Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-07

The roof of the main building was lifted
and crushed in several places. One-half of
into a yard on First avenue, upward of a
block distant from the brewery. Fortu-
nately, no person was Injured. Loss about
SIC, O0O...... Before leaving Chicago the Japa-
nese Embassy donated SIS 1000 to the relief
fund.
JAMES HALLEN, a life convict in the Michi-
gan State Prison, committed suicide on
Wednesday by hanging himself in his cell
by a cord taken from a tobacco package.....
The jewelry store of Henry G Piper & Co.,
at Romeo, Mich, was entered on Sunday
night by burglars, the safe blown open
with gunpowder, and about $4,000 in
watches and jewelry taken..-..Chicago re-
eIghths of an inch per hour in its sweet
smelling river......The Kellogg Touring
mill at Battle Creek, Mich, was destroyed
on Tuesday morning by fire. Loss $40, 900 /;
partially insured..--.Joachim Geist, of Chi
cago, for causing his wife's death by pour
ing boiling hot coffee down her throat and
otherwise maltreating her, was on Tuesday
sentenced to sixteen years imprisonment.
.... .Bernhard Lasler, a saloon keeper, at
Hamilton, Ohio, on Wednesday shot and
act of tapping his till.....A bill has passed
both houses of the Ohio Legislature, fixing
$40 200 as the maximum of damages that
may be recovered from railroad companies
DIS compensation lot causing O0aLn DIV
wrongful act, neglect, or default......The
lower House of the Kansas Legislature has
passed a bill abolishing capital punish
ment.
The South.
THE case of the State of Arkansas VS..
steam tug Nettie Jones, was decided by
Judge Caldwell, in the United States Dis
trict Court, at Little Rock, on Monday, in
favor of the claimants, Brown and Jones,
the owners of the tug. The State libelled
the Nettie Jones, claiming about $12, 900 for
arms taken from the steamer Hesper, on the
Mississippi River, and thrown into the river
by a band of di guised men, nearly four
years ago. The arms were being i'm ported
to arm the State militia. The decision was
based on the want of completely between
the officers and owners of the Nettie Jones
and the persons Selling the arms.
A BILL has passed the South Carolina
Legislature to cancel $4,000, 600 of Blue
Ridge railroad bonds, Endorsed by the State.
There is now but little doubt that the bill
declaring valid all issues of South Carolina
bonds will pass by a large majority..--.Mrs.
]. M. Thornburg, an ima lady of
Knoxville, Tenn, was poisoned to death on
Monday by laundering druggists
clerk named Sykes, who substituted a fatal
dose of morphine, in a physicians prescrip-
tion, for quinine.
hOUlSNIILE hdS d b6nsablOu III Inc shape
of a corner in the whiskey market. 1t ap-
pears that the firm of s. T. Suit & Co. have
bought up all the available stocks of old
WHISTLES in the United States, which, of
course, includes about all in the world.
Their purchases in New York city amount
to over 81, 700 900, and the aggregate reach
about So, OOO, 200.
Washington.
INSTRUCTIONS lave been issued by the Chief
Signal Officer of the Army to all observers
at stations upon Western rivers, to make
special reports by telegraph of any sudden
or unusual change in the rivers. This will
enable mbo men to take proper pre-
cautions against loss of property by the
breaking up of ice.
THE Amsterdam and New Zealand Steam
ship subsidy bill, granting $500, 900 to the
Wilet line of steamers, for thirteen round
trips annually, has received the approval OF
the House Committee on Commerce, only
two members-Messrs. Holman and Town
notwithstanding, and will be reported to the
House at an early day-...1t may now be
| positively stated that our Government will
refuse to modify the case of the Alabama
claims, or will accept of any compromise
other than the award of the Geneva Con-
has called on the National Banks to report
their conditions at the close of business on
the 9th of February.
Foreign.
DISPATCHES from Dundee, Scotland, give
| accounts of a widespread and devastating
| flood in the valley of the Tay. The waters
of the firth and the river Tay overlooked
their banks, and poured into the plains on
both sides, sweeping everything before
them, from Dundee, at the mouth of the
firth, to a point above Perth, on the south
side of the river Tay, and head of naviga-
ton. The level country around the latter
city is covered with water, and portions of
| Dundee are rendered uninhabitable. The
| damage is immense......A vessel named
| Marie Francois capsized in the harbor at
Brest, on Friday, and % passengers were
drowned.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the national voluntary
fund to pay the German war indemnity
| continue. The fund now amounts to twenty
three milliens.....The Temps says the
French Bishops secretly encourage the Lee
| gitimists in their efforts to bring about a res
toration of the monarchy in France.-..The
impression prevails in wel1-informed quar-
tiers that the present King of Spain cannot
cope with the difficulties by which he is
beset, and that a serious crisis in Spanish
affairs is imminent.
| GRAND DUKE ALEXIS and suite arrived at
Havana on Tuesday---.The officers and
crew of the American ship Andy were poi
soned recently while lying in the harbor of
Hong Kong, and the principal officer died
from the effects of the poison. No clue could
be found to the murderer.
TIE German Government has notified the
French Minister of Finance that it will &C
cept the a~nticipatory payment of 400, 200, 900
francs of the war indemnity with a discount
of 5 per cent. M. Pouyer Quertier will inn
mediately pay the AMOUNT, thereby
saving % ,OOO, 1000 ..francs-...Three more
| French men-of-war have been fitted out to
cruise in the British Channel to guard the
coast against B~onapartist expeditions......
Diplomatic authorities at Paris are confident
that England will finally admit the COM
potency of the Geneva Board of Arbitration
to consider indirect claims. 1t is anticipated
that the American reply will be quite as
conciliatory as Earl Granville's note......
Baron Won Gutenberg, the new Russian Min
lister to the United States, has started from
st. Petersburg for America......A Russian
spy has been detected at Lemberg, Austria,
sketching the Notifications, and condemned
to a years imprisonment.
Proceedings in Congress.
In the Senate on the 23d Mr.. Chandler,
from the Committee on Commerce reported the fol-
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