Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-09-05
NEWS OF I'll WEEK.
The East.

Inc EAST
A LARGE meeting of oil producers and re-
fners, comprising representatives from all
districts in the oil regions, convened at
Parker's Landing, Pa, last week. The OBJ
ject was to devise measures to cu-tail the
production of oil so as to enhance prices, as
1T is claimed that present rates are too low
to allow any profit to producers, and to this
end a resolution was adopted binding oper-
ators to suspend work for six months,
which, it is believed, will be generally &C
quiesced in.......The Spanish frigate NJ
mancia, which recently arrived at New
York with yellow fever on board, has been
condemned by the Health Officer as a
new cases of fever break out daily. Appli-
cations of her commander for coal and
divers to clean her bottom have been re-
fused.
COMPTROLLER CONNOLLY, of the New York
thieving Tammany ring, his disappeared,
and it is believed he has fed the country,
and left his friends to pay his forfeited bond,
amounting to over half a million dollara.-...
A pleasure barge on the Conn ecticut river
was recently struck by lightning and two
persons killed THE Executive Committee
of the Boston Peace Jubilee set forth their
liabilities at $500, 900, and receipts at $780,
O00-leaving a deficit of 1910, 900. 1t is pro-
posed, as a means of meeting this deficit, to
give a monstrous concert and ball, with
1OOgOOO Pc bASNObOy 6AA VI "hAShy 4" ~
lot, Will draw the Coliseum. The most de-
termined and desperate case of self-murder
on record was that of Tnos. H. Dunger, an
English lace importer, at New York, last
week, while laboring under an attack of de-
lirium tremens. His first attempt was with
a lar nude. A few hours afterward he
went to a drug store, in a state of deshabille,
seized a bottle of poison, and attempted to
swallow it. Three hours later he made an
inefft ctual attempt on his life by stabbing
himself in the breast with a carving-knife,
and shortly after this he drove a large cooks
knife into his side to the depth of four
inches. The desperate man was then taken
to Bellvue Hospital, and about 9 o'clock on
the same evening he jumped from a fourth
story window ofthat buil1ing, and by the fall
both legs were driven into his abdomen, pro-
ducing instant death.
OF the forty members of the Irish Band
which visited the great Boston Jubilee, only
eight returned home, all the others having
obtained employment in New York and
Boston PROF. Peters, of the Litchfeld
Observatory (Hamilton College, N. W, an
nounces the discovery of another new planet
the 124th of the group of asteroids-which
he describes as bright, shining as q star of
the tenth magnitude" ...... Hon. A. G.. Curtin,
our Minister to Russia, has arrived at his
home in Pennsylvania.
TIE handsome residence of Charles Zust
was burned in New York, the other day,
entailing a loss of 1886, o0O. .....Hon. R.. J..
Ingersoll, Minister to Russia under Presi-
dent Polk, died at New Haven, CT, last
week, aged S4...-.Another bloody tragedy,
growing out of the Philadelphia volunteer
fire company troubles, has been enacted in
that city. James Dougherty and James
Kane, members respectively OF the old rival
Moyanensing and Hope Companies, got into
an alteration about some question connect
ed with the organization, which terminated
in Kane disemboweling the unfortunate
Dougherty will a bowe-knife. Both were
hard characters.
The Water Commissioners of Albany, N.
Y, have been impeached, and are to be
tried upon the charge of having ~negligently
and willfully permitted the source OF the
city's water supply to become the receptacle
of filth from the c~attle-yards, hog-pens and
private dwellings..-.The effects of the Sta
ten Island Ferry Company, of New York,
were sold at auction, last week, to George
Law, for 1899 600. The i~ll-fated steamer
Woodruff and Tennie C. Clahin appeared
in the New York Bankruptcy Court, the
other day, and deposed that they did not
own a dollars worth of property..-.A New
York policeman was recently arrested in
the act of committing a burglary, while pa
trolling. his beat, and confessed to seventeen
burglaries with a few a months.....Four
persons were killed at Tacony, Pa, last
week, by a locomotive, while attempting to
cross the railroad track in a carriage.....At
Philadelphia, a few days aGo, a bridge gave
way beneath an oil train of IS cars, and
shortly after a coal train of 90 cars came
along and was precipitated in the chasm.
The while mass then caught fire and was
entirely consumed, involving a loss of $780,
600. Fortunately no lives were lost.
TIE New York Sun prints fac simriles of
the letters of Stanley to Noe, and of Living
stone to Bennett, and they are wonderfully
alike.....The Mayor of Yeddo, Japan, sailed
from New York, last week, for home. He
intends introducing the municipal machine
~ of New York into his metropolis.....New
York is agitated by three singular and mys-
FERROUS disappearances-in each case the
missing persons being married ladies of
great personal attractions, highly connect
ed, and devoted to their families and hus-
bands."..The Federal Court at Providence,
R. l., has adjudged the Cuban privateer Pho
neer forfeited to the United States, and is
sued a warrant of sale......The United States
war frigate Yantic, which left New York for
the East India squadron last week, has in
structions to touch at Zanzibar, and take
steps to suppress the slave trade in that sec
tion.....Hon. Henry Wilson was knocked
down by a runaway team, at Portland, Me-,
the other day, but escaped with a few slight
bruises.
Tie West.
THE murder of a whole family of five per-
sons near HoIton, Kansas, and the subse-
quent attempt to spirit the bodies away,
develops one of the most atrocious crimes
of the age. The murderer, one Williams,
after d~ispatching his victims, hired a man
named Osborne to haul the corpsts of.
Osborne was arrested in Missouri, and the
dead bodies, with which he had been travel
ing five days, and which were in an adj
vanced state of decomposition, were found
piled in his wagon, like so many dead hogs
The Sheriff attempted to arrest the nhu
man butcher, but the infuriated populace
refused to give him up, choosing rather to
dispose of him Immediately than trust to
the laws slow delay-...A Baptist preacher
named Herd and a Mr.. Charles Dawson
got into an alteration at Richmond, Ohio,
the other day. Herd slapped Dawson's face.
Instead of meekly turning the other check
to his enemy, Dawson drew a knife and
stabbed his ministerial assailant. who. in