Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-04-11
NEWS oF THE WEEK.
The Eaaf-

LAbnAs LNEA NE1 al We" 1OI Id" , SIJ Ids
been committed in default of bail in $IO,-
900, on a charge of forgery, in obtaining the
signature of a lady to a sheet Of blank
paper and filling the page SO as to obtain
her property.-..The family of Col. G. G.
Jack, a lawyer of Brooklyn, N. Y, were as
phyxiated on Wednesday night by the
fumes of coal from a defective furnace. Miss
Norton, q visitor, was found dead. The re-
mainder of the family, eleven in number,
will probably recover......Julia QuinIan has
been awarded $4,000 damages from the
Sixth Avenue Railroad Company, New York,
for injuries received from a collision of a
horse-car with a run a way team. No
negligence on the part of the company was
shown.
TIE steamship City of Galveston took fire
while lying at her dock in New York on
Thursday. The vessel and cargo was lam
aged to the amount of $50, 000......A bill
passed both houses of the Pennsylvania
Legislature on Friday, consolidating the
boroughs on the south side of the Mononga-
hela river with the city of Pittsburgh......
Weikel & Smiths spice mills at Philadel-
phia were burned on Friday night. Loss
$4,000; insurance SAC, OO0.--.Pearson
Brother & Co.'s rope works at Boston were
destroyed by fire on Friday afternoon. Loss
$4,000; fully insured.
lONE thousand six hundred and eighty
six immigrants arrived at New York on
Thursday---.on Thursday afternoon, a diver
at New York, named George Leaman, 40
years of age, one of the most expert divers
in the country, lost his life while following
his avocation. He was operating on a
wreck, and having been down longer than
usual without giving the signal 10 haul up,
the attendants became alarmed and he was
drawn M. 1t was then found that his
breathing-tube had burst, and he was dead
before reaching the surface.
THE dwelling house of John Givenan, in
Rockaway, N. J., was destroyed by fire on
Sunday, and his wife and three children
persisted in the iames-...Charle Volmann
died in Hoboken, N. J., on Sunday, from the
effects of bleeding produced by the extrac-
ton of five teeth ON the Tuesday previous.
Geo. o. Morris's Touring mill at Port Dick
inson, N. Y, burned on Saturday night.
Loss SAC, 900 insured for $21, O00.....The coal
oil works of ]. L. Stuart, at Schuylkill, Pa,
were burned on Monday. Loss $4,000
insured for $26, geo.
THB dwelling of Charles W. Felt, in Cam
bridgeport, Mass, was burned on Wednes-
day night, and his three-year old son was
suffocated. Mrs. Felt was Frustrated by
her child's death, and her life is despaired
of....-.The railroad bridge at Topsham, Me-,
was burned on Wednesday morning. 1t
cost about $50, 000.....Sylvander Johnson's
cotton mill at North Adams, Mass, was de-
SGrOyeO Dy ure on wednesday night. Loss
estimated at $f5e,8ee; insured for $50 900.
THE Northern Centred railroad bridge,
which spans the Susquehanna at Dauphin,
Pa, was burned on Wednesday evening.
Loss 100000; insurance $3.50, G0O..-...The
Western Union Telegraph Company di-
r~ectors nave voted to issue 81, 500, 900 in
bonds for b erection of the new building
on the corner of Broadway and Dey streets,
New York..-..The Office of the Lycoming
Fire Insurance Company, at Muncie, Pa,
Woo onknra1 h- I'll -
and one of the safes blown open. Over
$4,000 of registered railroad bonds and
stocks were distracted, $4,000 of which be-
longed to the company and the balance to
private individuals.
The West.
Two young men named George Barber
and Michael McGarry got into a dispute
about a dog, at Middlebury, O., on Thursday
morning, when Barber shot and instantly
killed McGarry.
HEM BERRY LowERY and Boss Strong,
the North Carolina outlaws, are certainly
dead The conformation of the news comes
simultaneously with the escape of the Her.
aid correspondent from the swampy suburbs
of sylvan Shoe Heel--..Henry Case was
run over by a locomotive and instantly
killed at Louisville, on Friday.
AHEAVY rain storm passed over st. Louis
about eight o'clock on Saturday night.
During the storm a terrible tornado from
the southwest struck the large brick
market-house on Seventh street, between
Spruce and Poplar, and leveled the north
ern half to the ground in a twink1ing. Most
OF the roof and several heavy timbers were
carried across Seventh street, and striking
a building opposite, knocked two great
holes in it, exposing the rooms. Part of
the roof of the yitriol factory, on the corner
OF Austin and Thirteenth streets, was blown
Oh. In East st. Louis the roof of the round
house belonging to the Terra Haute rail
road was blown off and several locomotives
were somewhat injured. The steamer II. C.
1aeger, and a ferry-boat in the harbor, lest
their chimueys and the steamer North
western was blown across the river. Chas
W-Dyer, a young man frem Toledo, o., who
had just arrived in the city, was struck on
the head by a piece of the metal roof of the
market and instantly killed. Some ten OF
The part of the market house destroyed was
about 15e feet long As, feet wide, 25 feet
high: 1t will cost probably $40, 900 to
rebuild it.
The rain of Saturday and Saturday night
raised the Illineis river a foot at La Sale
and there is now seven feet of water from
that port to the dam at Henry.....C. c. Cole
one of the Supreme Court Judges of Iowa,
who rendered his resignation to Governor
carpenter some time since, has Withdrawn
his resignation at the request of the Cover
nor..--.The first train crossed the railroad
bridge at Leavenworth, Kansas, on Mon
day. The test was highly satisfactory.....
A young man named Benjamin Tallmadge,
aged "a years, committed suicide at the
Pattey House, Fond du Lac, Wis, on Sunday
morning, by shooting himself through the
heart He was to have been married short
y to an estimable young lady of that city.
No cause is assigned for the deed.....The
Union Pacific Railroad Company is making
q survey for q n~arrow-gauge road from
Julesburg up the South Fork of the Platte
river to Greeley, Denver, and Golden City,
to, connect with the Colorado Central rail
road, which they are extending to Central
City-...An alteration occurred on Monday
morning between Barney Kane, a laborer,
and Thomas Russell, Superintendent of
some public work in the western suburbs of
St. Louis, when Kane struck Russell a ter
rifc blow on the top of the head, splitting
his skull from ear to ear, killing him in
stantly. Kane escaped..-..The convicted
anti-Chinese rioters at Los Angeles, Cal,
have been sentenced to from two to six years
IN the Penitentiary.
A FIRE at Milwaukee on Tuesday night
destroyed Geo. Dyer & Co.'S entire stock of
saddlery goods, and the greater portion of
Messrs. Zellner & Bonn's stock of clothing.
Loss $2I0 600 insurance $3.50, 0O0....... Three
prisoners confined in the Jail at Sioux City,
Iowa, escaped on Wednesday by knocking