Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-14
NEWS SUM MARY.


LII NOA0ON
Greenwich street, New York, was partially de-
stroyed by fire on the 3Oth ult. Loss about
half a million. . Newark, N, J., was visited
last week by a terrific rain-storm-hooding the
streets and inflicting damage to the amount of
600.
AT Philadelphia, the other evening, Ed
ward Schusterreiter murdered his wife by
cutting her throat, and h ended his own
life by taking poison. They were two months
married. Jealousy was the cause. .Unlucky
Boston has been visited by another serious
confagration, involving a loss of $3OO.OOO.::
Vice-President Wilson is rapily recovering his
health.
JOHN A. Belts, a Brooklyn real estate agent,
has failed for 500, 000....A man named
Schmech, his wife and child, we're killed on
Long Island, the other day, while attempting
to cross q track in front of a train. Three
persons were killed, and another seriously IN
iured, BY a collision on the Allegheny Valley
railroad, near Cunningham, Pa, on the LIST
inst.
THREE hundred men have been enrolled at
New York for service in Cuba against the
Spaniards. Ben Butler is said to be prepar-
ing an elaborate defense of the back-pay....A
prize-fght between the bruisers hambe and
Seddons occurred in the vicinity of Brooklyn,
N. Y, last Sunday, resulting in a victory for
the former. Fourteen rounds were fought
Four men were killed and two wounded by
an explosion in a coal mine at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on the 4th inst. IA horrible accident oc-
CURED at Butler, Pa, a few days ago. Three
men were in a we'll boring for oil, when sud-
denly a vein was struck, the stream of oil
shooting a hundred feet in the air. Scarcely
had it spouted above the surface when the
fluid took fire, sending a blaze high into the
heavens. The three unfortunate men in the
well were, of course, burned to death almost
instantly, their bodies. when recovered, pre-
senting a horrible, shriveled mass.
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the Erie Railway Company, and a strong eff
fort will be made to throw the corporation
into bankruptcy. Long Island City, N. Y,
was the scene of a terrific explosion on the 9TH
inst Two oil tank-boats blew up with ter
rife force, killing three men and doing much
damage to property. The subscription of
$3.50, 900 for the erection of the second The
illogical Hall for the Divinity School of Yale
College has been completed. The National
Educational Association met at Elmira, N. Y,
on the 9Th inst. About one thousand dele
gate =; members epI e,o were 5e;,pP present rsnaas.n nearly T sEery
bers of the Grand Army of the Republic in
Hoboken, N. Y, compelled a saloon-keeper to
take down the German flag, which was flying
over an American flag, and reverse their posi-
tions.
The West.
THE Democratic State Convention
of Ohio nominated Judge Isaac G. Collins for
In oOAC60SOCs SHA
senting forty out of the Lightweight counties
of the State, we're in attendance. 49,. Consider
able excitement has been caused in San Fran
cisco by the discovery of the existence of a
secret Chinese society for the prosecution of
the traffic in Chinese women, sold for lives of
prostitution. Quite an extensive traffic of
this kind has been carried on, young girls be-
ing sold at prices ranging from 800 to $400.
have been arrested IA Des Moines dispatch
says: 1t is now known that two of the par
Elephants in the recent railroad robbery were
George 1saacs and a man named East. They
have been residents of Taylor county, Iowa,
for several years, and are well acquainted with
the country through which the robbers made
their escape. They are desperate characters,
and it is believed that they are secreted in a
large scope of underbrush and timber in that
county. . Crop reports from Wisconsin,, Min
nesota and Northern Iowa are very encour-
aging.
THE farmers of Kansas, at their recent State
Convention at Lawrence-ca1led to r~eorganize
their State Grange-censured the action of
the State Board of Agriculture for encourag-
ing racing at the coming State Fair by offering
eXorbitant premiums !. Chicago commercial
circles have just been agitated by a stipend
GUS "corner" in wheat, which resulted sue
cessfully to those concerned in it, their profits
footing up about $4,000. The affair was
engineered by Milwaukee men.....I is pretty
certain that the Iowa railroad robbers have
Fulton county, Ind, the other day fatally shot
his mother-in-law, fired five times Intellectually
at his wife, and then shot himself through
the head. Cause-domestic troubles, aggra-
waited by too much mother-in-law
are $50 Oranges in Nebraska. They resolve
to take no direct part in politics.
RICH gold deposits have been discovered in
Alaska. Two coal-miners at La Sale, Ill.
were precipitated down the shaft of a mine, q
distance of $50 feet, while standing in a
bucket: Strange to say, they were not fatally
over the completion of her water-works. The
aqueduct is eighteen miles long....A special
to the Kansas City Times from Cherryvile,
Kan., says Col. A. M. York has received intel
ligence that more bodies have been discovered
at the Bender graveyard, and that a clue tc
the whereabouts of the Benders can be made
THE Ohio Constitutions Convention has
voted to adjourn until Dec. 2, when they viii
meet in Cincinnati. The late Jesse R
Grants household furniture was recently sole
at Covington, KY, for 500. Mrs. Grant vii
hereafter live with Mrs. Corhin, at Elizabeth.
town, N. j.
THE magnificent new dry goods house OF
Field, Letter d Co., in Chicago-erected by
the Singer Sewing Machine Company at a cost
of 5000, 900, and almost ready for occupancy
was partially destroyed by fire on the I'd inst.
1t will cost about 800, 900 to repair the dam.
age.... Transportation item 1t costs Sc to
ship two tons of spelter from LaSalle to Men
dota, H., by wagon, and 50 to ship the same
weight by rail. LIN Nodaway county, Mo-,
$50, 900 head of stock have been destroyed by
the Texas cattle plague. Other counties have
suffered nearly as bad Portland, Oregon,
was visited by a destructive confiagration or
the I'd inst. Twenty-three blocks in the bust.
ness portion of the city were burned. The
less is estimated at 81 500, 900. Three foun.
dries, four mills, five hotels, 100 stores and
$50 dwelling-houses were destroyed. The fire
was evidently the work of incendiaries, as the
flames started in several different places at
the same time, and one of the fire-bugs was
caught IN the act of setting fire to a build
ing.
The total loss by the Portland, Oregon, con-
iagration is 81, 1884, 75; insurance, 1921, 600
. Senator Ramsey has returned to st. Pau
from Washington, feeling entirely satisfied
that his efforts to induce the State Depart.
ment to interfere in behalf of the Manitobs
prisoners will prove successful. Bancroft
Davis, the Acting Secretary of State, gave him
assurances that he believed the Canadian au.
thorities would promptly respond to any reas
enable request on the part of the American
Government for clemency to these prisoners
and release them on bail. Mrs. Brigham
Young No. II, who has petitioned for divorce
and alimony, has been approached by her hus
band, who offers to buy her off for $15, 900
but sho refuses to compromise. and viii
press the suit to a legal conclusion. q.
Madison, Wis, has suppressed Sunday liquor
selling The fast train on the Toledo, Wa
bash and Western railway makes the run be-
tween st. Louis and Toledo in IS hours. TIL
time between New York and the Mississippi