The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
The East,

is lower than the price has been since the year
1865.
A magazine exploded at Frankfort, Pa, on
the 7th inst, killing one boy and injuring
twenty others.
A large mass of soft rock fell in the Hoosac
tunnel the other day, and blockadod the big
bore.
| BY a smashup on the Geneva, Ithaca and
Athens railroad, on the 9Th ult, the conductor
of freight train and two brakemen were
killed, and the engineer and fireman so badly
scalded that there are little hopes of their re-
covery. The accident was caused by mis-
placed switch, which was opened, it is be-
iieved, by bandits for the purpose Of throwing
the passenger train from the track, with the
intention of robbing the passengers.
There was brutal prize-fght in the suburbs
Of New York last week, between two roughs
named Gallagher and Madden. Both contest
ants were terribly punished.
The village of Victory, Cayuga county, N. Y,
has been almost entirely destroyed by fire.
melancholy tragedy is reported from
Niagara Falls. party of six gentlemen and
ladies' visited the Cave of the Winds without
guide. After passing through the cave, two of
the party, Mr.. Ethelbert Parsons, aged 20, and
Miss Lottie C. Philipott aged Is, descended to
au eddy which is never visited by the guides.
The lady lost her foothold and was caught by
| the gentleman, but the current carried both
into the river below, where they were drowned
/ They were soon to have been married.
The crops of corn and potatoes in Pennsyl-
vania are said to have never been better.
Two Indians living on the Niagara Reserva-
ton, in Western New York, last week decoyed
into the forest one of their tribe, Samson
Williams, against whom they had grudge,
stabbed him to the heart and scalped him.
George W. Fishback, formerly publisher of
the st. Louis Democrat, who is now rusticating
in the East, while riding along the beach at
Southampton, L. l., the other day, discovered
woman in the water in a drowning condition,
having been carried beyond her depth while
bathing. Like true Knight the valiant ex-
editor leaped from his buggy, dropped the rib
bons, plunged into the billowy waters, and res
cued the drowning woman.
Serious forest fires are reported in Western
New York. The village Of Walcott, Jefferson
county, has been burned, and other towns are
threatened.
A furious tornado passed over the northwest
ern part Of Philadelphia on Wednesday last
causing great destruction Of property.
Notice Of trial of the 100000 libel suit of
Theodore Tlton against the Brooklyn Eagle
and Thomas Kinsella has been entered in the
Brooklyn City Court, for the September term.
Archibald Baxter & Co., grain and commits
sion merchants New York, have failed. Their
liabilities are stated at $500, ZOO.
The villages of Western Massachusetts which
SO severely suffered by the fearful flood oc-
casioned by the breaking of the Williamsburg
reservoir, May 49, 1874, have again been
similarly visited, though this time there has
been no loss Of life, and the damage is incon-
siderable compared with last years. few
nights since the dam of the Searsville reservoir
ON the western Goshen branch of Mill river
was swept away, causing wild panic in the vii
lagos below, the inhabitants fleeing pell-mell to
the hills. Several bridges were swept away,
and the damage to property will amount to
many thousand dollars.
Horace Binney, the Oldest and most promi-
nsnt member of the Philadelphia bar, died
few days ago, at the age of 81 years.
A Boston dispatch says: 1.-The excitement
about the sea serpent and his alleged appear
ance hereabouts increases. Capt Howes, of
the steamer William Lawrence, from Norfolk,
for this port, says that he saw this afternoon off
Cape Cod light, some sort of afgigantic marine
animal. It projected its head and neck and
part of its back out of the water and seemed
to be black on the back and white on the breast,
and as the portion visible was at least twelve
feet, the animal must have been some near re-
lation to the sea serpent"
The west.
| @. 3. Wilkinson and John L. Bittinger, Rev.
enue Collector and Gauger in the St. Joseph
| ONO. } District have been arrested for embezzle-
ment. Wilkinson and Bittinger are the pub
fishers of the st. Joseph Herald.
A terrible tragedy was enacted near Eau
Claire, Wis. ON Friday, the 9th inst. On the
preceding Wednesday babe of Mrs. Austin
Drake fell out of bed into bath tub and was
drowned. The event 30 worked upon her mind
as to unsettle it. She arose on Friday morning,
apparently as well as usual. After preparing
breakfast for herself and children, three in
number, she took the two oldest boys, four and
six years of age, respectively, and went out
of the house. The male members of the
family had previously gone into the har-
vest field. In about an hour after Mrs.
Drake lefs the house. the youngest boy re-
turned black in the face, wet through, and so
exhausted hat he could not speak. Restora-
tives were applied and the first words he ut
tered were, "Oh, grandma, mamma has
drowned herself and Vivian, and tried to drown
me-" Mrs. Drake, after leaving the house, in
| fit of insanity, went to a creek, carrying the
youngest boy il her arms and leading the
other one. Arrived there, she threw the
youngest in, and dragged in the other,
and then committed suicide. The young
est caught hold of a tree, and succeeded
in reaching home. The alarm was given i'm
mediately, and Mrs. Drake and the boy were
found locked in each others embrace, both
dead Mrs. Drake was a woman of moro than
ordinary intelligence and culture.
The war of rates between the st. Louis, Kan
sas City and Northern road, and other compet-
ing lines has at last reached most interesting
point to the travelling public. The first-named
road has cut the rate to 50 from Kansas City to
st. Louis, and the Hannibal and st. Joe road is
selling tickets for IS from Kansas City to Chi
cago, and $40 for the round trip.
A dispatch from Beaver, Utah, says the jury
in the case of John D. Lee, charged with being
the leader of the Mountain Meadow massacre,
reported that they were unable to agree, and
were discharged by the court. 1t is reported
hat they stood nine for acquital to three-one
Gentle and two Mormons-for conviction.
Three desperadoes that had escaped from
the Denver Jail were surrounded in forest
fifty miles south of that place, few days ago,
fifty ranchmen, who fired upon and instantly
killed two of them, the third escaping.
The panic occasioned by the floods in Indiana
has subsidized, and the better estimates place
the damage to the crops at not more than 25
er cent. in the central and southern portions
! Of the State.
Iowa, according to the census ust taken, has
population of about1 $50, OOO-a gain of about