The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East,

Ingleside, a well-known summer resort near
Holyoke, Mass, has been totally swept out of
existence by fire.
At Philadelphia, on Monday, fool named
Conor playfully pointed a gun at his young
wife and pulled the trigger. He thought it
was empty, but it wasn't, and Conor is now a
Widower.
locomotive boiler exploded the other day
at Port Jervis, N. Y, with frightful effect.
Three mon were killed outright-the body of
ono of them, the engineer, being blown dis
tance of over thousand feet, where it lodged
a tree.
A large amount of spurious fye-cent nickel
coin has been placed in circulation by a Brook
lyn gang OF counterfoiters.
Syracuse, IN. W dispatch announces the
death of Celia Burleigh, the woman's rights ad-
vocate.
A New York telegram announces the suspen-
sion of the old and prominent banking and
brokerage firm of Duncan Sherman & Co. The
failure was caused by heavy advances made on
stocks and cotton account The liabilities of
the firm are between So, 900, 900 and &c, 100000
The news of the failure produced the widest
III w dl sIIcCL
of London, are heavy losers. Americans travel
ing in Europe will also sufferlargely by the fail
ure. For time it was feared that the collapse
of this great house was but the beginning of a
great financial crash, but an exposition of the
causes that led to the suspension showed that
these fears were unfounded.
The Commercial Warehouse Company, of
New York, has suspended. Liabilities esti-
mated at S1,59OOOO. The stock of the COM
pany is owned principally in Cuba.
J. 3 Ford & Co., publishers (not proprietors)
of the Christian Union and ''The Life of
Christ" are greatly embarrassed, and their
suspension is looked for.
The Trenton Banking Company, of Trenton,
N. J., which lost S16O,OOO by the Jay Cooke
failure, loses 100000 by the suspension of
Duncan, Sherman & Co.
The West.
News has been received at Gen. Sheridan's
headquarters in Chicago that 500 Ponca In
dians have abandoned their reservation. 1t is
also reported that Spotted Tail, with 260 Sioux
warriors, had left his reservation with the in
tention of visiting the Ponca Agency and mas
sacring first the whites on the reservation and
then the Poncas.
Kansas will have no State fair this year, be-
cause no city can afford sufficient subsidy.
John Garretty, Peoria pedestrian, succeed
cd the other day in walking seven miles in 5711S
minutes.
How's circus was sadly demoralized by tor
! nado at La Crosse, Wis. few nights ago.
A prisoner at Fort Leayenworth while work.
ing in quarry, was sunstruck, and it is said
that while in that condition, Sergeant Hogan,
in command of the gang, commenced to beat
him, and inflicted injuries from the effects Of
which he died soon after.
A report comes from the Black Hills, by way
of Fort Laramie, that new and richer gold
| fields have been discovered about thirty-five
miles northeast of Harney's Peak, and that all
the miners in the Hills, about eight hundred,
we're rushing pell-men for the new diggings.
1t is reported that nuggets have been found
worth 81 and upward.
| Judge Booth, of the Circuit Court of Cook
| County, H., has rendered decision to the eff
| feet that the bondsmen of David A. Gage late
| City Treasurer of Chicago, are liable for the
! full amount of the claim Of the city against
Gage-a little lees than millien dollars.
A mixed train on the Northern Pacific rail-
road, consisting OF twenty-five cars, recently
went through bridge across the Mississippi
river at Brainerd, Mimi, killing five persons.
| The bridge is about eighty feet high.
| A freight train ON the Louisville, New Albany
and Chicago railroad went through trestle
orty feet high, near Cloverdale, Ind, on
Thursday, killing the engineer, conductor, and
| head brakeman. The fireman had one leg and
one arm broken.
A dispatch from Springfield, No., states that
report has reached there that Col. VIM. P
Ross, principal chief of the Cherokee Indians,
and candidate for re- election to that position,
had been assassinated near Fort Gibson, by a
party of Downing men, his political opponents.
Col Boudinot who was in the Territory, is said
to have fled north.
The report that Chief Ross, of the Cherokee
Nation, had been assassinated, is denied.
The South.
Legal proceedings have been commenced in
New Orleans against State Auditor Clinton
Treasurer Dubuclet, Secretary of State Des,
londe, and Speaker Lowell. The charge is
misdemeanor in office, for funding warrants to
large amount representing an illegal claim
against the State of Louisiana.
man named johnson, with his wife ant
, five children, attempted to ford the Coosawat
, tee river, near Atlanta, Ga, few days since
hut their wagon got into deep water, and al
the children we're drowned.
war of races has broken out in East Fell
ciana parish, La. A bad feeling has existet
between the whites and blacks in that parisl
S for some months, which threatens to break ou
| into open hostilities.
The st. Louis delegates to the Missouri Con
stitutional Convention, now in session at Jet
!, ferson City, have finally decided to recommen
a plan for the complete division and separation
of the city and county of st. Louis. The cit
is to sustain the same relation toward the Stat
: as a county, and to become the owner of a
: penal and charitable institutions and publ
! buildings within the extended limits, and t
assume the entire Indebtedness of the county
the county is to organize as new county, an
Z the county seat is to be selected by majorit
:. vote of the people of the county.
y Washington.
}. Secretary Fish has received information til.
:: an association of counterfeiters, with the
!. headquarters at Barcelona, Spain, are prepa
, ing to issue in this city 12OOO, 900 in counte
felt notes of the Bank of England and Bank
- France.
The President has appointed ex-Gov Well
1t of Virginia, to succeed Fisher as Attorney f
h the District Of Columbia.
20 Commissioner Watts, of the Agricultur
/, Department, in an interview with correspo
dent the other day, stated that the late repoI
> concerning the harvest Of fall wheat justif
N him in saying that doubtless rs FER cent. of
IN full crop would be realized, when 65 per Gel
of has really been anticipated. He thinks t
N spring crop will prove full one. He is L
confident about flush market making Ii
~ prices. He says that he has often seen t
I'll contrary where wheat would advance We