Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23
NEWS OF iii WEEK.
The East.

NEWS OF The WEEK..
The East.
Woodruff AND CLAFLIN have again been con-
fined in Jail at New York, in default of bail. -.
The statistics of enormous dealings on the
New York Stock Exchange last year have been
published. The registered sales of the twenty
seven most prominent stocks amounted to
IS, 600, 600 shares, valued at nearly double the
bonded debt of the United States: The largest
transactions were in Pacific Mail, their extent
covering ~fifty-ive times the amount of it's cap
ital stock.
THOMAS c. DURANT, in behalf of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company, has commenced suit
in New York against Cakes Ames and James
Brooks to recover shares of Credit Mobilier
stock alleged to have been fraudulently OBJ
tanned. -. The debt of New York city increased
81, $50, 900 last year.. :EX-Mayor Daniel G.
The trial of William M. Tweed is in pro-
gress in New York. The "Boss'' expresses
himself confident of acquittal. tt widow of
ex-President John Tyler is about to sell her
estate on Staten Island. and repurchase the
old Tyler estate in Virginia.
THE New Hampshire Republicans have nom-
mated Gov. Straw for reelection h
Directors of the Erie Railroad Company have
authorized the issue of $40, 600, 600 seven per
cent. convertible bonds, for the purpose of
laying a double track along the line of the road.
MATILDA HERON, the once celebrated actress,
is almost hopelessly demented. She is being
treated in a New York hospital. The New
York typographical Society has Endorsed the
proposition to erect a monument to Horace
Greeley, of type metal, and requested printers
to contribute the pay of 1000 ems each, on the
Sd of February. AL the conductors on the
Harlem railroad have resigned, consequent
upon being obliged to use books with coupons
for tickets, to which they contend no person
with The can submit. IA large force of
laborers is engaged on the New York under
--o,,-l -o;l-0oI d n Galxsr, a Na- V0rl
banker, has commenced suit against Mr.. Bout
well, Secretary of the Treasury, to recover
1900, 600 alleged to be due to plaintiff for
certain plans furnished the Secretary for the
purpose of enabling him to equalize the price
of gold and paper currency.
The West.
JOSEPH RoaERs, of Hazel Green, Wis, was
recently blown to atoms by the explosion of a
can of nitro-glycerine, which he was carelessly
handling. The Home Wooden Mills, at Jack
s~onvile, Ill, were recently destroyed by fire.
Loss, 800, 600. !. Charles Ducharme, one of
the most prominent and active business men Of
Detroit, is dead, aged 81.
ADvIcEs from Arizona state that q battle had
been fought between the command of Maj.
Brown and a band of Apache Indians, lasting
five hours. Fifty-seven of the red devils were
sent to their happy hunting grounds, and
twenty-three captured. Maj. Browns only
gas which had leaked and filed the space be-
tween the ground floor and plastering below
the Office of the Western Union Telegraph, in
Cincinnati, occurred the other day, tearing up
the floor, extinguishing the lights, and Gre
ating a wild panic among the operators, who
rushed pell-mel into the street. :. .Hibler, the
Fort Wayne, Ind, wife-murderer, has been
sentenced to imprisonment for life.
In the battle of the companies of the 5th
cavalry with the Apaches in Arizona, Dec. %,
near Salt river, not a warrior escaped. All the
band were killed, and twenty-five. women and
children we're captured. Ia singular accident
occurred at the Wisconsin State Normal School,
in Oshkosh, the other day. Prof. H. G. Bowen
was demonstrating the theory to the class in
chemistry of using the compound blow-pipe.
The magiclantern was lighted with a calcium
light and Illuminating gas, and by some means
fire was communicated to the gas, causing a
terrific explosion, which was heard for a dis
lance of two miles, sounding like an earth
quake. Every window on one side of the
school building was torn out, sash and all
Prof. Bowen and Is students we're badly in
jured. Bowen's clothes and boots were torn
into fragments, stripping him completely
naked. Several of the students were more or
less injured, and all in the room were rendered
entirely deaf. The door was torn OFF and
forced through a window, and shiyered into
fragments; the plastering was torn off, fur
niture destroyed, floor ripped up, and the
rooms looked as if they had been visited by an
earthquake. All the injured will doubtless
recoyer....Le Canman, a Chicago Postofice
clerk, has been convicted of robbing the mails.
TEE accumulating reports of fatalities by the
recent storm in Northern Minnesota, says the
Chicago Times, intensity the horror of the
dread calamity. The storm seems to have
been unprecedented in its s~uddenness as well
as severity, and for travellers who encoun-
tered it death seems to have been the rule and
escape thee exception, very few of the luckless
wayfarers surviving to tell the story of their
sufferings. Whole sleighing parties frozen to
death upon the road, the horses standing stark
upon their legs and the drivers sitting bolt
upright; the farmer dying while hurrying to
the succor of his stock a husband, leaving his
wife in the agonies of childbirth, dying by the
roadside while Fastening for assistance, the
mother consigning the newborn infant to the
icy grasp of death only to follow the husband
and child-these are among the narrowing re-
citals. Death has few shapes more horrible.
Similar reports come from all parts of the
State, and the statement that the loss to life
and property exceeds that by the Sioux massa-
ere of 1862 is probably not an exaggeration.
Gov. HENDRIcKs, in his message to the In
diana Legislature, advocates proportional repre-
sentation. IA New York jeweler was robbed
of $40, 900 worth of jewelry while stopping at
the fremont House, in Chicago, last week.
The South.
TIE "People's' Legislature of:Louisiana has
elected Gen. w. McMullin United States Sena-
tor. For the same position the Kellogg Legis-
lature has elected P. B. S. Pinchback. The
Arkansas Legislature has passed a resolution
doing away with the DISTINGUISHING clause of
the State Constitution. 1t will be submitted
to a vote of the people. Louis v. Bogy, of
st. Louis, has been elected to succeed Frank
P. Blair in the Senate from Missouri.
Washington.
THE health of Senator Sumner is slowly i'm
proving. His suffering is like that which fol-
lowed the injuries by Preston 8. Brooks, and
is said to be from the same cause. The din
ner to Henry NJ. Stanley by the Washington
journalists, which came off last week, was a
brilliant affair. The Senate Committee on
elections have decided not to send a commits
sion to either Arkansas or Louisiana to investi-
gate the election muddles in those States, but
to summon witnesses to the capital, where the
Investigations will be conducted. The Senate
Finance Committee have decided that Secre-
tary Boutwell, has no authority for issuing any
portion of the $44, 600, 900 legal-tenders, which
he claims as a legal reserve fund. This leaves
the Treasury with but "a, 500,0 900 available cur
rency.
THE question of the construction of iron
ship-building yards is to be revived during the
present session of Congress- is under
stood that the charges of bribery and corrup-
ton in connection with the election of John J.
Patterson as Senator from South Carolina
have become SO general that he will not be al
lowed to take his seat until the matter is rigid
ly investigated. 1t has been decided to erect
nov l1;ld;or AO0 hu 100 foot ~ Tho raor