The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-04-21
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Woman e~ighty-hve years of age
is under arrest in Gardiner; Mo-, on
suspicion OF having murdered four
husbands@ \
The distance between the termini
Of the Central Pacific Railroads is
now accomplished by stage in twelve
hours.
Phillip Raggerty, for fifteen years
a clerk in the Lowell, Massachusetts,,
PoSt-ofhce, has fbeen arrested on a
charge of robblng letters Dt1S|
The Union Pacific and Central Pa
eihc Roads-have determined not to
have an opening this year, but haze
giUel all members of Congress free pass
Is for one year. na4-1sc-fri -iTst'
The ceremony of laying the corner.
stones of the New York State Normal
School was celebrated in an imposing
manner yesterday afternoon at Bufa-
10. Lss& H.s
A Topeka Kansas) lady has brought
salt against the Judges OF Election
for refusing her vote for State and
county School Superintendent. She
elSimS ten thousand dollars damages,
The Northern Pacific Railroad
Company has secured sufficient funds
to construct one or two hundred
miles Of road, and it viii immediately
begin operations at the Western or
Pacific terminus.
Ex-President johnson on Friday,
at Memphis, spoke to an audience Of
about five thousand persons from a
stand at the Overton Hotel He was
well received and heartily cheered.
1t was substantially the same as the
speeches delivered at Nashville and
Knoxville.
A Tennessee correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune (Radical) says;'The
tendency in the rural districts of Mid
die and west Tennessee at present Is
toward Conservatism, and in every
place where the Republican party is
torn by cOntending factions the indi-
cations are the same. In tins city it
is doubtful whether the entire color
ed vote a ever again be mustered
for the Republican ticket, @
Senator SpragHe having recently
charged misconduct on the part of the
First Rhode Island Regiment, at Ball
Run, and laundering management on
the part of Burnside, who was their
Colonel, some Of the admirers of the
Butcher of Fredericksburg" at Prov
idence are circulating a little paper
proposing a"public ovation" as a
salve to poor RuFnside's wounded
feelings,
Thomas and William Oden, two
well-known rufians, removed from
Bourbon County Kentucky, to West
ralia, Kansas, some time ago. One of
their first acts was 70 Jump the
landclaim of a man named Parker
The question of right was referred to
| neighbors, but, without waiting for
the decision, the Odens went to Par
| ker's house, beat him To death, and
took possession of the premises some
three weeks ago, according to the
Chetopa (KansaS4 AdU0Rce, from
which we condense these facts, the
Odens and a boy named Powell, con-
! cerned with them in the murder, were
captured by a party Of Westralia Wig
ilants and tbs Qdens were shot dead.
Powell was severely wounded, but
managed to make his escape.
The police of New York report one
OF the most inhuman acts that ever
came under the attention of the au-
thorities. A drunken mother, lost
all maternal instincts, deliberately at
tempted to murder her offspring by
one of the most diabolical modes that
a depraVed mind is capable of con-
ceiving. They represent that Eliza
beth Smith, little girl aged six yearC
residing with her mother at No. G
Georeck street. was seized by her In
toxfeated mother and thrown upon 9
hot stove. The child was severely
burned about the body, and would
have probably died had some neigh.
bors not been attracted by its cries,
The depraved parent was arrested
and the child taken to bellevue Hos
pital, where the physicians are doing
all in their power u alleviate the SUI
feriugS OF the innocent victim of a
mothers brutality.
The resignation of Hon. John P
Hale as Minister TO Spain, has beer
received at the State Department, anG
his successor viii soon be confirmed.
InNeW York, on Friday, the au
thOrities seized the carcasSeS Of two
COWS which had been dressed for bee.
/ after dying Of disease in an uptown
stable. The hatcher who sold the
meat was arrested. ana -.--
Kansas papers contain the adver
tisemsnt at the contractors of the At
Gibson and Nebraska Railroad for 50C
labOrers, at 81 per day, Work vii
commence on the AtchisOn, Topeks
and Santa Fe Road May 1.
A few days since Mrs. Gilmore, al
estimable old lady, of Haywood coun
ty, Tennessee, was playfullY burning
J sedge1grasS with some children, IN
the Geld of Mr.. J. B. JacOcks, wher
her clothes caught on hre, and she
vas so dFeadfuIly burned that death
ensued after seven hours of intense
suffering.
Complete returns from Michigan
show the election of eight Democrats
Judges Oat Of sixteen judicial circuits
The Alabama treaty was rejected
by the Senate. = Senator McCreery, Of
Kentucky, cast the only vote in il
favor.
Henry Wilson has been found gull
ty of murder in the first degree By
the Common Pleas Court Of Greer
county, Ohio, for the killing OF VIM
Fletcher, IN July, 1868, .
Nothing new has been received
from the Gold Hill mines, The Vel
low Jacket, Crown Point and Ken
lucky shafts are closed, and probably
will remain so the entire week.
John Moran the Sherif's deputy
who allowed King, the New YorE
bond rObber, to escape, has been sen
fenced to the State Prison for foui
years. ne ESSoANOU UZusOuO lux COA
niving at Kings escape.
The COroner's jury, at Spring Val
ley, New York, have found Maure
guilty OF the murder of FuSter. tn,
= Jew peddler. The deNd mans, heaC
was placed before the prisoner, VIII,
trembled violently, butdenied tn
murder. u =
1t Is believed In welI-informed cir
cles that Sir George E. Carter, 81
, John A. Mcdonald, and the Hon
MesSrs, Howe and Tilley, Of Canada
will be made Lords under the bill in
!, trodneed by Earl Russell, eFeatini
life peeragea
Mira, Grant held her second week.,
3 reception at the Executive MansioI
yesterday. 1t lasted from two til
J four o'clock.
a Wealthy gentleman of the Sew
enth Ward fNeW York died of tn
gianders on Monday. He caught tn