Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-11-20
NEWS SUM MARY.
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king, had failed, is Indignantly denied by that
gentleman. The mother of the late Edwin
NJ. Stanton is dead, aged 80. Nine fishermen
we're drowned from q sail-boat in the st. Law
renee river, on the 9Th inst. Harrisburg has
been visited by a destructive fire. The State
Journal Office, with several other establish
ments, were burned. Total loss about $780,
900 Gold in New York was down to 1863
last week-the lowest point since 1884,
Several large Boston dry goods houses are
seriously embarrassed - Bankruptcy proceed
ings against jay Cooke & Co. have been COM
menced in the Philadelphia courts.
THERE are in New York 40, 900 people COM
pulsorily idle-people who would be glad to
work and earn food, clothing. Goals and
shelter. So says the New York Herald. The
creditors of Al W. Sprague have accepted
the proposition of the firm for an extension,
and the affairs of the immense corporation are
now in the hands of three trustees. 49,. Center,
the Stokes juror who, While the case was
pending, made q practice of rambling about
the city nights in the care Of a D~eputy-Sherif,
visiting dram-shops and talking pretty freely
about the case, has been sentenced to thirty
days imprisonment and to pay a fine of $3.50.
49,. Laura Keene, the famous actress, died in
New York, last week, at an advanced age.
A man named Wade was hung for murder at
WilIiamsport, Pa, on Friday, the 9Th inst.
The telegraph thus records how the wicked
wretch met his death: The rope being too
long. his feet struck squarely on the ground.
In this position he remained, shouting, "Oh
Lord, have mercy" The rope came off his
neck, and his body fell over heavily on the
ground. He was carried upon the scaffold,
and after q long delay in arranging the rope,
the drop was again pulled. He fell this time
less than'three feet His pulse continued to
beat for seven minutes. After hanging TWEEN
ty-seven minutes he was placed in q coffin and
taken charge of by his friends. Many pieces
of the rope were cut off and carried away as
relics by the spectators. Wade told his jailer
to " hurry up, as he had an appointment to
dine in hell with the devil at q" He said the
nnIv fhinn frO1h1fn0 hin rvaa GAwhafhnr the
RR sHp$1' whom he murdered were In heaven or
UPWARD of $4,000 ~workingmen have
been thrown out of employment this fall
in Philadelphia alone. IA Grange has been
established in Elizabeth, N. j., At a meeting
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Directors, the
other day, a five per cent. scrip dividend, re-
deemable in March, 1876, was declared. Tom
Scott, Vice-President, rendered his resigna-
ton, but it was not accepted.
THE strike of the bricklayers in New York
has seriously embarrassed building opera
tions six hundred men were discharged
from the Brooklyn Navy Yard last week.
The tr1ai of the man Undertook, at West
Chester, Pa, has resulted in a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree. It will be re-
membered that this is the case where a man
was murdered to secure the large sum for
which mis- life was insured, the circumstances
constituting a criminal romance that the most
oAAAAb -
passed. The evidence against the accused
was purely circumstantial ...Ahorrible double
tragedy was enacted at Monongahela City,
Pa, q few days ago. An old man named
John Clemens made q will disinheriting his
son James, which so enraged the young man
that he went to a butcher-shop, Obtained a
5Rifs and Sia m15dsrsd MS hing aged T parent parr sS%e
then plunged the knife into his own breast,
severing his heart in twain 1.-The Kelsey
mystery continues to agitate the people of
49, To1--I NJ S--v bee ~
dicted a number of persons for the murder of
Kelsey, and some of them are in prison, bail
being refused.
A FRI at Springfield, Mass, on the 10th
inst, destroyed $780, 600 worth of railroad
property. Boston has been celebrating the
anniversary of its great fire. Much of the
destroyed part OF the city has been substan,
merchants of New York, have failed. Jay
Cooke & Co. have made a proposition to pay
Is per cent. in money and the remainder in
that no more bills of the Texas and Pacific
Construction Company will be allowed to go
to protest.
THE singular Kelsey case of Long Island, N.
Y, is as far from solution as ever. The par
ties arrested on a charge of having murdered
the missing man have been discharged, the
grand jury having failed to find any bill
against them. Two Pittsburgh banks sus-
ROAOOo 41os uOOA- ~ ID JOIN 0OROo1eOAo WA no
paid in fun....A boiler exploded with fright
full effect at the corner of Fourth avenue and
One Hundred and Twentieth street, New York,
on the morning of the 18th inst. Seven per-
sons were instantly killed and several wound
ed. All of the killed had either the whole, or
a portion, of their heads blown OF. Thu boil
or was in charge of a boy Is years of age, b
had been allowed to act as engineer to the
peril of scores of lives. The boiler ex-
ploded with terrible noise, and an instant
afterward, as the dust and debris cleared away,
kh4 10000 49,. I~l.-
of the dead and wounded horribly torn and
Ilutilated.
The West.
THE Chicago Industrial Exposition closed
on Monday, the 10th inst. In every respect it
has proved q grand success. IA branch mint
will probably be established at Chicago.
John W. Young, the money-order forger, has
been convicted at Chicago, and sentenced to
three years in the Penitentiary. -. Vast de-
posits of iron and coal have been discovered
in Southern Utah. .Ex-Gov James, of Ne
braska, has been indicted for malfeasance in
Office. -. George Hopkins and Mr.. Bailey, of
Henry county, Mo-, met by chance, the other
day. and settled an old feud by killing each
other. Both were respectable Citizens.
The extensive ivery-stable of James H.
Thornton, in st. Louis, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, $100, 600. AT Detroit, a few
on his way nome from a nights carouse,
stopped at the house of Widow Layine and
demanded admittance. She fred a pistol
through the window and shot him dead.
A severe shock of earthquake was felt in
portions of California aud Nevada on the 7th
inst.
SERIOUS charges are made against Indian
Commissioner Smith in connection with his
sale of the Leach Lake pine lands, in North
ern Minnesota. /. Owen O'Conor, of Dixon
Ill, will spend the remainder of his life in
prison, If not released by Executive interfer-
ence, as a penalty for having murdered Dem
mis- Allen. The Chicago and Alton road is to
be prosecuted for violation of the Illinois
Railroad law Col. h. d. Cook, President of
the Illinois Board of Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioners, died at his residence in Nor
NAL on the 9th inst, aged Sc years Fifty
thousand dollars worth of property was de-
stroyed by a fire in Fort Wayne, Ind, ON the
9th inst.
Two men charged with robbing the train on
the Rock Island railroad, in Iowa, have been
arrested at Wellington, Kansas. james h.
Lucas, the wealthiest citizen of st. Lousi, died
on the 10th inst. from the effects of a paralty-
ic stroke he received four years ago. He was
10 years old, and has left property estimated
at from S8, 600, 600 to $40, 000, 900.
In the three-ball billiard tournament at Chi
cago, the other day, Maurice DAILY, Of New
York, made the unprecedented run of 153
points. Two negroes are under sentence of
death for murder at Du Quoin, m....Th
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