Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-08
NEWS sunni MARY.
The East.

VIEWS 0O y IkAh
The East.
AT Albany, N. Y, Collector Bailey has seized
% locomotives and 3spassenger and three bag
gage cars of the New York Central and Hud-
son River Railroad Company for non-payment
of taxes.
ALBER w. SMITH is under sentence of death
at Springfield, Mass, for the murder of
Charles D. Sackett.
ANOTHER enormous bank defalcation has
been brought to light in New York. F. L.
fainter, the Cashier of the Atlantic National
Bank, has been specializing with the funds of
the institution for over five years, during
which time he has succeeded in squandering
over 5000, 600. Being hopelessly involved, he
delivered up the keys of the safes and vaults,
confessed his crime, and aided the Clearing
House Committee in investigating the affairs
of the bank, pointing out the evidences of
his crime with q GOODNESS that was most extra
ordinary under the circumstances. Altogether,
f. L. fainter is the most self-possessed rascal
in the annals of crime. The bank is hope
lessly bankrupt, and has been stricken from
the Clearinghouse list. ...A heavy defalca-
ton is reported in the New York Postoffice
1.-The Purchasing Committee of the Board
of Indian Commissioner have just purchased
in New York $4,000 butcher-knives and 1 500
skinning lscalping p knives for the
noble red men of the far West. A few thou
sand rifles, revolvers and tomahawks will
probably be added to the list 1t is rumored
in New York that the Atlantic and Great
Western and Erie railroads are to be CONSOLE
dated Carl Schurz sailed from New York
for Europe last week. The formidable league
which was to have been formed in New York
for the enforcement of the Eight-Hour law has
assumed the shape oil a secret session of
twenty-seven delegates from various trades
unions, which resolved to do nothing until
next year.
FAINTER, the defaulting cashier of the At
lantic National Bank, of New York, has been
confined in jail. He is a nephew, by marriage,
of August Belmont.
LIZZIE NESS, a girl of IA, was brutally out
ragged and murdered near Pittsburgh, Pa, last
week. Two Swedes, now under arrest, are be-
Geved to be the authors of the horrid crime.
The West.
ONE of the Modoc squaws captured by Gen.
Gllem states that in the first fight an Indian
picked up a shell and chewed the fuse, when
it exploded, blowing his head of, cutting
John Schonchin in two, and killing another.
John J. Murphy has been hung at Stock
ton, Cal, for the murder of Patrick Murray,
five years ago.
A GENERAL outbreak of Indians in Eastern
Oregon is threatened. :. Business in San
Francisco is seriously interrupted by the cpl
zootic....A terrible calamity happened at Otis,
Ind, q few days ago.. The house of a man
named Klees caught fire and burned SO rapid
~ Lndt an OIQ gentleman DIV the name OF
Kreist, with his daughter, Mrs. Klees, and five
children we're burned to death. Mrs. Klees
could have escaped alone, but went into
another room endeayoring to save her chill
a broken leg perfectly helpless, and could do
nothing but await his fate. Mr.. Klees and his
brother-in-law, Mr.. Kreist, escaped, but were
severely burned. So great was the heat Of
only a few bones being found. Chicago had
five suicides during the week ending April
2s....Arthur Arnold aged 16, son of Hon.
Isaac n. Arnold. of Chicago, was drawned in
Rock river, near Dixon, Ill, a few days ago,
by the capsizing of a small sail boat.
THE horses of the cavalry at the lava beds
are disabledby the pizootic.' Without cavalry
the Modocs cannot be surrounded, and if they
break up into small, struggling bands, as it is
thought they will do, they cannot be pursued
until the horses recover-...The City Council
OF Chicago has passed, and the Mayor ap-
proved, an ordinance requiring all liquor
saloons to be closed at IL o'clock in the even
mg--..A report comes from Fort Garry, via
Toronto, that there has been severe lighting
between the United STATES troops and Black
foot Indians, and that large numbers of the
former were killed. 1t is feared this is the
beginning of a general war with the Blackfoot
tribe, who number several thousand, and are
well armed and equipped T stage be-
tween Hamilton and Phoebe, Nevada, was re-
Gently robbed by highwaymen, who killed the
driver, but did not modest the passengers. -.
I'LL
Murphy has been appointed a cadet at West
Point from the First Illinois District (Ch
cago), having distanced all competitors in a
competitive examination A IN extraordinary
suicide is reported from Corwin, Ohio. A
man named Richard Williamson, while labor
ing under q temporary fit of insanity, built a
stripped himself of his clothing, and cast his
body on the burning pile, and was burned
alive.
THE Board of Indian Commissioners are of
the opinion that their most important field is
among the Sioux Indians, who number about
IS, 600. Spotted Tails band is said to be very
restless, and threatens to go on the war-path.
A rising is feared in the Black River andPow-
der Hill country, should a new expedition seek
to open that country :. Two men, working in
a field, were recently poisoned in lama coun-
ty,, Iowa, by eating wild parsnips.
The South.
THE town of Marion, Crittenden county,
Ark, has been nearly destroyed by fire. Loss,
$50,000....An the gambling houses in st.
Louis have been closed by the police. The
trial of Mrs. Wharton, charged with poisoning
Eugene Van Ness, has been brought to a close
at Annapolis, Md, the case having been dis
missed on the motion of the prosecuting at
torney.-.:The town of Stanton, Tenn, was
recently visited by a disastrous confagration,
involving a loss of $150,000.
Hon. WILLIAM L. sHARKEy, of Mississippi,
OHS VI SHO AAOo OAcOAASu AoACu yu11bbS VI Lue
South, died last week at Washington, aged 80.
Washington.
TIE Secretary of the Interior has decided
that the Winona and st. Peters Railroad
Company is entitled to the lands in Mime
sofa in controversy between that company
and the st. Paul and Sioux City Railroad Com
pany.
Tn Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell
81, 900, 600 in gold on the first, third and fifth
Thursdays, and 81, 900, 900 on the second and
fourth Thursdays, in all SO, 200, 900, and to buy
$500, 0O0In bonds on the first and $500, 900 on
the third Wednesday of May, in all 81, 600, 900.
"A Washington dispatch has the following
item of interest to liquor and tobacco dealers
1.-THE liquor and tobacco dealers, and others
subject to license on special tax under the in
ternal revenue laws, will, from the LIST of May,
be required to pay the tax under the pro-
visions of the act of Dec. "a, 1872, instead of
waiting for assessment. They will be required