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

NouShSoA U years Ol0I SO ILaC ampuJatlOn
OF her arm was necessary....A boiler in the
Trenton Rolling Mills, in Jersey City, ex-
ploded on Saturday, destroying the black
smith shop and a portion of the rear build
ing. Five men were injured, and one
Hughes, a boiler tender, is missing. Loss
$4,000.
THE Executive Committee of the Centen-
NAL Commission met in Philadelphia on
Wednesday, and elected Hon. Daniel MorfelI
permanent Chairman...-.The excitement in
the New York Stock Exchange on Wednes-
day eclipsed that of any previous time since
Black Friday. Four hundred thousand
sha.es changed hands. The stock fell from
20 to So.
MICHAEL HAYES was arrested in New York
on Tuesday, for a murder committed in a
Roosevelt street bar-room row fifteen years
Somebody in the District Attorneys
oihce took $4,000 and pigeon-holed the in
and the assassin fed......At Pitts
6urgh, on Tuesday, a little son of John
brother, aged fourteen months, on the head
with a poker, killing him ......A fire at Port
Ieyden, N. Y, on Monday night, destroyed
Sylvester 4 Riggs block. Loss $4,000 ; in
says Jay Gould Melted a profit of S., 24O, zoo
IN the rise of Erie stock on Tuesday,.
Elias Magnin, of New York, has recovered
$244,114 in a suit against The Adams Ex-
press Company, for the value of a box of
watches shipped to Memphis, Tenn, in
1853, and lost.
The West.
OK Saturday night, in a saloon at Spring
field, Ill, Edward Duffy shot and killed
Henry Stoy and wounded Edwin Slater, the
saloon keeper. The murderer e~scaped....
The Protection Life Insurance Company, of
Chicago, has commenced a libel suit against
the Masonic AdDocate, of Indianapolis, Ind,
placing the damages at SIC, O00.....A young
man about eighteen years old, named Lewis
aerted, committed suicide at Garfield O., on
Sunday by hanging himself to a tree. Dis
appointment in love was the cause.
Frances TYLER, a young lady from
Quincy, Mich, committed suicide at Detroit
on Sunday night by taking stry~chnine....
The machine shop of William Crippen, at
Manistee, Mich, was burned on Monday
night Loss $4,000 insurance Sc, Co.,.
Ellard Park, Teller of the Bank of San
Jose. committed suicide at San Francisco on
nda shooting himself through the head.
No cause Tobias ClaywelI, u sa-
loon keeper at Winchester, Ill, was shot
and killed on Saturday by a man whom he
had torcibly elected from the saloon.
THE Republican State Conventions of Ohio
and Iowa were held at Columbus and Des
Moines on Wednesday. Both conventions
adopted resolutions favoring the renomina-
ton of Grant, bat differing in their choice
for Vice President-0hio putting forward
Ex-Gov. Denpison, and Iowa preferring Jas.
F. Wilson.....The Los Angeles anti-Chinese
slaugnter.-..The lottery advertised in the
East for the benefit of a charity hospital in
San Francisco is, says a dispatch from that
city, a fraud. There is no such institution 4
there-.-The Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Northern
Indiana met at Muncie on Wednesday. A
newfeature of the present Conference will
be the introduction of one hundred and fifty
Lay Delegates-.-..At Milwaukee on Wednes-
day afternoon, a girl named Mary Rudinski,
team, and sprang into the Phoenix mill,
where she fell and instantly expired. She
was frightened to death.
WoLF's brewery, a saloon, and two dwell
ing houses were destroyed by fire at Stillwa-
ter, Minn.y on Monday night. Two mem
the barkeeper in the saloon and a laborer in
the brewery, whose names are not given
in the flames. Two others barely |
escaped. The loss is about $685. par
TALLY covered by insurance.
The South.
TIE Baltimore Gazette has been sold to
VIM. H. Welsh, late proprietor of the Phila-
delphia Age, and Henry Taylor and VIM. II.
Carpenter, of Baltimore.-..A dispatch from
Wilmington, N. c., gives q rumor that the
Lowery gang have shot the captured Herald
the wife murderer, |
committed suicide in Jail at Richmond, KY, |
Monday, by hanging himself to the top bar
OF the door of his cell, with a rope made
from a towel and two Observation-Disclosures.
TIE building and stock of the Washing
ton County Leather Manufacturing Com
pany,at Hagerstown, Nd, was destroyed by
nre on Sunday morning. Loss SIC, 900 in
surance $50, 900 .-...The Bourbon House and
tnree stores at Paris, KY, were burned on
Loss $4,000 insurance $4,000.
HE Kentucky Legislature on Wednesday
passed a resolution providing for the sale of
the Portland Canal to the United States......
number of South Carolina delegates to the
Philadelphia Convention are about to go to
Washlng ton to demand the removal of seve-
raj Government officers, Including the Collec-
tor and Postmaster of Charleston.
JOSEPH W. JOHNSON, a brakeman on a
freight train on the Nashville and Chatta.
nooga railroad, fell from the train on Tues
lay, near Nashville, and was instantly
Warrington.
The Supreme Court has denied a writ of
mandamus to compel the Secretary of the
to pay the Kentucky war claims.-...
Inc house 6peclal to Investigate
the charges of Irregularities in the Navy
met on Tuesday evening. Mr..
voorhees, declines serving on the committee
2n account of business engagements. Mr..
Bartlett, counsel for Dana, asked hi ADJ
niral Porter be summoned. 1t was so or
dered. Adjourned 1.-THE committee ap-
pointed to examine the accounts of the
United States Treasury has reported that
the business of the Treasury has been well
and that the losses in the aggre-
gate are very insignificant as compared with
The transactions of the ofice.".-..The Som
ate, In executive session on Monday, con- |,
6rmed the nomination of Gov. Francis
Thomas, of Maryland. Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Ple~nipotentiary to Peru.
Foreign.
The famous race for the Liverpool grand
national steeple-chase handicap, which was
on Friday over the Aintree course, near
Liverpool excited great interest, and was
won by the chestnut mare Cassetite, the
Scarrington and Dispatch being
respectively second and third. During the
race the chestnut mare Primrose fell and
was instantly killed......Gen Brownlow, in
command of a detachment of the Looshai
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