Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-07-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

intense. Many of the militiamen, while
parading, were Frustrated, several of whom
died. Scarcely half of the number that
set out returned with their command.
N~ipety-seven cases of sun-stroke were re-
in the city, "a proving fatal......Thre
persons were killed and many injured by a
railroad collision on Long Island, N. Y,
July 4...-.Budd Doble, the well-known
jockey, who handled Dexter SO success
fully, has, in view of the alleged trial of
Mr.. Bonner's horse Joe Elliott Of a milo in
2:154, and tho repeatedly alleged perform
ance by Dexter of a mile in 2:16, chal-
Ienged either or both these horses to trot
the Maid for from $4,000 to $50 900 a side.
If tho Ledger man still adheres to mis-
former objections to a public match for a |
prize OF money, Doble then offers to meet |
any OF all of his horses in a match simply
for the sake of fairly and regularly de-
Bigelow, ex-Mayor of Boston, died July S,
aged 74---.The mortality in New York for I
the week ending July 5 was terrible, the
death roll reaching I,659-...The Long
branch racing meeting just closed was the
most successful ever held in America......
The New York Times announces the con-
solidation of the Erie and New York Gem
trail Railroad Companies under the direc-
ton of the English stockholders, Com
modore Vanderbilt being selected Presi-
don't with unrestricted powers. An adj
vance Is to be made in freight and passen-
rates West and North Three men were
killed by a stroke of lightning, near Bos-
ton, July 5....Margaret Elliott murdered
her daughter Jane, aged II, at New York,
July b, by stra1gling her to death.
NEAR Utica, N Y, July g., barn in which
a party of railroad laborets had taken shell
ter was blown down, and two of the laborers
killed and several seriously injured 1.-The
reported consolidation of the Erie and Con-
traI railroads., and the elevation of C0mmo-
dore Vanderbilt to the head of the new
corporation, turns out to DO without founda-
tioh.-..The deaths in Philadelphia for the
week ending July6 numbered 764-an in
crease over the preceding week of $50. One
half were children under one year.....Judge
John ID. McCunn died in New York, July @,
from nervous prostration, the result of his
mortincatI0n and grief at being removed
from office by the State Senate on the ground
OF corruption and malfeasance. Judge Nc
Gum left an estate valued at SIS, GOO ,0O6......
Three boys were killed BY an explosion of
fireworks in South Boston, July 5......A po-
I1ceman was beaten to death by a gang of
rowdles IN New York, on the night of July Z.
In one day, last week, twenty-three boys
were sentenced to the Penitentiary, in a
New York city court.....E. L. Sanderson,
lawyer, sues the Brooklyn Union for libel,
claiming $5oSSe0 damages-...A man fell
from the top of the Brooklyn tower of the
East river bridge, a distance of one hundred
feet, the other dry, and, strange to relate.
was uninjured.
A CUBAN war vessel, heavily armed, was
captured off Newport, R. L, July 9, by q
United States revenue cutter, and taken into
New York. What disposition the Govern
ment will make of her is not yet stated. .....
The much mooted question of the Erie man
agement has boon finally settled by the
election of T. H. Watson, of Ohio, President
and Gen. Devin, of New York, Vice Presi.
dent. They are in the interest of the Eng.
Iish stockholders.....An explosion in the
iron works at Quakertown, Pa, July 9
Killed three persons and seriously injured
several others.
The daily New York Standard has sus.
pended publication. This makes about 1O(
daily journals started and suspended in
New York within a quarter of a century
after a precarious existence. The capita
sunk In them has not been less than $25,
600 ,OOO."....The great trot at Fleetwood
Park, Now York, On July o, between Gold.
smith Maid, Lucy, Henry and American
Girl was won by the Girl in three straigh
heats. Time-221, 2194, 224. After thu
second heat, Goldsmith Maid was alloweo
to withdraw, on the claim that she haC
cut her quarter. Sporting men, however
generally contend that the Maid wal
beaten on her merits, tho slight crack il
her heel on which she was withdrawn be
ing regarded as a mere subterfupe. Th,
tine made is the best ever accomplished
over the Fleetwood course, and good Judge
claim that, considering the track, it equal
the best of Goldsmith Maids performances
1.-THE new directory of the Erie RAILROAD
are going to inaugurate some healthy re
forms IN the management of the affairs O
the road Their first move will be to Gu
of the Fisk and Gould side-shows, the OF
companies, car building companies. ant
other concerns that nave been sucking
Erie's life-blood. The Opera-House an,
the Twenty-third street offices sre to b
SOLD, and the company will 20 back to it
less pretentious Office at the foot of Duan
street, where its real business has Away
been done.
The large.brewery firms of Windenmaye
d Sons, and Philip Brock, of Newark, n
j. are reported to have failed. The liabili
ties of the former are $3.50, 600; af the lattei
$1S0, 900 Morrissey has been con
victed, at Buffalo, Of murder in the first de
gree, for killing his mother. .....James Burn
has been tried at New York, on the charg
CT murder, for killing John Halloran, an
acquitted on the ground of insanity. TIL
prisoner was Immediately committed to
lunatic asylum. .David Paul Brown, tn
eminent Philadelphia lawyer, is dead.
An earthquake shock was sensibly felt i
various portions of Eastern Now York o.
the 1lth Of July.
The West.
AT SEYMOUR, Indiana, on the evening G
the Fourth, a man in lighting the hal
preparatory to a theatrical performance
let fall a coal oil lamp in the midst of
group of children. The lamp bursI
spreading the oil in every direc
ton, retting the clothes of the chill
drcp IN fire. The little sufferers rar
wildly through the hall, and before tn
flames were distinguished, three of ther
were burned to eath......A Another fearful
mine disaster is recorded. A fire brok
out in n new mine at Limaville, Ohio
July 3, resulting in the death by suffocatio
of eleven persons.
A Party of fifty Bostonians were lured OF
to the Pacific slope by a swindler who pre-
tended to have discovered rich gold dig
gings in a portion of Oregon inhabited b
Indians. The sharper succeeded in gettin
SIP 900 out of the Hubites, and %abandone
them at San Francisco. Some of them ar
left without funds to return home......Tw
boys were drowned in Luding creek, Gin
cinnati, July T......There is a general strik
among the lumbermen of Saginaw (Mich.
valley, and the mills are silent. Employer
and employees each declare their firm deter
mination not to bulge. The strikers ar
orderly and quiet.-..At Cincinnati, July
Rev. Samuel ]. Browne, aged SO years, she
and killed a boy of IL years who bad en-
tered his premises to recover a baseball
that had been thrown over the fence. Their