The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-07-13
NEWS ITEMS.

Gold in New York yesterday closed at 1880
InZ.
Thomas Sheridan has been sentenced to h
hanged in New York on the 10Th of April, for the
murder of his wife.
The Imperial Government has notified the Do
minion Cabinet that a sufficient force will be re-
tanned to garrison Quebec and Halifax
On Thursday afternoon. at Lasalle, Illinois. a
clerk in a grocery, named Rubald II. Jones, fell
down a shaft of the Illinois Valley Coal Company,
a distance of $50 feet. He scarcely breathed after
he struck bottom.
Richardson's lumber mill, in Brunswick, Yer.
mont, was destroyed by fire Thursday night. Loss
ed = bridge over Millhegan River, on the Grand
Trunk Railroad.
4 fire occurred in Larue, Marion County, Ohio
on the morning of the sth inst. It Is supposed to
main business part of the town. Loss, about $40.
900; insurance, about $1,000
Eli Coleman, who robbed the Southern EXPRESS
Company at Jackson, Tennessee, and until re
Gently confined in jail at Huntington, Tennessee
was shot and killed on Thursday night, while en-.
deavOring to make his escape.
John A. Reitz, an old and wealthy, citizen. as
saulted DR.. B. J. Day, one of the oldest physicians
in Evansville, Indiana, Friday, when the Doctor
| 5000.
Two c%onvicts in the Penitentiary at Kingston
Ont, were left on Monday in charge of a guarC
named Henry Trail, to attend q lime-kiln. Dur
/ ing the absence of the other cOnyicts at dinner
Trail was murdered by the two ~eonvicts, who
made their escape.
Thomas Chance, q prominent citizen of Cham.
| paign County, Ohio, hanged himself in a sugar
camp near his residence, some five miles from Tr
bana, on Wednesday evening, 9th inst. Mr.. C. haC
been severely afflicted with erysipelas for some
/ time, and the disease seemed to defy the skill o.
the physicians. His mind was evidently affected
by it, and he wrought his own destruction in I
moment of mental alteration. Mr.. G. was an ex
eellent man, a leading Democratic politician, anC
was widely known and respected.
A cable dispatch from Madrid saws: "At
| meeting of the Cabinet last Wednesday afternoon
Regent Serrano and his Ministers Unanimously
| confirmed General PRINTS selection of Prince
Leopold, of Hohenzollern, for the future King o
Spain. The friends of the Administration declare
that this will give a majority of at least three
fourths in favor of Prince Leopold to the throne.
The Lexington Ky Gazette of the 9th saws
! Robt. S. Price, q brotheo of Gen. s. W. Price. o
this city, shot and killed a man by the name O
| Lillard at BROOKLYN, Jessamine County, on yester
day. Lilard approached Price and charged hin
with making speeches tnthe negroes, which the
latter denied. Lillard pronounced him a liar anC
knocked him down, when Price jumped up anC
shot his a~ssailant, killing him on the spot.
The New York Sun says of Secretary Fish that
before he is released from the responsibilities o.
office, it is indispensable for the safety and good
repute of the country that Congress should cause
ali the transactions of the State Department il
connection with Spain and Cuba to be vigorously
investigated. 1t charges that the policy of the
United States on the Cuban question has been
dictated and controlled by insolent and enavish
SPECTATORS, and that, 10 make the investigation
complete, II will be necessary to authorize a suit
able agent in Madrid TO procure evidence which
1 nan nnlV he obtained there.