The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-11-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


| interest In Moody and sankey's meetings. In
| Brooklyn is on the decline, and the attendance
is growing smaller each day..
Lewis g. Phillips & Co., cap manufacturers
of New York, have failed for heavy amount
At a business meeting Of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, last week, the names Of Deacon
West and Mrs. Francis D. Moulton were dropped
from the roll of membership on the ground Of
continued absence. Mrs. Moulton protested
through her counsel Roger A. Pryor, stating
that her absence was an enforced one, caused
| by the crime Of adultery committed by Henry
| Ward Beecher, which she knew to be true
through confessions and other evidence. She
declared her disposition to discharge all the du-
1 ties deYolving on her as q member, that are
consistent with her knowledge of the adultery
Of the pastor, and his false swearing with re-
gard to it.
The committee of reverends charged with
investigating Beecher promise to do their work
thoroughly. They propose first to scrutinize
closely the evidence brought out in the scan
dal trial, and then to search for new evidence.
| The following are named as the committee:
Rev. William NJ. Taylor, Of the Broadway Tab
ernacle, New York Rev. DR.. VIM. Ives Bud
! dington, of the Clinton Avenue Church, Brook
lyn; Rev. Profs. Parsons and Martin, of the
New York Theological Seminary, and Rev.
Charles H. Everest, of the Church of the Pu-
ritans, Brooklyn. d.. ..-.-s-
The people of Saratoga county, NY, are
/ excited over the discovery Of the defalcation
of Henry R. Mann, who has been the Treasurer
of the county for the last fifteen years. 1t
| is known that the sum of his stealings will
reach $4,000, and may largely exceed that
amount
The New York Order of United Irishmen
| Rediviyi has tried another one of its members
for treason and condemned him to death. Pat
rick J. Walsh is the alleged traitor, and makes
the third person condemned.
Haight, Ralsey & Co., of New York. heavy
/ importers of matters goods have suspended.
Their liabilities are $750,0O0.
The experiment of running fast mail train
from New York to Pittsburgh was inaugurated
| on the 9th inst, and would have been success
full but for an accident that happened near
.Philadelphia. Mr.. Douglas, Chief Engineer
/ of the Pennsylvania railroad who was superin-
tending the trip, leaned out of a window 80 far
that his head struck post standing beside the
track. He was instantly killed. A stop was
made, when the train proceeded on its way,
making the run through to Pittsburgh h in eleven
hours and thirty minutes. The locomotive
showed no signs Of giving out, and the officials
are confident that regular trips can be made as
proposed.
The west.
| The United States Grand Jury at Chicago has
found about sixty indictments against parties
| charged with criminal violations of the inter-
nal revenue laws relating to whisky. Most of
those implicated reside in Chicsgo, and many
of them are prominent citizens. . :.
Mrs. Smith, of Brookfeld, No., was handling
loaded gun the other day, when the weapon
was discharged the load passing through the
body Of her little daughter and producing al
most instant death.
I The Northwestern Railroad Company has
purchased and will hereafter. operate the Rock
| ford. Rock Island and st. Louis road.
The National Gold Bank of San Francisco
has gone into voluntary liquidation. Creditors
will be paid in full.
! A horrible murder occurred at Springfield,
went into the room where her husband, James
Collins, was sleeping, and seizing an ak split
his skull in two, killing him instantly. She
thex attempted to murder her little daughter,
but the child made her escape to neighbor's.
| Elder Morgan, an apostle of the Mormon re-
ligion, appointed by Brigham Young to evan
gelIze Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee, began
his "work of grace at Bloomington, H., last
Sunday, by addressing large meeting upon
| the "Tenets of the Mormon Faith" 1t is his
intention to thoroughly canvass the three States
named in the interest Of Mormonism.
| Distinct shocks of earthquake were felt in
different sections of Kansas early on the morn
ing of the 9Th inst. The vibrations were from
east to west, and we're accompanied by heavy,
dull, rumbling sound. Buildings were consid-
erably shaken, and the inmates, in some cases,
much alarmed but no damage was done.
The whisky ring throughout the West is thor
oughly demoralized. In Chicago nearly all the
distillers have been indicted and will soon be
brought to trial. The evidence against them is
said to be of very positive character, and can
not fail to convict. The st. Louis ring is COM
pletely bursted. Some OF the most prominent
citizens have been indicted, including William
Mckee, of the Globe Democrat, Constantine
Mcguire, late Revenue Assessor, and others.
They have retained Dan Voorhees, and Ben
Butler for the defense. A review of the opera
tions of the st. Louis ring shows that during
the last few years they have defrauded the gov
ernment out of at least a million dollars an
nually. At Milwaukee large number of dis
tillers are under Indictment, and the prosecu-
tionswill be pushed vigorously.
All the Italians, five in number, engaged in
the horrid butchery at Denver, COL, have been
arrested. 1t is hoped they will be speedily
brought to justice. Hanging is too mild al pun
ishment for such inhuman monsters.
Smallpox prevails. to an alarming extent in
Cincinnati.
The Minneapolis (A1inn.) Tribune has no less
than seven libel suits on its hands, the damages
claimed aggregating 100000.
| The South.
The steamship City of Waco was burned in
the gulf, near Galveston, Tex, on the morn
ing Of the 9th inst. She had just arrived from
New York, and was anchored outside the har-
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oil which composed part of the cargo, and
spread rapidly. The passengers and crew,
consisting of fifty persons, put off in the
steamers boats. The wind at the time was
blowing gale, and as at last accounts nothing
had been heard of them, it is thought every
soul persisted. The City of Waco was built at
Chester, Pa, was almost new, and was valued
at S25O0O0. The cargo was worth 100000.
The Treasury Department has received in
formation of the conviction of eighteen per-
sons at Abingdon, Va, accused Of illicit dis
tilling in that neighborhood. Over fifty addi-
tional arrests have also been made for illicit
dlstilling in the Virginia mountain region, and
frauds against the government there are
in fair way to be completely checked, as they
have already been in the West.
The wife, daughter and son of Charles
Massey, living near Fordsville KY, recently
died from the effects of arsenic poison, which
| some fieDd threw into the family we'll