Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

Er1e railroad ran on the track near MOraVla,
Pa, the other day, and was precipitated Down
an embankment thirty feet high. Two of the
coaches were burned, but all the passengers
succeeded in getting out alive. Twenty of
them were injured, but none seriously.
THE trial of Stokes for the murder of James
Fisk, Jr., was brought to a close in New York
on the 4th inst, and resulted in a verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree. On re-
tiring, the jury stood ten for murder and two
for manslaughter. They were absent three
hours On the announcement of the verdict
the prisoner was visibly affected. He turned
CHASTITY pale, and threw his arms in the air with
q gesture of utter despair. Financial advices
from New York and the East express the belief
that the ruling monetary ~stringency must soon
give way to an easier feeling.
STOKES was brought into the New York Court
of Oyer and Terminer, the other day, to re-
ceive his sentence. The prisoner was asked
what he had to say why sentence of death
should not be passed upon him. Stokes said
that he had not violated the law Intentionally;
that the testimony upon which he was con-
victed was manufactured and perjured. Judge
Boardman, then, in a feeling address, in which
he alluded to the prisoners youth and social
surroundings, sentenced him to be hanged on
the longest time that could be legally allowed
the convicted man. The prisoner looked gen.
tlemanly, and bore the scrutinizing gaze of the
thousands of spectators led by morbid curl
osity. He was ashy pale. The sympathy of
most of the spectators was with Stokes, and it
is believed that Gen. Dix will exert executive
clemency.
ABrrTER and exciting journalistic war is rag
ing in New York. A dispatch of the 9th inst.
says: All thapapers in the suit of the Trib-
une against the Times and the Brooklyn Union
have been served, and the Tribune viii press
Pect of a lively row among the newspapers in
the next few weeks. The Tribune and the
World are making common cause against the
Times. and 6aVaQ6 cOmnlimeQt8a are exchanged
daily. The Herald is not in the fight at present,
but will probably take a hand on the side of the
Tribune and World. The Journal IF Com
1nerce approves the Tribune's course in bring
ing the libel suit, and intimate that it has
suffered from stories similar to that which
causes the present row. Deaths in Brook
lyn the past year numbered IL, 64S.. Mrs.
Sophia III. Hiltsman and William J. n. Shep-
pard we're foully murdered at Moravia, n. Y,
b. John Hiltsman, husband of the former.
-. Stokes has been taken from his luxurious
quarters in the Tombs, and confined in the
murderer's cell. One ground On which the
verdict will be attacked by Stokes counsel is
the jurors, between the first and second trials,
that he would be ~"juror next time then you
viii see what viii happen to Stokes"
THE Democrats of New Hampshire have
nominated James A. Weston for Governor.
1t is said the Erie Railway Company is about
to sue Drew and Vanderbilt for the restitution
of money of which it is claimed they defruded
e. WIG ~. DOMCus VI In DIOOh-
lyn Union, has sued the New York Tribune
for p large amount because the Tribune copied
FROM the Brooklyn Eagle an article alleging
that Bowen was responsible for the scandal
about Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in regard to
the Woodhull-Claf1in publication against him.
Stokes, the murderer, has been removed to
his old cell. 1t is said this is the first instance in
81 years in which a prisoner, confined in the
Tombs and convicted of murder, has been al
lowed to occupy any but a condemned CELL.
A diabolical attempt at wholesale incendiarism
WAS discovered and frustrated in New York the
other day. A wine merchant named Kidd had
carefully prepared a train of fuse connecting
his premises with adjoining buildings, whereby
they could be set on fire. He was arrested,
and his office boy testified to seeing him max
ing the fuses Three large warehouses we're
involved in this attempt, and but for the dis
covery a heavy confagration would have en-
sued, as trains of fuse were nearly all laid In
the upper stories and from roof to roof.
A meeting of old soldiers of the war of 1912
Was held in Philadelphia on the anniversary
of the battle of New Orleans. Only twelve
answered to roll-can.
The West.
THE works of the Northwestern Fertilizing
Company in South Chicago, were destroyed
by fire recently, involving a loss of STE. 900.
The fine residence of ex-Gev. Dewey, at
Cassyille, Wis, was burned recently. Loss,
SIS, 1000. The coal-miners' strike at Spring
field, III, has ended, the workmen having ac-
cepted the old rates Two brothers, named
" q anu O6fIu OldIh6Ou, DOIu DuCCU6Tb,
aged respectively SO and II, were found frozen
to death in their beds in Pix county, H., re-
Gently. They were known to be extremely
misery, and it seems that, Notwithstanding
they were -wealthy-being worth 800, 900, had
money in their pockets, and an abundant sup
ply of fuel at hand-they froze to death be-
cause they were too stingy to burn their wood.
Their deaths were certainly most extraor-
dlnary.-.-A Morgan county, Ill, farmer, has
brought suit for $4,000 damages against the
Chicago and Alton Railroad Company, for
communicating thu TQYaG 0Qttla faUar fn hia
Frederick Rupp, editor of the Belle
vile (In.) Zeitung, recently committed suicide
by hanging himself in the doorway of his
Office -. Decatur, Ill, has been excited over
an attempt of some fend to poison a family by
putting arsenic in the well. All the family,
consisting of seven persons, partook of coffee
made from the poisoned water, and were only
saved by the arrival of prompt medical aid....
Delphi, Ind, has had her little blaze, for which
she pays $25, 000. The officers of the Masonic
Lodges OF Omaha publish a card repudiating
the gift concert scheme advertised in that city
"to aid in building a Masonic Temple.
Two steamboats,, q ferryboat and several coal
barges were sunk by the ice at Madison, Ind.
Loss, S75,000
TIE town of wadena, Clayton county, Iowa,
was recently the scene of a horrible murder.
A party of young men, while under the infu-
ence of liquor, seized a youth of II years,
named Garrett Dorland, and, procuring q
horse, they tied him, Mazeppa-hke, on the
s 6a0n q the the st Pssss a on tgS sio qisIag him P E.v and
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satisfied their spirit of deviltry, the fends
finally cut the thongs that bound the now
unconscious boy to the horse, and left him at
a house near by. The next morning he was
found dead, with blood and froth standing on
his lips.
UTAH last year shipped 1O,347 tons of ore,
1864 tons of base bullion, and silver bars to
the value of Sc, 900, 600. A cattle disease has
made it's appearance in Western Ohio, which
proves fatal in a very few minutes. -. Chicago
has been the scene of another cold-blooded
murder, the victim being an inofensive Swede
named Lars G.. Larsen, who was assailed by a
mob of roughs while quietly walking the street,
and stabbed to the heart. "A train was thrown
from the track of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad, near Peoria, last week, by
which a number of persons were seriously in
jured-
The Hannibal and st. Joseph railroad en-
ployes, disappearing of a ten per cent. reduc-
ton of their wages, recently went on a strike
and locked up all the switches of the road.
The South.
Two passenger trains collided near Augusta,
Ga, on the I'd instant Eight persons, all
colored, were killed, and ten or twelve injured.
The Carlotta Patti concert troupe were on
board. They lost their piano and a portion of
their wardrobe.