Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-13
e OF II WEEK.
The Fact

has abandoned his underground railway pro-
ject at New York.-..A monument has just
been placed in Greenwood Cemetery, New
York, to the memory of the gifted Gary sisters.
The idea of the monument originated with the
late Horace Greeley, who started a subscrip-
ton paper. Congressman r. B. Roosevelt, of
New York, has put his nomination for West
Point up for competition among 1900 scholars
in the two public grammar schools in his dis
trict. Boss Tweed, while reading the evil
dence of Cakes Ames in the Credit Mobilier in
Testlgatien, the other day said NdhanS Goa
1 am. they have never accused me of selling
my vote as a Senator" George Francis
Train has caught fever and ague in the New
York Tombs, but he persists in living on prison
fare and repelling all offers of bail. He says
he will not quit the prison until the merits of
his cause release him. IT Gilbert Elevated
Railway Company, of New York, has con-
tracted with the New York and Boston Iron
Company to build five miles of road, at ST.
DOC, 900 per mile.
THE Pennsylvania Senate has instructed, by
a vote of 25 to 1, Senators Scott and Cameron
to vote against the Postal Telegraph bill when
it comes before the United States Senate.
The trial of Boss Tweed, of New York, result
cd in a disagreement of the jury, who stood IL
for acquittal and 1 for conviction
o. Love, of Boston, recently shot his little
daughter and then killed himself. Cause
domestic trouble. Ben. Butler has written a
sympathetic letter to Mrs. Woodruff.
TELEGRAM from White Plains, n. Y, of the
Sd inst. says: At the opening of the Greeley
will case, Judge Hart stated that he had re-
ceived a note from Miss Ida Greeley, which
had been approved by her sister, in which they
begged to withdraw from the contest, which
their opponents were determined to wage over
their fathers grave. The contestants then
proceeded to prove the will made by Mr.
Greeley in 1871, without further opposition.
1t was stated that Mr.. Greeley left property
estimated to be worth $2O6, 900, which, with
the estate of Mrs. Greeley, would amount to
S225, 900. . . -Four boilers in the American Iron
Works, Pittsburgh, exploded on the Sd inst.
with frightful effect. The conclusion was so
tremendous thai three sections of the building
were completely shattered, the roof being
carried entirely away and scattered in all
directions. There we're about 5000 laborers
employed in the mill at the time of the eX-
plosion, and for a time it seemed as though a
very large number had been either killed or
wounded by the steam or by fragments of the
boilers that were sent flying in all directions.
Seven persons were killed outright, and over
thirty seriously injured, many of whom will die.
New YORK has had another horrible double
murder. Stephen Haas, a letter-carrier, quar-
relied with and murdered his mistress, Mrs.
Barbara Schaffer, and then cut his own throat.
1t is stated that evidence has been OBJ
tanned showing that the frauds under the old
New York Board of Audit will amount to fully
SO, 900, 900. Fresh frauds are continually
coming to light. The boiler of Woods roll.
ing-mills, at Norristown, Pa, blew up on the
Sd inst, killing eight persons and wounding
thirteen more or less dangerously. John III.
Selwyn, the well-known theatrical manager,
died in Philadelphia last week.
The West.
ADvIcRs from California state that Capt.
Jack, the troublesome chief of the Modoc In
dams, after having been shelled by United
States troops, has been shot and wounded by
some of his own treacherous tribe, who were
dissatisfied with his want of vigor In the con-
duct of the war. It is added that, at his invi-
tation, two officers have gone to hold a big
talk with i m Senator Pomeroy, by counsel,
appeared before the Judge of the United States
District Court, at Topeka, Kansas, on the list
inst, and gave bail in $40, 900 for his appear
ance at the June term OF the court. A rumor
has been prevalent that the fallen Senator is a
raving maniac, and that his life is despaired of.
incendiaries were recently hung by
vigilants at Arrow Rock, Mo- Hon. Joel A
Matteson, Ex-Governor of Illinois, died at the
residence of his son-in-law, R. E. Gooden, in
Chicago, on the 31st ult., aged 65. His death
resulted from injuries received more than a
year ago by being thrown from his buggy.
Mrs. Boyce, of Chicago, has been sentenced to
five years imprisonment in the Illinois Peni-
Tertiary for the murder, by poison, of Calvert
other day, by the caying of an embankment on
the Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad, near
Chicago.
A LOT of Cinnamon, at Carson, Nevada, re-
Gently engaged in a fierce encounter with
knives and pistols about a woman, in which
three were killed and a number Wounded.
The Liberals of Cincinnati have held a meet
of the Cincinnati platform . San Francisco
has had a slight earthquake shock. Two
murderers were recently hung by a vigilance
COMMITTEES at Bozeman, Montana.
TIE Mormons are feeling their way into
Arizona; 200 Saints have been ordered on to
openthe way for colonies from Utah, which will
range themselves along the route of the
Thirty-ffth Parable Pacific railroad.
MINNESOTA papers are filed with the arrivals
of persons reported as having frozen to death
by the great january storm. 1t appears that
numerous parties supposed to have been lost
had simply taken refuge at some house, and a
few days after the storm turned up all right.
1t Is now thought that the loss of life at the
utmost limit will not exceed thirty for the
entire State.
The South.
S-B CoNovER, Republican, has been elected
United States Senator from Florida. Twenty
seven Democrats voted for i'm 10. II. Slo-
comb, a leading merchant, and one of the most
prominent citizens of New Orleans, is dead,
aged A. He was a Captain in the famous
Washington Artillery.
MATTHEW CONTAIN MAURY, cele-
brated for his researches into the physical
geography Of the sea, and for the discovery of
many laws of meteorological science, died on
the LIST inst, at Lexington, Va, aged67.
The jury in the Wharton case, at Baltimore
being unable to agree, have been discharged.
They stood eightto four in favor of a verdict
Of guilty "A few nights ago four highway
men attacked the stage between Mitche1lsburg
and Harrodsburg, Ky. One of the passengers
put his pistol through the window and hot
one of the robbers dead, whereupon his COM
panions fled, but were pursued by the passen-
gers and two of them captured.
Washington.
1T is stated that the President has decided
to appoint q commission to treat will the Mo-
doc Indians The President has signed the
act ~abolishing the Thanking privilege, and it
will go into effect July 1.-The House, by an
almost unanimous vote, has relieved several
prominent rebels of disabilities, including
William A. Graham, of North Carolina Taylor,
Secretary of the Confederate Navy John For
syth, editor of the Mobile. Register and Bu-
chanan's Minister to Mexico, and D. C. Dejar-
nette, formerly leading member of Congress of
Virginia
SENATOR SUMMERS health continues to i'm
prove slowly. The following is the public
debt statement for January
Six per cent. bonds. 81 "a, 44S, 900
Five per cent. bonds. "a 67 800
Total coin bonds ...............s 81, 756, DIG, 900
Lawful mOQey debt If 608 OO0