Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-06-06
NEWS OF TIL WEEK.
The East.

pldceu, gave way ana preclptdGeu INC Gu
CINE and some fifty persons into the river
below. Many of them were seriously in
jured, though none killed outright"....Sev-
eral vessels have arrived in New York dur
ing the past week with smallpox prevailing
among steerage passengers. The captain OF
one of the vessels seemed to think the dis
ease was fostered by the dirty habits of the
emigrants, who were chiefly Poles. Nothing
short of physical violence could induce
them to wash, and the men deliberately ate
soap furnished them, thinking it cheese......
A skiH loaded with six men capsized on the
Monongahela river, near McKeesport, Pa,
on the Path inst, and four of the men were
drowned. They were all em~igrants, who
had just arrived from Europe.....It is esti-
mated that over 10000 men were on a strike
for eight hours of work in New York the
18th inst. Many factories are closing up
rather than yield to the demand.-..The
German brewers of the United States will
hold their twelfth annual congress in New
York, commencing the 4th of June and ex-
tending four days.
TWENTY THOUSAND emigrants arrived in
New York the week ending May IS. This
is the largest weekly arrival on record......
The steamship Adriatic made a trip be-
tween New York and Queenstown recently
in seven days and sixteen hours.....This is
the fastest time ever made between these
two places.---A man named Crawford,
brother-in-law to Commodore Vanderbilt,
bnOG q pOllCem8n In New 1Ork on Ino night
of the oath inst, because he would not re-
lease the Commodore's colored coachman,
whom he had in custody. .Dibble, Worth
i Co., cotton brokers of New York, sus-
pended on Saturday, having been cramped
by the withholding of large amounts of cot
ton by Southern dealers. 1t is said that
other cotton merchants, who have contracted
to deliver in time, are embarrassed, and
more suspensions are expected. peril
to life by working in the East river caisson,
at New York, was forcibly illustrated on
Friday. A laborer, named Daniel Pearson,
went to work, and though he felt the ill
effects of breathing the powerfully-con-
densed air, he continued until the close of
working hours, when he was seized with
paralysis of the limbs, accompanied by in
tense pain in the head and abdomen. His
death followed the next day, and he Coro-
ner was called upon to investigate whether
such sacrifice of the mans life was legiti-
mate.
The tug Epsilon exploded her boiler in
East river, New York, on the 9th ult., kill
ing six persons, including the captain and
engineer.....The strikes among the work
ingmen in New York still continue. TIL
piano-makers, cabinet-makers and pattern
makers are the latest strikers for the eight
hour system.....Dr. Andrew j. Lynn, of
Boston, has been held to bail in $40 900,
charged with procuring an abortion, result
ing in death, on Sarah Brown, a young
woman belonging to Fitchburg."..The
boiler of the Gordon C~ompany's Bleaching
Works, Philadelphia, exploded on the 27th
ult., killing the engineer and ~wounding five
other persons......A riot occurred in Jersey
hour strikers and men who had taken their
places. Three men were woundeded. The
riot was suppressed by the police.
OVER thirty thousand persons were more
or less injured by the explosion of the tug
Epsilon, at New York, on the 9th ult......A
terrible triple tragedy occurred at New
York on the 2Sth ult. One Trefsy, a baker,
stabbed his wife fatally with a dirk, and
hen stabbed her paramour, Franz Linde-
man, winding mp by cutting his own throat.
All three will probably die......Lyman Ire
maine, John D.. Townsend and Henry Daily,
Jr., have been retained as Stokes counsel.
.-...Over 10000 workingmen are on a strike
for eight hours, in New York. They are
quiet and confident of the ultimate success
of the movement......B Bids for supplies for
the Indian Department were opened in New
York on the 2Sth ult. Bids for 81 900 900
pounds of beef on the hoof, delivered at diff
ferent agencies during the year, ranged
will be made at from $1.s4 to $3.50 per 100
pounds. Bids for $780, 900 pounds of flour,
delivered at the agencies, range from $2.85
to 81 per 200 pounds.-...Capt. Samuels'
famous yacht Dreadnaught, which original
ly cost $4,000, was sold at New York, tho
other day, for SIS, 900.
THE Brooklyn Schutzen corps will start on
June 20, for Hanover, to take part in the
German National Schutzenfest, in father
land....Two mines of the Delaware and
Hudson Company, n at Carbonate and
the other at Olyphant, Pa, have suspended
operations in order to reduce the production
of coal. The TIVE mines throw out of en-
ploy 700 men and boys, and decrease the
production of the company 5000 tons per
doU Eohnr r. n y lad naval norrfo4
tory was destroyed by fire, in New York, on
the 10th ult. Loss, $500 ,006.
The West.
PRoF. HENRY s. MOVES, of the North
western University, at Evanston, ILL.,, died
recently at that place.-....John Rever, Of
Lyons, ILL.,, died on the Gath from the effects
of a pommeling, at the hands of Valentine
HoHman..--One million three hundred and
forty-four thousand dollars will be required
to run the county government of Cook
county, Ill during the coming year.....Th
schooner Robinson was run into by the
propeller Manistee, on Lake Michigan on
the oath inst, and sunni in ten minutes.
She was loaded with 10000 bushels of corn.
The crew were saved......A terrible tornado
passed over a portion of Adams Co., Ill, on
the oath inst, unroo6ng houses, barns,
trees, &C., and doing serious damage. A
severe gale also occurred about the same
time near Burlington, Iowa, which caused
much injury....Land Commissioner Ed
munds, of Michigan, has been acquitted by
the State Senate of that State. .....The vii
lage of Hayesville, near Ashland, Ohio, lost
its entire business portion by fire on the
Oath inst.
A MAN was found dead, hanging in 8
small window of a barn in Chicago, on the
oath. His head was covered with blood and
badly bruised. The fingers of the left hand
were gone. 1t is supposed that he attempted
to crawl through the window when drunk,
and that he was attacked by a horse inside
the barn and sufocated in his effort to re-
lease himself......J. 7. Weswell, b~ook-keeper
in the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail,
road shops at Aurora, ILL.,, was run over by
the switch engine at that place and instantly
killed on the 25th inst..".Two trains col
ided on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cihc railroad at Joliet, ILL.,, on Sunday, by
which several passengers were seriously in
Jured-none fatally.-...Mr. John ]. Cham
pion was thrown from his buggy, at Spring
field, Ill, on Saturday, and fatally injured
Two boys named Mann and Hight were
were drowned in Catfish river, at Rockdale
Mills, Iowa, on the 25th ult., while bathing,
making seven drowned in that vicinity in
as many days-...Wh in Northern In
diana has been greatly improved by the
recent rains. Flax is being devastated by
cut-worms.....A little three-year-old daugh-