Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-26
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

NEWS SUM MARY
The East.
FRANK WALwoRTH, the young man who muir
dered his father in New York, has been indict.
ed for murder in the first degree. He will be
tried in a few days.: Nathan Britton, of Jer.
sey City, while in a drunken fit, shot and killed
his bosom friend, John. Adams, who was acting
as q peace-maker between Britton and another
man. Dr. Lewis E. Meyers, of Middletown,
NY. while drunk, fatally stabbed his father
in the breast. West, the Dover (Del.) ply
stefan, charged with killing, skinning and mutt
lating the negro I" Cooch" Turner, and then
setting fire to his premises, has been acquitted
ON the ground that the killing was done, in self
DEFENSE AeBll now be tried for arson s :
JUDGE F~ANcHER, of New York, has granted
to Pauline Lucca a decree of absolute divorce
from her husband, Baron Won Rhaden, who is
shown to have been guilty of marital infdclity
in Berlin.
The counsel for young WaIworth will set up
the plea of self-defense, the insanity dodge
being regarded by his shrewd lawyers as about
played out in New York. The remains of the
late Hon. James L.. Orr, former Minister to
Russia, were buried last week at New York
with every markfof respect. President Grant
was in attendance, acting officially as chief
mourner.
A GREAT row was recently created among the
Chinese employed in the Beaver Falls Pa-)
cutlery works, blythe attempt on the part of
their employers to suppress gambling and
opium-eating among the Celestials. They
quit work and marched through the streets,
armed with knives n dhatchets, and for a time
serious results were a~pprehended. They were
finally pacified, but many of them will go back
to California, where opium and gambling can
be INDUCED to their hearts content. AT
Hudson, N. H., III. Jewett, a rejected sutton,
hot Ella Wood, attempted to kill her father,
and then fatally shot himself The new
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (New
York; is to cost a million and a quarter
FIVE persons were recently drowned in a
pond at Calais, U, by the capsizing of a
boat....A horrid tragedy was lately enacted,
in thetown of Thorndike, near Belfast, Me.
Almon Gordon and his wife and child were
found murdered in bed, and suspicion points
to a brother eff Gordon as the author of the
foul deed. A dispute about a piece of proper
ty is saidEte have led to the murder.
A NEwYoRK paper makes the startling state
ment that there are between 1000 and 5000
children who have been kidnapped from Italy
andf are held in slavery in the large cities of
the United States, New York being the great
central entrepot. These children are sold daily,
at private auction, at prices varying from 800
to 800 for boys, and from 800 to $500 for
girls. Where the girls are exceptionally pretty,
thep prices rule higher.
The West.
CAPT. JACK, in an interview with Gen. Davis,
entered into a long defense of his course, clos
ing his speech with this statement Bogus
Charley and Schacknasty Jim killed Gen.
Canby Allen David advised him to kill Candy,
not kill him; I had it done, but did not do it.
I dom lie.HzBring them in that saw it. / want
to face them. If I had my chains of I would
tell 9ltthe men who did these things."... AS
m SnIsoo4sOn - Az o4-an~kh - 4l.n arrnar
associations in Iowa, it may be noted that a
Grange picnic at Mt. Pleasant was attended
by 10000 Patrons
THE Pitt River Indians have turned over to
Gen. Davis eleven; Modoc refugees. 1t is said
there are now-bnt three or. four of the tribe at
large....H Gen. Davis had been let alone
Capt. Jack.and his confederates would have
been hanged two or three weeks ago. Ropes
and scaffolding were ready, and the murderers
hadSbeen formally warned that they were to
expihte their crimes on the morrow, when on
the very eve of the execution a Government
courier arrived with instructions from Wash
ington to- hold the Modocs until further orders.
Gen. Davis explains, in a very straightforward
way, his reasons for the prompt justice
he laeante to deal to these assassins. To
try Zthem by a military commission
would have consumed fully six months,
to say pothing of trouble and expense--Itd did
civil authorities Modocs were prisoners
of war the murders with which they were
charged were committed while they were in
arms against the United States, and took place
in Oregon and California, raising trouble
some questions of Jurisdiction between the
courts of those States. The most remarka-
BILE game of billiards ever contested in the Uni
tween Mons. Ubassy, the French expert, and
a local player named B~essunger. The game
was the French or three ball, and Ubassy
scored 800 points to Bessungers $40, and
made an average of nearly eighteen, the
onreeords
LLINoi CENTRAL railroad stock has fallen
since from 100 to III. This decline the
Wall street operators declare to be occasioned
by the farmers, movement. There is a rumor
that the stock of the road is to be increased
by an addition Of S. 00, 900, making it's total
stock .S35, 600, 900. John F. Tracy. has re-
railroad. Modo items Judge
Steelebanda number of civilians visited Gen.
Davis, camp, a few days ago and had a talk
with Capt. Jack and his companions. Jack,
the account states, had an ugly, sullen look,
and was apparently displeased at being brought
forth for a talk. The dark lines about his
eyes, which are bright and glittering. indicate
confinement, and it is evident that the ~restric-
ton of liberty has a greater effect on him than
Ispepse7eoneorniug hsfuture fate" He
said that b Indian heart was dead, and his
body eold-3 Jacks friends are terribly in
censeds against those Indians that betrayed
him, and VOW they will kill theHs or have them
killed, If it takes years to accomplish the job.
Gen. Davis has sent a body of men to hunt up
and arrest the persons guilty of the massacre
Of the Modoc captives. Photographs have
been taken of Capt. Jack and the whole band
Of warriors. Mrs. Nancy E. Glenn, the al
eyed murderer of Jacob Young, of Indian
.pols, has been granted a new trial by the
Supreme Court. ..Advices from the
.roops moving into the Sioux country indi-
;ate a general engagement with large forces
If Northern tribes of Indians at IN early day.
L
Mrs. A W.DRAKE, of Macon county, H.,
lied last week, from the effects of a dose of
'oison which she had prepared for her own
on, and took by mistake. Before dying she
made the horrible confession that she had, at
iferent times in the last sight years, poisoned
Ter husband, one of her daughters, two of her
randchildren, and two other relatives, all of
Thom had died suddenly. !. &. Prof. Watson, of
nm Arbor, announces that he has discovered
mother new plant, of the eleventh magnitude.
Near Springfield, H., the other day, a
egro named Taylor shot and killed his neigh
or, Monroe Brown, also colored. When the
Ulcers attempted to arrest the murderer. he
hot himself, inflicting a wound from
Inch he died in a few hours. The
otal number of Modocs captured, includ-
lg men, women and children, is 1856. -.
urther accounts are at hand of the torrent
hich deluged Blaekwood Valley in Nebraska
st month. Without a moments warming the
lakewood river became a flood and sub
lerged qlegshole valley, which is 45 miles long