Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

infected with yellow fever nave arrived at
New York, and the Gothamites are consider
ably exercised lest the disease may spread
into the city. One of the vessels was a Ger.
man bark, from Jamaica. The horrors OF
the voyage are described as fearful, only
three living souls being left on board when
she arrived at New York, all the others hav-
ing died with the fever.....The office OF
henry Ward Beecher's paper, the Christian
Union, in New York, has been damaged by
fire and water to the extent of $1,000.
Wheeler H. Peckham, counsel for the New
York Committee of Seventy, says that he
can collect the whole $4,000, 900 stolen by
the Tammany ring, despite their transfers OF
property. He is alse satisfied that he can
send IAgersoll to the State Prison. A strict
watch is kept over Tweed's property sales.
and every man who buys of him is told that
he risks being compelled to turn his pur-
chase over to the city, or pay for it again.
Tweed has been selling property ever since
plasterer, has voluntarily offered to restore
to the city every cent that he acquired
through the frauds.
The Clinton Wooden Manufacturing
C~ompany's Mills, in Elmira, N. Y, have
been destroyed by fire, involving a loss OF
$50, 600 ......Another horrible wife-murder
has been perpetrated in New York. One
Flanagan, in q fit of insanity, stabbed his
wife seven times with q but~cher-knIfe, and
then kicked her face out of all human re-
semblance.....The Pittsburgh w~orkingmen
have been holding a meeting to protest
against the introduction o. the "Heathen
Chinee' into the labor market of the Smoky
Commodore Macemb of the navy,
died at Philadelphia last week.
THE trial of Judge Barnard has resulted in
his conviction on nearly all the charges
brought against him..-..There were last
week six ships with yellow fever on board
at anchor in New York Bay....Stokes, the
slayer Of Fisk, occupies a handsomely car
peted and papered cell in the New York
Tombs, and is provided with fare equal to
official apethecary of the Brooklyn navy
yard, died, recently, from the effects of a
dose of t~incture of anconite, taken in mis-
al for ginger.....Two young women have
been drowned at Long Branch, while bath
ing.....Two bold highwaymen entered the
office of Blees & Co., at New York, while 8
party of employees were being paid off, and,
pointing r%evelvers at the workmen, coolly
seized and walked off with a large roll of
money, making good their escape.
FoUR men were drowned at New York,
the other day, while bathing.....A wealthy
widow belonging to Chicago, who recently
arrived at New York from Europe, has
mysteriously disappeared, and foul play is
suspected. 1.-Two hundred feet of street
causeway, in Jersey City, recently sunk.
Loss, 5000, 900.
DR.. JOHN C. HoUARD, who has lately been
suffering the horrors of a Spanish dungeon,
has arrived in this country. He fully con-
firms the story of his sufferings, as published
through the American press. It is the in
tention of DR.. Houard to prove his citizen
ship, and then compel such PREPARATION from
Spain as is due an American citizen SO long
and barbarously outraged.....Prof. Charles
D. Balch, a prominent New Yorker, has Just
died from the effects of an overdose of NOR
phine, taken to relieve neuralgia.
The West.
TIE Red River Indians are not disposed
to receive the annuities provided by the
treaty with the Dominion, but demand bet
ter terms, and threaten to stop the surveys
if their demands are not complied with.
Capt. Leroy, of the Colorado Steam Naviga-
ton Company, was shot dead, at Fort Yuma,
recently, by a Chinaman hotel-keeper, from
whom he had ordered liquor, and refused to
pay for it. Leroy fred first, but missed. The
Chinaman then fred, breaking Leroy's
right arm. The latter then took his pistol
in his left hand, and fred twice more befo re
he was killed.
A GENERAL outbreak among the Indians in
Utah is threatened, and Gem Ord and Nor
row are taking measures for an active
campaign against Council Bluffs,
Iowa, has had a 1856 900 milwaukee
has been excited over a hotel poisoning
case. All the guests were taken violently
i'll about the same time, and all presented
the same symptoms. It is said TO have re-
suited from drinking adulterated coffee.
G.. D. PAGE, telegraph operator at Mt.
Pleasant station, Utah, was attacked by In
dians, a few nights since, while leaving the
Office, and fatally tomahawked......B Brigham
Young has been making a tour through the
the Mormons with PROFESSIONS, music, flags,
banners and flowers.
ILLINOIS farmers and stock-raisers are Just
now having their periodical excitement
about the Texas cattle fever. 1t is said to
nave broken out in different parts of the
State in a very malignant form...... Bloom
ington, Monroe county, Ind, has had a de-
conflagration, involving a loss of
over $50,000.-..Four young desperadoes es-
capped from the Chicago Jail a few nights
ago. They presented cooked revolvers at
the head of the jailor, and forced him to de-
liver up the keys, with which they opened
the doors, walked out and made good their
escape--.The Chicago Tribune prints a spe-
cial telegram from Laramie, Wyoming Ter
ritory, Purporting to give an account of the
discovery of the Arizona diamond fields by
the veritable discoverer himself. 1t is sem
.sational in the highest degree. The man
who claims to have found this modern Col
conda is one P. Edward Arnold, a Kentuck-
ian. He says about s., 500, 900 worth of
have been already gathered up,
and that the supply seems inexhaustible
MIN years ago q son of Mr.. George W.
Depler, of Chicago, aged eleven years, mys-
teriously disappeared from home, and has
long been mourned as dead. A few days
age the missing boy-now a grown up young
man-gladdened the hearts of the old folks
by returning to the paternal roof.
THERE were 324 deaths in Chicago for the
week ending Aug. 17..--.Jefferson White re-
Gently shot and killed Henry Houltz, near
.lney, Ill. Both were farmers, and near
neighbors. Subsequently, White was taken
from the Jail by an Infatuated mob and hung
to the limb of a tree, in the courthouse
yard, at Olney--.Rockford, Iowa, has had
3 horse-whipping sensation. Rev. W. C.
Archer, a Baptist minister, was the victim,
and Mrs. Hilliard, a member of the Rev.
Mr.. AS congregation, welded the lash ......
The great corner in wheat, at Chicago,
which has agitated the whole commercial
world, both East and West, for some time
suddenly collapsed last week. The
excitement in that city, in consequence, was
most intense, the scene on Change being
as even more thrilling and excit-
ng than any that were witnessed immedi-
ately after the great October fire. The chief
manipulation in the corner was job B.