Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-24
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East.

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The East.
A BUILDING in course of construction at Mid
dletown, Ct, fell the other day, killing six
workmen and injuring twelve others. Fred
erick A. Lane, of Erie notoriety, and a we'll
known Wall street operator. has been igno-
miniously expelled from the New York Century
Club for dishonest practices THE New York
striking gas men had q sharp conflict with the
police the other day, in which the former were
put to rout, many Of them with broken heads
and belabored bodies. -. One hundred skilled
English farmers, bound for Minnesota, arrived
at New York last week.
THE insurance on Horace Greeley's life,
800, 600, has been collected. This policy is
the largest paid in the last decade. The
strike of the New York gas men has proved a
failure. John Hanley, the youthful hero of
the Atlantic disaster, visited the New York
Stock Exchange the other day, and received
S233.
WHILE the English detectives now in New
York, engaged in the Bank of England forgery
case, were seeing the city the other night, one
of them was robbed of his watch and pocket
book and papers for the extradition of Bid
The Goodrich murder in Brooklyn, still re-
mains a profound mystery, and it is believed
the author of the crime will never be dis
covered.
Two COTTON MILLS belonging to the Dwight
Manufacturing Company, at Chicopee, Mass,
have been destroyed by fire. Loss, upward of
q million dollars. The Government has
brought suit against Cakes Ames for $500, 900,
said to be due on an old cotton transaction
during the war.
THE pews in DIR. Hepworth's new church,
in New York, rent for $3.50, 900 a year..
Senator Morrill, has given his back pay to
Vermont, to be applied to the reduction of the
State debt.
The West.
TWELVE hundred hogs, two hundred cattle,
and a large number of sheep we're smothered
sto death on a train between Chicago and Pitts
burgh, a few days ago. Nearly every train
that arrives at the East Liberty yards is said
to contain more or less stock smothered.. :.
4 Chicago has been honored by a visit from the
world-famous Boss Tweed .Thirty-fve of the
survivors of the Inflated Atlantic have arrived
in Chicago. 1t is said that the Mormons are
preparing to leave Utah and settle in Arizona.
Brigham Young will lead them, and the new
COLONY will be located in the valleys bordering
on the San Francisco Mountains. From this
last Mormon paradise all Gentiles will be ex-
cluded.
THE Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe In
dams are preparing for war, and the forts in
Western Kansas, and south of that section,
are being enforced. Charles Sa~nguinet, the
oldest native inhabitant of st. Louis, has just
died. He was born in that city in 1781.-.-A
bill is before the Illinois Legislature appropri-
atiug $50, 600 to finish the partially completed
monument to Stephen A Douglas, in Chi
cago-
AT Chicago, last week, Antonio Alders killed
his brother by stabbing him with pocket
sknifelkAs usual, liquor was the incentive to
the unnatural crime. :. The Modocs tried to
induce Gen. Candy to let them stay in the lava
bed, but, as he says in his dispatch to Gen.
Sherman, this meant license to plumber and a
stronghold to retreat to, and was refused.
They ask now that they be permitted to pick
out a place for themselves. If they would do
this in good faith, all trouble would be over,
but Gen. Candy fears they are insincere In this
as in their former proposals. Jesse Apologize,
late one of the Indian Peace Commissioners
authorizes the statement that the band of
Modocs numbers just ffty-three Indians.
A FIRE in Detroit, last week, destroyed the
offices of the Detroit Tribune. Commercial
Advertiser, Michigan Farmer, and Calvert
Lithographing Company. Total loss about
1926, 600.
CHICAGO has made another move in the in
terest of law and order. Her Common Coun-
Gil has decided, by a vote of two to one, that
liquor saloons must be closed at half-past
eleven o'clock at night. "A party of four Ne
braska drovers were recently robbed in q
Chicago hotel of money and papers valued at
$40, 700.
THE remains of Gen. Candy will be in
TERED at Indianapolis, beside his father and
mother. /. A serious riot recently occurred at
Knightsyille, Ind., between striking white
miners and colored miners imported from Vir-
ginia-
The South.
In Henry county, KY, a few days ago., a
band of masked men called Richard Williams,
a farmer, to his door, and commenced shooting
at him. Williams returned the fire, killing
enc and ~wounding three of the scoundrels. =.
Aman named Vaughn has been arrested at
Memphis on the charge of having murdered
Gen. Thomas G.. Hindman, at Helena. Ark,
some six years ago. It is said he has con-
fessed to the deed. A graveyard on the Ar
kansas river, 90 miles below Little Rock, re-
Gently caved into the river, and upward of
1000 bodies we're washed away.
Washington.
IT IS announced that there will be nc change
= intthe financial policy of the TreaauryD Depart
.ment Large numbers Of hungry ofice-seek-
ers still hnger within the shadow of the White
House. The President will start on his pro-
posed Southern trip early in May Appoint
ments by the President Charles Gilpin,
Surveyor of Customs at Baltimore. Il. g.
Carter Surveyor of Customs at st. Joseph,
Mo. Observation-Disclosures L. Nichols, at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Louis f. Kloster-
man at Cape Girardea1, Mo-; Daniel T; Braul.
Carthage, Ill; J. G. McPheeters at Blooming
ton, Ind; Robert Shields at Neenah, Wis;
William Tracy at Flint, Mich; Lucius Whit
ney at Morris, Ill.
AN appeal has been made by some OF the
friends of the Washington Monument Associa-
ton to the members of Congress who do not
want to take their extra salary grab, to turn
over the amount to the completion of the
monument. The total amount of the grab is
81, $50, 900, which, it is said, will finish the
monument. The frantic appeals of the New
York Herald to the President and State De-
partment to demand of the Spanish authori-
ties the release of O'Kelley, their Cuban cor
respondent, are unheeded, and are likely to
continue unnoticed. A representative of the
Herald who called on the Secretary of State,
the other day, was inquired of il he knew any
by which the Spaniards could catch a few
more Herald correspondents :. William L.
Scruggs, of Georgia, has been appointed Min
lister Resident to the United States of Co
lombia.
IT is intimated thatmost of the troops in the
South will be transferred to the Texas and In
dian frontiers The following appropriations
were made by the last Congress for the inn
provement of Western harbors
WISCONSIN.
For Green 2U,OOO
For Two Rivers. $4,000
For M~anitowoc. 10000
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