Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-05-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

river, New York, Friday, with his hands
and feet strapped together. It is supposed
that the man was murdered. His remains
were unrecognized Mrs. Abbie Christian
was thrown from a car and instantly killed,
Friday afternoon, while on her way to
Calvary Cemetery, New York, to visit her
husbands gravo."".Engineer James Wood
ran a special train from Rochester to SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, Friday, a distance of eighty-one
miles, in eighty-two Emma
Couch has been held TO bail in the sum of
$4,000 for blackmailing Rev. DIR. Carter at
New York.
SATURDAY morning while a party of engi-
neers were examining the disused gangvay
in Pine Ridge colliery, two miles from
Wilkesbarre, Pa, an explosion of fre-damp
took place. Thomss Morgan, David Nor
gan and Evan Davis were killed, and an
other badly hurt, but will recover.....The
Equal Rights Convention, at New York,
alter volumes of persifage, on Saturday
voted to enter the canvass with the goddess
of liberty on their banner and authorize
$1,000 in bonds to elect Victoria Woodruff
to the Pres~ideney"...The lead works of Fab
nestock, Hazlett & Swartz, on Liberty
street, Pittsburg, Pa, took fire at two O'Clock
Sunday afternoon, and were entirely de-
stroyed, together with a dwelling adjoining.
Fahnestock's loss is very large, and will
probably reach $500, 900 4; insurance $50 900.
.---.T. Buchanan Ried, the poet, died at the
Astor House, New York, on Saturday..
Reports from Chichester, Ulster county,
N. Y, say that the mountain fires there are
three miles in length. The united efforts
of $50 men alone saved the village of Chi
chester.
A FIRE at Williamsburg, N. Y, Monday
evening, destroyed sixteen houses, and
rendered 132 families homeless. No lives
were lost. The dwellings were worth
$6O,OOO---.The Grand Trunk railway bridge,
at South Paris, Me-, Monday, burned hav-
ing caught fire from embers dropped by
the engine.-."Richard Keefe, Dennis Shea,
Geo. Briggs and Thomas Franklin were
cspsized in a sail-boat off Erie, Pa, on Sun
day night. Franklin got an oar and pad
died the boat ashore with one of the others
on it, who died soon after. The 9th ers
drlfted of and their bodies have not been
recovered...-.The propeller Chicago, of Chi
cago, laden with -four and general mer-
~chandise, sunk about twenty miles from
Buffalo, N. Y, on Monday. Crew saved.
..":Ths body of a man named Ward, clerk
in At. Stewards, New York, who disap-
peared on March 1, has been found in North
river. Ward had evidently been murdered
and robbed.
The New York Tribune of Wednesday
morning publishes the following card from
Horace Greeley: The Tribune has ceased
to be a party organ, but the unexpected
nomination of its editor at Cincinnati seems
to involve it in a new embarrassment. All
must be aware that the position of a journal
list, who is at the same time q candidate, is,
at best, irksome and difficult; that he is
fettered in action and restrained in criti-
cism by the knowledge that whatever he
may say or do is closely scanned by thou
sands eager to find in it what may be 30 in
terpreted as to annoy or perplex those who
are supporting him as a candidate, and to
whom his shackled condition will not per-
init him to be serviceable. The undersigned,
therefore, withdraws absolutely from the
conduct of the Tribune, and win henceforth,
until further notice, exercise no control or
supervision over its columns" The editorial
management of the Tribune falls on White
law Reid....Ofice John Leslie had his
head split open with a ~cleaver, in New
York, Tuesday, by a German rag-picker,
who was prevented by the officer from muir
dering his wife......The fire in the Shawan-
gunk mountains, New York, has burned
over a space of two miles in width, destroy
ing 800 cords of wood and an immense
quantity of timber.-..The fires in the
woods in the vicinity of Scranton, Pa, are
vast amounts of lumber and timber. A
number of barns and small houses have
been destroyed in the vicinity of Moscow
and Lehigh Falls......At New York, Monday
night, John McMara, sixteen years old. shot
and fatally wounded his father.-..-At Pitts
burg, Pa, on Tuesday, Eliza NJ. Cartney,
while IN spasms, fell upon a red hot stove.
When assistance reached her it was found
That her head, face, arms, breast and limbs
were burned to a crisp-"..O. 6. Ferry, of
connecticut, was reelected United States
senator on Tuesday.
The New York Chamber of Commerce, on
Wednesday, with but one dissenting voice,
adopted a resolution approving the supple
mentary article to the Treaty of Washing
ton."-.Mr. Bonner's stallion "Startle,
only five years old on the 14th, driven by
Geo. Hopkins, trotted half a mile on Fleet
wood Park, Wednesday, in the marvellous
time of 1:044. This is the fastest half mile
by two seconds ever made in harness or
Fleetwood by any horse of any age. In
deed, it is the fastest half milo by two sec
onds ever made anywhere by any horse ex'
cept Dexter, who once trotted half a mile
in 9 xactly the same time..-..A private dis
patch from Scranton, Pa, reports that an
early hour on Wednesday morning, at thu
Belleview shaft, killing three men Instantly
and wounding many others.
The West.
A FIRE at Chicago on Friday evening de
stroyed the three-story frame planning mil
and sash and door factory of F. j. Rowell 4
Son. Loss about $40 ,Oe0..-...Mr. Joshus
Dye, of Arlington, Ind, was almost instantly
killed at Richmond, Ind, by being knocked
down in a unk fight at Bennet's livery
stable, Friday afternoon, by a colored hostlel
named Sol. Davis, VINO was arrested ana II
now in jail.....A dispatch from st. Louis
May 10, says " Some days since two mer
named Tulden and Anderson were murdered
in Caldwell, Sumner county, Kansas, by 6
man named Mccarthy, who escaped intc
the Indian Territory. A vigilance commit.
tee Immediately pursued, found, and shot
Mccarthy. After the return of the vigilants
ashooting ARRAY took place in Wellington
in which Jack Lynch shot and wounded
two men named Hopkins and Clark, and re-
ceived two wounds himself. Lynch was ar
rested. The affair coming to the knowledge
of the Caldwell v~igilants, they marched ovea
to Wellington, twenty miles, took Lynch
from the officers having him in custody, ant
hung him."
ABOUT midnight on Saturday, William
Rowles, an engineer of the Great Eastern
railroad, wa crossing the track at the cor
ner of Kinzie and Carpenter streets, Chicago
when he was caught between two cars ant
crushed to death instantly.
A GENTLEMAN by the name of Mumford, o
Chicago, about So years of age, was mur
dered at Kenosha, Wis, on Monday morn
ing. His skull was found broken in by
heavy, bent instrument, probably a bar o
iron. A young German is the suspected
party. About $3.50 in money and a watcl
were taken.....A fire at Wabasha, Mimi