Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-11-14
NEWS OF TIL WEEK.
The East.

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TIE bankers in the oil region of Pennsyl-
vania have been holding meetings with a view
of forming a combination to control the crude
oil market. The plan is to organize an
agency with a capital stock of 81 1000, 900,
through which the entire production is to be
bought AID sold. By this means it is be-
lieved the price can be maintained at SIS per
barrel......T The jury in the case of Chief of
Police McWilliams, of Jersey City, failed to
agree, and he was bailed in $21 ,000.....The
wife of Indian Commissioner Vincent
Colyer was drowned recently, near Darien,
Ct, while attempting to drive across a
swollen stream....The trial of Mayor Hall,
of New York, has resulted in a disagreement
of the jury. 1t is said they stood seven for
conviction and five for acquittal.
CHEF JUSTICE CHAsE's health will probably
compel him to leave his seat on the Supreme
Bench for a time..-.The notorious Mrs.
Woodruff and Mrs. Clahin were arrested in
New York, recently, on the charge of circu-
lating obscene literature, and locke up in
offered to go bail for them, but they refused
to accept bail. The charge was based on a
scandalous and ibelous article published in
Woodruff Dc Clatin's Weekly, rejecting on
the characters of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
and Theodore Hilton, the editor of the indie
pendent. Proceedings against the twain had
been expected for several days, and their
arrest created no surprise. The New York
papers say tnab nObnlng more obscene In the
way of words or strocious charges has ever
obtained currency in any community than
the attacks of these women on Mr.. Beecher.
Their Office was also seized, together with
the books, furniture, and entire edition of
the paper. There is much indignation
among the virtuous New Workers at the
audacity of the publication complained of,
and general satisfaction is expressed at the
arrest of the authors, and the prospect of
their prosecution and conviction.
AT Rochester, N. Y, the other day, three
men were suffocated to death IN a new min
eral well.-...The United States Grand Jury
at New York has indicted Mesdames Wood
hull and Clafin for circulating obscenelitera-
ture. Bail was fixed in the sum Of $1,000,
in default of which they were remanded to
jail to await trial. Stephen Pearl Andrews,
the great head-center of the free-lovers, has
also been ar. ested on the charge of being
implicated with the dames......S Some excite
ment has been caused in Westchester county,
N. Y, by the reported discoveries of gold
quartz there.
THOMAS SULLY, the famous artist, died in
Philadelphia last week, aged 90 years.
The West.
THREE blocks of business houses were de-
stroyed by the fire at Grand Rapids, Mich,
last week. The loss will reach over 5000, 900.
THE st. Louis National Stock Yards Com
pany, capital stock 81 ,oOO, 200, has just COM
pleted its organization by the election of a
Board of Directors comprising representa-
tives Of the various railroads centering there.
They will Immediately proceed to the erec-
ton of mammoth stock yards and pens in
East st. Louis.
TIE work on the Northern Pacific railroad
is progressing at a marvellous rate of speed.
The rails are laid IT'S miles west of the Red
river, and the road is now open to the Mis-
souri, river, ass miles west of Lake superior.
Gen. Cass, the new President of the road,
has lately returned from a tour of inspection
along the line of the road. A st. Paul cor
respondent of a Chicago paper, announcin g
his return, says at is understood that while
they found the road well constructed, they
were met at all points and in nearly every
department with evidences of the most reck-
less and extravaganza management. the full
disclosure of which would astonish the
country. This win undoubtedly be shown in
the official report to be made by these gentle
men, but how much of it will be given to
the public time alone will tell. 1t is also
asserted with a directness that leaves little
doubt of its correctness, that with the COM
pletion of the road to the Missouri river, all
building operations on this end of the line
will be suspended for at least one, and prob
ably two years."....In reference to the re-
ported suspension of work on the st. Paul
and Pacific read, the officers say that their
road is being built Independently of the
Northern Pacific road, the latter company
having no financial responsibility for its
affairs, and that the temporary suspension
of work-on the st. Vincent extension of the
st. Paul line was caused by q misunder-
standing with the company's financial agents
in Amsterdam, from whom all funds for its
construction are forwarded.
ALVIN WILKINS, an old and well-knowr
Detroit broker, has failed for 100000. Ex
tensive forgeries are charged against him.
The South.
OVER 5,o00people assembled at Henderson
vile, N. c., the other day, to witness tn,
hanging of a murderer. To the intense dis
appointments and disgust of the crowd tn,
execution did not take place, the cri [ ina
having escaped the previous night by don
ming his wife's clothes, who had paid him
visit in his cell.
Washington.
IT is rumored that Secretary Boutwell, will
succeed Mr.. Wilson as Senator from Massa
chusetts, and that Mr.. Delano will tax,
charge of the Treasury .Georgt
W. Jenkins (colored) was hung in the jai
yard at Washington, last week, for tht
murder ofhis NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. denie
that he sent a telegram to President Theirs
congratulating him on the progress of repub
licanism in France"".The War Department
has received intelligence from Fort Laramie
that the Brule-Sioux Indians have gone OF
the war path.
THE following is the public debt statemen
for October:
Six per cent. bonds.--$1,34 BAT .921.0 900
- 81. 1852. 4ss.2O
Lawful money debt....~$ 19,70S 600
Matured debt..---.. 5.4S3,980
Legal tender notes..... 800. 652.816
Certificates of deposit. 23.655.000
Fractional CURRENCY. . 42.3l6.7 1856
Coin certificates. .... q, 1856
%-s2 .2S6. 612.7S
Total debt.......... $2,276,S 1928, 10
Total nterest............... 40,215,31j