Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-09
NEWS OF II WEEK.
The East.

P. 7. BARNUM's loss by the destruction OF
his museum and menagerie, in New York, is
upward of $3.50, 900. Among the animals lost
are several of the most rare in the country,
which it will be difficult if not impossible to
replace, including two g~iraffes-the only ones
in the United States-costing $50, 600. His
natural history collection is said to have been
the most valuable in this country. This is the
been burned ut-th first time in July, 1865,
and again in March, 1868. .Cathcart Taylor,
city editor of the Philadelphia Press, has been
convicted of libel.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY and thirteen other fe-
males who voted at the late election at Roches-
ter, N. Y, have been bound over for trial be-
fore the United States District Court.
1t is now known that seven persons persisted
in the fire in Center street, New York, on
Christmas eve. The roof of a car-wheel fac
ory fell in Philadelphia during the recent
snow storm, burying a number of workmen,
of whom three were killed outright and seve-
raj others badly manned During the ser
vices in the Seventh Ward Baptist Church
in Williamsport, Pa, on Christmas, the
floor and ceiling gave way, precipitating
500 people into the basement below. Four
teen persons were killed outright and for
ty more injured, some of them seriously and
probably fatally. In a wrestling match at
New York, recently, for $500, between Harry
Grace and Homer Lane, the former was vic
torious, and was declared champion of America.
NEW YoRK CITY has decided to issue SIS, 900, )
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land for the Riverside Park. In the Stokes
trial at New York, the other day, the accused
testified in his own behalf He admitted that
he shot Fisk, but did not intend to kill him,
and said the shooting was In self-defense,
Fisk having drawn his pistol first. The peo-
pie of New York have been somewhat agitated
of late over what they claim to be evidence of
n concerted plan for the destruction of the
city by the Internationalists- Many Commun-
lists, expelled from Paris, are lurking around,
and their movements have excited much sus-
picion. The recent epidemic of fires they are
unable to account for except on the theory of
incendiarism. Extra men have been engaged
by the fire department, and additional engines
ordered; insurance managers are alarmed, and
a further advance in insurance rates -is limited
at; vigilance committees are talked about; and
there is a probability of a vigorous movement
for the suppression of the international Socie-
ties in New York and vicinity : . TIL late snow
storm in New York was the heaviest expert
enced for twenty years.
STATE TREASURER MAcKEY has purchased,
for 300, 600, a controlling interest in the Pitts
burgh Commercial. New York had As fires
for the week ending Dec. %, involving a loss
of 81, 157, 600. The source of the money that
put the lew York Tribune back in the hands
of Whitelaw Reid is Hon. William Walter
Phelps, a recently-elected Administration Con-
gresham from New Jersey. He is a warm
personal friend of the present editor of the
Tribune, and is immensely rich. He has a
clearinghouse on Wall street.
SAMUEL SINCLAIR mas I6CuoQ ITOH Tile posi-
ton of publisher of the New York Tribune.
THE stockholders of the Etna Fire Insur-
ance Company, at a meeting last week, unani-
mously voted to reduce the capital stock from
So, 900, 600 to %, 600, 900, and afterward voted
to increase to the original amount, and assess
the stockholders 339 per cent.
THE highest price of gold in New York in
1872 was 115s, and the lowest los. John A.
Brown, an old and wealthy banker of Phila-
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Colts Willow Ware Manufacturing Company,
at Hartford, Ct, were recently burned. Loss,
$50, 900 :. Susan B. Anthony refuses to seek
release from Imprisonment by giving bail, and
has been sent back to jail. Her companions
gave the bail asked, and are at liberty until
their trial for voting begins at Albany. In
New York, during 1872, there were 8,445 mar
riages, and II, 1913 births of living cheldren.
The deaths exceed the births by nearly II, 900.
The total death con is %, 941, being 1000 in ex-
cess of last year. b new scheme for the
Rapid Transit road in New York proposes to
make the building thereof the province of the
city The road is expected to cost 800, 600, 600.
THE loss by the burning of Days Fifth
Avenue Theater, in New York, on New Years
day, will reach 5000, 900. For a time the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, adjoining, was in mime
danger, and a wild panic seized the guests and
employees, who rushed helter-skelter in every
direction; but by the strenuous exertions of
the fremen the flames were restricted to the
theater building, which was consumed in an
incredibly short time.
The West.
Mr.. WILLIAM E. CRAMER, the veteran editor
of the Milwaukee Wisconsin,, made the hearts
and stomachs of the newsboys of that city ex-
ceeding glad on Christmas day, by rendering
them a sumptuous dinner at the Newhan
House.
THE Chicago, Wilmington and Western Rail-
way Company, for the purpose of constructing
a railroad from Chicago to Muscatine, Iowa,
has been organized. The Louisville, New
Albany and Chicago railroad was recently sold
at auction to George L.. Schuyler, of New York,
for 80, o Twelve persons were recently
buried by a snow-slide at Little Cottonwood,
Utah. The heirs of John Bostwick, of Mad
ison county, Ill, have brought suit in the Su-
perior Court, at Chicago, for the recovery of
the ownership of $4,000. 900 worth of real
estate in the southern suburbs of that city.
The 81. Louis Democrat publishes a list of
on the Western rivers during the
year just closed. The pecuniary loss is set
at 50, 225, 200. Fifty-eight lives were lost
by explosions, and 365 by falling overheard.
Mack Milligan, of Colorado, is the latest luna
nc who claims to have discovered perpetual
notion. Large deposits of coal have been
in the vicinity of Puget Sound,
Oregon, near the western terminus of the
Northern Pacific railroad. AS an aid to the
efforts of those who are working to get Col
orado Territory admitted into the Union, it has
been proposed to increase its population to an
approximate standard by annexing to it the
most thckly settled portion of Wyoming Ter
-itory. The Wyoming people have taken great
at this, and are sending to Washington in
protests against such ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad
mas been completed tothe west line of Kansas.
This company has built 1862 miles of road since
March last. In August so miles of track were
largest months work ever done on
ny railroad in this country. The entire length
4 the road, including branches, is 470 miles,
II graded, ironed, and equipped since 1869
:. The Ohio and Mississippi railroad is nego- J
iating for the purchase of the Louisville, New
ELEVEN persons were buried by the recent
at Little Cottonwood, Utah....A
etter from Arizona says hat the Lee family,
ircus performers, eight persons well known on
he Pacific coast, were all murdered by Apaches !
on their way to Mexico through Arizona. ]
Mrs. Christina Mack, an aged widow of 10, I
nd the survivor of ten husbands, was burned 9
o death in her shanty, near La Sale, Ill, re- !
emily. !
A FIRE at Galesburg, ILL, recently, destroyed j
N entire block of buildings, involving a loss of {
100, 000. The damage to steamboats, and :
argos at Cincinnati, by the breaking of the ice
orge, is estimated at 5000, 600. e. Milwaukee
hipped, last year, wheat and flour to the
mount of II, 633, 821 bushels. Its manufac- I
1res are claimed to foot up $50, 600, 900, of L