Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-06-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

urbs, were visited by a fierce hurricane on
the evening of the 14th inst, doing consid-
cradle damage to property. Many persons
were injured, and in Brooklyn three were
killed outright......Th citizens of East New
York have been annoyed by ~incendiaries to
such au extent that they rave formed a
vigilance committee, and propose to deal
summarily with these dangerous ire-bugs......
La Grave, the swindling New York mer-
chant, carried away some $780, 200. Detect
ives announce that he has fed to Europe.
The New York Orapgemen have determined
to parade on July IL, fully armed for any
emergency-.-.The water in White Lake,
Sullivan county, N. Y, near Port Jarvis, has
receded several feet the past few days, and
is still rapidly sinking. The lake is on the
mountain-top, and has probably found a
subterranean outlet.-...By the explosion of
a locomotive near Hornellsville, N. Y, on
June Is, two persons were killed and one
wounded.
TIE International Peace Jubilee, which
opened at Boston on Monday, June II, may
be set down as a success. The telegraph
informs us hat the audience was immense
and enthusiastic, and the chorus, though
gigantic, proved perfectly manageable.....
The notorious bank robber, Dutch Heinrich,
an inmate of Sing Sing, has become a ravine
maniac...-.Rev . o. B. rockingham, of New
York, has been Illuminating from his pulpit
against the striking laborers."...Ther is
u III IL PIOouCCu
by the announcement of a fatal case of I'M
doubted Asiatic cholera....Tom Thumb has
sailed for Europe. 1t is announced that
Thomas has sailed down $500 900 .....A direc
tor of the st. Petersburg (Russia) Prison
Commission was in Pittsburgh, the other
day, picking up prison statistics
GEN. SIcKLEs is said to be the coming Presi-
dent of Erie.....The smallpox has broken
out in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. and the
-AI e.. 1000 NIL
sugar refners of New York have struck, and
the refneries are idle.
The employing manufacturers of New
York lave resolved to resist the e%ight-hour
movement to the bitter end. Since Jan.
1, 142 ,O51 emigrants have arrived at New
York-an increase of 40 jos over the same
period last year..-..The trial of Stokes, the
slayer of James Fisk, Jr., opened in New
York, on June 19...-.The venerable Peter
Cooper, of New York, has given the shirt
cutters 81 900 to aid them in their strike.....
AT the recent Convention of Railway Man
ayers of the New York Central, Erie, and
Pennsylvania Central railroad lines, an
agreement was made to sell hereafter no
more passenger tickets for political meetings
or State fairs at reduced rates....Joseph
Jefferson's condition, it seems, is not so bad
as was at first supposed. The great artist is
said to be daily improving, and there is
every reason to hope that his eyesight will
DC COIup 10tcly IGbLOT6O HlLnlu u very SHUT
period .....Anong the gentlemen spoken of
tor President of Erie are Gen. Geo. B. Nc
Clellan T. B. Blackstone, of the Chicago
and Alton road and James F. JOY, of the
Michigan Central. 1t is the impression
that Gen. Mcclellan will be the successful
man.
THE Jumel will case is again up in the
New York courts 1.-THE Senate of New
York, sitting as a court of impeachment, is
engaged in trying Judge McCunn.....Gov.
Hoffman, of New York, vetoed 50 bills dur
ing the past session of the .Legislature......
John W. Avery is to be hung at Hacken-
sack, N. Y, for the murder of Jacob W.
Erb....On June 10, over the Mystic Park
ra~ce-course, Boston, the celebrated trotting
mare, Goldsmith Maid, made the fastest
time o1 record over a mile track-2:163.
The West.
BIZ the explosion of the raft-boat D. A.
Mcdonald, on the Mississippi river, oppo-
site McGregor, Iowa, on June Is, about
thirty persons were killed, and a great
MANNED 1.-THE murderer of Hon.
Sharon Tyndale, of Springfield, ILL.,, has at
last been discovered in the person of James
Kennedy, an Illinois Penitentiary convict.
Gov. Palmer has just pardoned the culprit
out of prison, in order that he may be put
on trial for the deed. The credit of unearth-
ing the author of this foul and mysterious
-
Askins, a st. Cleir county, ILL.,, farmer, who,
obtaining a faint clue, pursued it fer
months, in tie face of the most discouraging
obstacles-even after the professional de-
tectives had abandoned the scent-until he
has succeeded in establishing a chain of tes-
timony which, it is claimed, canine but re-
suit in the conviction of the man Kennedy.
......A Mrs. Logan, residing near Rockford,
Ill, last week, in a fit of dependency, su-
~perinduced by domestic troubles, threw her
babe into the river, and then jumped in
both being drowned......In boring an
well, at Jacksonville, Ill, on the
18th inst, b vein of water was struck, which
burst up with such tremendous force as to
drive off the workmen. At last accounts the
was still in the well, and the w-ser
up through a four-inch pipe to the
height of fifty feet.
REPORTS as to the state of the winter wheat
in five of the prominent Northwestern
indicate the failure of the crop. In
many instances the crop has been plowed in,
being useless but as manure and in the re-
naming cases the yield has scarcely been
or one-half of that of last year......
Brothers extensive wagon man
at South Bend, Ind, was burned
Monday, June II. Two adjoining dwelling
houses were also consumed. Loss, $4,000.
persons were killed and twenty
injured by the wrecking of a construction
train near Paxton, ILL.,, June 17......At Gin
c~innati, a few days since, Rev. j. j. Thomp-
SON, pastor of Christie M. E. Chapel, had his
head split open with a Ratchet in the hands
of Thomas Bond. Cause-Thompson kis ID
Bonds sweetheart"....P. T. Barnum is on a
lecturing tour out West. The
great humbugger lectured the Clevelanders
on June 17......A correspondent, writing
from Fort Benton on June 9, says the Sioux
are all on the war path, and the
wood-choppers and traders nave left the
not one remaining between Fort
Buford and Camp Cook, a distance of several
hundred miles. A dispatch from Fort Sully
says the Indians are getting extremely
and it is the opinion of men
who have been among them many years that
open war is sure to ensue this season $1,000 Ar
ticles OF consolidation were entered into at
Indianapolis, on Jun II, by and between
The New York and Western railway, a COM
organized to build a railroad, or rail-
roads, with one or more trbcks, within the
States of Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, and Ohio,
party of the first part, and the Continental
Railway Company, O. corporation created by
he laws of Pennsylvania. The capital
of the company is named at 800, 000,-
700. The object is to make a trunk line from
New York to Council Bluffs, connecting by
branch or laterals with other cities.
CHANDLER & PoMERoY, of Chicago, who
have been running a big corner" in oats,
have come to grief. The corner collapsed
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