The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
The East.

which have been patented was sold at New
York. the other day, under decree of court
for the nominal sum of 100000. 1t was
bought by the Committee representing the
bondholders who have assented to the plan
of reorganization.
A statement Of the affairs of Duncan, Sher-
man e. Co. show their liabilities to be "A, S72,-
128, while their assets are considerably less
than half that amount, namely, 81, 112, 740.
On the closing day of the Rochester races
the little mare Lula, in the free-for-an race,
made the three fastest consecutive heats on
record, viz, 2:1615, 2.1515 and 2:t7, winning
the race against Goldsmith Maid and American
Girl.
Three boys were drowned at Buffalo, N. Y,
on the 14th inst, while bathing.
Three men, named James Grogan, William
Horton and Henry Martin, were drowned at
Passaic Falls, N. j., by the upsetting of boat.
A grand international pedestrian tournament
is to be held in New York in October.
Edwin Booth, the tragedian, was recently
thrown from his carriage, by the team taking
fright and running away, and received serious
injuries. The accident occurred at his coun-
try residence in Connecticut.
Fortunately, the accident to Edwin Booth,
the tragedian, which was at first thought to be
fracture of one rib and the left elbow bone,
and in few weeks will probably be able to re-
sumo his place upon the stage.
A sad and shocking suicide of mother and
her children occurred at Harrisburg, Pa, q
few days ago. Mrs. Philip Bessinger, becom-
ing madly jealous of her husband, dressed her
three little children as if intent ON giving them
a pleasure walk. She proceeded to the canal,
where, assisted by the children, she gathered
stones sufficient to fill basket, which she tied
to her waist. She then clasped the unsuspect-
ing little ones under her arms and plunged into
the water.
"Duchu" Helmbold has just been confined
in Philadelphia lunatic asylum.
Duncan, Sherman & Co. propose to settle
with their creditors on the basis of 331< cents
on the dollar.
A Cuban privateer, the Uruguay, has escaped
from New York, laden with arms, ammunition,
and stores for the relief of the insurgents.
The West.
During the recent high water in the Ohio
river the levee at Shawneetown, ILL.,, gave way
and the whole town was flooded with eight feet
of water, causing immense damage to property.
Fortunately the people received timely warning
of the impending disaster, and by fleeing to the
hills back of town saved themselves from
drowning.
The editor Of the Lawrence (Kansas) Spirit
of Kansas, has sued the editor of the Lawrence
Standard for libel, laying damages at sSO,00O.
JEFF Davis will deliver the annual address at
the Bartholomew Qnd.) fair, in September.
The Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railway Com
pany are selling round-trip tickets from Peoria
to New York for $40.
jeff Davis will not. after all, deliver an ad-
dress before tho Winnebago County QIl.) Ag-
ricultural Society, he having declined toappear
on account of the opposition manifested at
Rockford.
| frightfuI accident occurred last week on
the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, at Loogootee,
Ind. The express train going east at the rate
of forty miles an hour ran into an open switch
and collided with the mail train. Five persons
the mail agent and baggage-master of the
express train, and two brakemen and another
employe of the mail train-were killed outright,
and six or seven passengers injured. On the
same day passenger train on the same road
was thrown from the track near Huron, Ind,
and the engine and tender plunged into Beaver
Creek. No one was killed. The cause of the
| accident was the removal of rail, the design
of the perpetrators evidently being robbery.
nurse in the st. Louis Insane Asylum, the
other day, gave three troublesome patients au
overdose of conium in order to make them
sleep soundly. He succeeded beyond his calcu-
lations. Tho poor lunatics never awoke from
their sleep.
Mr.. James H. McVicker, tho popular and
enterprising Chicago manager, has leased the
Grand Opera House in that city, and will run
it, with first-class comedy company, under the
name of the "New Chicago Theater." Nc
Wicker thus becomes the owner of the two best
theaters in tho city.
The miners in the Black Hills recently held a
meeting and resolved to peaceably abandon the
region for the present. Late reports from there
say the men are nearly all leaving. A few on
the upper and remote creeks, it is said, will
remain.
The painful mystery surrounding the fate of
Prof. Donaldson, the aeronaut, and Newton S.
Grimwood, Journal reporter, who assembled
from Chicago in a balloon on the 18th of July,
and sailed away over Lake Michigan, has at last
been partially solved by the finding of the body
of the unfortunate reporter on the east shore
of the lake, between Whitehall and Pentwater,
Mich. 1t was discovered on the 10th of August
by stage driver while driving along the
beach, was turned over to Justice Of
the Peace, who, after the customary in
quest, consigned the remains to mother earth
in the regular burying- g-ground in Claybanks
township, Oceana county. When found, the
body was flat on its face on small pile of ole
flood-wood. The hair was nearly all gone, ant
the face badly disfgured. The nose was en-
tirely gone, and the hat and boots we're miss
ing. An India-rubber ife-preserver was fount
, on the body. The preserver had hole in i
about two inches long. That the aeronaut
we're lost in Lake Michigan during the gall
that swept over it ON the evening of their de
A passenger train on the st. Louis Kansa
6 City and Northern railroad went through rot
= = ten bridge near Plattsburg, No., few day
since. Three passengers were killed. eight o
I ten had either their arms or legs broken an
. some twenty others were more or less injured
= The accounts of Shatfenburg, late Unite
% States Marshal of Colorado Territory, show
. 9 deficit OF about $780, Shaffenburg hs
% sloped, but the officers are after him.
: A terrible afrray occurred at Eberhardt Cit!
% New, recently, between two men named Jacl
~ son and Beck. The former plunged bowl
knife to the hilt five times into the body {
y Beck, when bystander struck Jackson dow
il Then Beck, though dying of his wound
:, - crawled to the PROSTATE form Of Jackson, toe
the knife that had been used with fatal efre
% upon himself, and buried it in the heart {
* jackson.
DO The war between the competing railroad
9T running from st. Louis and Chicago to IL