Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

committed suicide, July 10, by shooting
himself......The effects of the defunct New
York Standard were seld at auction in New
York, July 19, and brought 81, 1000 THE
Western Union Telegraph Company purpose
erecting a building on Broadway and Dey
streets, New York, to cost 81, 500, 900. Two
trains collided on the Central road, near
Pittsford, N. Y, on tho 10th of July, by
which three persons were killed, three NOR
tally wounded, and several seriously injured.
Among the killed was Mr.. E. B. Smith, a
~well-known bookseller of Detroit, and one
of the leading business men of that city,.
Ex-Congressman Thatcher, the oldest grad
uate of Harvard, and the oldest Mason of
the United States, died at Bangor, Me-, July
10, aged GOETHE large paper mill of j. B.
Sheffield, at Saugerties, NY, was destroyed
by fire July 10. Loss, $500, 900 insurance,
sos, 000,.....At a meeting of the directors of
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, in New
York, July 10, a lease was effected of the
Missouri Pacific and its branches, giving to
the former company some 500 additional
miles of road.
THREE young ladies were drowned while
bathing in a pond at Millbury, Mass, on
July 20..... Excavations onVanderbilts great
New York underground railroad will begin
in September, and its complexion is prom
ised within two years 1.-Two Sing Sing
IN W convicts attempted to escape from
prison last week by slowing themselves away
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through the filth, and covered themselves
up, leaving q small aperture to breath
through. When the driver stopped at the
dumping grounds to unload, one of the
prisoners 1eaped out of his barrel, pushed
the terrified dri yer off his seat, and whipped
the horses into a run. The convict was too
much excited to notice which way he had
headed, and before he was aware of it he
was almost in the prison yard again. The
other convict rose up to peep out, and both
of the culprits were seized and marched back
to their cells in a sad plight.
THERE was a slight frost in some parts of
New York on the night of July 22..-.An
effort is to be made to liberate Stokes on
bail......Josephine Mansfield, the artful siren
who infatuated Jim Fisk, ard ultimately
comprised the death of that cratic gentle
man, went to Saratoga the other day to
testify in the Barnard impeachment case.
She was treated as an ~outcast, being refused
admission to the hotels, and when she took
her seat in the courtroom a number of
ladies who had assembled to witness the
judicial proceedings immediately left.
THE last remnant of the eight-hour move
ment in New York has succumbed to dire
necessity, and the w~orkingmen, with very
few exceptions, are now employed under the
old ten-hour rule. 1t has been a costly
strike to both employer and employee.
The notorious ex-Alderman Billy McMul
len, of Philadelphia, for a long time Presi-
dent of the celebrated Moyamensing Hose
Company, and a ward politician of the low
order, was shot the other day by an ex-
convict named Maria, and dangerously
wounded ...... The health authorities of New
York are making vigorous preparations for
a strict quarantine, in anticipation of the
arrival of the cholera.
In the association college regatta at
Springfield, Mass, July "a, Amherst unex-
pectedly took the honors, Harvard
being second. Harvard led until the
last half mile, when Amherst made
a magnificent squirt and crossed the line
one and a half b~oat-lengths ahead. Harvard
was second, Amherst Agricultural third,
Bowdoin fourth, Williams fifth, and Yale
sixth. The results were wholly unexpected,
the favorites being beaten in both races.
Amherst followed Middletown closely in
the freshman race..-..Mrs. Jane Lance, oil
Pittsburgh, while suffering from an attack
of typhoid fever, jumped in the river last
week. She was rescued, but died soon after.
THE trial of Judge Barnard by the New
York State Senate, sitting as a court of i'm
peachment at Saratoga, is dragging along
slowly. The testimony is very strong
against the accused, and he will probably
be convicted---.The extensive buildings Of
the Erie railroad in Jersey City were de-
loss will reach $500 900 insurance, $500, 900,
All the books and papers pertaining to the
shops were consumed.
The West.
Col. j. F. WooD, Assistant Postmaster al
Indianapolis, is a defaulter to the extent o.
$4,60O-~-An exciting trot took place ovel
the Cleveland course on July 10, between
Goldsmith Maid, American Girl and Lucy
The Maid WOE in three stright heats. Time
2:19, LIS, 2:19.
WILLIAM SWEENEY, proprietor of the Metro
politan Hotel, Jacksonville, killed a guest
last week, by a blow with his fist, because
he refused to pay for his breakfast.....A re
port comes by way of San Francisco tina
all the white settlers at the forks of thu
river Skeena, in British Columbia, have
been massacred by Indians.....A terrific
storm passed over Keokuk, Iowa, and it,
neighborhood on the night of the I'D o
July, doing damage that can scarcely bt
estimated. Families were driven from theil
homes by the flood, horses were drowned il
their stables, and q complete wreck made
OF almost everything located on the low.
lands.
The two Chippewa Indians whs murdered
Miss Macarthur were forcibly taken from
the Brainerd, Mimi, jail, on the night o
July %, and hung to a tree in the street
The execution was witnessed by the entir,
population of the town, who fully approved
Oh me summary proceedlng....TWO boys
aged 10 and ID, were drowned at Davenport
Iowa, July %, while bathing In the river
making seven persons who lave met theil
death there in that manner this season..
By the fall of a hosting machine in Mac
neale d Urban's safe factory, at Cincinnati
July "a, Julius Urban, brother of one of the
proprietors, was instantly killed, and three
others were injured.....M. Paulus, of the
French Band, was robbed of 81 900 by some
adroit thief who entered his room, at Gin
cInnati. Miss Goodall, who is travelling with
the band, was relieved of 5000 in a similar
manner--..The women of Carthage, Ind.
have abolished all liquor saloons in that
town, and the thirsty Carthaginians will
hereafter be compelled to resort to the pri.
vate bottle. Som sixty indignant matrons
visited the various dram-shops and besought
their owners to abandon their vile business,
and, failing in their mission, they formed
in solid p~halsnx, on the evening of July %
marched to the misery mills, one after the
other, smashing tho furniture and leaving
havoc behind them in every case.
The South.
WILLIAM LowREY, one of the notorious
Robinson county IN. CO. outlaws, was killed
last week by a brother of Col. Wishart, who
was murdered by the gang some months
slnce.--.The completion of the Industrial
Exposition building at Louisville was cele-
brated by an immense mass meeting in the