The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


The East.
In the Tlton-Beecher trial. last week, the
court adjourned for three days, in order, it is
said, to prevent Mrs. Woodruff giving in her
evidence. She had been subpenaed by tn
prosecution but both sides feared her, and she
was not called. The trial will probably end by
the middle of July.
Sturtevant, the fiend who some months ago
murdered two old men and their female house.
keeper, at Plymouth, Mass, was hung on Fri
day, the 7th inst
In the Pennsylvania anthracite country the
awful reign of idleness continues, and the
news from that region from day to day is
freighted with the horror attendant upon sloth,
poverty, and passion. 1t is stated that the
owners of the largest mines in the district have
deliberately flooded their property, thus adding
months to the period of unproductyeness
which the scowling future proclaims.
The centennial celebration of the capture of
Fort Tconderoga by Col. Ethan Allen, was eel
ebrated with spirit by the people of the village
and surrounding country.
The Philadelphia Press of the 18th inst. says
in its review of the wheat crop reports from all
sections of Pennsylvania ga careful survey
leads to the belief that not over half crop will
be gathered, and even this amount depends
upon the continuance of dry weather."
. A bill has passed the New York Senate for the
reduction of tolls on the Erie canal 33M per
cent.
A horrible tragedy occurred at Byfeld, Mass,
last week. William Russell, aged 81, killed his
mother with shoeknife, nearly severing- her
head from her body. He then attacked and
dangerously wounded his father and three
brothers. The young man had shown symp-
toms of insanity for sometime past and at
the time of the tragedy was suffering frem
neuralgia.
The West.
An act of heroic bravery was performed by
George H. Price, who had charge of the Adams
Express car which left Chicago on the night of
the 9Th inst, by the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne
railroad. Three masked robbers entered
the car near Lima, Ohio. The foremost of
the rufians pointed a pistol at Prices
head and demanded the keys of
the safe. Almost at the same moment he fired
a shot at the messengers head, but the latter
had thrown up his left hand while reaching for
his pistol with his right, and the bullet struck
him in the forearm, inflicting a small wound,
and then, glancing, struck him in the chin also,
wounding him slightly in that spot. The as
sailant repeated his demand for the keys, and,
not getting Them fired again before Price could
get out his weapon. This time the ball went
clean through the messengers right shoulder,
and lodged in the side of the car. Before the
robber could fire third shot the wounded
messenger had gotten his heavy pistol in hand,
and, taking deliberate aim, passed ball through
the brain of his sssailant and the latter fell
dead in his tracks, without even struggle.
severe thunder storm passed over sections
of Illinois. Indiana and Ohio, Sunday, the light
ming striking in many places doing great dam
age. Taylor's Touring mill, near Springfield =
Ohio, was burned with loss of $4,000 in
surance, $14, 600.
The Bender has again escaped, this time in
Arizona, and is going for Mexico, it is thought
The new Custom House and Postofice build
ing partly erected at Chicago will have to be
torn down and rebuilt. A committee of experts
appointed to investigate the condition of tn
structure, find walls very crooked and the
foundations insecure.
Government detectives have just made big
raid on the fraudulent whisky ring in st. Louis,
Chicago and Milwaukee. Irregularities in the
manufacture and sale of spirits in these locali-
ties have been suspected for long time, and
decided to summarily put stop to them. 1t
appears that the frauds practiced have been of
great magnitude, and extending over a long
period of time. 1t is also stated that large
number of internal revenue officers are imph=
Gated either as accessories to the frauds or as
having been unattentive to duty.
During the week ending Saturday, the
10th of May, the condition of the wheat
in $50 counties was reported to the Department
of Agriculture. About 300 counties of the
! valleys of the Ohio and Missouri are repre-
sented, which last year produced 100000
] bushels of winter wheat, or 60 per cent. of the
product of seven States from Ohio to Kansas.
The average of condition in these States is 63
per cent, indicating only five-eighths of full
crop, if no improvement occurs-in Kentucky,
rs per cent; Ohio, 81 per cent; Michigan, 63
Indiana, e.; Illinois, 69 Missouri, So; Kan
sas 81.
W. W. Embry, editor of the Leavenworth
Ran.) Appeal, recently shot and killed Col.
D. R. Anthony, editor of the Leavenworth
Times.
Grasshoppers have appeared in multitudinous
numbers in some portions of Kansas and Mis-
souri,, and the indications are that the devasta-
tions of last summer will not only be repeated,
but that new territory will be rayaged and
robbed of its human sustenance.
The st. Louis Democrat has been sold to the
St. Louis Globe, and the two papers consol.
idated. The price paid was about $3.50, 600.
One hundred men have left Kansas City fol
the Black Hills, and 800 more are at Cheyenne
on their way to the same point.
The Grand May Musical Festival took place
affair. The city was garlanded with flower
and bedecked with flags, and the enthusiasm
and music was immense.
The first general convention of the Reformed
Episcopal Church was held in Chicago las
week.
Judge Dillon, of the United States Circui
Court, in decision rendered at Des Moines las
week, affirmed the validity of the Iowa Railroa,
Tariff act of March %, 1878.
The Western Unitarian churches have jus
held their annual conference at Chicago, whic
was largely attended.
The ninth annual reunion of the Gran
Army of the Republic, held in Chicago las
} week, was the largest and most successful tn
veterans have ever had.
Judge Dillon, of the United States Circu
, Court has decided that Council Bluffs is tn
eastern terminus of the Union Pacific railroad
The Council Buffers are jubilant at their VII
tory, while Omaha is correspondingly despont
: ent.
3 The Western distillers whose establishment
+ we're recently seized, have formed combini
ton for the purpose of testing the constitl
tionality of the revenue laws that permit IL
: seizure of property in such summary manne
3 A party of Black Hills adyenturers, consis