The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-18

and Philadelphia. The May party went to
Slaughter's Station, thence to Dover, and
from there to Philadelphia. Another &C.
count says that May was wounded in the
right breast.
The mail train from Boston, on the Rut-
land Road, in Vermont, was thrown from
the track by a broken rail, on January 9.
The passenger cars went down an embank-
ment, turning bottom upward. Passengers
were severely, but hone fatally, injured.
Charles ]. Brent, the forger, who lately
arrived from England by ~extradition, ar.
rived in Louisville on the 9th of January.
His penitence and the restoration of all the
money procured by his forgery, cause a
feeling in his favor in the community.
The contest between the trustees of the
late james Lick has been amicably ar
ranged. John 81. Lick, natural son of
James Lick, receives $533, 600, from which
he pays $4,000 to other heirs, in various
amounts. This leaves the trustees in a
position to carry out the conditions
of the trust deed, and give clear titles to all
real estate included in the trust. which, on
testimony of experts, has increased in
market value fifty per cent. by clearing
away the cloud on the title caused by the
recent contest. The value of the property
involved is estimated at So, 100000.
Isham G. Harris has been elected Unite
States Senator for six years, by the Ten
nessee Legislature.
A passenger car on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, on the morning of the 18th
January, jumped the track near the Green
brier River, West Virginia, aud plunged
down an embankment of forty feet to the
frozen surface of the river. The ice was
firm, and the car did not go through. Seven
persons were hurt, none fatally. Mrs. Hall,
of White Sulphur Springs, had her leg
broken.
A passenger train on the Virginia Mid
land Railroad ran over a broken rail between
Manassas and Bristoe. Two sleeping cars
left the track and ran down the embank-
ment. Three passengers were seriously,
and twelve slightly injured. The first sleep
ing car was completely demolished.
The Russian Squadron, bearing the Grand
Duke Alexis, and Admiral Boutajof, ar.
rived in Hampton Roads on the 18th OF
January. The Grand Duke was escorted to
Norfolk, Va, by the Russian Minister and
Admiral Crown.
The man who designed the Ashtabula
bridge testifes hat it was a weak affair;
From the first he considered it unsafe. He
claims that the bridge was made light by
order of the Company's officers. Mr.. Tomlin
son, the bridge. builder referred to, ~testiiel
that he was discharged from the employ o.
the Company because he insisted on having
the bridge strengthened according to origina
plans.
A movement of ice took place at Cincin
natl on the 18th of January, doing con
siderable damage. The steamers Calume
and Andes were sunk, and other steamer
were injured. 1t was reported that q maj
was working in the hold Of the Calume
when she sunk, and issupposed to have beer
drowned.
Fifteen schooners were sunk by being Gu
through tie ice in the harbor at Annapolis
Nd, on the 18th inst.
The steamer Falcon, after delivering he
passengers, also sunk in the harbor with a
her cargo.
At the time of the January breakup c
the Ohio river ice at New Albany, Ind
; thirteen boys were skating on the ice OF
posite that city, and tive men were walkin
across. The peril of these parties was fearfr
> for a time. The ice seemed to rise up full
two feet and broke in every direction an
moved down with great momentum. Eleve
, of the boys escaped to the Indiana shor
1 and one reached the Kentucky side at We
Louisville. The other, Nick Belvey, age
l ten years, when within five feet of the shor
1 lying fiat on a cake of ice, it broke j
2 two and another cake rose up and crushe
= him beneath the wave, in spite of the effor
{ of a party of men who were trying to reset
him. The scene was fearful, and the crit
: and pitiful walls OF the poor boy as the il
ground him to pieces caused strong men
weep. The efforts Of the two men to escaI
! were fraught with imminent danger. Oh
: of them, Isaac B. Friends, gave himself I
for lost and knelt down on the ice to pra
: after bidding the other goodbye. He W
induced to rise and make another effort, al
: succeeded in reaching the shore.
. At a citizens meeting at Detroit, Michiga
recently, half a million of the million al
a half dollars to build a tunnel under Il
v Detroit River at that point was pledged
: Luther Beecher, and a committee was a
pointed to look after the other million.
Aspecial to the Cincinnati Commercial
d January 18th says: There seems no reas'
to doubt that James G. Bennett sailed in &
steamer City of Richmond for Liverpo
a this afternoon. The Herald steam vac
T. has been making mysterious and apparent
aimless movements in the lower bay for t1
days, and this afternoon as the City of Ric
n mond went past Sandy Hook the Hero
yacht ran close to her, and passenge
II were transferred. Before this fact was ma
1t known aletter from a resident in Jersey CT
"a had been put in type in a newspaper off
le here, saying that on Thursday afternoon t
y Herald yacht took an extra amount of CT
g at the Lehigh Valley Company's wharves,
Jeysey City, and that the same evening 70
ID closely-mufisd gentlemen silent board
" her, and she Immediately started for t
=. lower bay.
u u The ship Commodore, owned by Sam
w Blair, of San Francisco, with lumber fir,
:, Puget Sound, was wrecked on Cape Flatte
n and is a total loss. The crew were saw
u The ship was built in Bath, Maine, in IS
d and was of one thousand eight hundred a
re thirty.six tons burden, and insured for tt
teen thousand dollars in local compani
Cd The wreck was sold for the benefit of
U.s. underwriters.
A terrible ice-crush took place at
u breakup in the Ohio River, on Sund
ne january IA. Three hundred barges 9
IN seven steamers were destroyed at Pittsbu
ne The loss is estimated at no less than a n
es lion dollars. At Cincinnati also a mum
H. of coal-boats were destroyed, entailins
ng loss of over three hundred thousand doll
The scene on the Ohio all along the ri1
from Pittsburg to Louisville, was the N
exciting ever witnessed. C~oal-barges
~ steamers broke from their moorings
," foated with the rising current, many
them crushed and broken to atoms by
ng ice. The general losses can not be c
W. mated.
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