Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-05-02
NEWS OE THE WEEK.
The East.

privilege Oh receiving general Order goous
into their own bonded warehouses has been
signed by Collector Arthur, of New York
and sent to Washington for Secretary Bout
wells Endorsement.
TIE jury in the case of Fanny Hyde, tried
in Brooklyn for the murder of Watson, were
discharged on Saturday morning, being I'M
two for q verdict of malslaughter in the
fourth degree....The receipts at the Home
opathic Hospital Fair in Boston for the first
week exceeded $S5,00o.
A WOMAN named Maher, residing at Green
bush, N. Y, was struck down, and had her
neck broken, on Sunday evening, in attempt
ing to stop a fight between her two sons.
Joseph, the alleged matricide, has aed......
On Sunday a water-spout deluged the coun-
try around Timber Creek, Pa. The spout
lasted but two minutes. Charlton 7. Lewis
has retired from the management of the
New York Euening Post, and is succeeded
BY Parke Observation-Disclosures brick-dry-
ing shed, in Allegheny City, Pa, was burned
on Monday, with a loss of $50, 900 and no
insurance. 1t was caused by an incendiary.
AUGUSTUS BISHOP, son of Sir h. J. Bishop,
the English composer, and Madame Anna
Bishop, the well known vocalist, was found
dead on Tuesday morning in his room in
his mothers house in New York......During
services at st. MichaePs Church, New York,
on Tuesday night, three men who had
climbed to the sill of a window fell out, a
distance of twenty feet. Two were badly
injured internally and it is thought they
will die, and the third had his arm broken.
THE rope and Irvine works of A. q. Hart
& Co, New York, were burned on Tuesday
afternoon. Loss S150,000, including SIS 700
on machinery, which latter is covered by
insurance.-.E. P. Seward, brother of Sec
rotary Seward, died on Tuesday of apoplexy
at his homo in Florida, New York.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS sailed from New
York on Wednesday afternoon, and will pro-
Deed to Geneva to join the Board of Arbltra-
letter from st. Pierre, New Greenland, under
date of April Is, giving intelligence of Capt.
Halls Arctic Expedition up to the LIST of
March. The Polaris had been compelled to
return to Gre enland in consequence of
springipg a leak caused by collision with an
iceberg. It required the exertions of the
crew, officers, and all the members of the
scientific party to keep the Polaris afoat.
The disaster occurred in the middle of Feb
ruary. The health of all on board has been
good. She returned to Disco.
The West.
Nv Chicago, on Saturday afternoon, Thos.
Dolan fell from his dray and was instantly
killed. One of the wheels of the vehicle
passed over his chest, crushing it in......Wil-
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is alleged to have absconded last September
with $4,000 belonging to depositors, was
brought back from California b. Deputy
Sheriff Cook, of San Diego county, Cal.
ADAM DENTzLER, who was sentenced to two
years imprisonment in the Milwaukee
House of Correction for stabbing Matilda
Dentzler, his reputed wife,, committed sui
eide in that institution on Sunday night by
hanging himself.
PARTIES arriving at Portland from Sitka,
Alaska, report great excitement in that place
on account of the discovery of rich silver
mines within half a mile of the town, and
rich gold and silver mines in other local..
ties adjacent to the coast. The excitement
was at q high pitch when the steamer left.
.--.All the buildings on the west side of the
plaza at North San Diego, including the
FrankG House, Colorado House, and Schil-
Ter & Mannasses's building, were burned on
Saturday. Loss $40,000---.The ice in Lake
Pepin, on the Mississippi river, has broken
up, and navigation is now open......The
warehouse of Besley & Burdett was burned
at Lake City, Mimi, on Tuesday. Loss
$4,000; mostly insured......A letter from
Texas states that the Supreme Court of that
State has affirmed the sentence of death
pronounced by the lower court upon Stephen
M. Ballou, the murderer of James P. Golden,
of Adams county, ILL.,, fixing the time of his
execution for Friday, the oath day of May.
...-.A man named Cluck shot and killed his
wife in indianapolis on Tuesday. After
firing six shots and making sure of his vic
tim, he cut his throat with a knife, iHfict-
ing q severe but not fatal wound......Mr
Shrewsbury, Mayor of Madison, Ind, one of
the oldest and most wealthy men of that
place, fell dead from heart disease on Mon
day evening as he was stepping out of his
door to go to the Council chamber
A MOB stopped the east bouLd train on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad at
Gum City. in Cass county, on Wednesday
afternoon, and murdered J.. B. Cline, J. C.
Stevenson, and S. E. Dutro. Stevenson was
q member of the County Court and presiding
Judge when the recent bond excitement was
raised. Cline was the Attorney who was i'm
plicated. Dutro was simply killed because
he was in the company of theo others. The
mob threatened to kill any who hereafter
identified them in court or elsewhere, and
said they had just commenced their work of
murder. Some of the mob wore masks. All
had revolvers or shot-guns. There were
about seventy-ive or one hundred men.
The South.
A TERRIBLE tornado sewept over Chester,
8. c., on Thursday night. sixty-two houses
were entirely destroyed and many others Sc
riously damaged. Nobody was killed, but
four colored persons were injured by falling
houses. Miles of fencing was blown down,
and thousands of large fruit trees torn up by
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mostly falling on persons of small means.
In a fight among a party of sicilians at
New Orleans, on Saturday, Joseph Angelo
was shot and instantly killed. During the
row a Custom Inspector named Joseph S.
Souders was accidentally shot and has since
died, and a boy named Edward Nixon was
slightly wounded.
OK the Baltimore and Ohio railway on
Tuesday, the engine of the way freight train
going east when near Parkerbury, W. Va,
exploded its boiler, Instantly killing the en-
gineer, Milton Parker, and the fireman,
Daniel Nielsen, and ipjuriDg a brakeman,
Mike Eagan, so seriously as to cause his
death in a few hours.
In the Circuit Court, at Annapolis, Md, on
Wednesday, the case of Mrs. Wharton,
charged with attempting to murder Mr.. Van
Ness by poison, was continued. Mrs. Whar-
toms counsel stated that she was too ill to
undergo the excitement of a new trial at
present. and the result will probably be a
postponement till the October term.
Washington.
GENERAL BANKs called on Secretary Fish
on Friday in behalf of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, to inquire whether the De-
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