Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-02-01
NEWS SUMMARY.


The Last |
TIE Trenton Bank, at Trenton, n. j., was
robbed on Sunday morning of United States
bonds to the amount Of $100, 000...An old
colored woman, Aunt Phillis, said to have
been q spy in the Federal service among the
Tories in revolutionary times, was burned to
death on Friday night at Bricktown, N. J.%
TwEBD's constituents request him either to
go into the Senate or resign. 1t is stated
that Tweed only waits to buy two more of
the Legislature to secure him from expul-
sion, and that he is waiting to obtain them
......King's distillery, at williamsburg, N.
Y, was damaged to the extent of SIS 900 by
ere on Monday.
ABOUT $500 in ancient gold coins were I'M
earthed in Philadelphia, on Monday, by la
borers engaged in making an excavation
for the bed Of a new boiler, at the back part
of a house on North Third street. Some of
the coins are very understandable Jury in
the suit for $4,000 damages brought by the
widow Margaret Sanders, in the City Court
of Brooklyn, against the Staten Island Ferry
Company, for the loss of her husband, who
was killed in the Westfeld explosion, after
a half hours elaboration, returned a YER
dict for the plaintiff in the full amount
claimed. The jurors expressed their regret
at not being legally empowered to award a
higher amount. This is the first of 100 cases
growing out of the explosion.
In New York on Wednesday, Judge Bar
rett granted an ttachmen on the property
of Henry R. Conklin, Secretary of the Mar
ket Savings Bank, IN application of the Re-
ceiver, who deposes that Conklin distracted
at least $125,000, and has absconded. .....A
verdict has been rendered against the
Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company OF
New York, in the case of a policy of $IO, 900
upon the life of a suicide--..Gen. Cadwalla-
der's summer residence at Fenton, New
VI --
Loss, $4,000; insured--..On Saturday
morning the United States Quartermaster's
Department and Commissary Store, at
Madison Barracks, sackett's Harbor, N. Y,
were destroyed. Loss 100000.
The West.
Ar Urbana, o., on Friday night, Simon
Oberlin, an old and respected citizen, was
attacked by a man named Jacob Miller,
who robbed him of $50 and a valuable
watch, and 80 terribly beat him that he can
not recover."..In GALLON county, Ohio, on
Saturday evening, James M. Ewing shot
and killed his son-in-law, David Lowell.
Ewing was arrested......At Ottawa, ILL.,, on
Monday morning, the Magil warehouse
gave way from the heavy weight of grain in
store, filling the canal adjoining and the
streets around with thousands of bushels of
shelled corn. The warehouse is very badly
damaged, but owing to the solid ice upon
the canal and the absence of mud and
o. water around the Du1IQlnR, a great deal of
the corn will be saved.
ALDERMAN GLADE, of Chicago, Convicted of
receiving a bride for his vote and influence,
has been sentenced to six months inprison-
ment and fined 500 and costs...... Reports
from Manitoba state that the excitement
still continues regarding the discovery of
gold in the Peace River district, 600 miles
from Fort Edmonton .."..A deserter from
Port Pembina was found frozen to death
eight miles north of that post a few days
ago....After a long debate the Kansas Sen
ate on Tuesday adopted the House resolution
to investigate the charges of corruption in
the Senatorial election last winter......T The
Wisconsin Legislature on Tuesday adopted
a resolution instructing their Representa-
tives in Congress to use their endeavors to
procure the passage of a postal telegraph
Billion Monday, while the remains OF
Mrs. johnson, of Austin Ranch, near Grass
Valley, Cal, were being placed in the coffin,
through the body with a rife, dying in four
hours. Both were buried together......Th HI
City Gas works, at Richmond, Ind. exploded
at 6 o'clock on Tuesday night. The engine
house and purifying rooms are a total wreck.
No lives we're lost. Loss, $4,000.
TEE Rough and Ready Touring mill al
Littlston, near Denver, was burned on Tues
day. Loss over $50, o0O."...Julius Frisko,
while at work in the saw-miI of Mowry,
SllQbOu q SO.1 d. MSudSudI Wis., on W6OneS-
day, fell upon a circular saw which was in
motion, and had his right leg cut of. He
died the same night".-.Near Gold City
Col, IN Wednesday, a number of laborers
were engaged in attempting to dry a box OF
Hercules powder at a camp fire, when the
powder expls ded, killing two men, John
Hughes and Barney Bloom, and seriously
vounding several others-...At East Sagi-
nav, Mich, on Tuesday, Mrs. Witt having
occasion to make a visit about a SQUARE off
1onlad har fhraa childran all loae tbo~ Co..,
years old, in tle house. Soon after she left
the house took fire, and two of the children
were burned to death. The eldest ESCAPED
by jumping through a window.....A promi.
nent manufacturer of woodworking ma.
chimes at Cincinnati has received orders
from the Japanese Government for shingle
and 1ath machines, turning lathes, anc
other machines for woodworking, with al
be shipped immediately Dia San Francisco
.....John A. Hancock, aged ffty-fve years
residing with his son in the town of Pelt
Wabash county, Mimi, while the son anc
his wife were absent, burned the house anc
barn, and hung himself in tie woods, in
fit of insanity.
The South.
Tai Union Pipe Foundry of Dennis, Lon,
& Co., at Louisville, was destroyed by fir
on Sunday. Loss, $4,000; insurance
SO ,ooo.-..In Louisville, on Saturday morn
AASg . yO0AS ma AdI40O 4AcOuOIc 4nOuld5
in a fit of insanity, shot Mrs. Green and he
two daughters, Wilhelmina, aged IL, an
Larmins, aged 9. The former were shot il
the stomach, and will probably die. TIL
latter, who is unde in the hip, will re
cover. Thomas also attempted to shoot
brother-in-law, and then put the pistol t
his own head and fred. The bullet glanced
inhicting a painful but not dangerou
wound.
HARRISON PATRICK, a noted Ku-Klux o
Estelle county, KY, engaged in the trouble
last summer, was captured last Friday an
taken to Louisville.
A SPECIAL from Columbus, s. c., report
that Byas, a colored member of the Legisla
tore, attempted to cowhide B. W. Tomlinsor
correspondent Of the Charleston Neaos, il
consequence Of some structures upon his &C
tions, whereupon Tomlinson shot his assail
ant, whose recovery is believed to be impos
sible. Tomlinson was formerly assistant ed
itor of the New York World, and had
good reputation.
Ar Annapolis, Nd, on Wednesday, Mri
Wharton was acquitted of the charge O
poisoning Gen. Ketchum.....At Louisville
on Wednesday, q German blacksmith name,
Conrad Wehher foil ont of q window in q 6t