Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-05-09
NEWS OF THE e e
The East.

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conductor named Kock, after the latter fell,
~feigning death, though unhurt. Kent then
shot himself, inhictipg mortal wounds.
Family trouble were the VIM. c.
Clark, Attorney General for New Hamp-
shire, died at his residence in Manchester,
on Thursday night of congestion of the
lungs, aged 81.
A SHOCKING affair occurred in the town of
New Scotland, N. Y, this morning. A fam
lily consisting of Mr.. volmer, his wife and
1--WE children, Volmer's mother, and his wife's
step-father, occupied a two-story building,
which took fire. Volmer. his wife and one
child, who occupied the first floor, escaped,
but all the others persisted in the hames.....
Samuel. Windler, the brother of Mrs. Hyde,
who was jointly indicted with her for the
murder of Watson, as accessory before the
act, was brought to Brooklyn, N. Y, on Fri
day, and committed to Jail. He will prob
ably be tried with his sister in June.....The
derer, was concluded in New Haven, Conn,
on Friday. After an absence of fifty min
utes, the jury declared Mrs Sherman guilty
of murder in the second degree.
Or Saturday evening a fire occurred in
the building Nos. "a and rs Wooster street,
New York. Two tailors named John and
James McCherry were burned to death. Sew
eral persons had narrow escapes VIM,
Fordham leaped from the rear window into
the yard beneath. Fortunately he alighted
on the roof of the shed, and miraculously
escaped unhurt,a although he had. fallen q
distance of fifty feet. Loss about $40, 000......
A man named John Hallonan was shot by
the Mayors Marshal, James L. Burns, in a
gambling saloon in the Bowery, New York,
on Sunday morning Burns was arrested.
...-.Edward s. Stokes, the murderer of
James Fisk, Jr., has prepared q letter for
publication denying that he was in league
with Miss Mansfield to extort money from
Fisk. afn1sg EJA HitittEf
a Sauhegan Mills, in Milford, N. H,
night, with the dryhouse connected there
with. Loss 100000; insurance SIS, 900.
1.-THE fires on the mountainsS near King
ston, N. Y; continue. Fires are also raging
along the Rondout and oswego railroad,
and q considerable amount of eordwood and
railroad ties have been consumed. Every
thing is very dr., and b fire spreads with
great rapidity.-aA FIRE at Warren, Pa,
on MondeY afternoon, destroyed the Union
sehooi-house and the Germania HoteL. Fhe
school-house had $4,000 insurance, and
the Germania Hotel $4,000.
A riRs destroyed an .oiicfoth factory at
columbusyille, Long Island, New York, on
Tuesday y with aloss Of $4,000 One Af.s!
man was run oyer. by a machine and killed.
IA Hrs Taesday morning DESTROYED the
road, at Nashua, N. H., with its contents.
A train of cars was also destroyed, and the
mill of the Nashua Iron and Steel
Company. The loss to the latter is $50, 000;
insured for $4,000. The railroad loss is not
ascertained.-..A very destructive fire broke
out in the village of Penn Yam, New York,
on Tuesday. Fifty houses burned. Steam
ers were ordered from Elmira and Canaan
daigua to suppress the flames, The fire
originated in a furnace, The losses are very
heavy.
A DARING attempt was made Wednesday,
BY a gang OF burglars to blow open
thes safe of the Erie freight house, at Buff
falo, N. Y, in which several thousand dol
lars in currency were deposited. The bur-
glars entered the building and gagged the |
private watchman-r They were in the act of
the police, but made good their escape.....
The large WOODEN mill of William G. Case,
at Columbus, Pa, was entirely DESTROYED
by fire Wednesday night. Loss, $50, 600 (;
$1,000.
The West.
JOHN CooPER, the mulatto who murdered
James II. Swing, a colored tinsmith, last
was hung in Cleveland, o., on
Thursday at II O'Clock. On the scaffold
made q few remarks, saying that he
sorry for what be had done, and was
prepared to die....Jas. E. Castro, a notori-
ous horse thief and stage robber, was hanged
BY v~igilantes at San Benito, Cal, on Thurs
day-.-.James Rice, of Allegheny CITY, was
shot and killed in Evansville, md, on
Thursday morning by Frank Wright, keeper
If the Marine hospital.
CHARLES KURT was drowned from the fish
Rowena, while lifting nets twelve
miles off Milwaukee, Wis, Friday forenoon.
Deceased was Is years of age, and leaves a
wife and two chlidren.
Ar IL o'clock on Saturday night. a de-
'tructiEe fire broke out on Superior street,
Cleveland, O., in the block occupied by VIM.
Kidd, jewele5 whose loss is heavy. Much
iamage was done by water to the adjoining1
.tores. Cobb, Andrews 4 Co., booksellers,
ose heavily Loss about $50 00...... Richard
ruch, Superintendent of the Ferguson
Mine, in Mariposa, CAL, and VIM. Oliver
we're drowned in the MERGED river Satur-
lay.
TIE extensive Touring mill of Fletcher
Judy, at Coatsville, III, was destroyed by
ire on April 25th. Loss on building and
$4,000; partially insured.....A
LsPatch from Minneapolis, Minn.s April
9th, states that Rdvices from Oakdale, on
he Northern Pacific railroad, on Saturday.
fvening last, announced the wholesale muir
Ter of a family of a man named Cook.
,rother to Frankii Cook, of Minneapolis.
he house was burned to the ground and the
zones found in the ruins. The outrage ia
uppesed to ave been committed bv Indi-
Ins'....The body OF a young Dane named
Gibson was found in the river at
Wis, on Sunday. Gibson has been
since the 18th of April, and is sup
'osed 70 have been murdered.
DURING a severe thunder storm at AckIey
owa. on Sunday night, lightning struck the
Ouae of Patrick Cassidy, about four miles
orthwest of the town. The current passed
own the stoye-pipe and instantly killed |
and Peter Burns, who were sleeping
ear the stove-...An East Saginaw, MichS
ispatch says Camp, Brooks 4 Co.'s saw |
lill was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning.
he loss is estimated at $4,000, with an in
urance of $l5,5oo..-.A man, named Alex
nder Woodward while engaged in .remov-
az some old buildings to make way for new
nes, m Dubuque, Iowa, was killed almost
lstantly by a falling wall.
AT indianapolis, Ind, the jury in the :
aseof Harvey, indicted for the murder of i
is wife, in March, 1868, who has since been I
large, but was arrested in Ohio a short I
me ago, returned a verdict Wednesday of I I
'nyIction, and a sentence of ten years in l
10 state neutrality-suspicious. the muir :
erer OF Patterson who was under sentence a
pc hung April IL, was lodged in the State I
rison at Fort Madison, Iowa, for life. bv !
'ason of communication of his sentence. 1
The South.
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