Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-01-25

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fatally. 1t is a way they had of protesting
against the extension of the fire limits ......
John Beaver, who separated from his wife a
year ago, and has since threatened her life
several times, executed the fendish decd at
st. Cloud, MINI, on Saturday night. He
went to her house, drove the children out,
seized his wife by the hair, dragged her into
a back room, and literally cut her head t.
pieces with a Ratchet. When arrested he
made no resistance; said he had come there
to kill her, and had done it......A fire at
Manchester, Iowa, en- Sunday night, dam
aged the store and st rex of Chas. Burnside
to the extent of $1,000 or $4,000. Fully in
sured......At Piqua, o., on Monday morning,
Fred. Everett was caught between the cars
when coupling, and injured fatally, dying
about IL o'clock....A young son of Mr..
StiIlman, near Heyworth, Ill.,while unload
ing wood on Saturday, was accidentally
struck on the head with a large pole, from
the effects of which he died in a few
minutes.
OK Monday, Jas. c. Reynolds, q farmer
who resided a few miles from Jacksonville,
Ill, was accidentally killed while out hunt
ing alone. In crossing a ravine which had
steep amendments, it is supposed he threw
HIS gun tosthe top of h -embankment ahead
of him and the fall discharged it just as the
muzzle pointed at his breast. The heavy
load of buckshot penetrated to his vitals,
killing him instantly THE round house of
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rail-
road at Toledo was destroyed by fire on Mon
day morning, together with six loeSmotixes res:
arrived at San Francisco. A Japanese
Princess, said to be exquisitely beautiful, ac-
companied the party. She goes to Vassar
College. sosyasF AE.ffA-A
GEORGE BEcHrEL, living eight miles north
of Bourbon, Ind, was instantly killed on
Tuesday, his head being crushed between
two saw logs he was helping to load on a
wagon.-..As a western-bound train on the
Station, between Brazil and Terre Haute, on
Wednesday, a girl about IL years old, living
near Highland, rushed TOWARD the track and
purposely threw herself in front of the en-
CINE and was torn in pieces. Her name,
and the cause of the strange suicide, are not
known.....The Coroner's Jury at M~arysville,
Ind, on the body of Levi vardel, who was
killed by an Ohio and Mississippi train, re-
turned a verdict of manslaughter against
the engineer, Isaac Ackley, the testimony
sounded in time to give reasonable warning
to the deceased......Rev. DR.. John Bergen, of
Springfield, Ill, who WA stricken down with
a paralytic stroke on Monday last, died on
Wednesday morning. He was one of the
resided in Springfield forty-eight years. He
was born in New Jersey in 1870, being 81
year, old when he died..-.John5 Rau, a
switchman of the Northwesternr railway was
run OVER DJ q lOCOu1OblN0 II Ahotohey
killed at Chicago, on Wednesday.
The South.
THE Virginia Legislature has passed q reso-
luton submitting the clause Of the Constitu-
ton to the people fixing the maximum rate
of interest at IL per cent.....Gov. Smith, of
Georgia, was ~inaugurated on the 18th. He
said he Intended to stand faithfully by the
| Constitution and the laws, and asserted that
Georgia would pay all her legal indebted
| ness, and hat reputation was not dreamed
of-....On the 18th Mayor Flanders, of
! New Orleans, telegraphed the President, ur-
| gently requesting him to declare martial
law in that city. After a consultation with
| his Cabinet the President sent the following
! reply. g Martial law will not be proclaimed
in New Orleans under existing circum-
| stances. No assistance will be given by
| Federal authority to persons or parties I'M
lawfully resisting the constituted authori-
ties of the State."-.A terrible wind-storm
| visited Monticello, Ark, on Thursday night,
blowing down four churches, and leaving
nothing of the fifth standing but the walls.
It also destroyed the court house, unroofed
houses and barns, and threw fences to the
ground. The tornado lasted five minutes,
but was SO severe atnearly all the damage
was done in a minute after it struck the
town. No lives are reported lost, and but
few persons were wounded.
RIGHT REV. BISHOP JOIN McG1LL, for
twenty-one years of the Roman Catholic do
eese of Virgins, dice at Richmond on Sun
day morning, aged 65.
A FRANKFoRT, KY, dispatch says that a
short time since a party of disguised Ku-
+, Klux visited the house of a citizen in that
county while a wedding was in progress,
took possession of the premises, fred of pis-
tolls, and danced over the floor. The fright
occasioned to the daughter of this citizen
5000 - - E4 h-
insanity......The Georgia Legislature has
passed a bill providing for the redemption
or exchange of bonds of the State and pay
ment of interest thereon. b steamer
Importer sunk at Horse Head, below Van
Buren,, Ark, on Tuesday. She is q total
loss. She had 1000 bales of cotton en-, route
to New Orleans. sst e
= Washington.
The President has author zed the adoption
of an additional rule by the Advisory Civil
Service Board, allowing temporary appoint
ments to be made without examination,
where the necessities demand it, pending
the perfecting form of Civil Service exami-
nation.
THE resignation of Vincent Collyer as Sec
Rotary of the Board eff Indian Commissioners
has been accepted.....The Territorial Dele
gates have united in a request to the Presi-
dent that hereafter, in making appoint
ments in the. territories, he would select
from citizens of the same, as he does in case
of the Enthusiastically Belknap, under a
joint resolution of Congress, has set apart
1 ,52l acres for a military post at Fort Smell
ling, and has conveyed the remainder of the
military reservation to purchasers on prin-
ciples of equity-....There are twenty-five ap-
plicants for aposition made vacant by the
resignation of a clerk in the Postoffice De-
partment on Monday last. The Postmaster
General has directed that the applicants be
submitted to competitive examination, and
that the names of three who pass the best
examination be sent him from these he
will seltct one for the appointment.
Foreign.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the
lakewood colliery, Wales, on Thursday. One
gang was shut off and probably persisted.
Eleven men were taken out dead. Immedi-
ately after the explosion flames broke out,
and the extensive works and machinery
were entirely destroyed. ... Viscount Parker
Milbank, M. P, in an address d~enounces
the public course of Sir Charles Dixie. He
promised to call on him to repeat in Parlia-
ment his declarations in regard to the Crown
and Government, and on his failing to an
swer, to brand him as he deserves.
THE smallpox is spreading throughout
the British Isles. Cardinal Cullen permits
the use of meat on Friday for sanitary rea-
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