The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-11-17
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
The bullion in the Bank of Eng
land has decreased Sc, I4O, 900,
The bullion in the Bank of France
has decreased seven million seven |
hundred thousand frances since last
week.
The plaining~miIl, warehouse and
elevator of Honegen & Wood, at, |
ChillicOthe, Illinois, Was burned on |
Thursday night Loss, SO, 100. In |
sured for S45, 900, mostly in Eastern |
and Chicago companies.
The steamship Perrier, which ar
rived at Brest, France, On Monday, |
made the shortest passage on record, !
being only eight days, sixteen hours |
and lhirty-tiiYe minutes from New |
York.
The keeper of a peanut-atand in
his daughter, who still carries on
the business, $4,000. Let every
body who wants $50 700 now estab-
lish peanut emporium.
Captain VIM. a. Forrest, brother
of General Forrest, shot and killed
Colonel John S. Smith at Marion,
Alabama, a few days ago. Smith
was advancing upon him with q
knife. Forrest has not been arres-
ted.
Prominent Cubans of New York
are now preparing a memorial to
| Congress praying for the early re-
| cognition of the independence of the
struggling Republic. The memori-
al will be extensively circulated in
few days.
Last Thursday two unknown men
stopped at a house on Maumee Bay,
five miles from Toledo, aud left there
a horse and wagon. They went to
the river, as they said, to shoot
duck, and as they have not yet re-
turned, it is supposed they were
| drowned.
A Lafayette girl, about sixteen
years old, being approached by a
sc0undrel with indecent proposals,
instead of screaming or attempting
TO run away, seized a brick and threw
it with such Iorce as to drop the tel-
low senseless upon the pavement.
The burning of the sugar crop In
Cuba, as proposed by Cespedes, in
order to keep the Spanards fr.Im
[
according to Cuban estimates, from
$50, 600, 900 to $50, 0O0,O00 Ia customs
revenue. and income from CONNER
cial transactions.
In the village of CarrolIton, oppo-
site East Saginaw, Michigan, on
| Sunday last, a man by the name OF
! Donal shot his wife in the head with
a pistol, and then shot himself in the
| 20 hot Il
has been arrested and heavily fined
for beating and abusing his wife.
They have two children.
On the 14th the eastward bcun d
train on the Western Pacific Rail
rOad-eight cars, including one sleep
ing car-collided near LeandrO.
Both trains were going at the rate of
twenty miles ap hour. The engines
are a perfect wreck, and the cars
were smashed and driven through
one another. The crash was terrible
and killed some ten or a dozen, and
wounded fifty or more.
Edward B. Ketchum was discharg-
ed from Sing Sing prison, on Satur-
day, the term Of his sentence, Ieduc
ed by a cOmmutat ion of eight
months, for his uniformly good con
duct, having expired.
Rev. Isaac B. Smith, who had
been on trial for several days at &c
neva, Illinois, on the charge of hav
ing murdered his wife by drowning
3 her, was acquitted on Saturday.
Jacob Laisy's -four mill, at Cleve
) land, burned on Sunday evening.
Loss, $40, 600; insured for S29 900.
6 The Bible question in school was
= discussed at Lebanon, Ohio, on Fri
o day night week. at a public meeting
and a resolution that no teacher Ol
8 School Board should enforce the
. reading against anybOdy's conscien
8 tious scruples, was voted down.
t Illinois turns out better and better
4 In her Constitutional Convention
= the final result stands: A Democrats
to Al Republicans, even giving the
Republicans two Independents who
were elected by the Democrats.
A scoundrel by the name of Beu
q Cressy, entered the house of Mrs
: Dodge in Stephentown, New York
on the 9th instant, and attempted t
o violate the lady's person. An a.
# being within reaching distance, shG
, seized it and buried it in the felloWi
skull, causing his instant death.
| a KANSAS JuCy, on NaIuruay, gave
'' ex-MayOr Anthony, ofLeaVenWorth
e Ks, SIS, 600 damages against Gen
o Thomas Ewing, on account of hi
It arrest while Mayor of that city dur
,. ing the war, by a United States de
tectIve, who took him to Missouri
i when he was discharged by Ger
2. Ewing, then in command of the dis
,r ttict.
Latest returns (nearly all official
of the election in Wisconsin show
n that the Senate will stand eighJeeI
- Republicans, fourteen DemocTatsanC
II three Independents, two of fthe Inde
r pendents being Democrats. ThI
n House will stand fifty-five Repub
N licans, thiriy-eight Democrats ant
seven Independents.
John NJ. Gilman, Esq, of st. Pau
as was recently elected to the Legisla
n -ture of Minnesota, on the Domocrati
is ticket, and Albert Armstrong Wa
a. elected onsthe same ticket Clerk O
the Court for 4 years. Both gentle
men formerly lived in Columbiani
county.
t. The uniting of the old and nev
w Presbyterian church organization
was pronounced complete by the as
semblieS at Pittsburg, on the 18th.
IT NEW YORK.