Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-10-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

the admission OF females TO JnaI lnsIltutioh
have recommended that no action be taken
port of the investigation in the Metis dis
aster has resulted in the revoking of the
licenses of the captain and the first and
second pilets.....The second trial of Edward
Stokes, the slayer of James Fisk, Jr., Will
commence shortly in New York.
ENocH L.. FANcHER succeeds the infamous
Barnard as Judge of the New York Supreme
Court.....A number of oreide watch swind-
lers have been arrested in New York;
Michael Gering, of Jersey City, recently
murdered his wife by stabbing her, and
then cut his own threat from ear to ear.
The trial of Tweed and others of the Tam
many thieves will IN shortly in
New York. Connolly is yet missing, and it
is pretty certain that he has fed the coun-
try......The wool warehouse of John Nc
Innes, in Boston. was burned last week, in
volving a loss of $4,000.
JOHNNY O'KEEFE, the New York newsboy
who won the appointment of midshipman
in a competitive examination, has success
fully passed his examinations, and been
sworn in as a cadet nIidshipman at Annap-
olis......Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania, has
pardoned out of the Penitentiary the no
torious Mercur, late City Treasurer of Phila-
delphia, and the infamous broker, Charles
A. Yerkes, who were convicted last winter
of embezzling the city's funds..".The pro-
peller Dalhousie, from Montreal to Chicago,
was recently destroyed by fire in Lake
Ontario. The passengers and crew were
takeno off by the propeller City of Concord.
1.-THE suspension of Spencer, Villa & Co.,
the weI-known Boston bankers, is an
nounced..... At midnight on Saturday, Sept.
%, three-fourths of all the oil wells in the
country were stopped, in accordance with
the plan of the oil producers to raise the
price of petroleum by diminishing its guam
tikv The official vote for Governor of
Vermont stands: Converse, Republican,
Alag Gardner, Democrat, 1858; scatter
ing, IA. Majority for Converse, 25,S1s.
TIE movement t in the oil producing re-
gions of Pennsylvania to stop the pumping
wells in order to raise the price of petroleum
has met with very general success. Advices
from the oil distrIcts represent that nearly
all the wells have stopped. In some local
tiles violence was resortcd to in carrying out
the order, well rigs being burned, engines
destroyed and oil tanks tapped.-..Bridge-
pert, Ct.s has been visited by a destructive
FIRE, involving the loss of $3.50 900 worth of
property.
SENATOR SUMNER has written a letter de-
clining the Liberal-D Democratic nomination
for Governor of Massachusetts. .....Dr Aver,
the pill-man, came within a few votes of re-
ceiving the Republican nomination for Con-
gress in the Seventh District of Massachu-
" v u 41Od1y OhO ~
La Ora re, who some time ago defrauded
various New York merchants to the extent
of some $500, 900, and fed the country, has
been arrested in France
The West.
The venerable Rev. Peter Cartwright, one
of the oldest warriors of the church militant,
died recently at lis residence in sangamon
county, Ill, at the age of So years. He was
nr0atratad nv q atr0Ra of nara1Uaia aauaral
months since, and remained in an almost
helpless and speechless condition, though
with his mental faculties clear until death
came to his relief. This venerable and
wonderful man of God was for more than
sixty years an incessant and most arduous
laborer in the .ause of his Master, and few
divines of America were SO widely known,
and none whose death will be more univer-
sally mourned-...The Northern Ohio Insane
Asylum, near Cleveland, was destroyed by
FIRE last week. The institution contained
about 600 insane persons, all of whom es-
capped, and some of them are at large. Loss
about $3.50, 000..w..A wonderful discovery
is represented to have been made recently
in Colorado of an enormous silver ledge or
system of lodges SO locked and woven to-
gether as to be practically one lode. It is
said to measure sixty three feet in width
and can be clearly traced over five miles,
carrying ore the entire distance that assays
from $75 to $1,000 per ton. 1t is the sensation
of the whole mining region. .
TIE barge Iron City, bound from Cleve-
land tor Buffalo, foundered and sunk recent
ly, near Sturgeon Bay. All on board, six
persons, it is thought, are lost. Philip K.
Smith, the Mormon ex-Bishop who recently
made the revelations concerning the Noun
tain Meadow massacre, has signifed his
readiness TO go to Utah and give testimony
in person relative to the horrid butchery.
....More Indian murders are reported from
Utah"-..Near Terre Haute, Ind, recently.
Andrew J. Miller murdered his father-in-
law, over 80 years old. The weapon used
Six of the inmates of the Northern Ohio
Insane Asylum lost their lives by the recent
burning of that institution.....The crew Of
the wrecked barge Iron City, supposed to
have been lost, have arrived safely al
Buffalo.
WILLIAM FORESTER, the notorious burglar
and bank robbsr, and who was until recent,
ly thought to be implicated in the Nathan
murcer, at New York, has been safely Gagged
in the Joliet 1ll.) Penitentiary, to which
institution he owes thirteen years. penal
Tower Grove Park, st. Louis,
containing 200 acres, donated to the city by
Henry Shaw, proprietor of the famous b.
tanical Gardens there, has been formally
thrown open to tho public.-...M. c. Mitch
ell, Republican,, has been elected United
States Senator from Oregon.
a hANOAeCo II JpSIy inuiShdAb dI ZIG
acquittal and liberation of the notorious Mrs
Laura D.. Fair. 1t is stated that no such ex-
citement has existed in that city since the
days of the Vigilance Commuters operations
The feeling very naturally is that .he jury
was bribed and that justice has been out
ragged. The circumstances of this case are
we'll remembered Mrs. Fair, who, it is al
legged, was the mistress of HIN. A. P. Crit
tenden, met him in the presence of his own
wife, and deliberately shot him dead. She
was tried in tho summer of 1871, convicted
and sentenced to be hanged. A new trial was
granted, the plea of emotional insanity
set up, and she is now acquitted, and goes
forth to entrap some other man in her
meshes.
The South.
A FIRE at jefferson, Texas, recently, de-
stroyed over $4,000 worth of properly.
State Auditor Graham, of Louisiana, has
again been imprisoned for contempt OF
court, the Governors pardon having been
decided unconstitutional.
THIRTY miles of the Alabama and Chatta-
nooga railroad nave been seized by order Of
the Governor of Georgia, the telegraph wires
cut down, and the road is being operated