Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-01-18
NEWS SUMMARY.
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on Friday by private cable advices that the
R~othschilds had made proposals to this Gov
eminent to take $500, 600, 900 of the new
loans on condition that an equal amount OF
the 1862 bonds should be called in during
the year 1872 at such time as the Roths-
childs may designate. 1t was also said, In
the same dispatch, that a refusal for eighteen
months was required to be granted the same
house to accept $500, 000, 000 of Al per cents.
......A messenger boy was robbed of $11 900
in checks and coupon bonds while in the
Central National Bank, New York, on
Wednesday.....The Russian frigate SHETLAND
will remain at New York for some time, the
Gar having ordered new boilers. This will
prolong the Grand Dukes stay, and he will
visit every part of the United States.
TIE gas works connected with the Glasgow
Bingham mill, at South Hadley Falls, ex-
ploded on Monday morning. Mr.. Nicho-l
and Charles Benway, employees, were Sc
verely injured......A man named Boner was
Z picked up by an enormous hy-wheel in the
rolling mill of Packer & Co., at Pittsburgh,
on Monday afternoon, and taken out a
dreadfuily mangled corpse.
r TIL coroner's jury in the Fisk homicide
returned q verdict that "Fisk came to his
death in consequence CT a wound or wounds,
inflicted by a ball. or balls, from a pistol in
the hands of Edward g. Stokes, discharged
by him in a deliberate manner at thesperson
OF said Fisk at the Grand Central Hotel"
......A railroad war has broken out in Hemp
stead, L. I. The Brooklyn Trust Company
foreclosed the mortgage on the Hampstead
Branch Railroad, on behalf of the bond
holders, who had not received overdue cou-
pons. Disputes as to who should have pos
session of the trains resulted in the wound
ing of,seEeral VIM. lotion, II
years of age, was accidentally killed at New
York on Tuesday bya barber named Walden
......Charles j. Perry, ex-Mayor of Hoboken,
shot himself in the head on Monday after
noon, inflieting a mortal wound. Despon-
dencY is supposed to be the cause.
A BILL has passed both houses of the New
York Legislature providing for the payment
of the Indebtedness of the city of New York
falling due next month. It authorizes the
raising of So, 500 000.-..1t is rumored that
General Mcclellan will be the successor of
Fisk as Vice President of the Erie Com
pany.....The father of James Fisk has gone
crazy over the assassination of his son.
The West.
OK Thursday evening Robert Blair, of
Kawkawlin, while attempting to get on the
cars while In motion at the Jackson, Lam
sing and Saginaw railroad depot, at Detroit,
fell under the wheels, receiving such inju-
ries that he died shortly after...-.A man
named Stephen Wilcox was fatally injured
by an explosion of the boiler of the heating
day afternoon. The explosion demolished q
moderate sized brick bu:iding-...The store
and goods belonging to W. j. Il B. R. Dell,
at L~akeport, Mich, were consumed by fire
on Thursday morning. Loss SIS 5000; par
TALLY insured.
A GERMAN named Peter Roeder was suffo-
Gated at Chicago on Sunday by the fumes of
coke which was burning in braziers for the
purpose of drying the newly plastered walls
of his house..,..Alex and suite gszed upon
the display of legs by the Lydia Thompson
troupe at st. Louis on Saturday night, and
attended a grand reception ball on Monday
evening at the Southern Hotel. ....Great in
terest is felt at Salt Lake City in the new
mines recently oI'ened in the south west
corner of Idaho, one hundred miles from the
Central Pacific railway. 1t is reported that
veins of solid mineral, from ten to sixty feet
wide, and ranging between 500 to $3.50 per
ton, are developed. Contracts rave been
let for the construction of the Rock Island,
Ill, water works. Seven miles of pipe are
to be laid, the cost of which, with buildings,
ETC., is estimated at Sis, 900. .3..Female
compositors are considered a success in Des
Moines, Iowa One woman there clears $24
a. week on book work, which leads the Reg
lister to remark that There is one vocation,
at least, where woman's right to entire
equality of labor and wage is acknowl-
edged."-.-A fire at Mount Carmel, ILL.,, on
the 10Th ult., destroyed several frame build
ings in the business part of the town. Loss
FLO ,UUU : insurance 6mall.....AL Elk Hralrle,
near Mount Vernon, ILL.,, on the 27th ult., a
fellow named Richard Ross, who had separ-
sted from his wife, went to the residence of
her mother and deliberately discharged at
her a loaded shotgun, while she was holding
g. baby in her arms. The bodies of the wo-
man and child were filed with shot, but at
last accounts they were still alive. A young
man named Beckham, Mrs. .Ross's brother,
while trying to disarm Ross, was terribly
and cut in the back with a knife,
-
Mrs. Ross declares that a little boy of theirs
who died suddenly, some months ago, was
killed by a blow upon the head by the brutal
father. Ross escaped.
On Tuesday evening last a little daughter
Of Capt Richard Owens, of the canal boat
Phonix, of Lockport, Ill, fell from the gang
plank to the ice, receiving such injuries
that she died on Friday evening.....Ex-Gov.
of Illinois, was thrown from a
sleigh at Springfield on Monday, receiving
probably fatal injuries.....A few days since
The skeleton of a Chinaman was found on
Goodyear creek, Sierra county, Nevada, the |
to a tree, the rest lying on the ground. He |
had been missing for about a year......C. c. |
Ball, of Flint, Mich, discovered a broker
'ail on the Flint and Pere Marquette rail-
preaching train. For this the company re-
warded him by granting him a perpetual
rec pass--.Mrs. Warren Thayer, of Clin-
Wis, took cyanide of potassa in mistake
or medicine, on Wednesday last, and died in
few hours.
TIE United States District Court of
met at Salt Lake City On the 9th, but
or lack of money to pay court expenses adj
to the second Monday in March,.
1 married woman named Scholl was drowned
n a cistern at Madison, Wis, on Tuesday.
Whether suicidally or accidentally is un-
known. She had been in the Insane Hospi-
al a year ago.-..John Sherman was re-
United States Senator from Ohio by
he Legislature of that State on the 9th inst
1.-The Lower House of the Missouri Legis-
ature has passed a resolution indorsing the
me term plan for President of the United
States by a vote of SO to 81.
THE semi-annual report of the Illinois
central Railroad Company, just issued, shows
he gross earnings of that road, for the six
ending October 31st, 1871, to have
feen So, 595 $40, seven per cent of which, or
t25l,687.so, has been paid into the State
in pursuance of law......Ex-Gover-
Ior Matteson, of Illinois, who had three
lbs broken, a few days ago, by being thrown
rom q cutter, is improving rapidly.
Pleishman & Co.'s distillery, at Riverside,
1st outside of the Cincinnati city limits,
urned Tuesday evening. Loss, $50, 1000; iDsu-
ance, $50, 000....,On Tuesday morning Delos