The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

white men. One negro was killed and one
mortaly wounded. Seven of those engagedin
the assault were arrested.
Several commercial suspensions have oc-
CURED in New York during the past week.
Another horrible murder is reported from
New England. An old man of 70, named Ru-
fus Streeter, was found dead in ditch near
Barre, Vt, his head beaten to jelly, his alb
domen ripped open. and the body otherwise
mutlated. The crime was evidently commit
ted fer the purpose of robbery.
A shocking domestic tragedy was enacted last
week at Hackettstown, N. ]. Jas. Kicker shot
and killed his two sons, aged and 10, and shot
at his wife, but missed her. He then shot him.
self in the head. The wound is not serious.
Domestic trouble led to the crime.
Thomas NJ. judd member Of the Massachu-
sets Legislature from Berkshire county, has
been arrested for forging note for 81, 900, on
which he secured the money.
There was large reunion of Union and
Confederate soldiers at Elizabeth, N. j., last
week. Speeches were made by Gems. Kill
patrick, Pemberton and Pryor.
The first building in the country erected ex-
clusively for the order of the Sovereigns of
Industry, was dedicated last week Mt SPRING
! field, Mass.
! national convention of Universalists was
in session at Lynn. Mass, last week. The
statistics of the Church show steady increase
throughout the country.
Butterick & Co., the well-knoNn dealers in
fashion-plates, dress patterns, etc., of New
York. have failed.
On the 10th of December last Jacob SANDER
man killed Louisa siedenwald, in New York
city, because she refused to marry him. Jacob
has Just been tried for the crime and sentenced
to death.
Frederick Hudson, for many years managing
editor of the New York Herald was killed by a
railroad accident at Concord, Mass, last week.
Hudson was the author of work called "The
History of Journalism, and was one of the
| ablsst journalists in the country.
The West.
The grand jury OF Winnebago county, Ill,
has indicted the two st. Louis editors, Foster
/ and Edwards, who some time ago fought duel
! near Rockford. The seconds and surgeons,
and Postgate, the Inter- Ocean reporter, were
| also indicted. The same grand jury also
found indictments against Patrick Flynn, ex-
! Sheriff of the county, and Franc D. Willie one
/ of the editors of the Chicago Times, for con-
spiracy and subornation of perjury in obtain
! ing affidavits to damage tie character of Miss
Early, the young lady who some time ago
recovered verdict for S25,0OO damages for
/ libel against Storey, of the Times.
| John T. Huss, Cashier of the First National
! Bank of Tifin, Ohio, having involved the in
/ stiturion by embezzlement ended his life the
other day by shooting himself through the
/ heart with pistol.
! The village of Park Ridge, suburb of Chi
cago, has narrowly escaped having a second
! Charley Ross affair. Willie Broughton, aged
! 10, son of prominent citizen, was enticed into
a secluded spot by couple of strangers, bound
and gagged, and thrown into a carriage in
waiting. The men then drove rapidly away.
At the neighboring town of Jefferson they
stopped to get drink, leaving the boy under
/ the seat out of sight. While they we're drink
ing he emanaged to slip the cords from his wrists
and make his escape, and reached home safely.
The affair created the widest excitement in the
village.
Prof. Walter P. Jenney, chief geologist of
the Black Hills exploring expedition, returned
to Cheyenne last week, having spent five
months in the Hills. The Professor reports
gold fields extending forty miles north from
Harney's Peak, and twenty miles wide that
contain gold in quantities that will pay from
S3 to S5 per day to the man. There are bars
on numbers of streams, that will pay much
more than that Prof. Jenney corroborates
Gen. Clusters report of the Hills, and says that
they will support thousands of miners, when
the government opens them to settlement.
The valleys are all adapted to agriculture, and
the hills and canons to stock-raising. The
rainfall is plentiful, and timber abundant.
Judge Boreman, of Salt Lake, has decided
that Brigham Young must Immediately pay
over to Ann Eliza, his divorced wife, the
alimony due her, now amounting to some
$4,000.
The boiler attached to steam threshing-
machine exploded upon the farm of Mr.. Her
rington, near Niles, Mich, one day last week,
instantly killing Mr.. Hathaway, the owner, and
a man named Linden. Two other persons
were dangerously wounded. Two horses were
blown to atoms, and barn completely riddled.
Two brothers named Courtwright who were
implicated in the murder of the Sheriff OF
Portage county, Wis.,, we're taken from the jail
at Stevens Point by party Of about forty
masked men and hanged a few nights ago.
Both of the victims were old men, aged re-
spectively so and 60 years.
Mrs. Rapp, of st. Paul, Mimi, for the muir
der of Ulrica Lick, has been sentenced to
the Penitentiary for life, twelve days of each
year to be passed in solitary confinement
Her husband had already received a similal
sentence, and her brother will be hung fol
participation in the same crime.
!. 1t is reported that Gen. Crook, the grea
Indian fighter, is preparing for an active win
ter campaign against the fractions savages o.
the Upper Missouri.
Chicago elevators contain 822, 935 bushels Of
wheat 1,022, 524 bushels of corn SAG, 81;
bushels of oats; (; 99, ,361 bushels of rye, ant
$50, 141 bushels of barley, making grand tota
of 2, 541, 936 bushels, against 90s, ,997 bushels
at this period last year.
Gen. Sol. Meredith, one of Indiana's mos
I prominent Generals during the late war, die
last week, at Richmond, Ind, from cancer o
the stomach, caused from injuries received il
1862, at the battle of Gainesville, Va, wher
he was crushed beneath horse.
n Denver, Col, is reveling in first-clas
sensation. The people of that city we're horri
fed, few days ago, at the discovery of tn
mangled bodies of four persons in the celia
4. of building, their throats cut from ear
ear. The bodies were those of an old Italian