Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-30
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

amount OF which il stated at $500. OOO- Five
men entered the FIRST N~ationalB Bank of Athens,
Pa, Q few nights ago, gagged the Cashier, and
robbed the safe Of $4,000.
THE price of gold in Wall street dropped to
1915 on the 18th inst, the lowest point since
the war. /. Predictions were freely INDUCED
In b. the press, a few days ago, that the sec
ond breaking out of the stock panic in Wall
street was the sure precursor of the downfall
Of the venerable cormorant, Cernehus Van
bilt stocks, and for the moment matters did
wear a discouraging look for the Commodore
but 80 far from being on his last legs, as was
predicted and fondly hoped by many, he ap-
pears to-day stronger, financially, than ever
before. There has been a rise in Vanderbilt
stocks, and New York dispatches ~announc
that The Commodore is preparing for a heavy
trembling among the timid bears"
sad deathof Mortimer Leggett, ayoung
student Of Cornell University, and son Of the
United States Commissioner of Patents, occa-
sions the most profound excitement at Ithaca,
n. Y, where the tragedy has just been brought
to light. II appears that young Leggett was
the victim of the most barbarous treatment at
the hands of q number of his feIlew-students,
who had undertaken the task Of initiating him
into the mysteries of q college secret society.
The usual practice OF bIndfoldipg the candi,
otherwise il-treating him, appears to have
been carried out to the letter ia this instance,
ana to have resulted in the most tragic con-
Sequences.
PIrTsBURaH is agitated by a crime of I'M
usual atrocity. An aged widow lady, who lived
alone, was found murdered in her bed, her
head beaten almost into q pulp. Robbery was
the incentive, as her trunks were rifed of
their contents- -.-P Philadelphia reports great
stringency in the money market of that city.
Notes with frst-class collateral security sell at
1908 per cent, Endorsed paper of high grade
at about the Same rates, with sales of less
favorably known names at "a per cent.
Financial matters are improving IN New York.
The foreign export trade, at one time seri-
ously threatened by the panic, is in q healthy
condition, and large shipments are made by
every outgoing steamer without material
alteration. IN rates. One man was instantly
killed, and four others fatally injured, by the
explosion Of a blast furnace in Bangor, Maine,
on Saturday
A GOOD many of the Rhode Island cotton
mills are running on short time. Six canal
boats were wrecked near Peekskill, N. Y, by
the late gale. Loss about @l5a, 600.
SERIous charges Of malfeasance are made
against the New York detectives in connec-
ton with the arrest of the Bank Of England
forgers. It is alleged that they were in collu-
sion with the forgers, were aware of the plans
proceeds. McDonaId one Of The fo4reers. has
made q confession, in which he reveals the
whole plot, and also charges that the detec-
tiyes have in their possession some $40, 0o0.
which he turned over to them under promise
that they would use it in securing his escape.
The officers deny the story, but the weight of
Testimony is decidedly against them.
The regent storm Mt the East was one of the
'eeyerest experienced for many years. Great
damage was one to railway tracks and
bridges, and several accidents have resulted
In consequence.
The West.
TIE seventh animal reunion of the officers
and soldiers of the Army Of the Tennessee,
held at Toledo on the 10th inst, was attended
by many distinguished persons, including
President Grant and Gems. Sherman, Sheridan,
and other eminent officers. Gen.. Sherman
presided, and addresses were delivered by
Gems. Sheridan, Pope, Belknap, and others.
-. AN Omaha dispatch brings Intelligence of
another Of those terrible prairie fires, which
rage with such violence at this season of the
year. On the 18th inst. one of these fires
swept over twenty-five miles of country, in
6aline and Jefferson countries, Nebraska,
destroying many faFm-houses and large guam
titles of grain. The saddest part of the re-
port is the intelligence that ten school-chil-
Three of them persisted on the spot, and three
others cannot survive. The. other four,
although f~earfulIy injured, will recover....
A large. delegate convention was held at
Denver. Col, last week, to mature q plan for
irrigating the Western Territories. A conn
mittee was appointed to memorialize Congress
TO 0Xc6uQ dOF6rnm9nt AID, SO that extensive
bitches, canals and water-courses may be con-
structed m the several States and Territories
where irrigation is resorted to for the cultiya-
ton Of cereals; fruits and yegetables-.-A
war party of 200 Sioux lately attackedt he Pom
cas- Agency, IS miles west of Sioux City A Sc
we're battle ensued, in which a number of In
dams on both sides were slain.
The Trans-hLissourf shrigatings Convention
at Denver adopted a memorial to Congress
asking for . grant to the States of Neyada,
Oregon, California, Nebraska, Kansas, and
Texas, aud to the Territories, of one-hah of the
arid lands within their borders, the proceeds
sive system of Irrigation. The memorial also
asks for the division of the homestead and
presumption lands, so that they VIII be more
equitable in their character ..C. w. Mead,
road asserts positively sthat-work On the road
viii be begun and prosecuted with yigor in the
spring. !. The Texas cattle fever is said to be
raging in DaEiess county, Mo....The Ameri-
can House, Minneapolis, Mimi, has been de-
stroyed by IRE. One Of the guests was burned
to death
Tara Chicago and Atlantic Rairpad Company
has received notification by cable of the sale
in London of 81, 900, coo worth of bonds of the
The colored people of the Indian
Territory have adopted a memorial to Con-
g5ssa a.. ssk Ing; for e sna frs Tlg tss oa. shs Isrrat to-
Territorial Government. /. I. Z Hon. w. B.
Williams has been nominated by the Republi-
cans~of the Fifth District of Michigan for
Congress, to succeed Wilder B. Foster. !.
Winter has set in early In Far West
Eight inches. of snow fell in Wyoming and
Utah on the 18th OF October, and the Union
Pacific trains were delayed several hours
thereby 1.-THE National Crop Reporter, of
Oct. Is, states that additional reports indicate
still greater losses to the corn crop than have
as yet been estimated. The Executive Com
mittees of the State Oranges in b Northwest
held q meeting at Keokuk, Iowa, on the 10Th
and 18th Of October. Their sessions were
held with closed doors, and only aportion of
their work is made public. One of the resolu-
adopted contemplates an extensive sys-
tenn Of agricultural statistics, to be collated by
town assessors and tabulated by a Commits
Eioner OF Statistics, at the capital of each
State, for publication in the papers. Bakers
field, Kern county, CAL, was the scene of a
bloody affray on the day OF therecent election,
in which three men killed
Ar Kalamazoo, Mich-s a few days ago, a
colored man was caught in the machinery of a
m~achine-shop and run around at the rate of
200 revolutions a minute, literally tearing him
to pieces. One foot was thrown through the
skylight, lodging on tho roof ....One Kelly,
his wife and grandchild were burned to death
in Toledo, the other day, by the burning of
the shanty in which they lived. The xecu-
tive Committee of the low Grange of
Patrons of Husbandry have decided to estab-
lish a large reaper and mower factory in Des
Mo;naa fire in Madison Wis IN the