The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-06-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Wm- ClosSen, in jail at Dewitt,
Arkansas, for murder, was relieved
I of the formality of trial q few DAYS
'go by somebody shooting him from
the outside.
The new Constitution of Spain was
promulgated at Madrid on Saturday,
with great pomp. Marshal SerranO
IS to be regent.
Eleven prisoners escaped on Sun
LAY morning about 6 o'clock, from
the Cclumbus Jail. A couple of them
had seized the deputy jailer, Earhart.
secured and gagged him, when they
took the keys and released the others
Four refused to go, but eleven vam-
Osed the ranch
In the debate in the English Par
liment. last night, Lord BURY, ultra
Liberal, ridiculed the idea of the in
corporation of British America with
the United States.
On Saturday ] sme5 Penny was Ia
Ken out and hung at a place called
Nevada between Perrysville and
IIarrOdsburg, Kentucky. He is be-
jeved to be the man who killed
Young.
Two negroes, named Bateman and
Farmer, mad desperate fight with
.,nives at Memphis, during which the
:1rmer received u cash above the knee
nearly severing the leg.
An unknown German, supposed to
I'D from Cincinnati, while crossing
the foot-log ovrr Prices Creek, at
I.ewisburg, Ohio, last Friday, drop
pod his carpet bag, and in trying to,
recover it fell into the water and was
drowned. The creek was at flood.
The President has appointed Robert
l.. Braw Collector of Internal ReVen-
ue for the TweI ty-Ihird District of
Pennsylvania. Also, the following
PosLmasters Ed o Lyman, Fainburg,
ILLINOIS; Edward J. SOuthworth, Hud-
son Michigan; George H. Dunn,
Greensburg, Indiana
Near Troy TIE: nessee, a man nam
td Keith was shot and badly wound
cd, on Saturday Light, by party Of
Regulators. The murderous attack
was provoked, il is said, by KeIth's
barbarouS treatment of an orphan
child in his households but it is to be
/ IveStigated as rebel outrage"
On Saturday last, while a little
boy named John Fumbach, about
lime years of age, was fishing in the
river at Maumee, Ohio. some roguish
boys, who were not far of, thought
u amuse themsel YES, it is supposed,
by shooting at John. The first shot
fred missed him. They loaded up
aud fired again, this time succeeding
i planting three buckshot In his face.
Discovering that they had hit the boy,
the little rOgues took to their heels
and ran across the bridge to Perrys-
burg. A surgeon was called and ex-
tracted the shot. The wounds are
-, - T,
the little fellow will lose an eye. who
the boys were who thus fred upon
another boy merely for amusement Is
not known. They are supposed to
belong either in Pe=rysburg or Toledo.
Heverdy johnson arrived at his
home in Baltimore on Friday from
England.
Nancy King, fourteen years old,
blew out the gas in her room in Syr-
acuse, New York, the other night,
aud was found suifjcated in her bed
next morning.
Two thousand acres OF improved
land were offered for sale by the Sher-
iif of Monroe County, Georgia, last
Tuesday-an evidence OF the general
distress of the people.
In Brooklyn, near Cleveland, on
Wednesday evening, Charles Nicho-
las, aged about eighteen, had the
whole top Of his head kicked of by a
horse. He approached to catch the
animal, when 1t wheeled suddenly
and struck him on the head with
both hoofs.
The Titusville PENN Star SAYS
a new well was struck q day or two
since at West Hickory, and is pump
ing from so to 100 barrels per day.
The well Is 470 feet deep, and is only
down. to the third sand rock. The
oil produced il q cross between the
black and green oili." .....
The Liverpool Mercury publishes
list Of fourteen ships which have
sailed on voyages across the Atlantic
since last October, and have not been
heard Of since. They are supposed
to have foundered with all on board.