The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


Messrs. Moody and Sankey will begin their
revival work Oct. 81, in the Brooklyn On. Y
rink, which has capacity for accommodating
from 1000 to 5000 persons. The services will
be on the same general plan as that pursued in
Great Britain.
Duncan, Sherman & Co., the bankrupt bank
ers, comprising VIM. Butler Duncan, VIM
Watts Sherman, and Francis H. GRAIN have
been arrested in New York, on the complaint of
one of their creditors, on charge of fraud and
obtaining money under false pretense and held
to bail in the sum of IS, 900 each.
A freight train on the New York Central rail-
road flew the track while entering Rochester,
N. Y, few days ago, and dashed into the de-
pot, demolishing the walls and causing gen.
eral smash-up of the train. The engineer and
fireman were instantly crushed to death.
John Ryan died at Boston, last week, from
the effects of injuries received in a prize-fght
with Michael Carney.
Another civil suit has been instituted in the
New York courts against Tweed for 1888, $40.
The man Westervelt, charged with being i'm
plicated in the abduction of Charley Ross, has
been sentenced to seven years solitary confine-
ment in the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsyl-
vania and fined 81.
The New York police think they have cap
tured the murderer of Mr.. James H. Noe. His
name is John Dolan. He admits pawning the
murdered mans watch.
The New York EUening Post, in a review of
the business and trade of that city, says the
sales of the season are ahead of those of any
season since 1873.
The unfinished Agricultural Hall, on the
Philadelphia Centennial grounds was blown
~. fPg hg q gust of wind last week. Five labor
A wrestling match for the championship of
the world took place in New York last week
between Antoine Cristal, champion of France,
and Prof. Miller, of Australia, the latter being
victorious.
The members of the Beecher-Tlton jury are
clamoring for back-pay.
A Frenchman named La Page has been ar
rested at Suncook, N. H., on suspicion of being
the murderer of Miss Josie Longmaid.
Strauss, Lehman & Co., heavy dry goods
dealers of New York, have failed. Liabilities,
| s5OO,OO0.
! John b. Contoit, the millionaire confection-
er, who died recently in New York, bequeathed
| to his sole heir and child, Charles H. Contoit
the nice little fortune of S3,0000O0.
The west.
information from Macon, No., says that it is
new settled fact that gold abounds there in
paving quantities. An old miner from Cali
fornia has just completed prospecting tour,
and in four days gathered from the surface of
the ground 800. Great excitement prevails
over the recent developments, and the hills are
covered with prospectors, who, in spite of their
inexperience, make fair wages. This new gold
region is on the Charlton river, about 21 miles
northwest of Macon, and IL miles from the
northern branch of the st. Louis, Kansas City
and Northern road.
A Salt Lake dispatch reports the discovery of
rich gold diggings in the Sweetwater and Big
Horn mountains.
Capt. Bogardus, the famous pigeon-shooter,
was arrested at st. Louis one day last week. at
the instance of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, for shooting pigeon
match near that city.
Mr.. John Mccullough, one of the few really
great actors on the American stage, is playing
an engagement to crowded houses at McVickers g
Theater, in Chicago.
Prof. Jenney, of the Black Hills exploring
expedition, reports the discovery of gold in
small quantities in the Bear Lodge Mountains,
in the northwestern portion of the Hills.
Snow fell in various portions of the North
west on the 18th of October, the first of the
season.
In prize-fght at Cincinnati, the other day,
between Frank Farrell and Jack Leonard, two
young roughs, Leonard received injuries which
will probably prove fatal.
Three Italians have been convicted at st.
Louis of the murder of one of their country
men, and sentenced to death.
Two men were killed and several injured at
st. Louis last week, by the falling of the brew,
cry of Fritz & Wainwright.
Judge Boreman, of the Third District Court
of Utah, has taken the Mormon bull right by
the horns. In his charge to the Grand Jury al
Salt Lake City, the other day, he admonished
them to indict number of individuals impli-
Gated in swindling the Territory out of lands
and for illegal voting. He particularly urged
them to indict every leader, proclaimer or in
stigetor of polygamy, which he denounced as 6
walking ulcer and degrading crime, fit only FOL
the darkest days of anterior civilization. He
said it had existed only by the generosity Of
the government, but that the government was
now in earnest, and the Mormons would soor
be made to realize it.
There was bloody row at mining camp 12C
miles from Denver, COL, last week, so or 1OC
miners, with guns and pistols, playing lively
part. The notorious Maj Graham, lately re
leased from the penitentiary, shot and wounded
miner, at which the friends of the latter be
came SO incensed that they started out to lyncl
Graham, whom they completely riddled Will
bullets number of Graham's friends wer'
) then ordered to leave the country on pain O
? being treated in a similar way.
: JOHN Bulliner and Allen Baker, two of th'
Williamson county Qll.) Ku-Klux have beel
found guilty of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to twenty-five years each in tn
4 penitentiary.
At the county fair grounds near Greensfeld
I O., one day last week, the seats around tn
race track fell, precipitating fully l,OOO peopl
= to the ground, severely injuring large mum
ber of men, women and children.
A letter has been received in st. Paul fror
= a well-informed gentleman at Bismarck, pre-
dieting red-hot Indian war next year, unles
!. Congress takes heroic measures to suppress ii
. before fairly inaugurated. He saJs frontiers
men insist that the Black Hills will be occupie
!, without treaty, or that the Indians will
+ stirred up to such an extent that trouble and
/; treaty must follow. Except few timid oDei
!. the people on the frontier DO not fear the rt
! suit in that case, believing that it will requiI
. more troops to be thrown into the country, gi7
ing them employment and adding to the popr
L lation of the border.
< San Francisco and other portions of Cal
t, fornia, have just experienced another shal
/ earthquake shock.
|. The South.