Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-07
NEWS OF III WEEK,
The East.

The East.
BELLEFoNT MILLS, in Cranston, R. l., were
burned on Saturday. Loss $50 900 insur-
ance $1O,OOO..--.On Saturday night, the
American Iron Works, Pittsburgh, Pa,
owned by Jones & Laughlin, were partially
burned. The upper ~rolling-mill, with six
trains of rolls, the spike, bolt, and nut fac
tory, pattern shops, pattern storehouse, and
1oTnd hsy were entirely 1tn r Z destroyed. The loss
works were the most extensive in America,
aHording employment to $500 hands.
THE house of Henry spinney, Yarmouth
county, N. s., was burned on the 18th instant,
and his five children persisted in the flames.
MI. and Mrs. Spinney were absent on a
visit.....The large sugar refinery of Bartol &
Barker, at Marcus Hook, Pa, was entirely
destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. Loss
$4,000 insurance $105, 200. .....O n Sunday
night last a farmer named Daniel Kramer
residing about nine miles west of Auburn,
ScbuylklL county, Pa, was brutality muir
dered and his wife left for dead. Mr.. Kra-
mer's son, on entering his fathers house ON
Monday morning, found his mother on the
bed with her skull fearfully fractured, and
still living, but unable to speak. The father
was found about one hundred yards from
the house with his brains beaten out and
frozen to the ground. No trace of the MUIR
derers has yet been discovered. The muir
derers robbed the house. Mrs. Kramer can
not recover.
A RESOLUTION has passed the Maine Legis-
~lature, requesting the delegation in Congress
from that State to urge the construction of
the Niagara Ship Canal 1890. VeryRev. Henry
Benedict Coskey, Vicar-General and Ad-
ministrator of the Archdiocese of BaIti-
more, died in that city on Tuesday evening,
of pneumonia, after an illness of several
weeks, in the 64th year of his age.....The
New York city charter of the Committee of
Seventy passed the Assembly on Tuesday,
80 to 28..-.One of the storehouses of the
Harmony Mills, at Cohoes, N. Y, was
burned on Tuesday. Loss $4,000; insured
for 3 $4,000. The fire was caused by spon-
taneous combustion.
In the breach of promise case of Sadie E.
Wilkinson VS.. Brick Pomeroy, the defendant
has fled an answer denying that he ever
solicited plaintiff in marriage; that she is
unchaste, habitually Incorporate and of
violent disposition; that she repeatedly
threatened his life with deadly weapons.
and that she was an unfit person to marry
anybody.....F isk's horses and carriages
were sold at auction in New York on We'd
nesday. A large crowd was present. The
chestnut horse Butcher, rode by the Colonel
on parade, brought only $3.50, less than
one-eighth his cost. His favorite carriage
team of blacks brought 81 800. A clarence
that cost $4,000 brought $1,000. The total
receipts of the sale were about $50, O00......
Statements are published in the New
York papers showing that the officers
of the Guerrero, while bringing the
remains of General Anderson to America,
INDUCED in a general carousal, lasting for
weeks--..1n the first of the fifteen suits
against the Atlantic Mail Company, for ag-
gregate penalties amounting to $50, 900, on
allegations that cigars lave been landed
from its vessels without payment of duty,
Judge Woodruff, of New York, has given a
decision in favor of the United States......
Ex-Judge Trey, of Brooklyn, has sued the
Brooklyn Eagle for $40 900, for alleged libel.
...".Erght roughs of the Nineteenth street
gang, who nearly murdered officer Tully, of
New York, on Sunday, nave been held for
trial. One of them, named Clemens, is heir
to $4,000 worth of real estate in the city,
but his mother declined to go bail for him.
Officer Tully is still in a dangerous condi-
tlon.-..At a meeting of the depositors of
the Bowling Green Savings Bank, New
York, on Tuesday evening, a proposition
from President Smith, to pay $50 900 as a
compromise with the depositors, was ac-
copied. The amount of the deficiency of
the bank is $l46, 600.
2 The West.
= CHAs. D. SMITH, the gift enterprise
swindler, who was arrested at Milwaukee on
Thursday, bailed himself out and has left
for parts unknown--..After nearly three
months partial or entire suspension to nav
igation from st. Louis south, the ice gorges
broke up and ran out on Friday, and the
river is now open to all southern points,.
The famous Flagstaff mine, at Little Cotton
wood, Utah, has been sold, with the Buel
furnaces, for 1900 00.-...The brig Lawler
has sailed from San Francisco for the Cocos
Islands with a pirate-treasure-seeking expe-
dition .-.. Extensive mines of copper, coal,
and marble are reported to have been dis
covered near Los Angeles, Cal......A gambler
named Bob Smith assaulted j. Nichols, city
editor of the Indianapolis Evening Journal,
on Friday afternoon, for noticing his arrest
in a gambling den. Smith shot at Nichols,
the ball passing through his coat, whereupon
Nichols knocked him down, and was giving
him a sound thrashing, when the police in
terfered and Smith was lodged in Jail, his
bail being placed at a heavy amount. The
gambler says he intended to kill the re-
Porter"--.On Friday a passenger train on
the Central road, when near Cedar Falls,
Iowa, struck and instantly killed a man
named Jno. o'Brien, who was lying on the
track intoxicated. he was about so years
OF age and unmarried.
EIGHT freight cars, belonging to the In
~dianapolis railroad, with their contents,
principally dry goods, were burned on the
track at East st. Louis early Saturday
morning. Loss about $25, OO0......The COW
cred bridge on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati
and St. Louis railroad, near Cambridge,
Ind, was destroyed by FIRE on Saturday
night. The bridge was about 800 feet long.
."'''AhC 1CO III Ln6 H4lSSOuI1 IlV0T mas DTO-
ken up at Fort Benton, and the water is
rapidly -rising....At Fort Madison, Iowa,
on Friday, Frank, son of James Layton, a
wellknown citizen, hanged himself in his
fathers barn, with the reins of a bride. He
was a bright and intelligent boy, and
highly esteemed by all of his associates. No
cause can be given for the sudden attack of
insanity.
The japanese Embassy arrived at Chicago
on Monday, and left for Washington on
Tuesday eVening.--.The body of Mr..
Charles A. Badger, for many years the clerk
of the fremont House, Chicago, was found
floating in the river in that city on Monday.
Mr.. Badger had been missing for about six
weeks. 1t is supposed that he committed
suicide.--.The steamers J.. R. Lockwood
and Silver Bow, lying at the Red River
wharf boat at st. Louis, were crushed and
totally wrecked on Monday night by an i'm
mense field of ice from the gorge in the
Missouri river. The wharf-boat and the
steamer Minnie were also somewhat dam
aged. Loss 1920, 900; insurance $40 ,OOO......
fhe men arrested recently at Van Vert, O.,
have been fully identified as Scott and
Charest, the Windsor Locks Comm muir
derers--...A Salt Lake dispatch of Monday
says "Snow fell yesterday again and
blockaded the Union Pacific railroad.
Western bound trains were seventeen hours