Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-02-15
NEWS OF WEEK.
The East.

a 81 h1orho East.
HoRAcE GREELEY held a reception on Sat
urday evening at New York, on the occasion
of his 61se birthday.
The house of Henry Mcclellan, near Erie,
Pa, was burned about 3 o'clock on Tuesday
morning, and Mr.. Mcclellan persisted in the
flames. He was 10 years of age.....The
woolen mill and boarding house of C. C.
Aldrich & son, at CRANKY, Mass, burned on
Tuesday morning. Loss $4,000; insured
Tor $l5,000-"..At New York, on Monday,
while the Brooklyn Ferry ~Company's boat
Fulton was crossing the river loaded with
passengers, she sprung a leak in mid-stream.
The alarm signal was given, and two other
boats came alongside and took off her pas
sengers, after which she sunk.....The villa
gers of Whitehall, N. J., refused to allow
the burial of the remains of Bolts in their
cemetery, and the minister declared that
no services could be held over the body
OF the murderer. After IN excited parley,
q compromise was effected by which the
BODY was allowed to be inferred in a grave
that had been opened temporarily.
An explosion of fire damp took place in
Norton's mine, four miles below Pittston,
Pa-Aon Monday morning. Three men were
killed and fifteen suffocated, but alive as far
as can be- 1earned......A fire occurred on
Monday morning in the passenger depot of
the y~ogdensburg and Lower Canada Rail-
road, at Ogdensburg, destroying the entire
buildings the freight depot, two cars and
cehsiderable freight. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance. not known-.-.Judg Blatchford has
decided that Mrs. Fisk can succeed her late
husband as plaintiff in the suits against the
Union Pacific Railroad, Credit Mobilier, and
others, by simply filing the proper petition.
--..George Van Neck, formerly a Lieuten-
ant in the British army, and lately on the
New York Herald, committed suicide at the
H~-- ~ vi -
'morning.....A fire at Oil City, Pa, on Mon
day, destroyed the National Hotel, the Tay-
Tor House, the Oil Exchange, a branch office
of the Western Union Telegraph Co., the of
fee of the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph
Co., and two or three saloons. Loss esti-
mated at $4,000.
Orr of Kidder & Atkins's hosiery mills at
.Troy,N. w. was destroyed by fire on We'd
nesday morning. Loss $50, 1000.
~ = : 10 IS ,G = The West.
20 OK Monday evening the livery establish
ment of J. H. Estabrook, at Denver, Col,
was burned. Forty horses persisted in the
flames : Total loss t$45, oOO......The saw mill
at WOODBURY., Ind, owned by Jacob Black
burn, burned on Monday morning. Loss
a6but IS 1000; mo- -insurance....A Haunted
house within. q block of the public square at
Quincy, Ill.E is he sensation. The occu-
pants1deserted it pell-men Monday night on
account of dismal sounds and strange freaks
within its walls. Several intelligent men
were among those who INTERNATIONALLY
-Hed...SAddison Birge, ex-member of the
Legislature, was stabbed and killed by DR..
johnson, at Plaste City, Mo-, last Friday.
Mrs. Fair has been granted a new trial By
the Supreme Court of California, on the
ground that the Court erred in not allowing
the counsel for the defense the closing argu-
-ment, and permitting evidence of former
bad character for chastity"":Charles
and Cincinnati bridge, tell from the structure
ON Monday and was killed.
80 Two laborers named John Kearns and
Patrick Grady were almost instantly killed
in ST. Joseph, Mo-, on Monday. They were
engaged in e~xcayating earth, and the bank
fell upon them, crushing their lower ex-
tremities almost to a jelly.
,xlFfve persons were killed and eight Sc
verely injured by a collision between a pas
senger and freight train on the Rockford,
Rock island and st. Louis railroad, near
Upper Alton, on Wednesday...... The store of
SmaI1sy5& Co, at Cambridge City, Ind, was
burned on "Wednesday morning. Loss
$12, 600 INSURANCE $4,0O0---A fire at Port
Huron Micha. on Wednesday entirely des-
troyed the buildings and stocks of D.
Grahamy hats and furs; D. Guerin, boots and
shoes; -F.A. Meyers, groceries; j. B. Far
tand3 dry. goods. Loss $60,000; insurance
$2S,OOO"-".Th1s season, Yosemite tourists
will be carried by rail within eighty miles
of the vslleyJby either the Mariposa or the
Coa1tervf11e route. The horseback ride is
reduced to two and a half miles. The fare
from San Francisco will be $22; time, one
day and a half...:..The Kansas senate on
Wednesday passed the House memorial to
Congress to admit Canadian lumber free......
Ascolored cook named Charles Moore, re-
Gently employed at the Commercial House in
Gardner, ILL.,, eloped on Tuesday with a
white girl named Susan Bridlestine.