Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

Havemeyer, declining to furnish arms for the
New York police -. There is trouble brewing
among the city authorities of Brooklyn. 1t is
stated that a large amount of the city's securi-
ties cannot be found, for the reason that the
late Assistant Treasurer speculated with the
funds, and the securities were gradually abb
sorbed. This gentleman makes counter
charges against other city officials whom he
claims are implicated in the affair. Aid
Nichols, of Philadelphia, has been sentenced
to nine months imprisonment for extorting
exorbitant fees.
In the course of the Investigations that have
followed the collapse of the Brooklyn Trust
Company, it has been developed that Rodman,
the cashier of the concern, and Deputy City
Treasurer of Brooklyn, has stolen about $780,
900 belonging to the city. He has been ar
rested, and will be prosecuted. The citizens
of Newburg, N. Y, are improving the appear
ance of the old headquarters of Gen. Wash
Belknap is cooperating, and has ordered
thirty cannon to be sent there, to be placed on
~headquarter grounds. Two bank officers
Boyce, President of the First National Bank
of Lynn, Mass, and J. n. Rosanquest, Cashier
of the First National Bank of Tarrytown, N. Y.
A LEGAL investigation into the affairs of the
Philadelphia Morgue has developed the fact
that the Coroner has for a long time been in
the habit of selling bodies intrusted to him
for burial. DR.. Hodges, of the Medical Col
l0Ro, Lo6Llu0u LQdb u0 WAS III IL udDlt Vi Duy-
ing these unclaimed corpses, and could see
nothing reprehensible in so doing Michael
A. Mcfarland, who spent his whole fortune in
securing the acquittal of his brother Daniel,
for the killing of Albert d. Richardson, has
Just died in q New York hospital. Having no
friends, he was buried in the Potter's ield-...
At Montpelier, VT, Joseph Daniels shot Carrie
Dennison, and then killed himself Love and
jealousy.
JOHN W. HORTON, the Lancaster Pa.) forg-
-. IL
turns out that he is an old swindler. In 1860
he was in the employ of a Philadelphia bank
er, and mysteriously disappeared with S41, 900
belonging to his employer, and it was sup
posed until recently that he was murdered and
robbed. Walter Snowden, a Philadelphia in
surance clerk, the other day robbed his en-
ployer's safe, then struck himself with a dumb
bell and simulated Inconsistencies, to make
believe he had been robbed. The trick was
discovered and he confessed to the theft. IA
boat containing two men and a woman was
swept over the falls at Reading, Pa, the other
day, and one of the men and the woman
bond forgeries which have brought TRANSACT
tions in New York Central bonds to a stand
still in Wall street, has not yet been arrested.
So far, $92, 600 worth of the forged securities
have been discovered, and it is rumored in
Wall street that one bank has been swfndled
to the figure of 100000.
THE bond forgeries in New York grow more
formidable every day. 1t is now believed that
81, 900, 600 worth of false securities have been
put on the market by the counterfeiting gang.
Edward Patterson, clerk for Keep q Gross,
New York bankers, has decamped with over
$30,000 belonging to his employers.
SEVERAL well-executed $500 counterfeit
greenbacks have been received at the Sub
Treasury in New York. Experts pronounce
them the best counterfeits that they have ever
seen. Few of them are in circulation in New
York, and it is believed that they have been
issued mostly in the West. An old man named
Sweet has been arrested at Titusville, Pa, for
passing one of these counterfeits-
The West.
YOUNG, the money-order counterfeiter was
recently arrested at Arcola,- ILL.,, and now lies
in the Chicago jail, Wounded in the shoulder
by a bullet from the revolver of a Government
detective, for which there appears to be little
cause. He was accompanied by his wife, who
clings to him in spite of the disgrace which
has come upon her husband. The night
became enraged at one of the bell-boys of
the house, and threw him out of a win
dow, breaking his leg in two Places
is about to prefer charges against every de-
tective officer on his force. except one....The
DeGollyer pavement has been denounced as a
a failure in Milwaukee and Chicago. One
thousand men employed at the Milwaukee
Rolling Mills are thrown out of work by a
strike of the heaters of those mills, against a
reduction of wages....Th Territorial Peni-
tentiary at Laramie City, W. T., was recently
destroyed by fire.
THE land of Illinois is assessed by the State
Board of Equalization at an average of $22. 8S
an acre improved, and Ss.47 unimproved....
Several of the Iowa railroad robbers are said
to be in Lafayette county, No., and that the
citizens rre afraid to arrest them....A sailor
named John T. Irving, and claiming to be a
relative of Washington Irving, now in San
Eron0iaan hos nnnfooao1 hirOooIf tho -n1-
derer of Benjamin Nathan, of New York, and
says he was hired to do the job by the son of
the murdered man. The fellow is believed to
be insane. -. The Texas cattle fever has
broken out among the cattle in the st. Louis
diaries -. Beane, the conductor of the coal
train which collided with the passenger ex-
press on the Chicago and Alton railroad, caus-
ing a frightful massacre, has at last been ar
rested In Will county, ILL.,, where he has been
skulkiDg ever since the disaster occurred.
His capter was Simon l.. Miller, a merchant of
Monee, and an old friend of the prisoner, who
was tempted by the $1,000 reward to betray
him into the hands of Justice. Beane is now
in jail in Chicago, and will be tried for his
crime. IA wonderful magnetic Spring has
markable cures of rheumatism, kidney COM
plants, and other evils to which flesh is heir,
are reported.
ANOTHER railroad slaughter is added to the
frightful list of recent disasters-this time in
Michigan. The accident occurred on the De-
troit and Milwaukee road, near Muir station,
and was occasioned by a freight train running
into the rear of a passenger train. Result |:
six persons killed and some twenty wounded,
all e~migrants. .Freiburg and Workum, re-
Gently expelled from the Cincinnati Chamber
of Commerce, have appealed to the courts for
redress. !. :. Various portions of California were
visited by earthquake shocks on the goth ult.
Near Cairo, ILL.,, the other day, q bank
caved in at a gravel pit. killing and wounding
a number of railroad hands. Three have died,
and others are not expected to recover.
William Campbell (colored) was hung at Cairo,
Ill, ON the Goth ult., for the murder of the
mate of the steamer Grand. Tower, on the
24th of last April. The culprit was obdurate
to the last, repelling all attempts at converse
ton and all religious offices, and died protest.
ing that he was hanged u%njustly.
A dispatch from Clinton, Mo-, states that a
skirmish had taken place in st. Clair county,
between the Iowa sheriff and the Rock Island
train robbers, in which one of the sheriff g
posse and one of the robbers were wounded.
The sheriff and his posse were in hot pursuit
at last accounts. Near Gallon. Ohio, last
week, a train ran into a farmers wagon, con-
tanning himself, wife and two daughters, kill
ing the children outright, and severely injur-
ing the father and mother. ..Advices from
Eastern Montana foreshadow formidable In
dian troubles there this fall Those Modocs
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