Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-07-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


gust. Within three hours after sentence
had been pronounced the Supreme Court, in
session in an adjoining room, granted the
culprit a new trial.....The convicts-some
LOO in number-in the Albany IN. w
Pcnitentiary threatened a serious revolt on
june q. For a time they refused to obey
orders, but the military having been ordered
in, the fractions culprits concluded to re-
sumo work.
Rev. DIR. NBLLIGAN, Vicar General of the
Diocese of the West Indies, and resident of
Nassau, N. P, has mystsriously disappeared
from Brooklyn, where he was v~isiting......
In a contest for the cadetship of the Naval
Academy, rendered to the members of the
schools of his district by Congressman Rob-
erts, of New York, and for which there
were a largo number of entries, the prize
was won by a ragged newsboy, named John
O'Keefe.
TIE Tom Thumb party, consisting of Tom
and his wife, Commodore Mutt, Minnie
Warren and others-in all thirteen persons
arrived in Now York June 80, having
been absent three years, and completed a
voyage around the world. They travelled
$4,000 miles-S1, 900 by sea gave 1,411 en-
tertainments in different cities and towns,
in all climates of the world, without losing
q single day or missing a single performance
through illness or accidents.
TIE Boston Jubilee commenced its third
week Monday, July 1, with a large falling
off in chorus, orchestra, and attendance.
The feature of the day was the Irish band,
which was enthusiastically received, and
glorihed by the Celtic population. Its
music is not highly spoken of, the fault in
recent organization, and consequent want of
time for proper training. .... estimates of the
cost of the East river bridge are now fixed
at 80, SOC, 000.....OwiDg to tho intense neat,
khn n.ra ~f - - w. u. "a - -
advanced about 40 cents per 100 pounds.
The new directors of the Eric railroad have
commenced suit against Jay Gould for $10,-
0 $1,000 on account of the alleged misappro-
during his management of its affairs.
THE Now York Senate, sitting as a Court
of impeachment, has decided to remove
Judge McCunn, the vote being unanimous.
.....It appears from statistics gathered at
the Pension Office that there are living at
tho present time two widows of Revolu-
tionary soldiers who are under 40 years of
age, and that the Oldest surviving widow
has arrived at the age of lis years"..~The
great running race at Long Branch, July 2,
resulted in a victory to Harper's Long
distance run being two and one-half miles,
and the time 4:34. The horse Littleton, also
owned by John Harper, won the mile heat
race and purse of 5000.
the West.
The excursion train, consisting. of eight
" passenger coaches, returning to
Chicago from the Liberal Republican and
Democratic State Conventions at Springfield,
Ill. on the night of Jun 26, narrowly escaped
being wrecked six miles north of the latter
city. Some diabolical wretches had placed
ten heavy railroad ties across the track.
Fortunately the engineer deserted the OBJ
struction in time to avert an accident that
must have resulted in An appalling destruc-
tion of life.
Mrs. GLEN, tho Indianapolis murderess,
has for the fourth time been convicted, and
sentenced to a life term of imprisonment.
An effort will be made to secure still
another trial......At st. Paul, Mimi, a few
nights ago., a burglar invaded the bedcham-
Der of a young lady, and while rummaging
about in search of plumber, awakened the
occupant. Naturally she screamed for
help. The burglar seized and attempted to
choke her into silence, and in the struggle
that ensued the young lady got one of the
rascal's fingers in her mouth and bit it to
the bone, causing him to beat a hasty re-
treat.
MRs. CAMPBELL, of Chicago, was poisoned,
last week, by a laundering druggist......
Three youths-Charles Koch, Frank stumpf
on0 I'M fIlcuIlCn-W6Io uIOWueu at
Milwaukee, Jun %, while b~athing......
Three men working on the st.
Joseph (Mo) bridge were precipitated into
the river, June 90, and drowned.....The
irrepressible Interviewer" reports Mrs.
Glenn, the Indianapolis murderess, cheerful,
hopeful, and confident of a new trial and
ultimate aequittal....E East st. Louis, Ill, |
was thrown INTO q fever of excitement, last
week, on account of a rape committed upon
q beautiful young girl of respectable family
nv n naOr0- The hruta Uae arraetod onI
narrowly escaped lynching.."..Two young
ladies were drowned at Janesville, Wis, re-
Gently, while bathing in Rock river......Cin-
cinnati has just completed the first narrow
guage (three feet street railway in the
country.....The Newport and Cincinnati
bridge was opened to pedestrians, June 80.
......CoL LOOMS, Chief of Artillery to Gen.
Rosecrans, and Captain of tho celebrated
the Soldiers Home, at Milwaukee, a mere
wreck, rapidly wasting away with softening
of the brain.-..The Kiowas, A~rrapahoes,
and Apaches, in Colorado and New Mexico,
are reported as being very uneasy, and
fears are entertained that these tribes will
for In extensive worfare on the
frontier settlements. The moral suasion
policy is being applied to these intracta5le
savages with, 1t is alleged, some hope of a
successful issue.
NEwso of a most foul and unnatural muir
der comes to us from West Point, Iowa. A
Mrs. Washer, the mother of seven children,
was deliberately murdered in tina village
by two of her sons, aged IL and 16. The
lady had parted from her husband, DIR.
Washer, some time previous and, the Doc
tor being absent from home, she took occa-
sion to visit her children. She prepared to
return to her own home Saturday, June 90, |
but the two SONS persuaded her to remain
over till Sunday. She stayed, and at 6 |
Sunday morning the two boys MUIR
dered her, stabbing her in the back, breast, |
and throat. After killing her, they dragged
her body to the barn and covered it with
hay. The youthful matrfcides are in prison.
NJ. Taylor, City Marshal of Baxter
Springs, Kansas, was murdered last week
by Col. Boyd, the Mayor of the TOWN..
same old story. Thomas W. Dunn, of
Jacksonville, ILL.,, in a playful mood pointed
a pistol ct his sweetheart, Lizzie Voorhees,,
Just to frighten her. He succeeded admira-
bly,, for the pistol went off and sent a ball
into Lizzie's head, inficting a dangerous
Wound..-.Another boy, Robert Dolc-the
999th this drowned at Mil
waukee, last week, while bathing. John
Brennan, at Toledo, Ohio, met his death in
a similar manner, July 1.-THE new Ili-
nois liquor, Law, which vent into effect July
is creating the utmost CONSERVATION among
.he saloon-keepers in the rural towns.
Thousands of them are unable TO give the
bonds, and are thus forced to close
heir doors. There ia wailinp and pnashino |