Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-02-29
NEWS OF IL WEEK.


no fear of death, and said he was content to
ie......A woolen-mill at Peterboro, N. H,
caught fire by spontaneous combustion, on
Thurs lay, and was wholly destroyed. An
operative. named Mrs. Ellen Upton, was
to death. The mill and stock were
for $40 ,0o0.....In New York on Tues
day, W. ]. Pollock was arrested and held to
bail in the sum of $40, 900 for alleged SNUG
Cling operations in linen and jute goods.
Richard O'Gorman has been reelected Presi-
dent of the New York Board of Commis-
of 1mmigration..-.A collision &C.
CURED on the Connelsville railroad, at Lay |
toms station, Pa, on Thursday, by which
two freight trains were telescoped. j. Muir
tenny, the engineer, was fatally injured, and
four carloads of live stock were killed.
CAPT. LEONARD HENN1Ne, of Elizabeth,
N. j., was accidentally shot, on Friday, by
his son, IL years old, probably fatally.
The challenge of the Atlanta for a four
cared shell race on the Thames is accepted
by the London Rowing Club. Six men will
be taken to England by the New Workers..
Hepner, of New York, who re-
Gently shot his son and then attempted to
kill himself, died of his injuries on Satur-
day.--A. B. Bartholomew killed Charles F.
6torer, of Chelsea, Mass, on Sunday, by
stabbing him twice in the breast with a
large knife. Jealousy was the cause.
AUTHORITY has been received from the
Treasury Department for an investigation
into the exploded Eighth National Bank of
New York.-...In the Pittsburgh breach of
promise case, Mrs. Vankirk VS.. johnson, the
jury has given a verdict for $4,000. Both
parties appear to be satisfied. 1.-THE receiver
of the Lorillard Fire Insurance Company of
New York has declared a first dividend of
go cents on the dollar, payable on demand
1.-THE Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention will be held at Reading on
May 80.
AT Jersey City, the grand jury have found
ITO indictments, most of which are against
the ringites of that city and county for pee
ulation of the public funds......U United States
upon the orders of the Attorney General to
pr .secute he New York Custom
House officials who are guilty of
bribery, but states that at the
next term of the courts he will take steps to
have the culprits indicted.
A PASSENGER car on the Delaware and
L~ackawanna road, near B~inghampton, N.
Y, was thrown down an embankment %
feet high, on Tuesday morning, by reason of
a broken rail. Several passengers were Sc
rIously injured--...The coroner's jury at
Hempsted, Long Island, rendered a verdict
charging Hannah M. Fowler and George
Fowler, a younger brother of her husband,
with causing the death of the latter by ar
senic, large quantities of which,, it is said,
were found in the liver and kidneys of the
deceased....-Foster, the car hook murderer,
of New York, has been sentenced to be
hanged March 22....The oil mandatory of
D. c. Beggs, in New York, was burned on
Tuesday morning. Loss 500, 000...... On Fri
day morning, at Brownsville, Pa, a fire de-
stroyed Wilgers' shoe and bat store, Devere
& Co.'s clothing store and building, Gum
merits building, Duncan's furniture store,
Story's saloon, and a barber shop. Loss
$4,000 insurance $25 5000.
The West.
The California Assembly (Republican) by
a vote of "a to IL, has passed a resolution
asking Congress to permit the levying of a
special mining tax on Chinese.....The SEN
ate (Democratic) has passed the same to
engrossment..-..The shooting of James
Trimble a few a since, by the guard of
the Adams Express Company, was the ter
mination of a series of robberies of their cars
of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry.
Through his confession the greater portion
of the goods have been recovered....Two
freight trains on the Toledo, Wabash and
Western railroad collided near Mil
mine Station on Friday. Tony Fig
arc, brakeman, had one arm broken, n
John Patterson had a leg broken, and the
used up. On the same road a freight train
ran into a car loaded with iron which was
standing upon a side track near Carthage.
Engineer Steele, the fireman, and brake
man were DaQly 1nJureO.....Inc DO0y OF
Henry A. Sweet, son of Alanson Sweet, an
old resident of Milwaukee, was found frozen
between Superior and Bayfield,, a few days
since, where he had gone to look after
property.-..The first of the riot murder
cases at Los Angeles has resulted in a YER
dict of not guilty, the District Attorney
stating that he had only Chinese testimony
to offer, which was not reliable. The de-
Tense introduced no witnes ses.....A grinder
employed in the reaper works of F. II
MonnU ut P4aHf0rl I'll ne ~ TL,-,J--
caught in a belt from a shaft, revolving at
the rate of seventy-fve revolutions a min-
ute, and almost instantly killed. His head
was crushed and his bones badly broken
The deceased was a swede, named Charles
1ngland, and was about % years DID,.
Harry johnson, employed on a wood-sawine
machine, was killed at Mazomanie, Wis, or
Thursday, by. the bursting of the hy-wheel
pieces striking him in the head and chest
killing him almost instantly.
A PRIVATE letter from Fort Benton, Mon.
tana, states that during the latter part o.
December the thermometer marked SO de-
grees below zero that buffalo, antelope, cat.
nun bers. On Janury IL, when the Letter
was written, the weather had moderated tt
20 degrees below zero......At Lagro, Ind, OF
Friday, the heading and stave factory o
schersehen & Bro. was destroyed by fire
Loss about So, 000.-..The jury in the case O.
r. ]. Bright, State Printer of Indiana, OF
trial for perjury and overdraw, nave returned
a verdict of not guilty.. United State.
Deputy Marshall John Peeke, having il
charge a man implicated in robbing the ex
press at Muskoga, Indian territory, was she
and MORALLY wounded at that place, on tn,
18th inst, by some teamsters, with whom
he had some high words.
TIE Kansas House, in Committee of tn,
Whole, on Monday agreed to the Senate bill
providing that nobody shall be hanged 70
murder until one year after conviction, an,
not then unless the Governor issues the war
rant for execution, which he may never dc
Unless he so elects...".At Bowerstown, Ohio
on Sunday, a desperate young man named
George Clark, shot his sister with a rifle be
cause she threw snow at him. The bal
passed through her right thigh, just below
the hip joint, and thence nearly through he
left thigh. Clark was arrested......A BARI
belonging to William Freeman, Twins
about two miles fr7m Darlington Station
Ill, was burned on Saturday evening, to
gether with nineteen head of cattle, ST,
horses and a large stock of farming utensils
The fire was caused by the explosion of
~"non-explosive" lantern .....Advices from
Lawrenceburgh and Madison reports all tn,
gorges broken and the Ohio River full O.
floating ice between Cincinnati and Louis
VlIle---.At Horse Bluff, Wis, on Monday
an rishman named John Murphy stabbed