The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-03-16
NEWS ITEMS.

burn, n. Y, the other day. They demon
strated over him.
Radical ex-auditor, of Louisiana, Wick
life, was arrested on the 4th at New Or
leans for embezzling $4,000 of coupons
He gave them up.
New York burglars robbed the Nation
al Bank at New Canaan, Connecticut, on
the night of the 3d. The noise in explod-
ing the safe frightened them away with
only 81 900.
a very rich silver mine has been found
in New Mexico, near the line of the south
ern Pacific railroad.
Eight married women were burned to
death on the 2nd, in the dye works at
NepOsset, Mass. They were at work in
the attic.
The republican coalition in Virginia
has failed
Galladay's resignation is not accepted
by the governor Of Kentucky.
Grant says he never knew what C. o.
D. meant until that ten dollar dog came
to him-"COllect On Dog"
At the city election in Louisville, KY,
on the 5th, the Republicans had no ticket
in the field
A Mrs. Tice, near Phillipsport, Sullivan
county, New York, in fit of insanity
and rage, on the 26th ult., cut off the head
ofher little child nearly two years old
She performed the horrible deed with a
common table knife
The supply of gold in New York is ow-
ing to the sale of cotton to Europe for
specie Gold has been coming to our
shores for several months at the rate of
two millions or more per month.
Springfield, Ohio, has now a paid fire
department.
At Kansas city, No, Thursday, while
Col John Wilder, editor and one of the
proprietors of the Journal of Commerce,
of that city, was conversing with Mr.
Hudson, City Clerk, near the entrance of
the Courthouse, James A. Hutchinson, a
butcher, approached with drawn revolver
and said to Wilder, Prepare defend your
self" and at the same moment fired. The
ball entered the lett breast passing through
both lungs, and lodged near the shoulder
joint. Wilder died in about twenty min
utes. Hutchinson was Immediately ar
rested. No cause is assigned for the shoot
ing. Wilder was native of Boston, and
one of the most active and prominent citi-
zens Of Kansas City.
The Governor of North Carolina mas is
sued proclamation declaring the county
of Alamance in = state of insurrectiou,
because Of the hanging of a negro at Gra-
ham.
COLUMBUS, March 10.-The Senate to-
day passed the House bill providing pen
aIties for frauds committed at primary
elections of political parties. The bill to
establish an agricultural college passed
the House by vote of yeas rs, nays 25.
ST. LOUIS, March 9.-About nine o.
clock tonight A. J. Sphar and Caleb w.
Baldwin got into an alteration at the
Southern livery stable, in the rear of the
Southern Hotel, about letter which
Spahr accused Baldwin Of writing. Blows
followed words, and they were separated,
whereupon each drew a pistol and fired
almost simultaneously. Baldwin was shot
through the heart and died Immediately
Spahr was shot in the head, and now lies
at the Sisters Hospital delirious, and not
expected to recover. Baldwin was only
twenty, and the son of highly respectable
and wealthy parents; Spahr was aged
twenty-five and river pilot. a woman
was at the bottom of the affair
Three painters were preclpitated from q
platform at the fifth story of building in
Chicago last week, and so injured that
they died almost Immediately.
The Treasurer of Butler county, Ohio
is defaulter and has resigned. About one
hundred thousand dollars is lacking Tn,
state Auditor sent Hon. Charles Reemelir
ta take charge Of the Office
The Oneida disaster looks bad for cap
tain Eyre of the British steamer Bombay
One of his lieutenants says the captain
told him he had "cut the whole quartz
of damned yankee frigate,, and serve
her bloody well right" The Oneida
whistle was blown 6Nrcely for help.
General Quesada, of Cuba, Is at Wash
iagton, working for Cuban independence,
He claims the i'rebsls" have possession
tyo-thirds of the island and have en- er
tablished government.