Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-15

of $I3.I $50 ,531.....A grain elevator, contain
ing 155, 900 bushels of corn and $4,000 bush
els of wheat, was burned in Chicago on the
9Th inst. Total less about $4,000.
CHIcAGo's mortality roll for tho month of
July foots up a total of 1872, of whom over
half were children under one year of age.
The deaths in June numbered S13......The
wife of Mr.. John Mathewson, a respectable
farmer of Fulton county, ILL.,, was found
murdered by some unknown person, last
week, while the family were engaged in
harvest work some distance from tho house.
.-..One of the most terrible hail-storms over
known recently passed over Lyon county,
Iowa, causing immense damage. Hail
stones ten to fourteen inches in circumfer-
ence poured down for thirty minutes, rid
ding window-glass, and, in many instances,
passing completely through the shingled
roofs of houses.
CLINTON R. WINsLow, son of Admiral
Winslow, of the navy, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head, at San
Francisco, on the 9TH of August......The saw
mill of John McGraw, of Portsmouth, Mich,
the largest and most complete in the coun-
try, was totally destroyed by fire on the 18th
of August, together with 1900, 00) feet of
lumber. Loss $3O0,oOj insured for $1z5 900.
$500. VIM. Hewitt, one of Cleveland's wealth
lest and best citizens, died last week, of
Bright's disease OF the kidneys.
The South.
ANNIE GIBSON, of Nashville, committed
suicide, the other day, by hanging herself.
.-..Tucker Ballard, Marshal OF Grab
Orchard, KY, shot Martin Delaney dead,
last week, while attempting to arreet4him.
TIE Investigations being prosecuted by
the United States Commissioner at Browns
vile, Texas, reveal a fearful record of MUIR
der and plumber. Custom-House officers,
drovers and others rave been murdered in
ard around Brownsville by bands of Mexi-
can ~marauders, and droves of cattle have
been seized and driven over the river
within sight of the city. Stolen cattle are,
on arrival on Mexican soil, rebranded by
the thieves, and their recovery is thus rem
dered impossible. The feeling among the
people is that they must protect themselves,
and a war of races is looked upon US inevi-
table.
ANOTHER outrage has been committed on
the Texas border. An officer of the Mexican
army, at the head of an armed force, re-
Gently crossed the Rio Grande, seized the
owner of a ranch, and forcibly took him
into Mexican territory, together with a por-
ton of his stock.....A young man named
Thomas met-with- a shocking death at Louis
vile, the. other day. He was caught in the
-machinery of a paper mill and his head
literally torn from his body.
Coz. KING, the largest stock-raiser in.
Texas, was recently attacked by a band of
Mexicans near his ranch. King escaped by
flight, but one of his employees, a German,
was kill I'd. It is said these men were SEM
to murder King, IN order to prevent his ap-
pearance to testify. before the Commission at
Brownsville....Nicho G. Sinnott, a pros
porous Chicago merchant before the great
fire, but ruined by that calamity, COM
mitted suicide in st. Louis recently......Evi
dence before the American Commission in.
Brownsville, Texas, shows hat the cattle
stolen by the Mexicans, near Brownsville,
numbered $1,000 head, valued at ST. ,000,-
900. The Commissioners express astonish-
ment at the crimes and outrages the Next
have perpetrated on the people of
Texas, as shown by the testimony taken.
A BROWNSVILLE, Texas, special says that
details of the Mexican outrages, as given
before the commission, are shocking. Men
are made poor in a single day, the raiders
crossing their herds over the river, which
is a weekly occurrence. Men are killed for
q dollar tribute. There is a reign of blood
the country, and people are armed night
day.