Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-17
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.

Ina oOJONe VI SAO pAOPOoOo oiACO
across the Atlantic by Prof. Wise is to make a
scientific exploration of the atmosphere. Ac-
cording to a prospectus, it is an endeavor to
mark out an untrodden path for men and
mails, to aid the science of meteorology, and
to establish, if possible, a defined system of
aerial transition. =. Philadelphia celebrated the
Fourth by formally transferring to the Centen-
NAL Commission the site granted it by the city
of Philadelphia, and by other exercises in
tended to ~inaugurate the preparations for the
celebration IN 1876 of the completion of the
first century of American independence A
proclamation was made public by the Presi-
dent reciting the act of Congress under which
the Exposition was to be held, and inviting
the people of other nations to take part.
d. In South Acton, Mass, a few days ago,
George Curtis, aged 8 years, took a boy named
Lanes years of age, into the woods, and there
beat him with a club in a most shocking man
ner. Lane was soon discovered, but died of his
injuries four hours after. The child-murderer
fled, but was subsequently arrested young
man and a young lady, accompanied by an in
FAINT brother of the latter, went out ON the
Niagara rivor on the Fourth fora boat ride, and,
getting In the current, were carried over the
falls and dashed to pieces. The man and woman
were to have beeen married the next day..
Buffalo has been shake by an earthquake.
No damage, but considerable scare. Frank
ID. Walworth, the young man who shot his
father at New York, and was convicted of
murder in the second degree, has been sem
fenced to imprisonment for life. The youth
full parricide listened unmoved to the dreadful
sentence, and walked from the scene of the
trial with q firm step, and in an apparently
cheerful frame of mind. On his way to the
Iombs, after sentence, he said: 81 am glad
l did not have to ndure the long lecture 1
had anticipated Judge Davis would infiict
upon me. 1 thoroughly understand my posi-
ton, and did not desire any instruction in re-
latlon thereto. 1 simply wish time to arrange
my affairs, and I shall then submit myself to
my fate with all the e~quanimity 1 can COM
mand."
The young parricide, Frank Walworth, has
taken up his quarters in Sing Sing Prison..
The repairs to the steamer Tigress at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard has proved such a bung-
ling job that the vessel is less seaworthy
than when she entered the docks, in conse-
of which the search for the Polaris is
indefinitely postponed. 1T is probable that
hoated and repaired. Had she struck 200
yards farther to the left, on the Little Gull
ROCK, her 700 souls would, beyond a doubt,
have followed the victims of the Atlantic. At
the time of the disaster she was running at
the good rate of nine knots an hour, notwith-
standing a dense fog prevailed, and the Cap
tain evidently had not the least idea of his
whereabouts.
The West.
THEY are having lively times at Wichita,
A dispatch from that point (July A.
Wichita is red-hot and getting hot
ter Texas rangers, booted and spurred, and
500 demi-mondes are making things lively here
with all kinds of games and entertainments at
all hours. One hundred thousand Texas cat
tie are now herded in this vicinity, awaiting
Eastern buyers. Prices ranges as follows A.
S12 to $14 2-year-olds, SO to $40 yearlings,
to $780," Prof. Lafontaine was instantly
killed at Ionia, Mich, ON the 4th, by falling
from a balloon. He had assembled 500 or 600
feet when the balloon collapsed. The ropes
passed from under the basket, and the Profess
sor came down 100 feet from where he ascend
ed, to the horror of ten or twelve thousand
A Two-sToRY house fell in Mt. Carroll. ILL.,,
the other day, and three persons were injured,
it is feared, fatally. Capt. Randall, of the
Apache scouts, recently surrounded a camp of
Apache Indians in Arizona, and captured
twenty-five warriors, with squaws and chill
dren- The next day, Delchay's camp was sur
rounded, and he, with the remainder of the
formidable band, to the number of 131,
surrendered, Delchay says it is impossible for
the Apaches to evade their own traitors. They
follow night and day. Sickness is reported
Close confinement is commencing to tell on
Capt. Jack and Curly-Headed Doctor. The
former is weak, gaunt, and complaining.
Green Lake, Wis, on the morning of the
Fourth, a picnic party went out ON the lake in
the sailing yacht H. B. Harshard, on a fishing
and had proceeded but a short dis
tance when a squat struck the boat, capsizing
it. The following persons were thrown into
the water and drowned: Mrs. A. P. Carman,
Mrs. Geo. Harding, Miss Jennie Ola, Mrs. NJ.
Russell and child, VIM. Bloxham, wife and
child, Mrs John Baird, and a child of the Rev.
Anen.. The number of Modoc captives
has been increased by the surrender of three
more braves, with their women and children.
"a vast amount of property was destroyed
by the recent storms in Illinois, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Ohio and Indiana. Houses, fences and
were demolished, and in some sections
serious loss of life is reported. The grain
fields have suffered serious injury, the dam
age in Ohio alone being estimated at upward
Of 49, 00, 600.
A COMPANY with $500, 600 capital has been
organized in Cincinnati for the establishment
Of a geological garden in that city. At
Phoebe, Nevada, the other day, a desperate
named Harrington shot and killed four men
because one of them killed his dog....W. H.
a prominent Indianapolis lawyer,
has squandered the funds in his hands belong
to various trusts, and sloped for parts un-
known, leaving his friends and bondsmen in
the lurch..-.A lively contest is going on for
the Pacific terminus of the Northern Pacific
Seattle offers, by way of donation,
and and money estimated at 81, 600, 600, and
is still adding. Taco offers the entire control
Of the waterfront of the city, and a large
amount of land in case Seattle does not get the
erminus . Gen. Stanley, in charge of the
expedition escorting the engineers of
The Northern Pacific railway, reports that the
survey of the road has been made to a point
seventy miles west of Bismarck, Dakota. The
quite traverses a fi~nely-watered and fertile
country, and cuts through ample coal deposits
'wenty-seven miles west of the Missouri
liver.
LORD GORDON, who was lately robbed of
s41, 900 in bonds supposed by detectives to
ure him over the border, was seized re-
emily, near Fort Garry, by two officers from
and brought to disputed terri
DRY near Pembina, where he was rescued, |
nd the officers arrested by a squad of troops
rom Fort Dufferin. 1t is said Gordon was
made drunk and gagged by his captors. The
Ian for Gordon's arrest was laid at Mime
polls, where Marshall o.. Roberts, of New
,ork, and representatives of the estate of
Iorace F. Clark have been for some time.
soberts and Clark some time ago gave bonds
$4,000 for Gordon's appearance in the
uits with Jay Gould. Gordon is also wanted
y New York parties on other accounts.
half mile of the Missouri Pacific railroad
rack near Kickapoo, Kansas, dropped into the
lissouri river a few days ago. 1t sank out
f sight in the flooded stream in one lurch,
nd without any warning. 1t seems that the
undermined the track without the knowl-
dye of railroad men. The water where the
rack was situated is. now 40 feet deep. Rail-
Dad men say it is the most fearful rent ever
een. The escape of trains was almost mi
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