Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-03
NEWS SUM-
The East,


The trial of Susan B. Anthony for illegal
voting has just been concluded at Canandai-
qua, N. Y, and resulted in a verdict of guilty.
...Vice-President Wilson is rapidly recover
ing his health. He is rpshcating in the suburbs
OF Boston, Is e.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY has been sentenced to
pay a fine of 800, and the costs of prosecu-
ton, as the penalty for Illegal voting. The
colored men of New York are clamoring for
places on the police force. The Maine Re-
publican State Convention nominated Nelson
Dlngley, DR., for Governor, passed resolutions
protesting against the granting of the public
lands to railroads and canals, denouncing the
salary grab, and c~cndemning all Credit Mo
bller transactions.
The election officers who received the vote
of Susan B. Anthony have been lined S55
each. Horace F. Clark, President of the
Michigan Southern and Union Pacific railroads,
died in New York, last week, after a brief ILL
ness. Mr.. Clark was a son-in-law of Commo-
dore~ Vanderbilt. He was So years old ....Ex-
Police S~uperindent Kennedy, of New York, is
dead.-..Joe Burton, colored, was hanged at
Georgetown, Del, on Friday, for the crime of
rape. Somebody at Louisville, KY, forward
ed to President Grant, at Long Branch, for
his son Jesse, a live alligator, four feet long.
Jesse declined the present, and the President
paid the express charges (s14), leaving the
alligator with the baggageman. The monster
soon afterward became "dejected' and died.
PAssA1o, N. J., and PottsviIle, Penn, were
each visited by a disastrous confiagration last
week. Forest fires nave been raging in
Central Pennsylvania and Northern New York.
Thousands of acres of valuable timber have
been destroyed New York State is actually
without a Senate, or a constitutional provision
for one, the Legislature at it's late session, by
a bungling piece of legislation, having abol-
ished the Senate altogether. -. Stokes trial
has been postponed to October.
BEN BUTLER is making a lively canvass for
the Governorshin of Massachusetts,, and is
confident of being elected. Two stables,
one near Philadelphia, containing twelve val
liable ~trotters, and the other at Buffalo, filled
with fifty horses, We're destroyed by fire last
week, the horses perishng in the flames. -.
Lewis Tappan, one of the early pioneers of
the Abolition movement, died last week in
New York, aged S5....In a hurdle race at
Jerome Park, New-York, last week, one of the
horses fell, killing the rider.
THE trial of young Walworth for the murder
of his father is in progress at New York.
The Juniata has left New York in search of
the Polaris and the missing Buddington party.
Her crew numbers 100, and her equipment
contains everything that is needed for Arctic
navigation.
The West.
The Northern Pacific surveying party was
recently attacked near Fort Abraham Lincoln
by about $50 Sioux Indians. In the fight that
ensued four Indians were killed. The Iowa
Synod has resolved to exclude from
its church all members of the Orders of Ma
sons, Odd Fellows, Red Men, etc.. While the
Modocs were being removed from the penin-
sula, Tule Lake, to Fort Klamath one of the
Indians known as Curly-headed Jack shot him
self, and has since died
ALBERT KEEP, of Chicago, succeeds John F.
Tracy as President of the Chicago and North
railroad :. The wheat crop of Califor-
mia this year is expected to exceed 49, 900, 900
bushels. p. Burlington, Iowa, was visited by a
terribly destructive -conf1agration on the morn
ing of the 10Th of June. The Palmer Opera
House, Courthouse, two hotels, and a large
of stores were destroyed, -four blocks
being burned. The loss is about $500, 600,
half of which. it is thought, is covered by in
surance Two men were sleeping together
in a store at Santa Rosa, Cal. One dreamed
a burglar was robbing the store, and he
took his pistol from his pillow and shot his
killing him. TIL town of Mays
Vile, Mich, has been almost totally destroyed
by fire.
In Chicago, the other day, two men had a
dispute about the ownership of a rs cent
rule. One struck the other in the
forehead with his fist, from the effects of
which he died in a few hours. -. Destructive
forest fires have been raging in Northern
THE managers of the principal railway lines
running into Chicago have signed q paper
agreeing to issue no more passess except to
their own employees and their families travel
ing on their own roads. All passes now out
standing will be allowed to continue in force
until their expiration, Dec. 81, and will not be
renewed. The following roads have entered
into the agreement: Chicago and North
Chicago and Iowa, Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul. Rock Island, Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy, Chicago and Alton, Illinois Cen
troll Miohioarnmi n MINING Gntflannant nf
800 inhabitants on the shore of Lake Superior,
took fire last week from the burning woods
which surrounded it, and was destroyed. The
people to save their lives sought refuge In the
lake, but a number were oYertaken by the
flames, and a dozen or more were roasted to
death. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
has promulgated its new schedule of
rates, to conform to the new Illinois railway
law. The principle has been adopted of fixing
n certain rate per mile for the various classes
of freight, and then applying this rate by sec
tions of two miles and a half up to Twenty-Five
miles, and to sections of five miles for dis
tances exceeding twenty-five miles. The
application of this tariff will test the
effect of the pro rata provision, bring
it's merits and show its defects.
advertisement was given in the Chi
papers, the other day, that the corn in
bins in two North Side elevators was
hot. The announcement had an instant effect
upon the corn market, the price depricating
an average of IL cents a bushel. AS there are
some 4, 600, 900 busels in store in tho city, the
loss is considerable. The decline also followed
the corn in transit between Chicago and New
York, and to some extent, the corn at all points
in the East. As a whole, there was probably
a fall of IL cents per bushel on not less than
10, 900, 900 bushe OF. corn, equal to the annihi-
lation of value in the hands of the holders of
100, 900. The Tribune, in its financial, says
great feature in local trade and finance,
to-day, was the panic and decline in prices of
corn, wheat, and provisions. In fact, there
was a generalcrash in prices of nearly all kinds
of products dealt in in this market. The aggre-
gate loss will be large, though but a small por-
ton of it will fall in this city. Perhaps the
losses are in pork, which has been
held up by speculation-at a much higher
price than justified blythe prices of hogs-eyer
since last winter"
LATE heavy rains in Western Wisconsin
render the cop prospects in that region very
favorable. IA daughter of Robert Eyerson,
of Plymouth, Mich, essayed to kindle q fire
with kerosene. She succeeded admirably, OIL
veloping herself, father and mother in flames.
The two former are dead, and the mother will
lose her arms. Immense fields of
wheat and oats in Osceola, O'Brien, Clay and
adjoining counties of Iowa, have been de-
stroycd by grasshoppers-.. IA dispatch to a
Chicago paper says there we're Upward of
persons burned at Mfchigammi and Spur
Mine villages, in Michigan, and that several
more were drowned in the lake, having fled
thither from the flames.
THE public schools of Cincinnati have long