The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
The East.


Union, has passed from tho hands of ]. B.
has become the manager. Mr.. Beecher will
retain the editorship.
The Albion Mills, at Conshohocken, Pa, have
been destroyed by fire. Loss, S25O,OOO.
The American rifle team arrived in New York
last week, and were received with distinguished
honors.
A New York dispatch states that the entire
family of Thurlow Weed have been prostrated
| by the use of copper tea-kettle which had
been cleaned with oxalic acid. The family had
a narrow escape, including Mr.. Weed himself.
Abraham Symonds, of Pine Hill, N. Y, re-
Gently killed his daughter, and then committed
suicide.
The Massachusetts cotton mills are resuming
work.
A second swimming match between Coyle, OF
Philadelphia, and johnson, of England, came
off in the Delaware river last week, and was
won easily by the Englishman. Coyle, after
swimming six miles, had to be taken out of the
water, being badly chilled.
Loader, the upholsterer indicted for ibeling
Beecher, has just been admitted to bail in New
! York.
Certain Eastern newspapers have attacked
the proposed fast mail train between the East
and the West, and have asserted that this train
has been projected and will be conducted
mainly for the benefit of the New York daily
newspapers.
1t is stated that Ben Butler will act as coun-
sci for Tlton in the second trial of his suit
against Beecher.
Stirling, Ahrens & Co., of Baltimore, heavy
dealers in sugar and molasses, have succumbed
to the general pressure of business. Their
total liabilities are g, 5OO,0 900.
The West.
1t is ascertained that at least seven of the
Ku- Klux band who were attacked by the Sheriff
of Franklin county, Ill, and his posse, were
either killed or wounded, and the wounded
ones are in custody. The Governor has ap-
piled to the United States Attorney for South
ern Illinois to prosecute the lawless rascals
who are committing depredations in Egypt"
under the law of the United States and he has
vigorously entered upon the duty of helping to
bring Them to justice.
The Chicago Tribune states that Mrs. Abra-
ham Lincoln is in fair way of recovering
from the unfortunate mental malady which
compelled her friends, for her own good, to
confide her to the restorative care of private
asylum.
A severe and in many places killing frost
visited Wisconsin and Northern Illinois on the
22d of August, killing the vines pretty generally
and in some sections the corn. 1t appears to
have been heaviest in the Trepeleau Valley, in
Northwestern Wisconsin, and probably extend
| ed some distance into Minnesota.
| There is q movement on foot among the
Democrats of Chicago to buy out the Times
and make it a Democratic organ.
The Kansas Central and Black Hills Narrow
Gauge Railroad Company has been organized
at Omaha. The road is to be built at once
through the agricultural country south of the
Platte river, and will bo pushed forward to the
Black Hills as soon as the development Of that
region warrants.
Another frost visited the Northwest on the
morning of the 23d of August, but fortunately
it was not sufficiently severe to blight the corn,
except in exposed localities on low ground
Vines wore killed in some localities.
An extensive quarry of very fine quality of
red granite has been discovered near st. Cloud,
Mimi. 1t is said to be equal to the Aberdeen
granite.
Rev. Cyrus Mutt, President of the Indiana
State University at Bloomington, died at that
place August %.
DR.. A. ]. Thomas, editor Of the Vincennes
Qnd.) Sun, has sued the Cincinnati Enquirer
for libel, laying the damages at 100000.
The total earnings of all the lines operated
by the Northwestern Railroad Company, en-
bracing about 1000 miles, for the past year
were s13 1928, SIG, and its net earnings, afterde-
Quoting expenditures of all kinds, were $685.
266.
Extensive frauds on the part of distillers and
revenue officers have been discovered at San
Francisco.
An express train on the st. Paul and Sioux
! City railroad went through a bridge near the
latter place on the night of Aug. "a, instantly
killing the conductor, engineer and fire.
man. None of the passengers were seriously
injured.
The city of San Francisco has been thrown
into fever of excitement by the failure of the
Bank of California, the leading financial insti-
tuition of the Pacific coast. The Bank had q
paid up capital of S5,OOO,O 900, and has always
been regarded as one of the staunchest and
best managed in the country. The suspension
was caused, as in the cases of Jay Cooke & Co.,
Duncan, Sherman & Co., and D. T. Allen by a
disregard of the laws of banking. 1t had
made unlucky ventures in the mining districts
| loF HoIi a,,1 1o
the Bank, w. C. Ralston, is known to have
been heavy and reckless operator in mining
stocks. Under the circumstances the collapse
of the concern need not excite surprise.
Capt. John Gordon, of Black Hills fame has
been released from confinement on a writ of
habeas corpus. He has commenced an action
against the military authorities for false i'm
prisonment.
The South.
A dispatch from Augusta, Ga- dated Aug. 20,
says: ''An is quiet, but arrests still continue.
1t is believed there will be no further trouble.
The negroes have dispersed and returned to
their homes. A dispatch from Sanderville,
Washington county, reports the arrest of Gambia
Harris, one Of the leaders in the plot. He has
made confession, duplicating Prince Rivers, a
Major General of the South Carolina militia.
Rivers emphaticaly denies the charge. The
State press seems dumbfounded at the dis
turbance, and differs widely in opinion as to
whether an insurrection was intended but
agree that the whole affair is a mystery"
The new census of Louisiana, just taken
shows the population of the State to be S54 $780,
of whom 4O4, ,361 are whites, 45O, ,O29 colored.
This is an increase of 12s, lis over the censu
, of 1870. The city of New Orleans has popu
lation of 3OS, 1868, of whom 49, ,721 are white,
49, CAT colorcd.
The investigation into the cause of death of
the three patients by poisoning in the st. Louis
Insane Asylum, has resulted in generating the
} attendant physician from all blame in the