Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-18
NEWS SUM- MARY.
The East.

on the nova Scotia coast. Ten of the coun-
terfeit $500 notes have been received at the
New York Sub-Treasury. 1t is thought that
it will be fonnd necessary to call in the whole
genuine issue of 535, 000, 900. There is a
law in Massachusetts which permits the Gov
-ernor to grant conditional pardons that is, to
provide that if the prisoner be convicted of a
crime committed after his release, he shall be
required to serve out the remainder of his
previous sentence. A prisoner who was de-
tanned under these circumstances recently ap-
Piled to the Supreme Judicial Court by a writ
or hdoeds corpus for release and that tri-
bunal has just granted the application, hold
ing that the law is unconstitutional.
IT cost New York $50, 500, 600 to run her city
government last year....The Fashion stud
farm stables at Trenton, N. J., were burned
the other day Nine valuable horses were
consumed, including two road-mares belonging
to President Grant Total loss, SIS, 600.
A New YORK telegram says that the amount
of bogus securities which the railroad bond
forgers expected to negotiate in this country
and Europe was 81, DOC, 600, and that 81. 900, 600
are already on the New York market. Two of
the gang, it is said, left for Europe some time
since. with a large amount of forged bonds.
which are reported to have already been dis
posed of In the English market. IA strange
tragedy has just been enacted at Williams
burgh, NY. A young lady called on another
whose school-mate and most intimate friend
she had been for years. This female there
upon murdered her, and, after keeping the
body in her bedroom for two days, set fire to
the building to destroy the evidence of her
guilt. It appears that the motive of the muir
deress was to obtain a sum of money which
she supposed her friend to have upon her
person. The murder, and the singular cir
profound sensation in Williamsburgh..
Titusyille, Pa, was visited by a $50, 000 fire ON
the 7th inst.
The West.
The Chicago Times, of the 9Th inst, prints
special dispatches from over a hundred differ
emit points relative to the condition and PROS
poets of the corn crop. They embrace reports
from almost every county in the great corn belt
through Illinois, Iowa and Kansas, and there
is a general coincidence in the statement that
the corn has suffered severely from the
drought, and that the yield will be considers
bly, below the average. Cincinnati has just
completed her new stock yards. They cost,
including the land, $500, 900, and will accom-
modate so, 600 head of live stock..-.A a meet
ing OF the Western Nail Association at Pitts
burgh, on the Sd inst, a four and three
eighths card was adopted. The association
unanimously resolved to make the agency |
on to- the trade, while the price in Cincinnati
was fixed at S4.35 net; at indianapolis, $3.50,
and at Kansas City, 1915 net.
Lafayette County Vigilance Committee. who
have been in pursuit of the Iowa railroad train
robbers, have returned here and disbanded.
aud surrounded the house where they SUP,
posed they were hiding, but the birds. had
1t is said they are making for Texas.
;.--Rev. ". Z: Watkins, pastor of the Water
loo Qowa). nj. e. Church, committed suicide
the other day, by drowning. He was thought
to be temporarily insane, caused b. the dan
gerous illness of his wife.
Col. JoHN II. HARPER, Collector of Internal
for the Eighth District of Illinois,
has resigned his position, leaving the ac-
counts of his Office at Springfield about
coo short. Archibald Duncan, of st.
Louis, last week murdered his wife by shoot
ing her with a pistol, and then blew his own
brains out...-The Toledo, Wabash and West
ern road it now laying new steel rails the
length of their line, from Toledo to st.
Louis They have just received from Metz,
from that country The Union Pacific Rail-
road Company sold during the month of Au-
gust, 1873, 22,S73 65-100 acres of land, at an
average price of $500 7-10 per acre, amount
SO 7-10 acres to each purchaser. Total sales to
Sept. 4 1873, 779, 518 22-100 acres, at an aver
age price of $445 per acre, amounting to
sler, has been sold to Col. Russell, of Milton,
Mass, at q price above $50, 900.
PRoF. MARsH's Yale exploring party has re-
Turned to Fort Bridger, after an absence of
'ix weeks in the Uintah Mountains. The trip
was eminently successful, many important dis
of extinct animals having been
nade-. Twelve months ago Peter Kiel, liv-
ng In Chicago, was bitten by a dog, and last
week WAS attacked with h~ydrophobia, and
lied in the most horrible agony. Twelve
men were recently suffocated in a mine at
sutter Greek, Cal.
WOMAN Society for the Prevention of
Jruelty to Animals is the latest Chicago insti-
ution b Fulton Elevator, in Chicago,
Fas burned last week. Loss, 500, 600.
The amount of the defalcation of Col. Har-
Ter, Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Eighth District of Illinois, is now fixed at
a million cattle were driven
rom Texas into Kansas during the past sea-
on.-..The st. Louis Democrat prints a dis
latch from Sedalia. No, which says Z
owa railroad-train robbers, who have
cen Hitting about in some of the western
ounties of this State, are all together again
kept Mccoy, and the detectives have infor-
lation that another bank robbery is being
tanned by them, and it viii be carried out as
Don as Mccoy joins the gang. All the banks t
! that part of the State are being closely .
by special officers, and efforts are .
being made to capture these des- q
!
CLouD, the Philadelphia oarsman, bound +
or New. Orleans, passed Cairo on the 9Th inst, g
been out Sc days. He is confident of y
the $4,000. He is as hardy as q pine I
uot, anu as Drown as a south American. The .
zin on the back of his hands is almost as \
ugh as leather. John Irving, of San :
the self-accused murderer of Ben .
Nathan, of New York, insists on the E
nth of his story, aud is very indignant at the !,
and the public for discrediting his h
atemeuts. =. "A light frost-the first of the a
'ason-in Northern and Central Illinois on 9
70 night of Sept-7 a
THE Pleasant Hill CNeb.) jail was recently b
on fire by an incendiary, and the building, Il
with four inmates, were consumed ?
receipts of at Milwaukee are 81
lormous. The amount received in one day
ept. 81 was 435, 7O9 bushels, being 16s, 7O9 Z
lshels greater than those of Chicago, and z
9 largest ever reported in the West. John u
: Coon, a wel-known professional billiard b
pert, died last week, in Chicago, of cerebro- N
mai meningitis. . match game of bill 6
;rds, 1000 points up, on a carom five by ten d
Bile, played in Chicago, last week, between s.
gorge Slosson and John Bessunger, the tc
rmer ran the game out in fourteen innings, OF
ak1ng the extraordinary average of 142. m
The South. al
Hon.. DAVID RINao, one of the Oldest citi- e,
ms of Arkansas, and the first Chief Justice at
the State, died recently at Little Rock. 81
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SIXTEEN Illicit whisky mills were recently -.