Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25

has been indicted for murder by the Cook
County Grand Jury. The Chicago Board OF
49,. The advance of freight rates by the Min
nesota railway has produced a feeling in some
sections which, if it continues to spread
throughout the State, will result in no good to
the capital invested in railroads. -. Congress-
man Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, has been
sued by Hugh Maher for the recovery of 80
acres of land, valued at LOCO an acre, which,
it is alleged, was conveyed to Farwel by
Maher to iquidate a gambling debt thirteen
years ago.. Samuel P. Freeman, City Clerk
of Fort Wayne, Ind, committed suicide last
Domestic troubles, caused by too much
mother-in-law, led him to commit the rash
deed.
IowA's hog crop this year will amount to
about 800, 900 head. The skeleton of an
immense mastodon has been exhumed near
New Paris, O.
The notorious Lord" Gordon-G Gordon was
recently arrested some 400 miles west of Fort
Garry, and is now confined in jail on a charge
of larceny....A serious accident occurred on
the Detroit and Milwaukee road, fifteen miles
from Grand Haven, on the 18th inst, by which
two persons were killed outright, two more
are expected to die, the life of another is in
doubt, and seven others are u more or
less severely. The accident was caused by a
bullock stepping upon the track thirty feet in
front of the locomotive, which deliberately
stood there until thrown down under the
locomotive truck wheels, and suddenly throw
ing the tender, express, mail, and two emil
grant cars off the track. Six hundred people
were on the train, and it is miraculous that SO
few were killed. Great damage has been
done to the corn, tobacco and crops
by the early frost throughout the Northwest.
Eighteen bodies have been washed ashore from
the foundered propeller Ironsides, and two per-
sons are still missing. All the rest of those on
board were saved. The steamer sank in 100
feet of water at a place four miles west by
south of The Piers at Grand Haven, Mich. The
caJ1Sa of tho accident WAS cOrractlv pIVan in the
first dispatches. The steamer sprung a heavy
leak at 7 o'clock, which gained 80 rapidly on
the pumps that at 8 o'clock it puto out the fires.
When all hope of saving the vessel was gone.
the crew and passengers took to the boats,
and the loss of life occurred through the
capsizing of two of them. Capt. Dennis
Trade, committed suicide by blowing his brains
out, last week. Financial troubles had crazed
him.
The South.
BALTIMORE has been visited by another
disastrous fire, involving the destruction,
among other buildings, of the Holiday Street
Theater. Loss, 1920, 600. The ravages of
the yellow fever at Shreveport, La, are de-
scribed as frightful.
SHREVEPORT, La, a town of some Is, 900 in
habitants, located on Red river, near the great
raft, is being terribly scourged by the yellow
fever. Every inhabitant who could get away
has departed, the stores are shut, the tele-
graph Office closed, and, to complete the iso-
lation of their misery, the railroads connect
ing with the city have stopped running their
cars. The causes of this singular epidemic at
this place are unknown, but one hypothesis is
that it has resulted from the malarial matter
set free by the loosening of the Red river
raft.
THE steamer James Howard recently caught
fire on the Mississippi, near Commerce, Mo-,
and was scuttled to save her from burning.
UII,a uororJ xyoo 4ho Iorooa4 oHao,,boot a-or
built for the Western or Southern waters, be-
ing $500 tons burden. She cost $780, 600,
and was only three years old LA number of
cattle thieves have lately been hung in YER
million county, La, by the Vigilants. Tn
yellow fever is raging in Memphis. Lord,
the missing New York Herald correspondent,
who disappeared from Shelbyville some weeks
since, has been seen near Midway, KY, and
beyond there, walking through the country,
splendidly dressed, with diamond studs and
heavy gold watch and chain exposed to view.
The sunken Mississippi steamer James
Howard has been raised, and will be repaired.
IA dispatch from Shreveport, La, dated
Sept. 16, says: "Of the six men in our tele-
graph Office, five have taken the fever, and
have already died. The interments aver
not over 1000. The physicians and
are worked down. The people of the
country should know these terrible facts, and
send aid to the suffering city."....S. II.
L llChOly OhO u ZIG OINaC6b VI =
Rock, Ark, has suspended.
THERE has been great destruction of prop
srty along the Rio Grande, caused by the over
How. The cotton crop is destroyed, telegraph
poles and railroad tracks washed away, the
mails stopped, and all communication with the
suspended.
Washington.
The local option temperance laws now in
operation in Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania and
ONE other localities, have not, as was expect
ed, caused any falling off il the collection of
bond for SIS. 500, 900, the amount of the
9eneva award, is held by the Secretary of
State in that department., and snot placed for
safe keeping in the Treasury. h bond is
payable to the order of the Secretary of
State. This bond is for the largest amount of
money ever Issued by any government in a
transaction. photographs of the bond
0er and COPIES Gs s eeP0St to f the P pesh
dent and each member of the Cabinet. -.
Washington telegram says of the forthcom-
ng Credit Mobilier prosecution: "Those
who are well-iuformed IDOL this subisct look
for no beneficial result. The case seems to
have been mismanaged, or the position of the
Union Pacific railroad not thoroughly appreci-
ated by the Government counsel, and it is
doubtful whether Congress by further legisla-
ton can change the situation. 1t was not
contemplated by the Acknowledgement that
the Union Pacific Railroad Company would
Jake part In the QefenSe, although to cover
some possible contingencies it was mentioned
IN the bill, but the death of Horace T. Clarke,
the President of the Company, who had agreed
hat it should remain neutral in the suit,
worked a complete change in the aspect of
he case. Some of the leading stockholders of
The road who were in the ring, unrestrained
by the late Presidents influence, and fully ap-
preciating the value of the movement, have
the road into making common cause
against the Government with the other de-
'endants, and it will thus be seen that the
government has little or no chance of gaining
lnything."
HENRY D. COOKE, Governor of the District
If Columbia, has resigned, and President
Grant has appointed Alex. R. Shepherd to
succeed him 1t is rumored that a heavy
force is to be sent out to punish the
Sioux and other formidable Indian tribes.
The officials at the various Indian agencies
nave been directed by the Washington au-
to allow the sale of no arms or am
nunition to Indians. 9. Since July 1 the pos
service has been established in
cities. One of the measures to
De brought to the attention of Congress, as
loon as possible, will be a bill for the adop-
of measures for the prevention of the
LANCER and the consequent losses of ships in
he American lumber-trade on account of car
wing deck loads in the winter months. The
Parliament some time ago issued a
aw on the same subject.
Ex-PREsIDENT johnson is in Washington
or the purpose of taking part in the ~contro-