The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK
The East.


The East.
Sooy the defaulting State Treasurer of New
Jersey, has had a preliminary trial. The ex-
act amount Of his deficit is ascertained to be
IA, 116. The Justice held him in S75, 1000.
No bail was offered, and he was fully COM
mitted.
| There is now strong grounds for believing
that little Charlie Ross is alive and may yet be
restored to his parents. Mrs. Mosher, the wife
of Bill Mosher, the abductor Of the child, vir-
tually acknowledges that the child is living, but
does not know his present whereabouts.
The Pennsylvania State Normal School, at
Bloomsbury, has been destroyed by fire. Loss
! :6O, 1000.
| South Deerfield, Mass, was visited last week
| by disastrous confagration. Property Of the
estimated value of $500, 900 was destroyed.
Tltons woelen mill, at Cavendish, Va, was
destroyed by fire, last week. Loss estimated at
S170, ,0OO insurance $780,
Three of the schuylkil county (Pa.) Com
missioners have been convicted OF malfeasance
in Office and sentenced each to two years i'm
prisonment and $1,000 fine.
| 1t is announced that TiltoD has abandoned
all hopes of new trial in the Beecher case
because he CTilton) cannot raise the funds to
conduct the prosecution.
The population of Massachusetts, accord
ing to the census just completed, is 1,64O, 900.
disease similar to the old epizootic has
broken out among the cattle near Avon, N. Y.
Forty died Within two weeks.
Judge Gilbert, of Brooklyn, in the case of a
colored man who applied for a mandamus to
compel the Board of Education to admit his
son to a school set apart for white children, de-
cided that the system of common school educa-
ton was established for the public, and all
persons had access to it. The Board of Educa-
ton had no power to exclude any.
Capt. John G. Jones, of New York city,
committed suicide by jumping over Niagara
Falls, few days ago.
Three men were killed and a number wound
cd by the explosion of celluloid factory, at
Newark, N. J., last week.
The West.
Gordon, the Black Hills adventurer, has
backed out of the suit which he commenced
with SO much flourish against the military au-
thorities at Omaha for false Imprisonment, t, and
paid the costs of the litigation.
fire at Virginia City, Nevada, last week,
destroyed S125, 900 worth of property
The jury of inquest in the case of Ralston,
the San francisco banker, returned a verdict
of accidental death.
1t now transpires that the failure of the Bank
tof n ~ b,,o q
spiracy on the part of its enemies as by the ras-
cality Of the late President. The directors of
the institution authorize the statement that
Ralstons defalcation will amount to between
three and four millions of dollars, ald that a
large overissue of stock has also been discev-
cred. The directors, for mysterious reason,
decline to let the public know what particular
use was made of this large sum of money.
John N. Edwards, of the st. Louis Times, and
Emory s. Foster, of the st. Louis Journal
fought bloodless duel last week in Winnebago
county, Ill. One round was fired at twenty
PAGES with navy revolvers, the bullets whistling
harmlessly in the air. Edwards demanded an
other shot, but Foster declined. After consid-
erable parley the affair was amicably settled
the belligerents shook hands, the genial Bour'
bon was produced, and the agreeable ternina-
ton of the trouble generously toasted. The
difficulty grew out of the jeff Davis Winnebago
county controversy.
Another aeronaut has met with a tragic death.
A man calling himself Prof. Ariel, travelling
with circus, made an ascension in hot-air
balloon at Jackson, Mich, last week. On de-
scending, the balloon seemed in danger of
striking on the railroad bridge, and the ocou-
pant, to save himself, jumped into the water
and was drowned. .-....
The pesky grasshopper has turned up again.
Millions of them have recently been seen
travelling over Central and Southern Illinois in
southeasterly direction. Fortunately they
can do but little harr; to the crops this season,
but damage is to be apprehended next year in
localities where they may ahght at this time.
Mr.. Fisher, an Alderman of st. Paul, was re-
Gently expelled from the City Council for ac-
cepting bribes and appropriating to his own
use some property purchased by the city-the
property being seventy five bushels of oats.
1 The Commissioners appointed to treat
with the Sioux Indians for the purchase Of
the Black Hills arrived at the Red Cloud
Agency on the 5th of September. About
10000 savages had collected at the Agency
The Commissioners were hopeful of being able
to make treaty.
A serious Indian outbreak is reported in East
ern Nevada and Western Utah. Gen. Schofielt
has sent troops to that region, and will himself
go to the scene of the disturbances.
The amount of grain in store in Chicago OF
the 9Th inst. was Gil, TIT bushels Of wheat l.,
ST. $50 bushels of corn 311, 1875 bushels o.
oats So, S45 bushels of rye, and 80, ,OSO bushels
of barley, making grand total of 1851, ,46t
bushels, against 9, 1888, 95S bushels at the sam,
period last year.
Prof. C. v. Riley, State Entomologist O.
Missouri, informs the editor of the Chicago
Journal that the swarms of grasshoppers re
Gently seen flying over Illinois, are not tn,
rapacious kind from the Western frontier.
The great Interstate Exposition at Chicago
4 on the 9th inst, was attended by an immens,
tLrong of people. The Chicago papers de
scribe it as a magnificent display of art, in
dustrial ingenuity and other attractions. TIL,
great show will remain open to the public unit
Oct. s.
A number of serious railroad accidents oc
CURED on the Northwestern road in the vicinit,
of Harvard, ILL.,, on the night of the Sth inst.
all of them caused by rain-storms and defectiv
bridges. An express train ran off the end o
an embankment into a creek. Henry Morris
engineer; James Fury, baggage master W
J. Grouse, passenger; and Mr.. Black new
agent were instantly killed. Hall, expires
messenger; Frank Gish, fireman; JAIME
Ranons, conductor; and several passenger
were very seriously injured, but it
hoped not fatally. A freight train IA
into a break in culvert, instantl
killing the engineer and fireman. Anothe
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