Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

and the executive clemency OF Gov. DIX to go
of New York, have failed. Liabilities, $780,
600. The forty-eighth annual meeting of the
American Tract Society was held recently in
sales were S426, 1897, and from donations, etc.,
SIG, 873. The balance in the treasury is S21,-
931. The distribution of religious works
amounted to %, OSO, goo pages: Justice Strong,
elected President, and Bishop Johns, of Vir-
ginia, Vice-President
NEW YORK city is placed in a sad predica-
ment in regard to her financial affairs by a
recent decision of the Court of Appeals, de-
claring unconstitutional the law of 1872, levy
ing a tax of 81 mills on the taxable property of
the State to supply the deficiency in the city
treasury. Tho treasury is thus deprived of
about 81, 900, 600 of revenue, and there is no
constitutional means of meeting the current
demands Judge Chase left about 5000, 900.
Taunton, Mass, has had a 800, 900 fire.
-. .Oakes Amos died at North Easton, Mass,
on the evening of the 9Th inst, of apoplexy,
with which he was attacked two days before.
He was SO years old The New York police
are making vigorous war on the gamblers. -.
Robert P. Rleakley has been sentenced, at New
York, to a life term of imprisonment for the
murder of his niece, Maud Merrill -. Since
Jan. I, 5000 German emigrants have arrived
at New Yerk.
The National Temperance Society, in session
last week in New York, elected William E.
OOuB0 ITCSlu0lb- Ii bOC1oIy ASK INC 6on0Tal
Government to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of Intoxicating liquors throughout the
United Srates.
THE Brooklyn gas men have been on astrike,
and a considerable portion of the city was
without gas in consequence, many houses
being dependent on candles and KEROSENE.
Marin, the New York lawyer who slapped Jay
Gould's face, was fined 80 and costs In the
Court of Boston, Senator Charles
Srmnor has haan Orantad a divorce from hio
wife, Alice M. Sumner, on the ground of five
years desertion.
WILLIAM NJ. TWEED is the most extensively
prosecuted man in America. Fifteen fresh in
dictments have recently been found against
him by the New York Grand Jury....A guest
at a Rochester, N Y, hotel was the other day
worth of diamonds ....B. F. Camp has sued
the New York Tribune for libel, claiming
$50, 600 damages.
A VEIN of silver one to eight feet thick has
been discovered in Pike county, W. Va. The
steamer Remand struck a rock in the Lachine
rapids, st. Lawrence river, few days ago, and
went to pieces. TIL passengers all escaped.
IA convention of Jews, at which delegates
were present from leading cities of the United
States, was held in New York last week, and it
was resolved to encourage the emigration of
Roumanian Jews, who, it is alleged, are at
present subjected to bitter persecution.
EA~EEE W1OoB9
EIGHT dead bodies have been found under
the house of the Bender family, in Labette
county, Kansas, and near which the body of
Senator Yorkis brother was found. About a
dozen persons mysteriously disappeared near
that place the past year. This is the first trace
of any of them. Bender and family have
escaped from the country, but SO great is the
excitement that every effort will be made to
find and bring the murderers to Justice.
The heads of Schonchin and other fallen Mo-
dOc6 have haan f0ryvardad tn MILITARY head
quarters at San Francisco. "A little girl
named Mary Fitzpatrick was gored to death in
Dubuque, Iowa, the other day, by an Infatuated
COW. Representatives Hawley of Illinois,
and Rusk, of Wisconsin, have returned their
back pay to the United States Treasurer. :.
The Chicago and Northwestern and the Mil
waukee and st. Paul Railway Companies have
entered into an arrangement to pool their
earnings, In the proportion of so per cent. for
the former, and 40 per cent. for the latter.
This is a virtual treaty, offensive and defenI
which have boon fighting each other vigor-
ously in the past Over ], 400 Apaches have
surrendered to Gen. Crook, in Arizona. The
extraordinary news comes from E Paso, Texas,
that that section, and north from there all up
the Rio Grandc, was visited ON the oath and
25th of April by the severest snow-storm ever
experienced in that country All kinds of fruit
were killed, including the grapes. The region
of Santa Fe suffered from the same storm,
to even q greater extent. The remarkable ma
ture of this meteorological freak will be COM
pretended when it is considered that in this
region OF country snow Is a rare ~y1sitant, even
in mid-winter. b Union Pacific Railroad
Company sold, during April, II, All acres of
land, at an average price of $4.92 per acre.
A sNow-sToRM in Wyoming Territory on the
9Th of May The remains of Bishop Nc
Hvaine, of the Episcopal Church, having been
brought from Florence, Italy, where he died,
were inferred at Cincinnati, last week, with
and impressive ceremonies. The
American Medical association has been holding
an inter esting session at st. Louis, a large
number of delegates being present from every
section OF the country. A resolution was in
Produced by DR.. Homer, of the navy, declaring
that alcohol should be classed with other pow
erful drugs, and that when it is prescribed
incidentally it should be done with conscien-
tious caution and a sense of great RESPONSE
blity. The resolution further declares that
alcoholic liquors, as a beverage, are productive
of a large amount of physical and mental dis
ease, that it is the cause of q large percentage
of the crime and pauperism of our cities and
and country The resolution was referred
to q committee, who will report at
Modocs made q sortie from the lava beds
on the 7th inst, attacked q Government supply
train, and captured eleven mules and three
horses, and burned three wagons. Three
soldiers were n in the fight, the Indians
escaping without a scratch A reconnois-
sance of the lava beds on the 8th by a party of
Warm Spring Indians revealed the fact that
the Modocs have abandoned their late posi-
ton, but whittier they went or whentheydepart-
ed is a profound mystery. The party found |
the bodies of Lieut.. Cranston and three of
our soldiers, and also two dead Modocs, dur
ing their explorations. A San Fran
cisco dispatch of the 9th says William
Fenning met Bogus Charley and his squaw on
the road, thirty miles north of Yreka, the day
before. Fenning advised him to give up his
Charley refused, and did not say where
he was going, but said he was tired of fight
Other persons report having seen this
IA terrific tornado passed over
Belle Center, Ohio, on Saturday, blowing
down eight dwellings,, five stores and one
Strange to say, no loss of life is re-
ported. Richard Wallingford and his wife,
in Van Buren, county, Iowa, deliberately
suicide few nights ago, by taking
poison They have been having exciting
times in Labette county, Kansas. Ten graves
in all have been found on the Bender farm,
and it is thought more will yet be discovered.
1t is supposed the numbering has been going
on for years, and the utmost horror has been
produced by the awful revelations of crime.
A man named Brockman was hung by an ex-
cited mob, to make him confess the knowl-
edge it is believed he possessed regarding the
whereabouts of Bender and family, and was
being at last dead. =. Sixteen In
1ians, in charge of E. E. Barnum, agent for P.
Barnum, passed through Kansas City re-
GENTLY. They are bound for Vienna, and rep
resent the Kaws, Comanches and C~heyennes.
Others will follow from other tribes.
In Winona county, Minnesota, John Heffer-