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


own houses ..... Gov. Washburne and the
other newly elected State officers were inau
gurated at Madison on Tuesday ......G. d.
Alexis arrived at Chicago on Saturday, and
after an inspection OF the inevitable stock
yards, tunnels, telescope, ETC., left for Mil
waukee on Tuesday. The future programme
includes a visit to st. Louis, Kansas City,
Leavenworth and Omaha, and buffalo hunt
pastor of the Methodist Church at Dunton,
ILL.,, was killed and his WIFI severely injured
on Thursday evening, by being thrown from
a bridge at Elk Grove, falling a distance of
sixteen feet and strikin5 on the ice.
Mrs. LAURA FAIR, the murderess, died in
prison at San Francisco on the 30th ult. The
event created considerable excitement, and
minors were current that her death was in
duced by barbarous treatment during her
Incarceration. A passenger on the North
Monday, n',ar st. Charles, fell beneath the
wheels, and was instantly killed, his head
being completely severed. Cash and notes
amounting to $11 900 are said to have been
found on the person of the deceased, but his
name could not be ascertained......W W. Q.
Smith, an old and prominent citizen of Indi
annapolis, committed suicide on Wednesday
on account of business difficulties. He
hung himself with a BEDFORD, and to make
sure the lob, he soaked the cord before
using it. He leaves a wife and one child.
His property had been locked up by lawsuits
so that he could derive no income from it.
The South.
FURTHER advices from Sedalia, Mo-, con-
firm the previous accounts of the killing of
negroes in Saline county. 1t is said that
great excitement exists there; that the
negroes are panic stricken, and that efforts
are being made to suppress facts in the case.
.. The inquest on the body of Mrs. Lorner,
killed with hatch4t by her daughter-in-
-, loo Cat
day, revealed the probability that the muir
deress is deranged on the subject of crime,
from reading cheap novels and hashy litera-
ture of the day. Numerous such books and
proved that she had been in the habit of
poring over them necessarily.
OK Friday night a man named Browning,
accompanied by others, went to the house of
Geo. Duncan, a colored man, in Braeken
county, Kentucky, it is said, to whip the
latter or eject him from his house. Duncan
showed fight, and on the door being broken
down by his assailants, fred into the crowd,
killing Browning. Duncan was captured
and taken to Brockville Jail, and on Sunday
night a mob of disguised and armed men
old man named David Grove was mortally
wounded by his son-in-law, Joseph Musso,
on Saturday evening, at Memphis, Tenn.
Musso also shot his wife and mother-in-law,
caused by domestic infelicity...... The boiler
in the steam mill of Harrington Brothers, at
Baltimore, exploded on Saturday morning.
One of the Harrington brothers was killed,
and several persons were severely injured
The building is complete wreck......In the
United States Court at Columbus, S. c., on
Saturday, five Ku-Klux prisoners pleaded
guilty, and were sentenced to eighteen
months Imprisonment and $l00 fine.....Geo
P. Caron, Parish Judge of st. Johns parish,
Louisiana, committed suicide on Friday, at
Magnolia, Miss, in fit of temporary in
sanity. He was a native of Illinois.
A SPECIAL from San Antonio, Texas, says
Col. Sawyer and Capt Travis, just from the
frontier, report that ten men were killed by
Indians at Salt Creek on the 27th inst.....
On the goth inst. three citizens of San An
tonic, named Their, Wagner, and Borchus,
were murdered near Hillsboro. They were
drovers returning home from Kansas with
the proceeds of their sales......A fire at New
Orleans on Sunday night destroyed sixty
buildings. Loss estimated at $500, ,000; in
surance, 100000.
LITTLE girl of Z years, daughter of Will
liam David Cromwell, of Ohio county, KY,
was instantly killed by lightning in her
fathers house on Sunday. The electricity
came down the chimney. The flash struck
hair, and peeling the skin in crisps from
many places on the face, neck, chest and
lower limbs, leaving the flesh of blush,
livid color. A little dog lying at the girls
feet was killed by the same flash. The
mother and two other children were knocked
senseless by the shock. The mantel over the
fire was torn in splinters, but the
chimney was uninjured. the United
States Court at Columbia, s. c., on Wednes-
day, ten more prisoners from Spartansburg
pleaded guilty, and told the story of their
crimes in open court......A fire in Somerset,
Pulaski county, KY, last Sunday, burned
twelve of the best houses in the village, in
| Guiding the Court House. Loss $4,000.
Washington.
THE Chronicle announces that Mr.. Aker-
| mans successors will not be less Jealous
than Akerman in prosecuting the Ku-Klux,
| and that there will be no abatement of ener-
| gy the part of the Government in the
| matter......Copies of General Walkers re-
port on the ninth census, intended to pre-
| face the first or population volume of statis-
tics, have been mailed to many of the promi-
1 nent newspapers of the country. AS the re
ports of the census will be published in
| three large octave volumes, the Superinten-
dent recommends that compendium of the
1 census in octave form be authorized for
popular distribution.
| TREASURER SPINNER says he has no infor-
| nation of counterfeits of the ffty-dollar new
issue, as reported......N. R. Hawley, of Illi-
nois, has been appointed special agent Of the
Post Office Department..:...The Treasury
Department has decided to hereafter allow
| the use by steam vessels of all cork life
preservers adjustable to the body of person
by whomsoever manufactured, when suct
preservers are constructed as to meet tn,
requirements of the rules adopted by thu
Board of Supervising Inspectors......On Fri
day afternoon, Officer Doyle attempted t.
| arrest a Mrs. Shea in her house. She re
sisted and shot Doyle with pistol, the bal
taking effect in the mouth, from whicl
| wound he shortly after died.
THE residence of the Russian Ministe
was entered by burglars on Tuesday nigh
and robbed of a considerable amount of sill
| verware.....The Commissioner of Patent
has extended the patent of Henry Fisher, Q
Canton, o., for moving machines......Th
| Treasury Department has issued circula
allowing towing boats and steamboats,, use
, exclusively in transporting freight upon tn
| Mississippi and its tributaries, to carry
standard pressure upon their boilers of on
, hundred and fifty pounds to the squar
inch, instead of one hundred and ten pounds
the limit heretofore allowed......The Unite
States Patent Office has commenced tn
, publication of a weekly official gazett,
, which will embrace all the various m attel
, authori zed to be published by Section 20
the Patent'act of 1870, with the exception
, | specifications and drawings, which will cor
} tinue to be published in a separate form.