Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-03-14
NEWS OF III WEEK.
The East.

"OA NAAos 'OAoA ~ |
near Scranton, Pa, went to a neighbours,
leaving two children, aged two and four,
asleep in the house. During her absence
the building caught fire, and the children
were burned to death.
JOHN VALENTINE, an eccentric bachelor and
miser, of East Meadow, L. L, was missed a
few days ago, and his ~neighbors bursting in
his door found his remains lying in the fire.
place terribly burned. The head was a
crisp, and the hands entirely consumed. On
turning the body over a bloody axe was
found beneath. A tin box kept on a shelf,
supposed to contain about two thousand dol
lars, was gone. The perpetrators are I'M
known....The Sigournsy House, a large
family clearinghouse in Hartford, Conn,
was found to be on fire about 3 O'Clock on
Sunday morning. When the flames were
extinguished it was found that the house had
been set on fire in five different rooms and
on three different floors. The author of the
fire has not yet been discovered. The les
see is said to have an insurance on the fur
niture much in excess of its value. Over
forty persons were sleeping in different parts
of the building.
AT New York on Monday apassenger on a
Jersey City ferry boat, who went into the
engine room to warm himself, approached
too near the engine, and was crushed into
an unacceptable mass..-.Dr. Jayne's
splendid eight-story granite building on
Ouc5Iuu' BLTo6IJ InllaOelpnldJ WIS., totally
destroyed by fire on Monday night. The
loss by fire and water is estimated at
81 1000, 600 ...... Brooklyn's new Comptroller
has reported to the Board of Aldermen a de-
iciency of 500, 200 in the late city and
county officials accounts....Mrs. A. G.
Downs was arrested at Hartford, Conn, on
Monday, charged with arson, in firing the
Sigourney House.
JAMES W. COLEMAN has accepted $500 for
his receivers fees in the matter of the Erie
railroad suits. His original claim was for
$50, 000...-.The schooner Clara Bell, with a
cargo of coal from New York to Boston,
grounded on Monday morning near Cape
attempted to reach the land, but only one
succeeded, and he was nearly frozen. TIL
rest persisted in the sea.....The grand jury
of Jersey City has brought in ffty-one adj
ditional indictments against members of the
Commissions and officers of the city govern
ment, for frauds of various degrees......The
weather was extremely cold throughout
New England on Monday. A dispatch from
Mt. Washington reports the thermometer 40
degrees below zero, and the wind 100 miles
an hour.
In the New York Legislature on Wednes-
day a statement was made by two speakers
that members from the rural districts were
selling their votes at $40 per head. No ae-
ton was taken.....Patrick j. Bannon has
been sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and one
years imprisonment for sending obscene
matter through the New York Postoffce......
The carpet-yarn mill of the Wilton Manu-
featuring Company, of Wilton, N. H., was
burned on Wednesday. Loss $75, 900; par
TALLY insured.
The West.
A DISPATCH from Wyckenbourg, Arizona,
says the Apaches attacked two trains be-
tween that place and Phoenix, and murder
ed Samuel Cullember and Thomas Harris.
At Martinez Rancho they ran off the stock
and ~p1undered the station of all movables.
Cullember and Harris were employees of the
stage company. The station is but four
miles south of Camp Date Creek, where are
posted three companies of regulars, two of
infantry and one of cavalry. The rancho is
distant about twenty-five miles from the
scene of the W~yckenbourg stage massacre,
where Loring was killed.
J.. B. CoRDER, agent of Wells, Fargo & Co.,
at Margeville, CAL, blew his brains out with
a shotgun on Saturday. He was insane
from neuralgia......The ice commenced NOV
ing out of the Mississippi river at Keokuk,
resident of the town of Worth, Cook county,
Ill, on Saturday afternoon killed himself by
cutting his head open with a Ratchet.
ROBERT WARD, ofMedina, O., broke through
the ice in Grand river, near jackson, Mich,
on Monday, and was drowned......On Sunday
the stable of Col. Hutchins, in Tippecanoe,
Ind. was burned, together with two horses
and feed. Loss $4,000; insured for $4,000.
JACOB Mooe died in his tailor shop at
Roanoke, Ind, on Monday night, from ex-
cessive drinking. He was a married man,
about 45 years old, and leaves several small
children.....Hon. Thomas M. Brown, a dis
tinguished attorney of New Albany, Ind,
while returning home from his Office in that
city, on Monday evening, suddenly fell on
the pavement and expired almost immedi-
ately..-.A freight train on the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern railroad was thrown
from the track by a broken rail near Clyde,
o., on Monday morning, and twenty cars
were wrecked. A section man, standing
near the track, was struck by the cars as
they left the track, and killed.....L. Carper,
Esq, Division superintendent of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy railway, was
killed in q railroad accident near Burling-
ton, Iowa, on Tuesday afternoon. No others
injured. The accident was caused by the
engine of the freight train running off a
bridge on account of the rails being taken
up for repairs. The engineer and fremen
saved their lives by jumping off.
THE steamers Altoona, Kate Robinson, St
Charles, Argosy, Major Anderson, and
Champion were burned Thursday at Uin-
cinnati. Loss 1925, OOO......Johnny Devine
alias the Chicken" has been convicted Of
murder and sentenced to be hanged at San
Francisco on April 26.....At Detroit, Mich.
a colored man named Ferguson, his son
and a Mary Mowan were so badly burned
they cannot live. They started the fire
with k0rosene....The North Pacific railway
was on Wednesday opened to Red River fol
business..".A fsticuf fight occurred on the
floor of the House of the Missouri Legisla-
ture on Tuesday, between h. j. Latshaw
member from Kansas City, and Sergeant
alarms Grafton, but neither party was
hurt..".Part of the LAGRANGE County In
Urinary, at LAGRANGE, Ind. was burnt or
Wednesday,. One of the inmates, whom il
was necessary to keep in close confne-
ment, was burned to a crisp. He wal
a middle-aged man, named Abraham Ma,
gundy.
The South.
MRS. HARRIET BEEcHER Stowe was very
seriously, perhaps fatally, injured by a fal
on Thursday at her home, at Mandarin
Florida......A Richmond, Va, dispatch states
that the tobacco business of the whole State
as well as that of North Carolina, is at
stand-still, awaiting Congressional actor
upon that production. Over ten Thousand
negroes in Richmond alone are idle, and al
aggregate of over thirty thousand in thu
State are out of employment. and suffering
Lieber, convicted of the muir
der of Charles Gennawein, at Louisville, KY.