The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-17
NEWS OF THE Week.
The East.

LuSHb VI H. L. SldiuH IL w.. 4NCN lOlhs udo
been arrested and held in bail of $4,000 on
the charge of purchasing s4OO, 900 worth of
silks from alleged smugglers.
W. T. Leslie, Receiving Teller in the banking
house of Duncan, Sherman & Co., New York,
has absconded, taking with him $4,000.
James M. Sweeney, brother of Peter B.
Sweeney, according TO cable dispatch. died in
Paris recently. The deceased was recently in
dicted jointly with his brother in suits growing
out of the affidavit made by Ingersoll, the par
doned Tammany ring convict.
Tho Atlantic Cotton Mills of Lawrence,
Mass, employing 1,25O operatives, will shut
down ON account of the dull market ON the
10th of July and remain closed till Sept. 1.
The members of the well-known dry goods
house of H. B. Clafin & Co., New York, have
been indicted for smuggling silk goods through
the Custom-House.
The Orangemen Of New York have decided
not to parade this year, and to honor King
William of glorious and pious memory by a
grand excursion and picnic July II.
The West
Randall by the military, have been uncondi-
tionally released, and allowed to return to Cor
don City.
Gigantic frauds have been discovered in con-
nection with the Missouri State Treasury.
Over a million dollars have been distracted
from the treasury by means of forged war
claims.
In the case of the twenty-five contemptuous
Chicago Aldermen, who, at the advice of six
lawyers, canvassed the votes of the city incor-
poration election in defiance of the judicial in
junction, Judge Williams, of the Circuit
Court, sentenced each of the Aldermen to pay
a fine of $1OO and costs, and each of the advis-
ing lawyers $500 and costs.
The champion base ball club of Boston sus-
tanned a crushing defeat in their game at Chi
cago last week, the score standing to 0 in fa-
vor of Chicago. The Bostons had previously
been defeated by the st. Louis club. In their
games in the East the Red Stockings had
scored twenty-seven victories and it seemed as
though they would win every game they played
this season; but base ball is very uncertain,
and it is not safe at any time to bet odds of 2
and 8 to 1.
The Quahada band of Comanches surren-
dercd last week to the commandant at Fort
Sill. The band comprised $50 warriors, and
800 women and children, with !, 400 ponies.
A desperate encounter recently occurred in
the vicinity of Stockton, Rocks county, Kansas,
between Mr. Alexander, Sheriff of Ellis county,
and horse thief, resulting in the death of
both.
The plan of paying bounty per bushel for
dead gr asshoppers in LIE Sueur county, Minn,,
has been success. So far the greater portion
of that body of the posts has been destroyed.
Two hundred and twenty-seyen bushels
wero captured in two towns in Le Sucur
county.
A disease known as the "Black Death, is
making great havoc amcng the swine on the
Upper Ottawa river, Canada.
The National Sportsmen's Association held
their second annual convention at Cleveland,
Ohio, last week, with large attendance OF
delegates. Hon. J. V. Lie Moyne, of Chicago,
was elected President of the association for the
ensuing year.
Gen. Sheridan has forbidden lot of gold
hunters from entering the Big Horn country.
He says that territory is included in the Sioux
reservation under the treaty of 1869, and white
men will be prevented by the military from en-
tering it for any purpose whatever until the
treaty is abrogated.
Rev. DR.. Jacob s. Shipman, of Lexington,
KY, has been elected Episcopal Bishop of the
diocese of Fond du Lac, Wis.
Prof Janney, of the government exploring
expedition in the Black Hills region, officially
reports that there is no gold there.
Tho South.
An aged spinster of Savannah, Ga, Miss
Mary Telfair, daughter of ex-Gov. Telfair,
and who died last week, in her will devised tc
various religious, educational and charitable in.
stitutions in Georgia, legacies amounting to 8
total of over s1,OOOOO
Crosby, the Vicksburg (liss.) negro Sheriff,
who created SO much trouble last winter, wal
last week shot and dangerously wounded in
saloon in that city, by a white man named
Gilmer, with whom he was drinking.
In the case of the editor of the Galveston
Ne,cS, arraigned for contempt of court il
charging the Judge with partiality in pending
case, Judge Morrell decided that it was within
the province of the press to criticise freely tht
acts of the judiciary, and concluded with the
declaration that ''the publishers have unrestrict
cd liberty to apply an epithet to the Judge O
the court without being in contempt for SO do
ing. ..
The Maryland Democratic State Convention
to nominate candidates for Governor Comptrol
Ter and Treasurer, is called to meet in Balti
more, on Wednesday, July II.
Washington.
The negotiations of the Interior Department
with the Sioux Chiefs, for the cession of th
Black Hills territory have come to naught
Spotted Tail said to the Indian Commissioner
that the Indians own the country the Grea
Spirit gave them, and they never steal til
country of any one else, while the whites, VIII
have big country, still want to steal what littl
the Indians have.
DR.. Linderman, Director of the Mint is o
the opinion that the substitution of silver TO
fractional currency can probably begin earl
next fall. He bases his opinion upon the con
current operation of two favorable conditions
First, the decline in the value of silver, an
second, the appreciation in values of the legs
tender notes.
Mr.. Jewell finds good deal of difficulty i
preventing straw bidders from obtaining cor
tracts for carrying the mails. He has jus
awarded large number of contracts, but is sal
isficd that some of the successful bidders al
not responsible. He will take active measure
to put stop to their operations as soon as Ii
finds them out.
A few days since, clerk in the Sixth Al
ditors office was removed, for the reason thi
he had made use of an official circular Of th
Postoffice Department, in an endeavor to secm
pass from the Cunard Steamship Company.
General.
Carl vogt the Belgian valet who murdere
his master, the Chevalier de Bianco, in Bru
sells two years ago, has been delivered upto Il
Belgian authorities, and sailed for Europe
custody few days since.
Postmaster General Jewell Is about 10 unde