Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-04-25
OF THE WEEK.
The East.

Loss estimated at $500, 900 ; insured for about
145, 000......The first Charleston strawberries
sold in New York on Saturday at $3.50 to So
per quart-....A FIRE at Pottsville, Pa, on
Saturday evening destroyed ten tenement
buildings. Loss SIS, 000...".The Metropoli-
tan Paper Collar Factory, New York, was
burned on Saturday night. Loss $175, 900
fully insured. Five hundred girls are
thrown out of employment.
BENJAMIN TILLINGER, a young German, was
crushed into an unacceptable mass on
Monday between two cars on the Cleveland
and Pittsburgh railroad......The Grand Jury
of Philadelphia has indicted Charles A. Dana
for the libel of ex-State Treasurer Kemble,
in an article in the New York Sun, relative
to the Evans fraud
TIE school building and boarding house
of B. F. Mills, at South Williamstown,
Mass, was burned on Sunday afternoon.
F. Fowler, a w~ell-known Western counter
feiter, was arrested in New York on Tues
day while engaged in negotiating a guam
tity of $40 and $40 bills of the P~oughkeep-
sic National Bank. He was held in SIC, 900
bail.
HENRY KNIcKERBocKER's scythe works, at
Ballston Spa, were burned on Tuesday
morning. Loss $4,000 partly insured.
Supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
.sss q Docn rendered against e1-
Sheriff O'Brien, of New York, for 1891
damages, for suffering the escape of a bank
rupt debtor from the Ludlow street Jail in
1857.
TIE German bark Lutchen, loaded with
lumber for Matanzas, took fire at a pier in
the East river, New York, on Thursday,
and was scutIled. The damage by the fire
is about SIS, 900 $500. Charles Avery, of Plea
santville, on the Harlem Railroad, fatally
shot his wife on Monday night. The cause
was jealousy-"..Snyder's -four and saw
mills at Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y, are
burned, with a loss of $4,000.
The West.
WEznE ~chopping wood near Napoleon, O.,
on Monday, Thomas Palmer was struck by
a falling tree and instantly killed. He was
a single man about 81 years old.....A man
by the name of Marcus Combs, at Exeter,
ILL, on Sunday stabbed Nicholas Heigh, a
saloon keeper, inficting q chastity but not
fatal wound. Combs thinking that he had
killed NHholas, and fearing the retaliation
OF the law, repaired to his room and suicided
by taking morphine.....0n Sunday, at Red
Bluff, CAL, one Pearce shot through the
window of q house of ill-fame, and killed
Nellie Brooks, and wounded the man with
her, named Perkins, who in turn shot Pearce
oeaa ana was ar~rested-...In Chicago, on
on Monday morning, j. F. johnson. a work
man in Richards planning mill, was instant
~ killed by being caught by a belt and
drawn around q rapidly revolving shaft.
Both arms were torn from the BODY. and he
was otherwise horribly mutilated.
THE Farwell block, Chicago. occunied by
J. V. FarweH & Co., and Henry W. King &
Co., wholesale dry goods, was damaged by
hre on Tuesday might to the extent of
$Io;ooo; Loss to stocks by fire and water
PIGoaoly Sio,ooo -more-..:At Cleveland,
of Wall 4 Co., the -four and feed store of
Low q Gale and two barns were destroye
by hre. Seven horses, two mules, and Eve
Duggies were burned. Loss $40, 900; no in
tba mMsdc- trial Of Chas: WaIIor, for
men, IN Cairo, Ill, last October, resulted in
the conviction and sentence of Wallor to
4lnety-nlne years in the Peritentiary...,
Jeremiah Collier, an old man who was con-
y se'e9 two weeks ago for killing
" "'ie last November, is to be hanged May
lo-;...A gIycerine still in the establishment
OF schneider & Co., Chicago, exploded on
monday night, killing Henry Hanfeld, who
was in charge.
BOB MoCAULLT, who shot and killed a man
named Anderson at Fort Dodge, Iowa., last
iail' and sentenced to three years imprison-
ment, escaped from the Sheriff at Sioux
City on Tuesday....The hotel of Pierce
Bros, at River Falls, Wis.,, was burned to
6Ao1HU CLOCK on wednesday morn
ing; Loss heavy---McKean Buchanan
died in Denver, Col, on Wednesday after
noon, of ~apoplexy.-
The house-furnishing establishment of j.
b. Daggstt, at Springfield, Ill, was burned
early on Thursday morning. Loss, $25, 900;
insurance, SIC, o00.....At Chenoa, Ill, on
Ih~ursdaysJohn Tu1lberg, q SWede, EMPLOYED
as brakeman on the Toledo, Peoria and War
Jaw Railroad, was caught between two cars
while coupling them, and crushed to death.
.....A fire at Mortified, Mimi, on Thurs
day night, burned Falk & Finkeison's drug
store; Lossi $6,000...On Saturday last,
the thriving town os Cofeyville was swept
Dy q hurricane which demolished the
greater part OF the town. Chief among the
sunerers was ex-senator Ross, whose valu-
able newspaper establishment was de-
stroyed"-..The entire business portion of
the town OF Vernon, Mich, was destroyed
Iy nss IN Wednesday night. Aggregate
Ioss' 5000. The principal sufferers are
Bell & Ives, So, 900 ]. Yerkes, general store,
$S,Z00j =. Winans, $1,000; James Turk,
$I'5OO; W. D. Livermore, furniture, 81 500
Larry d Benjamin, hardware, s., 500. There
were twelve or fifteen other losses of 81, 900
or less. There is about So, 900 insurance.
The South.
j. I. L~IoKERD, proprietor of the large saw
mill on the river above Columbus, KY, was
crowned on Monday morning by the over
turning of a canoe in the ~breakwater near
the mill:....A desperate attempt was made
6y a mol of twenty-seven disguised men on
Thursday morning to capture the Jail at
clinton, Hickman county, KY. The TAILOR
resisted, and the citizens gathering drove
the mob of. A murderer named Cunning
ham is confined there, and two men
charged with rape. The mob asserted that
they wanted to lynch the latter, but the
citizens believe they were confederates of
cunningham seeking to release him.
The international Typographical Union
meets on the Sd of June, in the hall of tie
House of Delegates, in Richmond, Va.
b Exchange Hotel is selected as the
headquarters of the delegates, and orange |
ments are being made for the proper recep-
ton OF the members of the Union.
The bark Monita, with I,5OO bales of cot
ton on board, loading for Cronstadt, was
burned at New Orleans on Friday.
Ar Wheeling. W. Va, ON Thursday, STRAIT
ter Taylor, a colored carpenter, in a fit of
Jealousy split his wife's head entirely open
a Ratchet. The murderer escaped.....
The negroes taken from the Nashville and
Decatur Railroad train by armed men were !
not hanged, but released. They were sub
re-arreatad- and ara nou IN ;a;l - |