Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-03
NEWS SUM MARY.
The East,

The East.
The lower house of the Massachusetts, Leg
gislature has refused, by a vote of 40 to 1877,
to rescind the resolution censuring Senator
Sumner.
A MAN named George Mcdonald was arrested
atNew York the other day, on landing from
the English steamer, who is believed to be the
principal in the great forgeries on the Bank of
England. Papers were found on him which,
it is said, reveal the whole plot, and criminate
men of high position in New York. The
Bulls Head Bank of New York, has collapsed.
NEW York furnishes an instance of swift
Justice. On the 18th of March two young
highwaymen-John Coughlin and John Green,
aged 16 and II Observation-Disclosures and rob-
bed a citizen in the street. On the 18th they
were indicted by the grand jury, on the Goth
tried and convicted, and on the 21st sentenced
to fifteen years each in the penitentiary. =.
William Foster was executed at New York on
the 21st of March, for the murder of Avery
D.. Putnam in a street-car on the 29th of
April, 1871; and James McElhaney suffered a
like penalty at Boston for the murder of his
wife. Brooklyn is excited over a mysterious
murder. Mr.. Charles Goodrich, a wealthy
citizen, was found dead in his bed, having
been shot through the head and robbed by
some unknown assassin.
FOSTER, the murderer of Putnam, who was
hung in New York recently. was buried in
Greenwood Cemetery, which is in direct viola
ton of the cemetery regulations, which say
that no person who has died in prison, or has
been executed for any crime, shall be buried
there. DR.. Tying performed the Episcopal
service. Only q few male relatives were pres
emit, no ladies attending New York city
owes a gas bill of nearly a million dollars, and
the authorities have been told that, if it is not
paid forthwith, the gas ompany will cease to
supply the streets and public buildings.
Commodore Vanderbilt gave half a million
dollars, a few days ago, for the endowment of
a Southern university, and now follows this
liberal charity with half a million dollars for
the erection of a female seminary on Staten
Island, to be managed on the plan of the
seminary at New Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is to be confined in
the Wards Island Lunatic Asylum. d. Dion
Boucicault and his wife went through the
process of becoming naturalized citizens of
the United States, at New York, the other day.
Fechter, the tragedian, has declared his inten-
ton The mysterious murder of Charles
Goodrich greatly puzzles the Brooklyn detec-
tives. Henry Magruder, the printer who shot
and dangerously Wounded a fellow-compositor
in New York, a few weeks ago, has been sent
to Sing Sing for ten years. Julius Ende, q
printer, residing in Jamaica, L. L, becoming
dissatisfied with life because his foreman COM
PEELED him to perform mental services, agreed
with his wife to commit suicide. He
sharpened a razor, and, after opening the
veins in his arm and leg, passed the Weapon to
his wife, and she did the same. Then they
both went to bed and calmly awaited death. 4
neighbor happened in, however, and it is be-
ieved that they will recover.
The West.
The strike of the locomotive engineers in
Missouri has ended in the submission of the
strikers IA little four-year-old boy was killed
in Chicago, the other day, by a wooden figure
of an Indian in front of a cigar store falling
upon him =. Lieut.. Frederick Grant, son of
the President, has been assigned to duty on
Gen. Sheridan's staff, at Chicago.
JUDGE J. G. BOWMAN, a prominent lawyer of
Vincennes, Ind, committed suicide recently,
by stabbing himself with a carving-knife.
Temporary insanity.
A SOD cabin was burned a few days ago, in
Calhoun county, Iowa, and the inmates, con-
sisting of a poor woman named Halleck and
her two little children, were burned to death.
In jackson county, Iowa, the other day, a
young man named James McAllister, not sat
isfied with the ordinary method of splitting
logs with an ak and wedges, concluded to
facilitate his work by the application of pow
der. Accordingly he drilled a hole in a large
oak log, filed the cavity with powder, applied
a fuse, and touched it off. The explosion fol-
lowed before McAllister could get out of the
way, tearing the log into splinters, and almost
literally beheading the unfortunate man. His
brains we're scattered in all directions, and the
body mutilated in a horrible manner. IA
citizen of Chicago has sued the Inter-
of that city, for libel, claiming damages to the
dIuOu1I OF 2OUU, UUU. . Announcer uRlL WITH the
Apaches is reported from Arizona, in which
six savages were killed.
CAPT. JACK, the Modoc chief, is negotiating
for an alliance with the Klamath Indians, a
formidable and numerous tribe. He declares
that as soon as the grass grows he will leave
the lava bed, burn the ranches, and murder
the settlers. :. Alexander J.. Fenwick, under
sentence of death at San Diego, Cal, cheated
the gallows by taking poison.
SOME time ago an old lady named Langston,
and a little girl who was living with her, were
mysteriously murdered in Coles county, Ill.
The other day a son of the murdered woman
William L. Langston-came forward and
confessed to having committed the unnatural
crime. He was ~instigated to the deed by his
wife, who had conceived a dislike to the old
lady. Hon. John G. Champln, a prominent
citizen of Ottawa, Ill, was run over and killed
by a freight train, in that town, a few days
ago.. William Stead, aged 76, a native of De-
noted Apache chief, with 1000 of his band,
have quietly gone on the reservation at Sulphur
Springs, Arizona.
The South.
The Tennessee Legislature has decided to
leave the regulation of the liquor traffic to
local option. Commodore Vanderbilt, of
New York, has given $500, 600 toward the pro-
posed Methodist University at Nashville, Tenn.
THE venerable wife of Hon. Reverdy john
died in Baltimore, a few days ago, aged 70
years.
A BRIEF letter, signed "John McEnery,
of Louisiana, ~ advises the organiza-
ton of tax-resisting associations throughout
the State..-.A boiler exploded at Greensboro,
KY, killing three persons, and wounding two
others.
A GUN in the hands of a soldier, at Nash
vile, was accidentally discharged the other
lay, the bullet passing through and killing two
other soldiers.
Some of the parties concerned in the Cali
diamond swind1es are paying heavily
for their part of the fraud. A suit was begun
,ome time ago, in a Kentucky court, against
,wo of these persons, for $3.50, 900 damages,
md they have now consented to pay $3.50, 000
20 get rid of the prosecution. Two colored
members of the Arkansas Legislature engaged
IN a fight in the hall of the House of Repre-
at Little Rock, the other day, over
he Ownership of a pistol. The Governor of
Tennessee has vetoed the "local option" tip
ping bill .Bardstown, KY, was recently the
of a cold-blooded and unnatural muir
der. Mr.. J. H. Holtshauser, an old and re-
citizen, was sitting in his Office with
of his sons, when another son entered the
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