The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-03
OF THE WEEK,
The East.

A bright little girl, Mabel Young, years Of
age was murdered in church, and bruised
and mutilated. The body was carried up in the
tower and thrown upon the floor of the loft
The sexton of the church, Thomas Piper, has
been arrested on suspicion of being the author
of this foul murder.
Further investigation into the defalcations Of
Jackson, the missing Boston lawyer, swells the
amount to over 100000.
B. terrific explosion occurred in the drug
store of ]. L. Low, in Boston, last week, demol-
ishing the four-story building in which the
store was situated, aud burying large number
of people in the ruins. Six dead bodies have
been taken from the ruins and it is believed
that others will be found. A large number Of
people were also injured. Various theories are
advanced as to the nature and cause of the ex-
plosion, the chief one being that a gas gen.
orator in the cellar exploded. 1t is also stated
that nitro-glycerine was stored in the building,
as no other substance could have caused such
instantaneous destruction.
A party of five persons, while yachting on
| Spy pond near South Holyoke, Mass, the
scene of the dreadful holocaust by the burning
of the French Catholic Church, were capsized,
and two of them, little girls of twelve and thir-
teen years of age, were drowned.
The West.
After protracted trial, the st. Louis Repub-
Licdn has been assessed one cent damages for
calling a / ~yer 'shyster."
The issue of the Chicago InteT- Ocean for
May q was probably the largest daily paper
ever issued in this or any other country. 1t
contained the delinquent tax-list of Cook coun-
ty, and the whole paper embraced Is full sheets
of pages each, IA pages, and 864 columns.
Thirty compositors were employed Sc days in
putting it in type, working 1913 hours per day.
The manuscript copy of this enormous tax-list
weighed 275 pounds, and occupied 13, $40 pages
The grasshoppers arrived in Kansas City last
week on their Eastern journey. They marched
into town and covered the sidewalks, fences,
to church, devoted the day to destroying the
pests.
Daniel O'Leary, the pedestrian, has just ac-
complished at Chicago, the marvellous feat of
walking 500 miles in 1853 hours.
AS might have been anticipated, the at
tempts of parties of miners to reach the Black
Hills and their arrest by the military are caus-
ing trouble. The Gordon party was
stopped by company of soldiers while
they were in the State of Nebraska. They
refused to be arrested, preferring to
fight. The officer in command of the detach-
ment was sent to Fort Laramie and to Camp
Sheridan, and a company of men with Gatling
gun started fer his assistance. The miners
also sent out couriers, and intelligence was
conveyed to about 500 other prospectors, who
were on their way to the hills, to hurry OH and
Join in resistance to he soldiers. Meanwhile
dispatch was sent to Gen. Sheridan, asking
that the Gordon party be set at liberty and
the General ordered their unconditional re-
lease, provided they were in the State of Ne
braska when halted. He further states that
prospectors will not be allowed to enter the Big
Horn country.
Kansas epicures have tested the grasshoppers
as food, and find them very palatable.
The grasshoppers appear to be making but
slow progress in the West. They are being de-
stroyed in great numbers by every means at the
command of the farmers and it is now hoped
that their devastations will not be as great as
was at first apprehended.
The officers of the secret service, in search
of evidence to be used against the Chicago
distillers, conceived the idea that the freight
bills of the several railroads would show how
much spirits had been shipped within a given
time, and by comparing these bills with the
books of the distillers and gaugers, an approx
imation of the amount out of which the gov
ernment had been defrauded might be OBJ
tanned. The officers had some trouble with the
Pittsburg and Fort Wayne company, but finally
received abstracts of bills of lading, which
furnish presumptive evidence of gigantic
| frauds.
| McWaters, the notorious Western desperate,
who was under sentence of twenty years i'm
prisonment in the Nebraska State Prison al
Lincoln, has finally ended his career, being
shot dead by the guard in attempting to lead q
revolt of the prisoners.
Kansas City dispatches state that the grass
hopper scare is rapidly abating, and that, as 8
feeling of rejoicing has generally taken the
place of dread and gloom among the people
the Chief Executive will soon be called upon tc
issue proclamation for day of thanksgiving
instead of fasting and prayer.
The South.
Gray Beard, one of the most troublesome Of
the Indian prisoners recently taken from For
Sill to Florida, met his death in a rather un
heroic manner the other day. The noble brave
jumped from the train near Lake City, Florida
and attempted to escape by running but well
directed shot from one of the guards brough
him to the dust. He died cursing the soldier
and the white tribe generally, two hours afte
being shot.
Indians in Texas are both numerous ant
troublesome. A white woman was recent,
killed by them, and by way of retaliation
party of rangers killed five Of the savages ant
one renegade white man, and carried thei
heads to Jacksboro.
Baltimore stands a chance Of securing tn
Inman line of twelve or fourteen steamships
to ply between her harbor and Liverpool.
Ferdinand Dudenhofer, Receiving Teller o
the Germania National Bank, New Orleans, ha
been arrested charged with embezzling $500
Washington.
Postmaster General Jewell has ordered til
reletting of the mail-contracts in which til
frauds we're discovered.
Tire Sioux chiefs at Washington were dissai
isfied because they were quarted at a temper
ance hotel, and wanted to so where fre-wate
was more plenty but their wishes were nc
complied with.
Spotted Tail, one of the big injuns at wasl
ington, "did" that city last Sunday in blu
blanket blue flannel pants, and adome-crowne
; felt hat of the latest fashion.
Acknowledgement Pierrepont is stated to /
putting sharp edge OIL his official ak.
The Commissioner of the General Land Ofic
decides that the benefits extended by law
pre-emptors who, by reason of the ravages
: grasshoppers, are compelled to leave and |
J absent from their lands, may also be extende
to pre-emptors whose crops have in like mannt