Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-07-18

men named Jacob Kimmel and Alex
ander Mcleod, and a youth, brother OF
Kimmel, had been guilty of violating anu
subsequently numbering q cir! IA years OF
age, living in Celins, and were in Jail await
trial. A mob of between two and three
thousand people gathered at the jail, over
powered the Sheriff, forced the doors, took
the three prisoners out of town, and hanged
two of them, but, through the interposition
of the brother of the murdered girl, the
youths life was spared and he was returned to
prison. When the two men were being hung,
a farmer residing about two hundred yards
from the scene committed suicide by cutting
his throat with q butchers knife.-...A fire
at indianapolis, July 8, destroyed Massler
Bros clothing house, involving a loss OF
$50 ,000... ..Leander Stratton and II. Kenneth
were drowned at Lsgro, Ind, the other day,
while bathing in the canal....The number
of deaths in Chicago for the week ending
July 10 was S72-an increase OF lo4 over
the week preceding; 2Sl were children
under one year of age.
The stove manufacturer were in national
session at Cincinnati last week. John S.
Perry, of Albany, presided. The amount of
capital invested in the manufacture of
stoves in the United States was stated at
$3e, ZOO, 900, giving employment to 10000
men....W. d. Richardson, of Springfield,
has hired $50 of the Illinois Penitentiary
convicts for Eve years, at Sl3 cents per
day.
REV. SAMUEL j. BROWNE, who shot and
killed the boy Schick, at Cincinnati, last
week, has been bsiled in $50,0oO--.Two
ladies were drowned in Walnut creek, near
Topeka, Kansas, July 10, while bathing.
son, Ind, July IL, by a gas exploslon..-..
Oscar and Pliny Whitcomb, aged Is and lo,
| were drowned while bathing, near Geueseo,
ILL.,, July 10...-.Two men were killed by
| lightning at Believer Station, ILL.,, July
| 11."...And still they come. John Summers,
Of Milwaukee, while bathing in the canal,
July II, sank to rise no more-alive......A
brother of the man Dorman, who
| suicide neal where the Mercer ceunty(Ohio)
mob hung Kimmell and Mcleod, killed
himself by cutting his throat with a razor
on the nth inst. 1t is supposed that both
/ of them were in some way connec ted with
the murder of Miss Secore. The excitement
still continues high in that section.
The South.
THREE prisoners attempted to escape from
the custody of the Sheriff of Pope county
Ark, a few days ago, and were fred upor
and killed by the Sherif's guard ...c..W Walter
G. Overton, long connected with the press o
Louisville, and of late the Washington cor
respondent of the Courier-JournaL died il
Louisville, July 9, of fstula."..Fhoma
Smith, colored, will hang at Louisville
Sept. 10, for the murder of Mrs. Braden il
May, 1S71.-... Willism Cain was crushed t.
death at Louisville, last week, by an irol
him while he was at the bottom of a pi
twelve feet deep-...Wm. Hagmann suicidet
at st. Louis, July 9, by jumping into tn
river from a ferry-boat. About the sam
hour, Mrs. Ellen Allen poisoned hersel
with Paris green. Cause, in both cases
Whisky.
The caterpillar is playing havoc will
the cotton fields in some portions of Ala
bama .....John H. Lane, of Illinois, stoppe
at Litch6eld, KY, last week, wrote on
slip of paper, " Old Death, 1 salute thee,
took a dose of morphine, and shuffied o.
his mortal coil.
SEVEN persons were killed outright, an
several dangerously injured, by a bridg
giving way beneath a railroad train, nea
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,o on the lit
of July....The caterpillars, in unusual
large numbers, have appeared all throug
the cotton belt Of Alabama, three week
earlier than ever before. The same repol
comes from South Carolina. There is niue
depression among the planters in conse
quence-...Stilson Hutehins has sold h
one-third interest in the st. Louis Times
Henry Ewing for $4,000.
Washington.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 9Th ins
says: The sensations of the day have bee
the suicide of a War Department clerk, tn
literal carving up of one negro by anothe
and the falling of three derricks, each nearl
one hundred feet in height, at the new Stat
Department., among the laborers at work o
the lower story. By this last accident Sc,
eral were killed and many wounded.....Th
District Court has awarded $4,000 pri,
money for the destruction of the rebel raj
Albemarle.
IT is announced that the postal cards wi
not be ready for a month yet.
Foreign.
IT is said that Victor Hugo has secured
> communication of the sentence of Hen
Rochefort to simple Punishment frol
: France, instead of transportation to Ne
D The last report concerning D
Houard is that his release has been ordere
r by the Spanish Goverument.-...1t is ssi
the great Catholic powers of Europe ha,
agreed to hold q conclave of Cardinals,
: order to lave an Understanding between Il
:, Cardinals and the Governments intereste
: in the Pope.....Monterey is again in Il
: hands Of the Juarist troops, who Telegram
3 forthwith that " the revolution is practice
Q ly ended, the chiefs only keeping their nj
1 together to secure terms of surrender fro
Q the Government"
3 THE celebrated German author, Robe
Prutz, is dead...-.The Berlin correspondent
of the London Standard writes that the il
. creasing tide of emigration from German
to America causes considerable useasine
to the Imperial Government. Measures f
tho repression of this exodus of the subjec
f of the Empire are seriously contemplate
-....A terrible explosion, supplemented by
conf1agration, occurred in a flour mill
> Glasgow, Scotland, July 9, by which elevt
persons lost their lives, and many more We
!, seriously injured. .....Advices from the Gil
of Mexico to July 9 furnish the followir
bulletin of news: Assassination and kidnsl
1 ping prevail everywhere. The Mexico
3 journals are full of complaints against I'll
4 usurpations of the Government. Unite
l States Minister Nelson was to sail for hon
. on the 18th. and will not return. The ex
!, cution of Yuclan, formerly q member of I'll
. press, in Cuba, by the Spanish authorize
created a great sensation in Mexico. &c
t Rosecrans has published q manifesto consul
: iIg the Mexican journals for having attackt
his projected railroad enterprise, complain
: ing that, in spite of his known predilectic
for Mexico and Mexicans, there is nObod
to defend him. He calls on the patriotism
4 honor and generosity of the Mexicans
. take the matter of the railroad again und
o consideration. The situation at Monterey
= unchanged.
. A DISPATCH from Madrid says that D
. Houard is free. An order from Madrid Q
= fered his release as an act of pardon,