Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-30
NEWS OF II WEEK.
The East.

THE Mechanics Bank, of Lancaster, Pa,
was recently robbed of SAC, 600.
AMBROSE E. LYNCH, of Pittsburgh, is to hang
for the murder of William Hatfield. There
has been a great freshet on the Hudson, Mo-
hawk, Su~squehanna, Allegheny, and other
streams in the East. Many bridges were swept
away, causing much damage to railroads, and
seriously i~nterrupting travel. -. Senator Sher-
mans specie resumption proposition is the sub
ject of widespread interest and discussion
whose opinions are widely at variance on the
feasibility of the plan....The daily illustrated
newspaper which has been contemplated in
New York it is now stated will be published by
evening paper, with two editions, called the
Graphic. In size it is to be smaller than the
Sun, but it is to have eight pages, with Illus
~trations in four. The process of illustration
will be by photography..-.W H Bumstead,
the Boss Tweed of Jersey City, has been par
doned out of the penitentiary.
The trial of Boss Tweed, at New York, is
dragging its slow length along-...The latest
New York murder was committed by a printer
Marshall McGruder-who burst open the
door of a fellow-compositor named Clarence
Lockwood, and proceeded to empty the con-
tents of a revolver into the body of the de-
fenseless typo. The murderer was arrested.
A woman was connected with the tragedy.
Boston is suffering terribly from smallpox,
5000 cases being reported last week.
1.-The report OF the existence OF q new nOT6o
epidemic in New York is a canard. Foster,
the car-hook murderer, has failed to obtain a
new trial, and will be hung.
THE nailers and feeders in the Pittsburgh nail
mills are on a general strike. -. The SANTANA
Bay Company held a meeting at New York, the
other day, and ratified the contract made with
the San Domingo Government. The following
officers were elected for the ensuing year: A.
B. ~Stockwel, President; Paul N. Spohord, Vice
President; Henry Clews, Treasurer; r. r.
Hazard, Secretary. The company intend pur-
chasing or building three steamers besides the
Tybee, which will run regularly between New
York and SANTANA Bay, establishing weekly
sued the Brooklyn Union for $4,000 worth of
libel. "a New York dispatch of the 22d says
1t was a painful scene when the sisters, Mrs.
Woodruff and Tennie G.. Clafiin, and Col. Blood
were for the fourth or fifth time taken to court
to-day to plead to the Indictment for the same
libel, this time for a repetition of it. Strong
minded women and men were
conspicuous by their absence, and the prison
ers, already under heavy bail, could not furnish
new bail, and were let out on parole.
The West.
CHICAGO is building the finest Turner Han
in the country. The First Congregational
Church, one of the finest and most costly
church edifices in Chicago, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, $40, 600; insured for $118, 900.
Perfect, the Chicago colored wife muir
derer, has been found guilty, on his second
trial, and again sentenced to be hanged.
The employees of the Southern Minnesota
railroad have seized the road for no~n-payment
of back pay.
MoNULTY, the Chillicothe, ILL.,, wife-mur-
derer, is to be hung. The thermometer at
Sparta, Wis, on the 18th of January, marked
As degrees below zero.
AN airline railroad. is projected between
Milwaukee and st. Louis. .Advices from Cal
ifornia state that a severe battle has been
fought between the troops under command of
Gen. Wheaton and the Modoc Indians. The
troops fought the unseen foe from 8 a. m. to
dark, under a terrific fire, during which scarce
was 40 killed and wounded. The loss to the
Modocs is unknown. The troops were finally
obliged to retreat to their camps....J. Z.
Graves, President of the Iowa Pacific and two
other railroads, has succeeded in obtaining the
necessary funds to pay OF the companies in
debtedness incurred in the construction dur
spring, when it is the intention at once to
build the road from Dubuque to Fort Dodge.
"a nephew of George Francis Train has
been sentenced, at Council Bluffs, to thirty
days imprisonment for swindling a rural gem
tleman out of $40 at three card monte.
Two LADIEsAMrs. Rosa Duance and Miss
Ida Majors-were suffocated by coal gas, at a
~ OOdA0An6-1OAoO AdSb nCCA- 1A1du
named Kidder was recently killed near Ep-
worth, Iowa, by the falling of q tree. Uriah
Howe, one. of the. first settlers of Manistee,
Mich, was recently frozen to death ....L Later
Modoc Indians, in California, states that IA
whites were killed and % wounded. The
troops were obliged to leave their dead on the
field.
The wel-known druggist, P. G. Samson, one
of the oldest and most prominent citizens of
Dubuque, Iowa, died recently, after a linger-
ing illness, of consumption. John Crowder,
one of the pioneers of Dubuque county, Iowa,
was found dead in a field near his home,
where he had gone to cut wood. He died from
old age.
The South.
s. W. DORSEY, Republican, has been elected
United States Senator by the Arkansas Legis-
lature, IN place of Senator Rice, whose term
expires on h 4th of March. This result was
brought about by the action of the Demo-
the final ballot. st. Louis is preparing for a
grand Industrial Exposition The erection of
the new st. Louis Merchants Exchange will
be commenced shortly.
J. J. MoULToN, Postmaster at Mobile, is q
defaulter to the amount of $50, 600. A Little
Rock, Ark, the other day, Henry Smith killed
Jackson Pike, at a negro dance-house, by stab
bling him with. a bowie-knife. On the same
day Enoch Jackson was knocked on the head
with a dray-pin and killed by his wife. All
were colored.
GEN. GoRDoN has been elected United States
Senator from Georgia. The vote stood
Gordon, 112; Alexander II. Stephens, Sc; ex-
Acknowledgement Alderman, H.. Alexander
II. Stephens has been nominated to Congress
in Georgia, and accepted. The Governor will
order the election soon.
Washington.
The bin regulating the pay of Territorial
officers, and limiting the duration of the ses-
sions of the Legislatures to forty days, has
passed the Senate, and only awaits the Presi-
dents approval to become a law. The mem
bers of the Territorial Legislatures are to re-
ceiye Sc per day and the present rate of mile
age. The salary of Governors of the Terrific
ries is to be 50, 500, and Secretaries %, $780,.
A Washington telegram states that the Gov
eminent has determined to institute suit
against the Union Pacific railroad for the
unpaid interest, unless prevented by legisla-
ton before the close of the investigation of
the committees now in session q. Senators
Wilson and Patterson, and Representatives
Bingham, Scofield, and Kelley were before the
Credit Mobilier Committee on the 10th. Viii
son says that he bought twenty shares of the
stock with his wife's money, on Ames' guaran-
tee that it should pay 10 per cent, and his as
suranee that the company was not coming to
Congress for aid. When he heard of the
Pennsylvania litigation he returned the stock
to Ames. He adds that all his property, ex-
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