Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

MRS. JANE MADDEN at New York on Satur-
day recovered $1,000 against the Staten
Island Ferry Company, for the death of her
husband by the Westfeld e~xplosion.....In
the Harbor Masters investigation at New
York on Saturday one of the witnesses
privilege enjoyed by one of the Harbor
Masters, of whom there are eleven in the
City.
AT a meeting of the Directors of the Erie
railway at New York, on Monday, Gen. Dix
was elected President, and Gen. Mcclellan
Vice President of the road. Eight new Di-
~rectors were also chosen, thus completely
routing Gould and the rest of the thieves.
Vogt has been arrested in Phila-
delphia, charged with numbering Chevalier
de Bianco, in Brussels, last October,
setting fire to his house, and stealing securi-
ties valued at $4,000. A portion of the
stolen property was found on Vogt--..The
hne residence of Mr.. D. ]. Reekie, at Mon
treal, was burned on Saturday night. Loss
$3O,O00-....A farmers child, near Biddeford,
Me-, last week, died of cold and starvation
while its parents were away drunk, and a
famished hound horribly mutilated the
corpse.
EMANUEL SHAFFNER, of Morrisburg, Pa,
who has been tried for the murder of his
first and second wives and John Sherlock,
by poisoning, has been convicted of murder
in the first degree....The packing room of
the Meriden Malleable Iron Works, at Meri-
den, Conn.,, was burned on Monday evening.
Less $50,0O0...-.At Greenbush, N. Y, on
Tuesday, Samuel Fargue shot his wife dead,
fired at his daughter without effect, and cut
his own throat with a jagged, rusty jack
knife, intlicting a frightful wound.-..Evi-
dence has been given before the New York
Senate Committee that $4,000, 900 full paid
stock of the Beach pneumatic tunnel, New
York, has been issued, mourning an indebt-
edness to that amount for no other consider
alton than the purchase of its charter and
patents, and no part used in the construction
of the road.
The lumber yards of II. R.. Deacons, Hun
sicker & Co. and Patterson & Co., at Phila-
delphia, were damaged by fire on Tuesday
night to the amount of $50, 900; insurance
ton of the New York and Mahopac railroad
took place on Wednesday. The road comes
under the control of Vanderbilt.
The West.
LEAvER & MERvIN's saw-mill, situated at
Moline, Mich, was blown up on Monday.
Three men, named James Leaver, J. Staffer,
and Frederick Huff, were killed, and five
others injured, some OF them quite seriously.
The water was allowed to get too low in the
boiler.....The livery establishment of W. 81.
TORY, at Webster City, Iowa, was entirely
destroyed by fire on Saturday evening, con-
sisting of a large stock of buggies and
sleighs, and twelve valuable horses. No in
surance..-.On Saturday night, Michael
Dunn, with a son three years old in his
arms, attempted 10 cross the st. Louis and
Vandalia railroad track to East st. Louis, in
front of an approaching train, and was run
over and fatally wounded. The child es-
capped with the loss of the toes of the right
foot......A young man named Joseph New
man, with two companions, went to Breeze
l. Ill - c. IL
Newman discharged one barrel of his gun
at a duck, but the other barrel snapped. He
then blew into the barrel to see if it was
loaded, when it was discharged and blew the
top of his head off.
THE Supreme Court of Kansas has set
aside the verdict in the Medlicott case, and
ordered a new trial, mainly on the ground
that the lower court admitted as testimony
the dying statement of Ruth, the murdered
man....The West Hotel, at Mendon, Mich,
was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morn
ing. Loss $10,0 900 insured for $5,000......A
young man named Jno. Wallace was shot
and killed by a Mr.. Harvey, in Saline, Kan
sas, on Monday night. Wallace was on a
spree, and made a noise before Harvey's
door, whereupon the latter shot him.. The
Secretary of War has ordered the removal
OF certain distractions in the Chippewa
river at Eau Claire, Wis......G. W. Kirk, a
citizen of Clark county, Ind, committed sui
OA0O ~ Oh 4OAOdJ ny bAIO"-
ing himself under a moving freight train.
Geo. W. ~Fishback, one of the proprietors of
the st. Louis Democrat, has commenced suit
against his partners for a dissolution of the
hrm and a valuation of the property.
Christian Fribolin, a German music teacher,
living at Mascontah, a short distance from
Bellevllle, ILL.,, charged with an attempt to
commit a rape in October last, blew out
his brains on Saturday last, in consequence
of an intimation from his bondsmen that
they were about to deliver him up to the
Sheriff.
The Wisconsin State Republican Conven-
ton met at Madison on Wednesday. The
delegates to the National Convention were
instructed to cast their united vote for a re-
nomination of Grant--..Samue G. Landry,
a resident of Flint, Mich, employed as
brakeman on a coal train, was run over on
Tuesday morning and fatally iajured.-...
David l.. Taggart was run over by q train of
cars at st. Louis on Wednesday,, and in
stantly killed.-..W. 81. Rittenhouse, a con-
ductor of the Belleville and Southern Illi-
nois railroad, was run over and killed at
Belleville, H., on Wednesday. His head
was horribly crushed.
The South.
EARLY on Thursday morning, three ne
groes broke into the house of an old man of
eighty years named James McNeill, near
Shelby City, KY, and brutally murdered
him, splitting his head open with an ak
and stabbing him in several places. Two of
the three negroes have been arrested and
identified by the wife of the murdered man.
GEN. LoNesrREET has resigned as Surveyor
of the port IF New Orleans.
A SUIT was entered in the United States
Circuit Court at Richmond on Monday, by
direction of the Attorney General of the
United States, to foreclose a mortgage exc
cuted by the Richmond and Danville Rail
road Company during the late war, to the
Confederate States, to secure 81 900 900,
which it is claimed has reverted to the
United States Motifs Palace -four mills
at Columbus, Ga, were burned by an incen-
diary on Tuesday morning. Loss $75, 600 /;
no insurance....The letter carriers of Rich
mond have resigned in a body in consequence
of the dismissal of their chief by the Post
master-....A bill repudiating one-third of
the public debt, represented by the bonds
known as West Virginia certificates, passed
the lower Virginia House on Monday......All
new railroads in Tennessee are to get $40, 900
a mile subsidy, and must pay into the State
Treasury one-half per cent. of the gross re-
ceipts within two years after receiving the
subsidy.
TIE Kentucky State Republican Conven-
ton met at Louisville on Wednesday. About
500 members were present, one-fourth of
whom were coIored The da1aootas 1uoro -