burned i
Salina, Kansas, on Monday. Loss $4,000
insurance small.
OK Sunday evening, at Vinton, Iowa, Wa
sons block, containing three stores and
fine public hall, was destroyed by fire. Los
heavy"-.The residence of C. Ward, a