The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

New York silk consplrators shows that OF the
silk placed upon the market in that city the
government was deprived of 81, 100000.
A dispatch from Philadelphia states that S.
Gross Fry, President of the Philadelphia, Dar-
by, and Spruce and Pine Street Railway Com
panies, has made an over-issuo of Darby stock
of from 10, 600 to 10000 shares, and of about
GOO shares of the Spruce and Pine street road.
The money raised upon the stock was used to
bolster up the Emans Iron Company. Mr..
Fry expected that upon the revival of the iron
trade he would be enabled to return the money
borrowed on the stock for that company. He
has made an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors.
Horace B. Clafin publishes statement in
the New York papers in regard to the manner
in which the government has been robbed dur
ing the past two years by the silk and lace i'm
porters. lie claims that the regular importing
houses have lost two millions of dollars by ir-
regular importations.
A monster Black Hills expedition is being Or
Sanized in the East, and will leave Philadel-
phia about the first of June. Nearly 1000
names have been enrolled.
| Anumber of whisky seizures have been made
N Boston and Brooklyn.
The Opera-Heuse and several stores at Bur-
lngton, VT, were burned last Saturday. Loss,
s75,OOO
Alfred Spear, of Rockland, Me-, shot his
wife and then killed himself ON Friday last.
Judge Nelson expresses the belief that the
jury in the Tilton-B Beecher case will not dis
agree, but will speedily reach averdict.
Chandler, Hart & Co., boot and shoe dealers,
of Philadelphia, have failed. Liabilities,
s125OOO.
Judge Porter, of counsel for the defense in
the Brooklyn scandal trial, opened his argument
ON Wednesday, May 10. Tlton and Moulton
were handled quite roughly, the speaker point
| ing them out in person and denouncing tfem
with scornful emphasis.
terrible confagration occurred last week at
osceola, Pa. Two hundred houses are reported
destroyed, and twelve hundred people are rem
dered homeless. The fire originated in lum-
bor yard two miles away, but high wind car
ried the burning embers into all parts of the
city, and it was found impossible to stay the
/ fames Half the town was consumed, includ-
| ing all the public buildings and nearly all the
business blocks. The adjacent villages of
Houtzdale and Powellton were also partially
destroyed. The total loss will exceed s2,OOO,-
! 600.
! knother victim of the speculating mania has
come to grief in Boston. Mr.. Abraham T. Jack
son, hitherto respected member of the bar,
has disappeared, taking with him several large
sums with which he was intrusted, amounting
in the aggregate to SO, 900.
| dispatch from Pottsville, Pa, states that
destructive fires were raging in the mountains
| in that vicinity. Shutdown, a small mining vii
lage, was entirely destroyed. A dispatch from
| the same place states that an attempt was made
! to burn the town of Shenandoah, fires being
started in several places by incendiaries. The
flames were discovered and extinguished. One
incendiary WAS arrested.
| The West.
The fears hitherto expressed of renewed
visitation of the grasshopper plague is verified
by accounts from various quarters. In Eastern
Kansas and Western Missouri a grasshopper
panic already prevails. The pests are already
up and doing, and have started on their line of
/
way. The route lies in a northwestly direction,
and the only hope of the farmers is that the
grasshoppers may disappear i'll time to save the
corl,-crop. In several counties in Minnesota
the eggs are Matching fast, and warm weather
is expected to bring with it renewal of last
years devastation and ruin.
james I;cl<-af- Sam Tancisco;- made n
new trust deed, which, however, seems to be
equally liberal with the one recently Cancelled.
Charles Pope the eminent tragedian is
playing an engagement at McVicker's theater
Chicago, in the great historical drama of
"Samson."
The Governor of Missouri has issued his
proclamation calling upon the people to OBJ
serve Thursday, June g. as day of fasting and
. prayer, in order that they may obtain divine
protection from threatened grasshopper pest
Hence. Intelligence reaches him from all
parts of the State that there is danger that
all the crops will be destroyed as in Kansas,
; Nebraska, and Iowa last year. The Governor
thinks that only the interposition of Providence
can stay the threatened invasion.
Advices from Yank.on, Dakota, report that
Capt. Bates command has captured the John
J Gordon Sioux City Black Hills party. They
we're taken at the White river crossing, and
will return home via Yankton.
There comes from Usage, Kansas, story Of
the state of desperation to which the people Of
l that section have been brought by the grass
, hopper pestilence. A party of farmers, scorn
e: ing concealment, boldly entered gristmill ant
boldly helped themselves to sixty sacks of flour
saying that they had neither food nor money
and that they would not permit their families
, to starve while food was within reach. 1t il
/, said that the condition of the people is nov
more critical than ever before.
Mr.. Potter, the Supervising Architec. of til,
Treasury does not think that any portion o
the walls of the new Chicago Custom-Hous
: can be saved. The structure will have to b.
!, razed to the ground.
. Mrs. Mary Lincoln, widow of the late Presi
4. dent has been adjudged insane by jury of tn
County Court, at Chicago, and will be sent to
private institution for the care of the insane a
. Batavia, Ill.
d The unfortunate widow of Abraham Lincoll
}, made an unsuccessful attempt to commit sui
eide at Chicago, just before leaving for the Ba
> to be bottle of laudanum and swallowed tn
I contents. The mixture, however, was of
IS harmless nature, and her design was thwarted
e A number of gaugers and storekeepers il
:. Chicago, who were participants in the whisk
=, frauds, or were criminally careless, have bee
removed, and three or four of them have bee
~ held to bail to await the action of the gran
IL jury.
IS The Indiana Grand Lodge of Odd Fellow
l. has just sustained the action of a subordinat
lodge in suspending a members connectio
l., with the order on the ground that he was
saloon-keeper.
M Washington.
~ The Postmaster General has issued an orde
a forbidding the payment by the Postmaster
re Cincinnati of postal money-orders drawn to til
n order of L. D. Sine. who is engaged in conduc
,t ing gift-enterprise. All registered letters az
dreSSed IN Sine aro tn he returned to the OffiC