The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-07-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East,

The East.
Albert Brown was hung at Towanda, Pa, on
Thursday, July /, for the brutul murder, in
August last, Of Cora Greenleaf, little girl of
five years.
A fire in New York, Friday night, destroyed
the Ice Box and Lumber Company's premises,
together with stables containing six horses.
Loss, $780, 600 insurance, 5000.
The Governor and Council have decided not
to commute the sentence of Pomeroy, the Bos-
ton boy-murderer, and he will be hanged.
Alex. Hamilton, the defaulting Treasurer of
Jersey City, has been sentenced to three years
imprisonment, and to pay fine Of $1,000.
On Monday afternoon, the 5th inst, a ter
rible collision occurred between two excursion
trains ON the South Side railroad, near Far
Rockaway, Long Island, in which seven per-
sons were killed and twenty-seven injured,
some fatally. Great Indignation existed at the
time of tho accident, and people were disposed
to blame the railroad attaches. The killed
were horribly mutilated.
Operations have been resumed at the Grant
Locomotive Works of Paterson, N. j., which
had been suspended for some time past. Three
hundred men are employed on locomotives for
the Russian government.
dreadful storm of rain, hail and wind pre-
vailed at New York on Tuesday last, unroofng
houses, tearing up trees, etc., doing an i'm
mense amount of damage, and killing two men
who were at work on house.
party of seven lads, bathing in Wautuppe
lake, near Fall river, Mass, few day ago,
joined hands and walked off the sand-bar into
deep water, where six of the number, John W.
Fielding, James and William Jacques, William
Dyer, Francis Kane and George McManus were
drowned.
The Plymouth Church congregation, at a
meeting the 9th er day, voted unanimously to
raise the salary of Henry Ward Beecher to
800, 600 a year. He has heretofore been re-
ceiving $4,000.
Two heavy failures are announced from New
Haven, Ct. Tyler, Frost & Co., wholesale
grocers and dealers in liquors liabilities be-
tween $50, 900 and 5000, 900; and W. H. Brad
ley & Co., carriage manufacturers liabilities
about s225, 200.
Frank D. Moulton has addressed letter to
District Attorney Britton, of Brooklyn, de-
manding a trial on the indictment found
against him at the instance of Mr.. Beecher last
summer.
The West.
The Sioux City papers give the particulars of
bloody triple tragedy at the Winnebago Agen-
cy. An Indian of that tribe in fit of jealousy,
killed the seducer of his wife, then stabbed her
to the heart, after which he committed sui
| eide.
dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says: Re
ports from the buffalo lands, in the western
| part of this State, report numerous wolves suf-
fering from hydrophobia, making it dangerous
for hunters. A young man named Ackerly,
while sleeping on the prairie recently was Bit
ten on the nose by skunk, and died in the
most horrible agony with hydrophobia symp-
toms, the same as from the bite of a rabid
dog"
Col. Z. B. Carlin, the Quartz master at Fort
Sanders, Wy. T., committed suicide recently by
cutting his throat from ear to ear. Financial
| embarrassment and tho complication of his
official affairs arc assigned as the cause of his
act.
The entire village of Meridian, Neb., was
destroyed by tornado recently, and Alex
andria, in the same State was also badly dam
aged.
Another dispatch has been received at the
War Department in Washington from Prof
Jenney, in which he reiterates his former state
ment that, SO. far, he has not found gold
enough in the Black Hills to warrant any ex-
tended mining operations.
The Governor of Kansas has sent to Presi-
dent Grant strong remonstrance against the
proposed settlement of the Sioux and other
wild Indians IN the Indian Territory.
Gen. Francis P. Blair, Jr., died at his resi-
dence in st. Louis on the Sth inst, in the 55th
year of his age. He was stricken with paralysis
in 1872, and has been in failing health ever
since Two months ago TRANSMISSION of blood
was tried, with, it was thought, favorable re-
suits, but relapse took place, resulting in his
death in a few hours.
A real estate lawsuit, which promises to rival
in magnitude and duration the celebrated suit
of Mrs. Gaines in New Orleans, is one of the
probabilities in Chicago. A strip of land worth
several millions of dollars, on which stand the
Illinois Central depot and a portion of the
tracks, is in dispute, having just been origin
ally entered at the Land Office at Springfield,
although it has been occupied and presumably
owned by the railroad company for the last
thirty years.
The latest news from the Black Hills is not
encouraging to gold-seekers.
Washington.
Gen. Spinner epped down and out, and Mr..
New took charge of the Treasury Department
on the LIST inst. There was good deal of ex-
citement by the changes incident to the reor-
ganization of the Department and the assump-
ton Of Office by Mr.. New. About $50 employ CT
were discharged. fifty of whom were women.
The decrease in the public debt during the
month of June was 81, 431, ,249, and for the
fiscal year ending June 80, $14, ,399,514. The
following is the official statement for June 80
Six per cent. bonds ......S, 100, ,865, $50
Five per cent. bonds...... 6O7.132,75O
Total coin bonds. $, ,7O7, ,99s, 30
Lawful money debt......S 14,67S,OO0
Legal tenders. .::........ s75's4I,SsG
Certificates of deposit.... 58,4l5000
Fractional currency.... 42,129,4A
Coin certificates .......- 1,796, 800
Total without interest. 49S, 182, Al