Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-11-06
NEWS SUM MARY.


New York Tribune, has been committed to Jail
in Brooklyn for contempt of court, in refusing
to disclose the name of the writer of an article
in that paper commenting upon the action of
one of the Brooklyn City Judges.
GEN. THOMAS C~ADwALLADER, a son of Col.
Lambert Cadwallader, of Revolutionary fame,
died recently at Trenton, N. J., aged &c.,.
The Deputy Postmaster of Wilmington, Del,
has been arrested for embezzlement. Many
of the New England manufacturing establish
ments have been compelled to shut down on
account of the monetary str~ingency. Others
are running on short time.
THE Constitutional Convention of PennsyI-
vania has adopted a clause forbidding the
granting of passes by railroads except to en-
ployes... Charges of immense frauds on the
revenue, based upon the affidavit of a dis
charged clerk, arc made against the extensive
New York house of Woodruff & Robinson.
The frauds, it is said, amount to over 50, 000,-
OO0. -.Ex-Postmaste Stewart. of Pittsburgh,
will be tried on three indictments-embezzle-
ment, forgery and perjury The manufac-
turing districts of Connecticut are represented
to be in an unfortunate condition. It is said
from Is, 900 to 20, 600 operatives and factory
hands have been thrown out of employment.
WHITELAw REID, of the New York Tribune,
and Dana, of the Sun, have been indicted for
alleged libel on Judge McCue.. .Th Hart
ford City Hall has been partially destroyed by
fire. d. :. Harry Bassett, the famous running
uOIE0, was QlSIdQCcu IN q race at baltimore,
the other day. There has been another
heavy decline in Vanderbilt stocks. at New
York, caused by rumors of heavy defalcations
in the Lake Shore, Toledo, Wabash and West
IN, and other companies.
THE New York Board of Aldermen have
atoned for a great many shortcomings by
making the handsome donation of $50, 900 to
the Memphis Relief Fund. Phelps. the de-
faulting Cashier of the New York State Treas
ury Department, has been committe to jail
for trial in default of SIS, 900 bail The fur
niture factory of John II. Morrill,, in New
York city, was destroyed by fire last week.
Loss, $780, 900. A watchman was burned to
death While trying to e~Xtinguish the flames.
IA dispatch from Providence, r. L., says
the Spragues are seriously embarrassed.
Their assets are said to be 81, 000, 900 more
than their liabilities, and want of current funds
is the cause.
The West.
THE Farmers Convention commenced its Sos
sion at Chicago on the 22d of October, with
delegates in attendance from Illinois, Iowa, Wis
consin, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska,
New York and Canada. Nothing was
accomplished during the day beyond effecting
a permanent organization, by the election of
James NJ. Allen, President, and S. M. Smith
and S.. T. K. Prime, Secretaries, and the ap-
pointment of committees. At the evening
session, the question of transportation was
brought up by the introduction of resolutions
favoring the construction of a Rhip-canal from
the Atlantic seaboard, via the lakes and the
Illinois and Mississippi rivers, to the Gulf of
Mexico also, airline, double-track freight
roads to New York city. The resolutions
elected a long and spirited, but somewhat
desultory, discussion, which resulted in their
reference to the Committed on Resolutions. .
The Supreme Court of Iowa has decided that a
Judgment against a liquor-seller or manufac-
turer may create a lien upon the property in
which liquor is sold or manufactured. 80.
nnn of tho most TnuStQrInTa 0rImo9 of lQta
years was the murder, some two years and q
half ago, of Hon. Sharon Tyndale, at SPRING
field, Ill. One Nose Williams, a noted thief,
who has Just been sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary from that city, now comes forward and
affirms his ability and willingness to point out
the murderers, of whom there were four, pro-
yided he is guaranteed a pardon in case of
sometime ago murdered Gen. McCook, at
Yankton, Dakota, has been indicted for man
slaughter only....A young woman named
of the old woman who was found dead in her
bed, at Pittsburgh, a few days ago. She says
she killed the old lad" under the impression
that she had a large amount of money.
THE Farmers Convention concluded its ses-
sion at Chicago on the 23d of October. Vari-
GUS resolutions bearing on the transportation
question were offered, discussed, and voted
down. the final result being the adoption of
the following substitute 8" We demand the
construction of railroads, and the improve
ment of water communication between the
interior and the seaboard, the same to be owned
and operated by the General Government, for
the purpose of ahordlng cheap and ample
transportation, and to protect the people from
the exactions of monopoly"
WILLIAM BEBB, formerly Governor of Ohio
at his residence in Rockford, Ill, on the
23d of October, aged 71....The steamer vi
emma, of Cleveland, was recently lost in a
gale on Lake Superior. All the crew and pas
were saved. Loss about 300, 000....
Gov. Beveridge, of Illinois, has issued a proc
lamalion ratifying that of the President
naming the 9th of November as a day of
thanksgiving and prayer....Rev John S.
Spaulding succeeds the late DR.. Randall as
Missionary Bishop of Colorado, Wyoming and
Mexico. Some of the parties engaged in the
lynching of Delos Hebron, at Salem, Ind,
have been arrested and will be prosecuted.
W~INTERMUTE, the assassin of Gen. McCook,
at Yankton, Dakotab, has been admitted to
bail in $50, 900. TIL National Board of
Trade has concluded its labors at Chicago,
and adjourned to meet at Baltimore on the
second Tuesday in January next. On the
subject of transportation, the only definite
that was adopted by the Conven-
ton was one declaring that the only complete
and permanent restraint upon unreasonable
eXactions must be sought in the development
of natural water routes. and favoring the i'm
provement of the canals and rivers to promote
this end. Resolutions favoripg recip-
rocity with the South American States,
aud the establishment of something in the
nature of a National Clearinghouse, were
also passed The st. Louis banks have re-
sumed currency payments. The new inter
railway bridge at Buffalo has been
completed -. Large and valuable deposits of
cinnabar have been discovered in Northern
Arizona. Hon. Samuel w. Fuller, a distin-
guished member of the Chicago bar, is dead,
aged ST.. John G. Heenan, the once noted
pugilist, died recently at Denver, Col, of
hemorrhage of the lungs. Joseph Puffen-
berger, the engineer of the coal-train that
collided with the passenger express on the
Chicago and Alton road near Lemont, ILL.,, on
the 10th of August, resulting in the killing of
twenty persons, has been tried at Chicago on
a charge of manslaughter, and acquitted IA
whole family of five persons were recently
killed by a stroke of lightning, near Blue
Rapids, Kansas.
CONFIDENCE operator literally captured
the town of Gilman, Ill, a few days ago. In
the short period of one day he borrowed all
the money and bought all the live stock in
the town, and made large contracts ahead.
He then borrowed a horse and buggy and de-
camped. A short time after his departure
there was a lively farmers movement in Gill
man, which resulted III the capture of the
operator. Hon. w. A. Porter, for he last
six years Judge of the Superior Court
of Chicago, died suddenly in that city,