The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-07-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

AT Lowell, Mass, the other day, John T.
Daniels, who had lived unhappily with his wife
since their marriage, put an end to their earthly
wrangles by first shooting her through the
head and producing a mortal wound and then
blowing out his own brains. AS usual, rum was
the demon that led to the perpetration of the
horrible tragedy.
The city of Pittsburgh was visited the other day
by most disastrous fire. About amillion dollars
worth of property in the best business portion
of the city was swept away.
The members of the Board of Public Works,
the Mayor, and Chief Engineer of jersey City,
have all been indicted for being concerned in
the illegal payment of 800, 900 for work in 1873.
The Beecher-Iflton trial was productive of
genuine sensation, ON Tuesday, June %. Mr..
Beach, during the course of his argument for
Tilton, intimated that some of the jurynen had
been bribed or attempted to be infienced by
parties in the interest of the defendant. There
upon one of the jurors, Mr.. Hull, arose and de-
MED tho imputation, saying that the only at
tempt to unlawfully bias them had come from
Tiltons side in sending them envelopes contain
ing the stories published in the New York Sun
about Beecher having seduced the affianced
bride of Henry c. Bowen. Messrs. Shearman
and Abbott, the only members of Beecher's
counsel who were present. dared Mr.. Beach to
the proof of his assertions, and he said he was
ready and willing to produce the evidence
whenever the court would set time. Judge
Nelson said the proper time to consider the
charges would be after the rendition of the
verdict, when, if it could be made to appear
that the jury had accepted bribes, or that an
attempt had been made to bribe them, the
guilty parties would be punished.
Boss Tweed was released from Blackwelrs
Island Prison few nights ago. His liberty,
however, was of short duration, as he was re-
arrested on the following morning and lodged
in Ludlow Street Jail in default of S3,0O0,0OO
bail
Chief WasLburn and his secret-service de-
tectives made large haul of counterfeiters
at Pittsburgh, the other day. new style of
counterfeiting was developed in the course of
the search among the effects of the criminals.
1t appeared that they had turned their attention
to railroad passes, and had on hand beautiful
collection, embracing the counterfeited sigma
lures of officers of all the leading roads in tho
country.
Tho complaint in the suit brought in the
name of the people against Peter B. Sweeney,
to recover over S70OO,OOO, which it is alleged
was fraudulently distracted from the treasury
of the county of New York, has been filed in
the County Clerks Office.
The double-scull race for the amateur cham
pionship of the United States, between Frank
E. Yates, of Grand Haven, Mich, and W. B.
Curtis, of Chicago, against R. B. Bainbridge
and Ed. Smith, of New York, was rowed on the
Harlem river last week, and resulted in VIC
tory for the Westerners. The distance IVES
three miles, and the time of the winners YVES
10 minutes 5a9l seconds.
The West
Portions of the States of Ohio and Indiana
were visited by an earthquake on the 18th of
June. The shock was severe at many points,
although no casualties are reported other than
the cracking of the walls of few buildings
A violent rain storm deluged the city of st.
Louis on the morning of the 18th of June,
causing great destruction of property. 1t also
extended throughout portions of Missouri, Hi
nois, Iowa and Nebraska, doing considerable
damage.
A passenger train on the Rock Island rail-
road was thrown from the track and down
thirty-foot embankment near Plattsburg, No.,
few nights since. Two passengers were
killed outright, and the express messenger, en-
gineer, and baggageman seriously injured.
The new dome for the Dearborn Observatory
at Chicago has been completed, and the splen-
did powers of the great telescope now for the
first time in eleven years can be utilized to their
full extent.
Kansas City telegram thus briefly chroni-
cles the manner in which half-a-dozen Western
gentlemen who had been illicitly dealing in
horse-fesh were disposed of: Cooke, the
leader of desperate band of horse thieves,
and five of his followers, were lynched at Will
mington, Kansas, on Wednesday night. This
band has been for some time committing depre-
dations in Sedgwick and Galloway countless"
A fire at Grand Rapids, Mich, last week, de-
stroyed sixty buildings, embracing the entire
mercantile business of West Bridge street.
Loss, 5000, 900 insurance. about 100000.
The most remarkable as well as the best
played game of base ball on record was con-
tested at Chicago last week between the local
club and the professional nine from Hartford
Conn. Eleven innings were played before tie
stubborn contest was decided, at the end of
which the game stood at the unprecedented low
figure of one to nothing in favor of Chicago.
A recent Kansas City telegram gives this
encouraging picture of the prospect in Kansas:
From parties just returned, as well as through
letters and kilograms as to the crop prospects
in Kansas, all seem to agree that the like was
never before known in the State. Heavy farm
ers in the western part of the State are tele-
graphing here for harvest hands, and complain
that they can't get men enough to harvest.
Harvesting in Southern Kansas has commenced
and the average is immense.
A Nebraska correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune tells of swarm of locusts from 80
to IS miles wide, half mile deep, passing
through the air at a speed of Is miles an
hour for sixty hours continuously, and driv-
ing people indoors for fear of being smothered
to death.
Advices from the Black Hills expedition un-
der the lead of Prof. Jenney are of an exciting
nature. Col. Dodge, the officer in command OF
the escort, writes that gold in paying quantities
has been found, and that Clusters report is
fully confirmed. One hundred men were found
in the hills, busily at work, and taking out gold
at the rate of from SIS to S25 per pan. They
report quartz mines as abundant and Indians
scarce.
A new and dangerous counterfeit of S.
notes of the First National Bank of Canton
H.. is in circulation.
An Omaha dispatch says: "Prominen
frontiersmen and army officers express the
opinion that there will be great trouble witt
the Sioux, Cheyennes and Arrapahoes this
summer and fall. At least five large war par
ties have left the reservations in the last two
weeks. The cavalry in this department art
unable to keep them on the reservation through
limited numbers. 1t will be impossible fol
the soldiers to guard the Black Hills and attend
to the Indians"