Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-11-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.



destroyed by the late great fire, was owned
by Christine Nilsson, and was valued, &C
cording to the assessors records, at $51 900.
...... Twenty-seven ~newspaper and magazines
were destroyed by the Boston fire, among
which are the Journal of Chemistry, Journal
of applied Chemistry, BatLo~'s Monthly,
FrGnklin Shoe and Leather Record, WGuerty
Magazine end the F+eemGSoh's Monthly. The
celebrated saw factory of Henry Disston, in
Philadelphia, has been burned. Loss, $780,
000...... Harvard College loses 5000 900 by the
Boston fire.. Susan B. Anthony and fourteen
other females VIC voted at the Presidential
election at Rochester, n. Y, have been in
dicted for illegal voting.
T1rUsvILLE, Pa, has been agitated by a
bold and successful robbery, of which Mr..
Watson, President of the Erie railroad, was
the victim. Nine masked men entered the
house, tied and ragged Mr.. Watson and all
the members of his family, and robbed his
safe of its contents, consisting Of about $4,000.
In their hurry, the robbers upset a lamp,
which severely burned Mr.. Watson, and
which was with difficulty extinguisbed.
The scoundrels evidently anticipated a large
haul......The epiz ootic has broken out among
the chickens OF New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, and thousands OF fowls are
being carried off. The disease runs its course
very swiftly. The fowls are taken with
staggering fits, a running at the beak, and
bearing all the symptoms of the epizootic.
NEW HAMPSHIRE experienced a severe
earthquake shock the other day, which
shook up things in a lively manner--"The
venerable ThurloW Weed is recovering from
his recent severe iIlness.....By the breaking
of a platform on the third floor of the New
York Herald building, the other day, five
workmen were precipitated into the base
ment, three of whom were fatally iDjure d.
1.-The chicken plague is committing terri
BILE ravages among the poultry along the
Hudson river, in New York. Chickens,
turkeys, geese and ducks are dying by the
New York has beed agitated by
another of those bloody tragedies which are
becoming go alarmingly frequent ia that
city. The victim was Anthony F. O'Neil, a
reputable citizen, and the slayer a promi-
King. The deed was committed in cold
blood, in the office of Judge Sutherland, on
Pine street. TIE only apparent cause for
the murder WAS the fact that O'Neil was an
important witness against King, in a divorce
suit pending between the latter and his wife.
No tragedy since hes Staying of Jim Fish has
produced such an excitement in the metrop-
olis-...A dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pa,
states that there is great excitement in the
mining regions, consequent upon a general
strike of the miners for an advance of 10
cents per ton. The operators refuse to give
the. Advance-...The large store-house and
elevator of Woodruff Il a Robinson, in New
York, was destroyed by fire recently, involv-
ing q loss of 100000.
Stokes trial begins at New York on the
I'd of December.-..The New York Chamber
of Commerce has appointed a committee to
take measures for the establishment of a
Board of Engineers, with legal powers to
take possession of and bow up buildings
during a general confagration.....The steam
ship Columbia, OF the Havana line, has been
confscated by decree of the United States
District Court, at New York for smuggling
49, TAara r-ua1 of Nan VNrE frOpo
Europe, during the fret ten months of the
year, 272,209 immigrants, against 208. 627 the
previous year.
HORACE GREELEY has been suffering Sc
riously from nervous prostration...-~.Stanley,
the discoverer of Livingstone, arrived at
New York from Europe last week--..The
extensive Job printing house of Rand Il
Avery, in Boston, was burned last week. 1t
was the largest AID best appointed printing
establishment in New England, employing
over 200 hands. Loss, 1886, O00.....Th large
tobacco warehouse of Perrin & Hace, in
Jersey City, was destroyed by fire recently.
Over 5000 hogsheads of tobacco were burned,
involving a loss of between 100000 and
$500 ,OO).
The West.
IT has broken out in Salt Lake this time
not the epizootic, but the diamond fever. A
man named Berry arrived there last week
with a large Der of precious stones, pro-
nounced genuine by experienced lapidaries,
which he says he picked up in Wester Col
orado. Quito an excitement ensued, and a
company was forthwith organized, which
Berry promises to pilot to the locality of the
glitte ring pebbles.
A ST.. PAUL dispatch says river men con-
slider the Mississippi river practically closed
to navigation. With the exception of 1851.
this is the shortest season of navigation in
twenty-five years.--.The notorious Mrs.
Laura D. Fair has entered the lecture field
in California. Her subject is " Wolves in
the Fold" The Pacific slopers are highly
indignant at the audacity of the woman......
Illinois Female College, at Jacksonville,
H., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
900; insurance, $4,000.
GREGoRY PERI, of Chicago, who was sem
to death for the murder of Daniel
O'Brien, on the night of the great fire, has
had his sentence m by Gov. Palmer
to imprisonment for life...... Buffaloes are so
thick along the western line of the Atchison, |
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad that trains
b. run with safety. They roam along |
the track in hundreds of thousands, making
their way south.
A MAN named Stanton arrived at Denver
Col, frem Arizona list week, with what
to be a $3.50 900 ruby. 1t is de-
as a stone of remarkable beauty, but
Experts are divided in their opinions regard
log its genuineness, some p-onouncing it sim
ply a garnet. Stanton also exhibits what he
calls a $4,000 diamond, which he says he
picked up in Arizona.....The Secretary of
he Grand Lodge of Odd-Fellows of Indiana
'eports that within the past year "a ne.
edges were instituted in that State, A old
mes resuscitated, and 18 Rsbecca Degree
Lodges organized. There are now in the
State 377lodges, 81 ,422 contributing members,
md Abs Past Grands. The total resources
f the lodges is $791, O1l.16. The. orphan
and of the lodge is $1S3, 649.14. The total
aid for relief and charity is S13,755.S7.
The South.
THE business portion of ~Abbeyville,s c.,
las been destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
GEN. JOHN F. SALE, a leading criminal
of Memphis, is dead.....The extensive
"ork packing establishment of John J. Roe
Co., of ST. Louis, has been burned. Loss
yer 100000.
An attempt was made, a few days since,
D lynch Col. Turner, the editor of the Lex
lgton (Mo.) Register, who some three weeks
go shot and killed Lafayette W. Graves,
Tho WAS cOnductinO q rival iournaI in the