The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03
NEWS ITEMS.

Manton Marble has become the sole
proprietor of the New York World
having paid 500, 900 for the remain
ing fourth, not Including real estate.
Navigation Is still open at Chicago,
propellers leaving for Milwaukee and
other Northern ports.
a child three years old was smoth-
eresi 20 death in bed by its Mother, IN
Rochester, sunday night
Lorenzo Dow died on Tuesday
evening, at Columbus, while sittingat
the supper table with his family.
Greek refugees, driven out from
Constantlnople, have begun to arrive
at Odessa. The Greek House, whose
members are mostly Russians, have
bought three hundred small Greek
banks and vessels.
The Pensions Committee reported
bill giving Mrs. Lincoln a pension.
The amount was left blank, for the
reason that the committee have no
authority to place any amount beyond
$50 per month.
On Thursday, as an engine was
coming west OF the Baltim re d Ohio
Railroad, when e Glover'S Gap, she
exploded her boiler, instantly killing
the engineer, William Lennon, INT
badly ipfurirg the fireman.
A Young man named John Morris,
living about three miles from Loud
onville, Ohio, committed suicide last
week by hanging himself with piOw
lines in a stable on his fathers farm.
No cause for the rash act Is known.
The sailors strike In New York
continues, but having no regular or
g~enization, or any thing accumulated
to maintain themselves while holding
back, quite q large number have been
glad to ship at any reasonable offer.
Near Owensboro, kentucky, some
days ago, n negro man seized q white
lady and brutally outraged her person.
The negro was afterward captured
and committed to prison I; but on
Wednesday night a mob broke into
the jail, took the prisoner out and
hung him.
Three privates belonging to the 18th
Infantry, named Myron II, Strong,
Harmon Springstein and Stephen
Maddorn, for desertion, had their
heads shaved, We're tattoOed with the
letter 3D. and drummed out of the
service, yesterday, at Memphis, in
the presence of the regiment. Strong
had been clerk in Grants Office during
the war.
AT Jackson Court House, Ohio, last
Friday night VIM. S. Martin and his
wife intended TO go out calling. Ac-
cidentially the lamp was thrown
from the stand and broken Mrs.
Martin had on a silk dress, and inn
mediately ii was in flames. She had
presence of mind to throw herself
upon the carpet and throw a blanket
over her. by which the flames were
smorhered.
The Mt Vernon Banner calls the
ten per cent. interest bill that passed
the Senate, an ubiquitous scheme"
and "a disgrace to the Legislature"
1t costs sixty-two thousand dollars
to run Beecher's Church last year,
while the receipts were only tifty-five
Thousand dollars. An expensive
church, that.
. A young lady Eas found wandering
in the woods, insane, IN NigO county,
Indiana, recently. She left her pa
rents who n wealthy. and live a.
Oswego, New York, according to hef
own statement, 10 visit q sister living
at Rockville, Indiana, and, becoming
insane at Tere Hdute, she took to the
woods. In q of her dresses, found
in the woods, was a pocketbOOk CON
tanning q goodsum OF money and II
check drawn by her father on an
Oswego bank for four hundred dollars.
In the pocket of the dress was also
found n railroad checkfor her baggage,
aud her trunk was found at the Terr,
Haute'depOt last Saturday. well filed
with a good wardrobe, which cOrrob
crates the statement of her condition
in life.
The Cuba revolutionists have gain
ed a great point in the capture o.
Puerto Principe, q city of the ~iLteriol
second only to HAVANA in popula
ton, forty-five miles distant from tn,
port of Nuevieas, with which it has
railroad communication. The insur'
gents thus secure their possession OF
nearly or quite all of the eastern hall
on the island, and are sJeakily advau-
cling westward Dulce finds his
volunteers q poor reliance, and he Is
short of reglar troops.