Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-06-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

The Democrats of Pennsylvania have
nominated Hon. C. R.. Buckalew for Gov
Strikes among the w~orkingmen eff
New York still continue, with no prospect
Of a speedy settlement of the troubles.
Pomeroy has m~andamused each mem
Der of the New York Board of Auditors, to
compel the payment of his bill for city ad-
vertising. TIL claim amounts to between
$40 900 and $4,000. While some work
men were roaming an oil well near Oil City,
of oil and gas, and an explosion occurred
in the derrick, blowing the men outside to a
considerable distance, and Setting them on
fire. Two of them were killed, and two
seriously burned.
SEVERAL employees on the Delaware and
Laokawanna railroad nave been arrested
or embezzling the company of large sums
of money during the past two years......The
great strike of the New York workingmen
continues, with every prospect of success:
....Late advices from New York state hat
Mr.. James Gordo Bennett, the ounde
and proprietor of the Herald, is hopelessly
i'll. His death may be expected at any
moment......The first jury impanelled un-
der the New York State law providing that
the reading of a newspaper shall not be a
capital offense in q juror, has been drawn
at Pulaski, in that State.
The strikes in the Eastern cities for eight
hours labor and ten hours pay have been
practically successful. The effect upon the
first expected, since but few contracts ave
yet been made without reference to the pos
sible advance in wages..-.The New York
Court House Commissioner on Saturday
discharged all the workmen employed on
the new courthouse building. The men had
not received any wages fer the past nine
months..-.The Daily Register has been Sc
lected as the official paper of New York city,
at $9,5e0 a year. The successful bidder was
never heard of before..--.Dr. William Pitch
or died at Hudson, N. Y, on the LIST inst,
from poison introduced into his system while
attending an erysipelas patent.
GEO. LAvERY, convicted of murder in the
second degree for killing officer Lambrecht,
has been sentenced, at New York, to the
State prison for life.....Wm. II. Wadleigh,
discount clerk in the Merchants National
Bank, Boston, is a defaulter to the amount
of $S7 900 ......F Fred. Douglass residence at
Rochester, N. Y, was burned on Sunday,
June 2.
AT Rochester, N. Y, on June 5, a floor of
a brewery gave way, with a large quantity
of grain, and an immense mash-tub filled
with boiling liquor. Five men were fatally
injured, two of them being scalded to death.
ION Monday night, June 3, Mrs. Jane
Farley, in a fit of jealous dependency, cut
her throat at a friends house, in New York,
dying in a few moments.....Th German
Brewers Association met at New York, on
Wednesday, June 5. Brewers were present
from every State in the Uoion. They repre-
sent a capital of $500, 00O, 060......Herr Franz
Abt, the great German composer, is on a
tour out West, where he is being feted like a
prince.
ELEVEN thousand dollars in United States
bonds was burned in the house of Frederick
Douglass, at Rochester, on june 2.....The
w~orkingmen of Boston are about to inaugu-
rate a movement looking to the establish
ment of the e~ight-hour system. The Phila-
delphia mechanics are also beginning to agi-
tate the matter....Arfre Eugene LaGrave, a
Broone street New York; merchant, has
left for parts unknown, leaving unpaid debts
amounting to $300, 900. A. T. Stewart, II.
B. Clafin & Co., and other large dealers, are
sufferers-....A Bridgeport Comm dispatch
states that Capt. Colvocoresses, of the United
States Naval Retiring Board, who was muir
dered on the night of June 8, was robbed of
coresses had insurance on his life amounting
to over 100000
The West.
CAPT. HENRY DEXTER, one of the oldes
steamboatmen on the Western waters, died
at Evansville, Ind, last week, from an over
dose of morphine.....The Indianapolis Jour
nal has passed into the hands of a new stock
headed by Mr.. Redmour, late of
the Junction railroad. Philip D. Banks, a
mail robber of Des Moines, Iowa, has pleaded
guilty to ten indictments.-..The annual
report of the State Insurance Department of
Ohio shows Y life insurance companies in
the State, and the total amount of life policies
now in force to be about $3.50, 000, 200. .....A
Mrs. Brady, wife of Hon. Alex. Mitchell's
Goodman, suicided at Milwaukee, last week,
by cutting her throat."..John Barclay has
been found guilty of murder in the first
degree, at Columbus, Ohio, for killing Charles
F. Garner.-..Hon. ]. N. Camden, of Park
ersburg, has been nominated by the Demo-
Gratis for Governor of West Virginia.
JOIN Softer is under sentence of death, at
Pontiac, Ill, for the murder of William
Rollings-.-.P. D. Banks, of Page county,
Iowa, has been sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary for robbing the mail.....A
little girl fell into a barrel of scalding slep,
at Peoria, ILL.,, last week, and was SO badly
burned that death ensued shortly after
ward.....Henslee, the wife-murderer, has
been sentenced TO twenty years at hard la
Dor, at Jacksonville, I1l..--.The Supreme
Court of Indiana has affirmed the decision
of the Franklin Circuit Court, by which
Werner Bailey was sentenced to imprison-
ment for life for being an ~accomplice of
Macdonald Cheek, in the murder of Thos.
Harrison, near Lawrenceburg, in 1970.-...A
son of Col. Taylor, Paymaster United States
army, stationed at Leavenworth, Kansas,
was foully murdered in that city, by some
unknown parties, on the night of the 31st
ult.
TEE vicinity of Springfield, ILL.,, was visit
ed by an unprecedented rainfall on the night
of the I'd inst, doing a vast amount of dam
age......A terrible thunder storm, accompa-
MED by rain and wind, passed over Terre
Haute, Ind, last week, doing immense dam
ags-Fhe office of the Gazette was unroofed.
......It is announced that the murderers of
Hon. Sharon Tyndale, at Springfield, ILL.,,
have been discovered, after a years cease
less search by shrewd detectives. Charles
Dunning and James Kennedy, at present
serving out sentences in the penitentiary,
are said to be the guilty parties.....Joe 4.
Griffin, postmaster at Omaha, Neb., has plead
guilty to the charge of appropriating to his
private use mail hacks belonging to the
the p )stal service..-.Auburn, Ill, was visit
ed by a destructive fire on the 31st ult. Loss
about $50 900. No Insurance..
A LARGE portion of the village of South
Scion, Madison county, Ohio, was destroyed
by fire on June L. Loss, $4,000; partially
the 22d of May the Apaches
murdered Theodore Pritz, a herder, almost
within sight of Prescott, and ran off 200
sheep. Pritz formerly reported for the press
of st. Louis. His body was horribly mutt
lated.-...Hon. Ben. j. Stanton, a prominent
politician and formerly Lieutenant Governor
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