Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-07-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

MAYOR CASTOR, of Boston, has vetoed the
order passed by the City Council for opening
the public library on Sundays.-...The
Japanese Government are having fve-twenty
bonds and greenback currency engraved by
the New York Bank Note Company,
under the direction of Henry Clews & Co.
Monthly shipments are now going forward
TO Japan. About Sic, O00, 900 have already
been sent......It may be authoritatively
stated, says a New York telegram, that there
is absolutely no foundation for the report
that Miss Nellie Grant has become engaged
TO q Scottish Lord.
PAUL E. LOVE-, son of ex-Gov. Lowe, of
Maryland, has been bailed in $4,000, at
New York, to answer for shooting VIM. De-
vine.-..The New York Express says a grand
national reunion of the Greeley editors is to
be held at Baltimore on June &c..
klrkwood, a prominent citizen of Pitts
burgh, was shot dead on his own porch,
while surrounded by his family, OIL Jun 81,
by a man named Flanders, because he re-
fused to fulfill a marriage engagement with
the assassin's sister...-.In Philadelphia, last
week, a young man named George WEIGH
shot and instantly killed his mother, while
sitting at the supper table. He is supposed
to be insane...".Th Saltwater wooden mills,
near Providence, R. l., were burned June
%. Loss, $3.50. ooo.-..Paris letters report
that Bismarck's ultimatum was neces-
sarily accepted by France, and, in accord
ance Herewith, the French army is to
be cut down TO 375, 900 men, and the
National Guard bound over to keep the
peace.
Lizzie GARRABRANDT's death sentence has
been cemmuted to imprisonment for life by
the New Jersey Court of Pardons......Two
persons were killed and several injured by
the explosion of a steam lighter at New
London, CT, June 24.-..Rev. E. L. ". Jones,
a wealthy Pittsburgh clergyman, goes to
the .workhouse for three years for swind-
ling a widow lady".-.Three boys, aged 3,
IL and ID years, respectively, were drowneG
at Albany, N. Y, June %, while bathing in
the. Hudson......A clever sharper named
by selling them lots in ~Communipaw that
did not belong to him. He realized SIS 900.
STEPHEN CAMBERLING, one of New York's
Oldest lawyers, died in that city jun 25,
aged SO......The usury law, which has stood
upon New Hampshire's statutes 200 years,
has just been repealed, and the rate of in
terest fixed at 6 per cent......Chauncey
johnson, of New York city, said to be the
champion sneak-thief of the country, has
just received a ten years sentence in Sing
Sing.
AFTER exhausting a panel of 75O citizens
a jury was finally obtained in the Stokes
case, at New York, on June 26, and the trial
proceeded with.....Three thousand yards of
oAho6SAC0 hINOAy oOdACu l. All1A Sdho1
was seized on the steamer Russia, at New
York, the other day.....1n a three-mile
single scull-boat race at Worcester, Mass,
June %, Ellis Ward made tho best time on
ecord-2l:3S... The widow of the late James
Fisk, Jr., was followed and hooted at by a
New York mob, the other day, under the
impression that she was Josephine Mans
field---.The New York straw goods house of
Baldwin, Rice & Co. has failed for 81 900,
0O0---Harvard College has conferred the
degree of LID. on President Grant.
The West.
BY the explosion of a boiler within the
walls of the Ohio Penitentiary, at Column
bus, on June 81, about fifty convicts were
more or less injured-some half a dozen, it
is feared, fatally.-...Henry Ryan, aged 10,
was drowned in the river at Dubuque, Iowa,
on June 20, willie bathing---.James Keagle,
an old mar of 80 years., hung himself in
~Sangamon county, Ill, last week.....The
schooner Jamaica, bound from Milwaukee
to Oswego, capsized and sunk in Lake
Huron, on June 20. The crew, with the ex-
ception of the cook, a woman, were saved.
-...At Big Rapids, Mich, on Tune 20, VIM.
McGregor was caught in the machinery of
a mill and torn to pieces.--.N. B. Latta, a
notorious counterfeiter, has been convicted
at Madison, Wis......A San Francesca dis
patch of June 81 says: " DR.. q. Rogers, re-
Gently of Chicago, appeared last night at
the Woman's Suffrage Convention, half his
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and whiskers. He announced that he did
it in recognition of man being half woman
and half man. He was arrested, and sent
to the insane ayslum." IAN explosion oc-
CURED during the progress of a fire in a
liquor store in Chicago, on une 81, killing
two patrolmen, and seriously injuring two
others.-..A young man named 1vins-a
step-son of Hon. George II. Williams, At
torney General of the United States-has
been arrested at Chicago for a $4,000 dia-
mond robbery, committed in Baltimore.
some time ago-...Mrs. Gardner, a bride OF
six weeks, committed suicide at Milwaukee,
by taking strychnine, on June 81.
PERRY L1sToN, a young farmer living nea,
Bloomington, ILL.,, committed suicide las
week, by shooting himself through the
body.....A "corner' in wheat, which a
Chicago man named Harding had been run
ming, collapsed last week. Harding mourns
the loss Of about 5000 900.
THREE persuasive physicians and q
patient-were poisoned last week, in Wheat
land, Mo-, by the blunder of a druggist......
The Supreme Court of Indiana has just de.
cided that insanity is not a sufficient cause
for divorce.....Marv McConkey, aged II.
was killed at Oshkosh, Wis, by being struck
with a piece of the clipper of a single fac.
tory......At Pleasant Hill, Ill, last week
James Ray killed Pat McGuin, by shifting
him with a beer-glass-..The wholesale dry
goods store of Joll & Frank, in Milwaukee
was struck by lightning on the night of June
"a, and entirely consumed by fire. Loss
1925, 900 insured for $50, 900.
A Mrs. LOOMS advertised herself to delive,
a lecture against female suffrage, in Platt's
Hall, San Francisco, on June rs. When she
mounted the rostrum she was interrupted
Missed and jeered by he leading female
suffragists. Hon. David Meeker demanded
that the disgraceful conduct cease, or that
the women be compelled to leave the hall
for which Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens, editresf
of the Pioneer, the suffragist organ, drew a
pistol on him in the hall, demanding an
apology from him, but was compelled to put
it in her pocket by the Mil
waukee was visited by a terrific thunder
storm on the night of June 25, which fairly
shook the city to its foundations. A large
number of houses were struck by lightning.
In the town of Greenfield a flock of twelve
sheep, lying under a tree, were killed by q
stroke of lightning THE railroad engi-
neers between Astoria and Cornelius, Oregon,
recently found marks on the rocks, leading
to the discovery of a box containing $57 200
in old Spanish coin and a quantity of
jewelry.
AT Springfield, ILL.,, on June 26, W. F.
Storey, of the Chicago Times, in attempting