Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-15

The East,

The East.
THE mill operatives throughout Rhode
Island have struck for ten hours work by the
day, or sixty hours per week Hon. James
James Brooks, Representative in Congress
from New York., died last week in New York,
aged So. Richard Petit, a well-known Phila-
delphia lawyer, committed suicide the other
evening. He was to have been married the fol-
lowing day to a wealthy English lady. Mrs.
Pridecker, of Kingston, NY, in a. fit of insanity,
took her infant child in her arms and leaped
into a cistern- Both were own John
r. Thompson, for many years editor of the
Southern Literary Messenger, at Richmond,
Va, and more recently connected with the
New York EUening Post, dice in New York last
week. Jay Gould had his nose tweaked and
his jaws slapped by a young New York attor-
ney, while taking lunch at Delmonico's, in New
to the p-unishment. but subseauentiv had his
a~ssailant brought up on a charge of assault
and battery.
A HALIFAX dispatch says the wreck of the
Atlantic has been almost blown to pieces with
gunpowder, and large quantities of goods
have been recovered. Many bodies are being
brought up. The most of them are frightfully
mutilated. About $40 bodies have thus far
Brooks showed that he died of an extensive
cancerous disease of the stomach, which has
probably occupied several years in its develop
ment.
A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred on the morn
ing of the I'd inst. on the Grand Trunk rail-
road Of Canada, near Montreal. Three cars
of the Portland express train jumped the
track, broke the coupling, and rolled down an
embankment thirty feet high. Thirty-two
persons. were more or less injured, some of
whom will die of their Wounds. Mrs. Reddy,
living near Brussels, Ontario, recently drowned
her three children, and then attempted to
drown herself. Temporary insanity. Re
ceiyer Strong, of the Atlantic National Bank
of New York, reports 100000 securities miss
ing. The liabilities are set down at $1,037, 800.
TwENTY9sEyEN Congressman nave returned
their back pay to the United States Treasurer,
the amount thus refunde aggregating SILL
sane bya New York jury.
The West.
The reports of Indian troubles in Manitoba
and Oregon are without foundation.
Z Mrs. MARY M. ScoTT, of Crawford county,
Ind, in taking a portion of her head-dress
from a drawer, dislodged her husbands re-
volver, which discharged in falling, and the
ball entered the back part of her head, killing
her instantly. During the progress of a ball
IN Dubuque, Iowa., a young man named Byron
lost his balance aud fell headlong to the
ground, a distance of thirty feet, from the eff
fects' of which he died. ...R Reports have
reached Virginia City, Nevada, from the
tain City, IN the Cape district, are greatly
alarmed at the threatening attitude of the In
dams. Snakes and Piutes are pouring in from
all directions, all in their war paint The
Carbon silver mine and reduction works,
situated in Boulder county, about forty miles
northwest of Denver, considered one of the
best silver mines ever opened in the United
States, has been sold to the Nederland Mining
Company, of Holland, for So, 600, 600. -.
A Yreka, Cal, dispatch of the I'd inst. furnish
e5 the following news from the Modoc seat of
war: Capt. Silver and Mr.. J. ". johnson ar
rived from the front this afternoon, leaving
Gen Giflem's camp on Tuesday morning. Mr..
johnson says there has been nothing done
since the battle on the Goth of April. Every
thing was quiet. No future policy for fighting
the Modocs had beensettled upon Anopinion
prevailed that it would be perfect folly to at
tempt to whip he Modocs in the manner thus
far pursued No scouting had been done.
Nothing had been heard from Cranston and
the missing men, who have probably been
burned. Eight bodies are known to still be on
the field of battle. ,Lieuts. Harris and Egan,
and Surgeon Semig, wounded in the last fight
at the lava beds, are getting along well, and
viii probably recover. President Grant re-
ceiyed a fattering reception on the occasion of
his recent visit to Galena. The reception was
entirely void of party manipulation, all his old
~neighbors and friends, without distinction of
party, joining to do honor to an old neighbor
and the high Office he holds.
An excursion train on the New Albany and
Chicago railroad jumped the track near Mount
Carmel Ill, last week, and, plunging over an
embankment. the cars were turned bottom up
ward Some thirty or forty passengers were
injured, some of them very seriously. The
New York Herdlds correspondent attributes
the great loss of life in the fight with the
Modocs of the 26th of April to the desertion
of Company i, of the Twelfth Infantry, and
: come few of the artillery, who, when ordered
by Capt. Thomas to fall back and hold asbluff
in the rear of the troops to cover the retreat,
continued to fall back until they reached the
position they were to hold. 1t is said that
only twenty-thrce Modocs were engaged, and
that only two were killed and two badly
wounded.
A RAILROAD bridge in process of erection
near Sedalia, Mo-, gave way the other day,
precipitating twelve workmen into the stream,
instantly killing three and wounding eight
others, two of whom are not expected to re-
coyer....A theatrical actor named Vance re-
Gently made an attempt on the life of George
Harding, editor of the Indianapolis Sunday
Herald, firing two Intellectual shots at him..
James Ray, q young man of PlatteEile, Wis.
being suddenly seized with a fit of frenzy, at
tackled two friends in whose company he was,
and before he could be captured, wounded
them fatally by stabbing in the breast.
A RENDERING tank in S-choeneman's packing
house, on Archer avenue, Chicago, exploded
with frightful effect on the morning of the 9Th
inst. Four men were instantly killed, and
three others seriously injured.... A private
letter from Oregon states that Mrs. Candy is
greatly FRUSTRATED by the death of her hus-
band, and is not expected to recover. The
dead body of William York, brother of Senator
York, who figured SO extensively in the Pom
eroy bribery matters last winter, whose mys-
FERROUS disappearance some weeks ago caused
SO much excitement, has been found buried on
the claim of a man named Bender, six miles
north of Cherryyale, Kan. The remains bear
marks of violence. Other dead bodies were
found under Bender's house. :. indianapolis
has elected a Democratic Mayor.
The South.
The business part of Como, Miss, has been
destroyed by fire. Loss, SIS, O0o.. :. John
White recently murdered his brother, Daniel
White, near Senatobia, Miss, by shooting HIM
with a pistol. "A negro mob at HarTodsburg,
KY, recently took q colored boy out of jail
and hung him to a tree. His offense was an
attempted rape on a young negress-
Miss SUSAN EBERHART, an accomplish of
Spawn in the murder of his wife, was hung on
the I'd inst, at Preston, Ga. Her last words
were: 81 am ready aud willing She was
perfectly unmoyed, and had no dread of death.
-. Brown Brewer, colored, was hung at
Searcy, Ark, ON Friday, May 2, for the murder
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