Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-28
OF THE WEEK.


The number of firms in New York engaged
under false names in swindling persons by
means of lottery, counterfeit money, and
other schemes, is over five hundred. The
Post Office authorities have an alphabetical
list, and are showing increased activity in
fighting the evil......The Iron City awe
of Pittsburgh, owned by Fraunheim &
Feilsch, was seized by the revenue officers
on Thursday for making false returns and
other offenses against the government. The
seizure embraces the entire stock, machinery
and other personal property found on the
premises, amounting to about $4,000.
THE official report of the new Directors of
the Erie railroad states that the earnings of
the company from November, 1871, to date,
were $21, O0O, 1000, against ST., 900 900 the
year pr~evious.-..A young man named W.
Sewers, and a girl named Longuard, were
run over, and the former instantly killed,
by a train on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, on Friday night. They had been sit
ting on the track talking-.-.Another boat of
the Staten Island Ferry company was seized
at New York on Friday, for a judgment
against the company. The Sheriff will lay
the boats up, or collect the passenger fares,
unless the judgments are shortly paid--..At
White Plains, New York, an attempt has
been made to poison a family named Acker-
man, composed of eight persons, by impreg-
mating a spring with arsenical poison.
NEAR Springfield, Mass, on Saturday, a
train was thrown from the track by a broken
rail. The smoking car went down an en-
bankment fifteen feet, and twenty persons
In it were more or less injured, but none ia
tally.
WILLIAM TREvERT accidentally shot his
wife at New York on Tuesday, killing her
instantly, and he became a raving
maniac when he discovered what he had
done......A New York immigrant swindler
was on Tuesday sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment.
Mrs. E. S~HAUsHANK died in a dentists
chair at New York on Wednesday, from
the administration of laughing gas....The
Plattskill Falls Hotel, the New Mountain
House, near Saugerties, N. Y, burned on
Tuesday. TIL building was owned by R. E,
Pomerey. Loss $4,000 insurance SIS, 200.
1.-THE house of a farmer named Robert
Bowles, near Theresa, N. Y, was burned on
Monday night. The family were obliged to
leave the house in their night clothes, and
several of them had their limbs badly
frozen. Bowles was so badly burned while
attempting to save his children that he died
next day.....A Fonda, N. Y, dispatch of
Wednesday evening says "The train which
left here this morning, on the Fonda, Johns
town and Gloversville railroad, with three
engines, is fast in a snow-bank a mile long
and six to ten feet deep, near Gloversville."
."..An trains between st. Lawrence and
Prescott, Ont, were snow-bound on Wednes-
hdJ d1 d Iudb ne udS
negotiated a loan of s., 000, 900 at five per
cent. for the new Erie Board on securities
rating as high as seventy. TIL new loan
can readily be paid off with the earnings in
a very short time, and is only needed 10
tide the company over the rugged places left
by five years of Jay Gould.
The West.
PETER SMITH shot and killed Michael
Schaffer, his brother-in-law, in a drunken
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Wednesday. The murderer was arrested.
THE Calumet feeder dam of the Illinois
and Michigan canal is to be removed imme-
diately. Thousands of acres of land, now
overlooked will be reclaimed in consequence
nd. O.. Cole, for several years secretary of
the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, is dis
covered to be a defaulter in the sum of $685.
900. Cole has fed, leaving his young wife
and two children Willie Bradley,
I6 years old, was killed at S~helbyville, Ind,
on Thursday, while trying to couple cars.
1.-THE Globe Insurance Company, of Chi
cago, announces its readiness to pay all its
losses in full. 1t is the first Chicago COM
pany to resume business since the fire.
Mrs. ANNA C. Ruth was released on a writ
of ha6eas corpus at Lawrence, Kansas, on
Friday. The prosecuting attorney an
neunced that since the decision of the Su-
preme Court against the admissibility of
Ruth's letter, written the evening of his
death, as evidence, her conviction under the
present developments of facts was impossi-
BILE, and he did not desire to retain her in
custody any longer. She was therefore dis
charged. .Michae WEIGH, a farmer resid-
ing near Waukesha, Wis, was kicked by a
mule on Friday and instantly killed. The
entire top of his head was taken off. WEIGH
was aboutf orty-fve years of age, and leaves a
family.
TIE Touring mill of ~zesighouse & Bro, st.
Louis, Mo-, was burned early on Sunday
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.....Fou powder mills of the Austin Powder
Company, situated about five miles south of
Cleveland, blew up on Saturday afternoon
with a series of heavy explosions, three
hundred kegs, or about four tons, of powder
being fired. Two men, named Leonard and
Sherman, who were at work in one of the
mills, were blown to pieces, fragments of
their bodies being thrown hundreds of feet
away. Three other men, at work in the vi
cinity, were more more or less injured. The
mills blown up were torn to atoms, the
ground for several acres being strewn with
fragments. Loss between $15,O 900 and
$4,000: The explosion was heard at Raven
ma, a distance of forty miles......Mr Kane,
aged 66 years, mother of Thomas Kane, of
Wenona, whose legs were crushed by the
cars in LaSalle, ILL.,, and amputated on Fri
day evening, came to town to see her unfor-
tunate son on Saturday morning, and on
seeing him Immediately swooned and died.
In the matter of differences between the
proprietors of the Missouri Democrat, Judge
Madill on Monday appointed William Nc
Kee, one of the firm, receiver, and ordered
a sale of the establishment......Ge George
Thompson, night yard-master of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas. railroad, at Sc
dalia, Mo-, was killed on Monday morning
while switching a train...w.At Mackinac, on
the 7th inst, the mercury stood at twenty
degrees below zero. The ice in the harbor
is twenty-four inches thick, and no ~conjec-
ture can be formed as to when the straits
Will open.
Mrs. ScHAcr, who was Drained at st. Louis
on Monday with a poker by her maniac
husband, died on Tuesday night......At
Lockland, o., on Sunday last, a negro named
Barhyde beat his wife's brains out with an
axe, in a fit of REORGANIZATION Hanna
shot and killed job E.. Tindall on Monday,
near Cannon City, Col.-...Quite a swind1e
has been perpetrated on farmers near Fort
Wayne, Ind, by sales of patent hay-forks,
on the double-note swindle system. The
aggregate amount will reach SIS 900. Eff
forts are being made to arrest the r~ascals,
but thus far have been unsuccessful.
THE spotted fever has been raging at
~Logansport, Ind, for the past five weeks
with an average of eight deaths daily.
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