Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-02-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
TIA Eat

The East.
TIE Staten Island Ferry Company are
going to bring before the Court of Appeals
the claim of $1,000, recovered against them
by one of the victims of the explosion of the
Westfeld, still contending that no liza Jility
accrued against them for ferriage on the
Sabbath.-..Twee still remains in New
York city, despite the summons of the
Legislative Committee on Elections to ap-
pear in reference to the contest of his Sena-
t9rial seat By o'Donoyan Rossa:;"Mrs.
c.. Bryant, BaYard Taylor, Bret Harte, and
others, have gone to Havana, on the steamer
Moro Castle. by invitation of the Atlantic
Mail Company.
GEORGE Boris, the murderer of Pet
Halsted, was hung at Newark, N. J., on
Friday"....An the property of the New York
Printing Company is now sold, aggregating
100000. This, with the sums due the COM
pany, will be su~ ficient to satisfy the Ocean
Banks judgment of sos, 000.....G George W.
Watson, q Williamsburg hair-dresser, was
shot dead at his own establishment in New
York on Thursday by Mrs. Fanny Hyde,
aged 1S, who says he has been in the habit
of insulting and accusing her of u~nfaithful-
ness to her husband.
BRICK PoMERoY has been sued for $25 900
damages for a breach of promise of marriage,
by Sadie Wilkinson, of New Haven, Conn,
she charging that he promised to marry her
in 1866.
An infant son of Henry T. Clarke, of
Troy, N. Y, was killed on Sunday by his
brother, aged three years, who threw a piece
of slate at him. The child killed was nine
months old....A fire occurred in Belleville,
Ont, early on Sunday morning, at the Boys
Home. The building was totally destroyed,
and one boy was burned to death. The
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barely escaped in their night clothes. Loss
$8,O00"-..David Barry was killed by a loco
motive at a crossing at Kingston, near
Scranton, on Saturday afternoon.....Joseph
B. Lyman, agricultural editor of the New
York Tribune, died on Sunday.
A SERIOUS accident occurred to the Erie
mail east, on the Philadelphia and Erie
railroad, about two miles eastof Lockhaven,
at h~alf-past 10 o'clock on Tuesday night,
caused by a broken rail. The engine and
tender passed over in safety. The rest of
the train went over an e~mbankment, and
took fire instantly. The baggage car, two
passenger cars, and a sleeping car were
burned: Two of. the passengers, James
.~Lysaught, of Williamsport, Pa, and Charles
Patterson, of Troy, Pa, became entangled
in the wreck and were severely burned......
A fire at Scranton, Pa, on Monday night,
destroyed $4,000 worth of property. In
surance, $40 1000 ......A fire at Goshen, N. Y,
on Saturday night, burned fifty head of
choice cattle and six blooded horses, the
property of Abraham Rierson.
: A HALIFAX dispatch says the fate of the
Tariff bill now before the United States
Congress, proposing a reduction of the duty
on coal to fifty cents per ton, causes great
anxiety among dealers there......Anothe
suit has been commenced against ex-Collector
amount of political assessment paid by an
~ofhceholder in the Custom House......A war
rant has been issued for the arrest of the
husband of Fanny Hyde, as an accessory to
the murder of Watson---.The Commission
OF Appeals, in the case of Rawson against
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has
decided that the limitation of liability to
800 for loss of luggage is not a contract,
and awarded the plaintiff $4,000 damages for
her luggage lost by the defendants.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred on Thursday
on the Lehigh Valley railroad, near Rock
port. As the Buffalo express train was near
ing that point, 8 rail broke, precipitating the
Z train over an embankment about thirty feet
high, wrecking the cars, which were set on
hre by the stoves. Four of the passengers
were instantly killed, and four died of their
INJURIES, and some eighteen others are score
or less injured PROF Wilson, principal Of
the Union School at Washington, Penn, was
by Thomas McGiffsn. The Professor had
refused to deliver a note from McGifen to
one of the young ladies, and on being or
dered from the premises, McGifen shothim,
ball entering about the hip. McGifen
is about IT years of age......The will of
James Fisk was admitted to probate in New
York on Thursday. The estate was sworn
to as not exceeding a million dollars. His
widow is the sole executrix, Mr.. Jordan act
ing as co-legatee.
The West.
BAKER, one of the witnesses for the prose-
cution in the Robinson murder case, at Salt
Lake city, has made an affidavit that his
testimony before Judge Mexican in the pre-
and false. On this affidavit Baker was ar
rested for perjury, and is now confined at
Camp Douglas.
THE Supreme Court of Kansas has sus-
pendsd the execution of DR.. Melicott, Who
was to have been hanged On Thursday for
poisoning Mr.. Ruth, until the 22d of March.
.....Six PERSONS, confined two in a cell,
escaped from the Jail at Cadiz, Ohio, on
Thursdey, by digging from one cell to an
the jail, and then making their way to the
upper story, escaped by means of a bed cord
from a window-...Mrs. Reynolds, wife of
ex-Goyernor Reynolds, of Missouri, was
ing by her clothes taking fire from an open
crate. She was in feeble health, and when
discovered had all her clothes burned off
except a small portion about her neck and
breast. Her injuries were so severe that,
after lingering in an insensible~ condition
until 2 o'clock Tuesday morning, she died.
: The business part of Abbeville, Mo-, was
destroyed by fire on Friday. Loss $50, 900 ;
insurance $15,000-.-.The body of an IN
known German, about IS years of age, was
on Saturday found suspended from a tree, at
Aenosha, Wis. Deceased is supposed to be
from Milwaukee or Chicago, and a murder
Is suspected ...... Both houses of the Missouri |
Legislature " unanimously passed a bill
authorizing st. Louis to issue 81, 1886, 900 |
bonds for the extension and protection of
water works.
A LITTLE seven-year-old daughter of Mrs.
A. Grissam, near shawneetown, ILL.,, was
burned to death on Sunday by her clothes
taking fre-...M Mount Hood, Oregon, is
throwing out q dense column of smoke, in
dicative of active volcanic action.....Lou
Zimmerman, of Cleveland, aged 10, COM
United suicide on Monday morning by shoot