The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-03-31
NEWS ITEMS.

President Grants revocation of
General Sherman's order. bv
which the latter attached the
heads of all Departments to his
staff, ls the theme of very general
remark in military circles.
A special committee of the
House at Washington is to in
qmre into the causes of decay of
our commerce, and what means
would revive it. The remedy is
to kick the New England radicals
out of power: 100 HE +.
The second trial of James NJ.
Brown, banker, off oshocton, who
is charged with being an access
DRY IN the robbery of the Coshoc-
ton county treasury, has been
commenced at Newark, before a
special "struck jury. The pres
ent attorneys IL the case are
Judge Sample, of Newark, and
MIR. Spangler of COshocton, for
the State, and Mr.. Follett, Of
Newark, and Col. Nichols, of Cos
hocton, for defence.
Ex-Mayor Harper, of N. York,
died last week.
1t is said Grant should bestow
an office on General Lee, as the
latter gave him several checks in
1864.
The Senate voted for a com
mittee of conference on the Ten
ure-o of office mix.
Butler calls the Senate an sir
responsible body" and "danger-
GUS" Wonder if Grant, Butler
& Co. will dispense with it
They have had a touch of an
earthquake in England. The ire
NOR was felt plainly in Manches+
ter. sr- -5-
Two brothers, John and Jona-
than Blair living at Reynolds,
Station, Georgia, had a wrestling
match, last sunday, quarrelled,
and one shot the other dead.
Mary Brasher, of Newhope,
Preble County Ohio, was denger-
ously stabbed in the abdomen.
last Friday, by an unruly brother
of fourteen whom she was re-
primanding. 5- ISL.
AMan named Evans cut the
throat of Jas. Hickox, at Center
Hill, Connecticut, Monday morn
ing. The murderer was arrested
and said he killed Hickox for
criminal intimacy with his wife.
Thursday morning the body of
Horace O.. Benham, in the rag
and paper business, in Pittsburgh
was found hanging in the ware
house of the firm, on First avenue.
He had committed suicide during
the night.
On the evening of the oath the
body Of James w. Smith. janitor
of Girard Hall, was found in the
building with his hands and feet
tiep, and a pistle bullet in his
head, which caused his death
His watch and a small amount
of money were found upon the
floor. - al. ,s
A Suicidal mania seems to be
raging in Summit County, Ohio.
On the 18th instant Mrs. George
@. Berry drowned herself in the
canal at Akron, Ohio. She was
a highly respected lady oftwenty,
nine, and the mother of four chill
dren, the oldest of whom is only
seven. She left a note, al1uding
to her declining health and hel
fear Of coming insanity. On the
previous day, in Copley Township
same county, Frank Kuder hung
himself on account of dissensio1
with his wife's relatives. His agt
was twenty-seven, and he leave
a wife and two children. A few
days before, a girliof sixteen, hv
ing at Coventry, same county, at
tempted to drown herself in
reservoir, but succeeded onl
partially in forcing her bod
throughth ice. Heruncle drown
: ed himself last winter.
James johnson, alias Cady Ms
| thews, charged with highway roll
berry in Fulton County, n. Y, i
4 knocking a man off his horse an
: robbing him, and with counterfeit
ing United States money, was a:
! rested after a desperate ~resistanc
Q at Fort Erie, Canada, yesterda.
by United States Detective Deel
en-, aided by Sheriff Brayton. TIL
{ arrest was made at the instanc
: of the Chiefof the Secret Seryic
Division of the United State
Treasury, and under a requisitio
of the President. of the Unite
States, SOC ~
y A discovery of immense guam
e tiles ofgold has been made in 1
laska, but owing to the cimat
q the mines can be worked onl
five months in the year.
l.
Dispatches from Havana CO..
s. firm reports received in Ne
n York that the Cuban rebels Al
gaining ground Troops hay
). been desertingto the rebels, an
5. they have gained important mi
t. tary advantages. -la'
y On Sunday last, in Chicago,
AZ Vr,+,I Hbprcb tho. nnp or,